Quotes About Psalm

I'm with the fool in the psalm. You thought we could get on without you; no – you didn't care whether we got on without you or not. You just got up and left. So that's what we're doing, we're getting on.

but Mama was so mad at the insurance company that even though he used words like "flaming assholes" she didn't realize till later that he was cussing: she said she thought he was quoting the Psalms.

Thus, a "psalm" may be defined secondly as sacred literature for meditation.

If you need a handbook for praise and worship, read Psalms.

Paul argues for holy anger when he repeats the advice of Psalm 4:4: "In your anger do not sin" (Ephesians 4:26).

For your unfailing love is as high as the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. —Psalm 57:10

He delights in every detail of their lives. Psalm 37:23.

The LORD will command His loving kindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me--A prayer to the God of my life. -Psalm 42:8

The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and he delivers them. -Psalm 34:7

When I said, "My foot is slipping," your love, O LORD, supported me. When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought joy to my soul. (PSALM 94:18 – 19)

The nature of the praise and prayer in the Psalms indicates how memory is key to praise and prayer.

One thing God has spoken, two things have I heard: that you, O God, are strong, and that you, O Lord, are loving. (Ps. 62:11–12)

As Mary knelt, she recited in Latin the psalm In te Domino confido, "In thee, O Lord, have I put my trust.

Holy Saturday is a day of loss, but also a day of quiet hope. "For you will not leave my soul among the dead, nor let your beloved know decay" (Psalm 15).

This and the following Psalm were don by the Author at fifteen yeers old.

What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!

Thy wife," promises Psalm 128, "shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house; thy children like olive plants round about thy table." (The image here is perhaps that of a cut stump "table" surrounded by green scions.)

You can take Psalm 84:11 to the bank: No good thing does God withhold from those who walk uprightly.

Trust in the LORD and do good; Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness. Delight yourself in the LORD; And He will give you the desires of your heart. -Psalm 37:3-4

Therefore the words in Psalm 72:7: "In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth," must not be explained as signifying such earthly peace as the world enjoyed under Caesar Augustus, as many believe, but "peace with God," or spiritual peace.

Hence the entire psalm accuses nothing but pride, as stated below (v. 23): The pride of those who hate Thee goes up continually. For this is the cause of unbelief and the beginning of all evils.

So the salvation of Christ is called "salvations" and "mercies" (cf. Ps. 28:8; 17:7; 25:6), because it saves many and ascribes a manifold salvation to all.

The world glories and trusts in honor, power, riches, and the favor of men. Our psalm, however, glories in none of these, for they are all uncertain and perishable.

Hence it is great wisdom to know that we are nothing but sin, so that we do not think of sin as lightly as do the pope's theologians, who define sin as "anything said, done, or thought against the Law of God." Define sin, rather, on the basis of this psalm, as all that is born of father and mother, before a man is old enough to say, do, or think anything.