Example sentences for: psalm

How can you use “psalm” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • And where a basic occupation centers on livestock, as in Biblical Judea or parts of the American West or the Australian bush, the stockman's jargon is bound to be a main source of metaphors, whether the subject be marital transgression as in the banter at our picnic, or the Lord's providing for His flock as in the Twenty-third Psalm, or national character as in “Waltzing Matilda.”

  • intend when he wrote or sang the 23rd Psalm?

  • The burning of three Catholic children in Ballymoney, Northern Ireland, by suspected Protestant extremists dominated most European newspapers Monday, and the Belfast Catholic newspaper Irish News devoted its front page to a poem--"Songs on the Death of Children" by Friedrich Ruckert--and its main editorial space to a psalm of David, "The Lord Is My Shepherd."

  • Nor does the psalm sing as Henry Ward Beecher put it in “Life Thoughts,” “like a nightingale.

  • I always thought that there was only one translation of the 23rd Psalm until the other day when I happened on the New English Bible (1970) and saw that “my head was richly bathed in oil,” “Bathed in oil”?


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