Sentences with phrase «hebrew psalmist»

Psalm 130 voices the cry, not only of the Hebrew Psalmist, but of countless others burdened with a sense of guilt and a yearning for the peace of forgiveness:

The hymn is sometimes thought to have influenced certain of the Hebrew psalmists, particularly the writer of Psalm 104; but whether this is true or not, it is certain that it breathes the spirit of the Hebrew idea of God and his creative activity.

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In one place, the Psalmist writes that he drowns his bed with a single tear (Psalm 6:6; the Hebrew word for «tears» is singular), and even Paul writes that he is the chief of sinners (1 Timothy 1:15).

A far more pervasive term — it is virtually the key to the Psalmist's conception of God's relationship with man — is the Hebrew hesed, which means «faithfulness,» «steadfastness,» «dependable kindness.»

Of course the Christians already had in their Old Testament affirmations concerning the work of God's spirit from creation onward and sometimes acknowledged this, as in the Letter to the Hebrews where it is explicitly said that it is the Holy Spirit which has inspired the Psalmist (Heb.

In Hebrews, the sacrificial character of His death is described in the Psalmist's words, «Lo, I am come to do Thy will, 0 God» (x. 5 - 9); and for this writer His trials and temptations, (Heb.