Quotes About Psalms

In the Psalms, we see that he holds nothing back, freely pouring out his fears, despair, anger, and shame.

Chapter Nine Dissonance in the Book of Psalms

The LORD is good and does what is right" (Psalm 25:8). "The

It is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord God and made Him my refuge, that I may tell of all Your works. PSALM 73:28

They [the Puritans] disallowed of the cathedral mode of worship; of singing their prayers, and of the antiphone or chanting of the Psalms by turns, which the ecclesiastical commissioners in King Edward the Sixth's time advised the laying aside. Nor did they approve of musical instruments, as trumpets, organs, etc.

Lord my God, if I have done this and there is guilt on my hands—if I have repaid my ally with evil or without cause have robbed my foe—then let my enemy pursue and overtake me, let him trample my life to the ground and make me sleep in the dust. Psalm 7:3–5, NIV

May we learn to pray the Lord's prayers through the only book of prayers God has given to us—the Psalms of David's Greater Son, Jesus Christ! The Lord who inspired and prayed the Psalms must teach us to preach, sing, and pray them so that the Name of Jesus Christ may be spoken and loved in all the tribes, languages, peoples, and nations of the world.

The imprecatory psalms in particular have been historically understood as being the voice of Christ.

you can say whatever you want, but I will tell you this truth- there is a reggae song which speaks the prophesies of every condition we see today. my reggae creation is like the biblical book of psalms and proverbs. its all true. its divinely spiritual.

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

JEREMIAH IS A well-known prophet in the Old Testament. There are at least sixty-two prophecies given in his writings. The book of Jeremiah has almost twenty-two thousand words, making it somewhat longer than Isaiah, and making it the second longest book in the Old Testament (only Psalms is longer).

Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.

The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe.

[Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.

He was praying the Psalms, as he'd done in times past, with the enemies of King David translated into his own enemies of fear and remorse and self-loathing, which, in their legions, had become as armies of darkness.

We aim to create our own psalms in which we (1) pour out our complaint to the Lord, (2) review God's promises and his faithfulness, (3) find our rest and comfort in Jesus, and (4) let others know that they, too, can find rest and comfort. Then, when we falter, we ask for help and do it all again.

What else is the law made for, but to be the rule of life, and the rule of judgment? Read Psal. i. and xv.; Matt. v. vii. and xxv.,

The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.

I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.

Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs" will cause you to sing and make melody in your heart to the Lord (Ephesians 5:19).

THE next morning Catherine went to church for the last time—for when Stephen was in London, and not there to invite her to accompany him, which he solemnly before each separate service did, there would be no more need to go—and for the last time mingled her psalms with Mrs. Colquhoun's.

The Psalms show us what healthy spiritual life looks like. You name everything that's happening inside of you. You give it language and expression, You articulate exactly what the desolation feels like. If you don't drag it up and give it words, then it's buried down in your being somewhere. And it will come out in other ways. Unhealthy, destructive ways. You'll keep it bottled up. And you'll be miserable.

read in the Psalms, The earth is the LORD's and everything in it.