What does psalmist mean?
Psalmist means A composer of psalms..
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/ˈsɑːmɪst/ · noun
A composer of psalms..
An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine.
The hunter is taken in his own snare, as the great Psalmist says.
Either man is the creature whom the Psalmist described as "a little lower than the angels," crowned with glory and honor, holding "dominion over the works" of his Creator; or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification.
More than 2,500 years ago, the Psalmist of the Old Testament, for example, wrote that “the days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow.”
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Psalmist means A composer of psalms..
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An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine.
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