Sentences with phrase «ancient psalmist»

Joseph Bottum's excellent description of Emil Cioran as «the greatest monster of despair» immediately reminded me of my favorite Psalm, the eighty - eighth, in which the ancient psalmist Heman presents a nearly continuous string of abandonment woes.

Nothing is permanent, not even the mountains, which the ancient psalmists used to regard as symbols of enduring stability.

Not exact matches

If we will trouble to listen, to bend an ear to this Sunday's readings, we hear from a prophet, a psalmist and the writer of an ancient epistle that no matter what befalls us, God is faithful, and God's promises are true.

We hear from a prophet, a psalmist and the writer of an ancient epistle that no matter what befalls us, God is faithful, and God's promises are true.