Sentences with word «psalmist»
The OT Psalmist says God will «shelter us under his wings.»
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Jewish messianism, because it proposed a purpose to future history, also qualified the old faith of psalmists in the trustworthiness of a God who made each day meaningful on its own terms.
The Hebrew Psalmist expresses it poetically:
Nothing is permanent, not even the mountains, which the ancient psalmists used to regard as symbols of enduring stability.
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.
Dave — thanks for being a modern day Psalmist!
God is beyond time, beyond space, so the Jewish Psalmist could write, «If!
He is the Author, teacher, political scientist, amateur psalmist, follower of Jesus Christ.
He answers the deepest yearnings of the prophets for justice and righteousness before God by his own life and teaching, and he makes ever present in himself the future longings of Psalmist and Wisdom writer for human wholeness and integrity of life.
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:
«Deep calls out to deep» as the Psalmist says (Psalm 42:7, TNIV).
The psalmist often complained about God, but he complained to God.
When the Psalmist asks, in Psalm 30, whether the dust can praise God, the answer he expects is a resounding no.
«He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh,» the Psalmist promises, specifically in a passage about enjoying vindication over one's adversaries.
Despite all the emotion I just poured out, I need to remember — like the Psalmists — to conclude by remembering that God is in control, He will walk with me and go before me, and it is my role to trust that He is sovereign.
It is very possible not to be convinced that there is a creator... now, but in the days when the psalmist wrote «The fool says in his heart, «There is no God.»
The psalmist echoes that idea writing, «The heavens belong to the LORD, but he has given th earth to humankind» (Psalm 115:16).
In Psalm 82, the psalmist envisions God entering an assembly of the leaders of Israel.
In the morning they are like grass which grows up: In the morning it flourishes and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers» The psalmist compares the human life to grass in order to help us realize how helpless and weak we are without God!
Sadness, as Job and the psalmists show us, is better out than in.
This is why the Psalmist prayed again and again, «Restore us, O God; make your face shine upon us, that we may be saved» (Psa.
The transfiguration symbolizes the Psalmist's admonition to taste the Lord and see that he is good.
As the psalmist says, «They will perish, but thou remainest, and they all will become old as a garment, and as a mantel thou wilt roll them up; as a garment they will also be changed.
The psalmists were poets and I began to absorb beauty, the sounds and repetitions, and became a contemplative — realising that language was not just telling me something but inviting me into a world of language that was more about what you couldn't see than what you could.
This is why the psalmist can speak of the Lord whose «plans shall stand forever, and whose counsel endures for all generations» (Ps 33:11).
The psalmist proclaims...
The psalmist had apparently been breezing along, when he decided to make a stop along the way to lay a gift on the altar and pay respects to God.
The psalmist's response is the most appropriate one: awe before the creator and the creation, wonder at our place in the world.
The psalmist has a body, and it figures prominently in his poetry.
Threatening God doesn't seem like the best strategy, but then again, God responded to the psalmist.
We go to the psalmist for more vivid images, and he obliges by bringing on stage «the kings of Tarshish and of the isles... the kings of Sheba and Seba,» saying of them that they «all fall down» before this child.
The psalmist writes, «Praise the LORD from the earth, you sea monsters and all deeps, fire and hail...»
demands the psalmist.
That the psalmist appears alone before God is clear: all self - referencing is first person singular (I, me, my).
The psalmist hoped that God would rise up and judge all the nations.
Like the Psalmist sang, we're like those that dream of home.
It seems to have worked for him; God turned his mourning into joy, and the psalmist offered God praise.
When we find our worth and our value in Christ, then, as the Psalmist wrote, what can man do to us?
The domestic scale of the manger is not the only truth about Jesus» birth: could the psalmist ever have envisaged the heavens declaring the glory of God in quite this way?
And so I'm waiting with the angst of the prophets, with the restlessness of the psalmist who cried «How long, oh Lord, will You hide your face forever?»
In short, the hopes of the psalmist were realized.
Alongside these whispers and shouts from the psalmist are the apocalyptic choruses from Daniel and the Book of Revelation.
«Have mercy upon me a sinner...» says Psalm 51, while the Psalmist in Psalm 119 declares, «I have laid up thy word in my heart that I might not sin against thee.»