Example sentences for: psalms

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

  • Carl Stuhlmueller, C.P., in “Psalm 46 and the Prophecy of Isaiah Evolving into a Prophetic, Messianic Role” in The Psalms and Other Studies on the Old Testament, 1990, writes:

  • In the following outline of thirteen psalms translated since 1937, the preoccupation with darkness and the elimination of any reference to death is conspicuous.

  • But a distinct majority of those surveyed failed even to recognize the expressions "New wine into old bottles" (Mark 2:22); "The price of wisdom is above rubies" (Job 28:18); "Put not your trust in princes" (Psalms 146:3); "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?"

  • In The Psalms , the translator writes in his preface, “I have tried not to substitute without necessity new English phrases for what was old and well-loved, but unity and modernization of language as well as the true meaning of Hebrew have often made changes inevitable.”

  • Writes the translator [ The Psalms , 1976]: “I abolished `the Lord' but felt unwilling to call God, Yahweh.


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