Croce wrote less music in the grand polychoral style than Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli, although he left a grand mass for four choirs, composed for Ferdinand of Austria ( the future Emperor Ferdinand II ) and several triple-choir Psalm settings ( only one of which has survived ), and as a result his music has not maintained the same fame to the present day ; however he was renowned as a composer at the time, and was a large influence on music both in Italy and abroad.

In accordance with Psalm 119: 164, “ Seven times in the day have I praised Thee for Thy judgments, O Righteous One ,” the Syriac Orthodox Church observes seven services of prayer each day:

The New American Bible also says that Psalm 93 alludes to " an ancient myth " in which God battles a personified Sea.

Almost half of the Psalms are headed " A Psalm of David ", although the phrase can also be translated as " to David " or " for David ", but no psalm can be attributed to David with certainty.

He also played organ at Philadelphia's Christ Church and composed or edited a number of hymns and psalms including: " A Collection of Psalm Tunes with a few Anthems and Hymns Some of them Entirely New, for the Use of the United Churches of Christ Church and St. Peter's Church in Philadelphia " ( 1763 ), " A psalm of thanksgiving, Adapted to the Solemnity of Easter: To be performed on Sunday, the 30th of March, 1766, at Christ Church, Philadelphia " ( 1766 ), and " The Psalms of David, with the Ten Commandments, Creed, Lord's Prayer, & c. in Metre " ( 1767 ).

The term ruach ha-kodesh ( Hebrew: רוח הקודש, " holy spirit " also transliterated ruah ha-qodesh ) occurs once in Psalm 51: 11 and also twice in the Book of Isaiah Those are the only three times that the precise phrase " ruach hakodesh " is used in the Hebrew Scriptures, although the noun ruach ( רוח, literally " breath " or " wind ") in various combinations, some referring to God's " spirit ", is used often.

Thus literate lay defendants often also claimed the right to benefit of clergy ; furthermore, as the Biblical passage used for the literacy test was always Psalm 51 ( Miserere mei, Deus ...-" O God, have mercy upon me ..."), an illiterate person who had memorized the psalm could also claim benefit of clergy.

Paedobaptists also point to Psalm 51, which reads, in part, " surely I was sinful from birth ," as indication that infants are sinful ( vid.

Identification of some psalms as prayers is also seen within the text, for example in the conclusion to Psalm 72, " The prayers of David son of Jesse are ended.

Tertullian, " On Monogamy " ch. vi quotes a brief phrase —" follow the better things "— from 3 John 1. 11 " Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good ", a phrase that might also have been adapted from the Septuagint Psalm xxxvi.

In this passage, he also records what is known as " the Psalm of Nephi ", where he pleads for the Lord to forgive his weaknesses, make him strong so he can conquer his enemies, and redeem his soul.

Psalm 87: 4 – 6 is also interpreted as predicting the coronation of Haile Selassie I.

It is also traditional for some Jews to place a copy of Psalm 121 in the labor and delivery room to promote an easy labor by asking God for mercy.

:* In Psalm 137 — " Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and also cried in our remembering Zion.

He also aided in the work of cross-cultural evangelism by promoting " The Wordless Book ", a teaching tool that he described in a message given on 11 January 1866, regarding Psalm 51: 7: " Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

The legend of the stone was also compared to the biblical history of the Temple of Solomon and the rejected cornerstone described in Psalm 118.

During 1984 and 1985, three American pioneers also released their debuts ; Saint Vitus released their eponymous album, Trouble released Psalm 9 and Pentagram released Relentless.

Thus, an illiterate person who had memorized the appropriate Psalm could also claim the benefit of clergy, and Psalm 51 became known as the neck verse, because knowing it could save one's neck by transferring one's case from a secular court, where hanging was a likely sentence, to an ecclesiastical court, where both the methods of trial and the sentences given were more lenient.

He composed a few settings of liturgical material, including one of the 91st Psalm ( 1853 ); and also choral works for the synagogue at Paris.

At the evening service there is a selection of from four to seven psalms, varying with the day of the week, and also a Shuraya, or short psalm, with generally a portion of Psalm 118, varying with the day of the fortnight.

Psalm 69 also marked Ministry's first release with guitarist Mike Scaccia, who had joined the band in 1989.

During morning devotions, Tilley read Psalm 72: 8, which states " He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth ", and presented his inspiration to the others, being as their ambition was to stretch the new nation to the Pacific Ocean and from the St Lawrence River to the North Pole.

It is also customary to recite Psalm 27 every day from Rosh Hodesh Elul through Hoshanah Rabbah on Sukkot ( in Tishrei ).

This elegiac measure, being naturally a well-known one, was used also elsewhere, as, for example, in Psalm 19: 8-10.

These are during 853 – 841 BC when Jerusalem was invaded by Philistines and Arabs during the reign of Jehoram ( recorded in 2 Kings 8: 20-22 and 2 Chronicles 21: 8-20 in the Christian Old Testament ) and 605 – 586 BC when Jerusalem was attacked by King Nebuchadnezzer of Babylon, which led to the Babylonian exile of Israel ( recorded in Psalm 137 ).

The Greek word Messias appears only twice in the Greek Old Testament of the promised prince ( Daniel 9: 26 ; Psalm 2: 2 ); yet, when a name was wanted for the promised one, who was to be at once King and Savior, this title was used.

There are several biblical references to " casting lots ", as in Psalm 22, indicating that dicing was commonplace in the region during King David's reign.

Boney M had a number one hit in the UK with a similar song in 1978 under the title Rivers of Babylon, which was not based on this one, although using the same text from Psalm 137.

This was not to come: according to Telemann himself, a setting of Psalm 6 by him inexplicably found its way into his luggage and was found by his roommate at the university.

Although its content was later reworked into the Bay Psalm Book, it had an important influence on the early development of American psalmody.

Some scholars assert that the Sheol mentioned in Isaiah 38: 18, Psalm 6: 5 and Job 7: 7-10 was an earlier concept than Heaven, but this theory is not universally held.

Kushner's book, The Lord Is My Shepherd, was a meditation on the Twenty-Third Psalm released in 2003.

In his 1997 novel Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut suggested that Andrewes was " the greatest writer in the English language ," citing as proof the first few verses of the 23rd Psalm.

Not wanting to leave his mission, his first action as Pope was to send out appeals for aid to the Crusaders, and at his final sermon at Acre just before leaving to sail for Italy, he famously remarked, " If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning " ( a quote from Psalm 137 ).

Waterhouse was dismissed as architect in 1878 and succeeded by George Gilbert Scott, who, after extending the Chapel, provided additional accommodation with the construction of New Court in 1881, with letters on a series of shields along the string course above the first floor spelling out the Psalm text " Nisi Dominus aedificat domum …" (" Except the Lord build the house, their labour is but vain that build it ").

In tandem with this interpretation, the song sung at the end of the play is a musical version of Psalm 128, which was often sung in Puritan households at the end of a meal during Shakespeare's own day.

The changes included: use of the vernacular was permitted ; the priest was allowed to face towards the congregation, if he wished, throughout Mass ; there were some textual changes, such as omission of the Psalm Judica at the beginning, and of the Last Gospel and Leonine Prayers at the end.

2 Chronicles ; Psalm ; Isaiah & ; and Zechariah, identify the location of this event as the hill on which Solomon was said to later build the Temple, now known as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

" " But I will pray for you ," said Mr. Rogers ; and so was brought the same day, the fourth of February, by the sheriffs, towards Smithfield, saying the Psalm Miserere by the way, all the people wonderfully rejoicing at his constancy ; with great praises and thanks to God for the same.

Unofficially, the loophole was even larger, because the Biblical passage traditionally used for the literacy test was inevitably and appropriately Psalm 51 ( Psalm 50 according to the Vulgate and Septuagint numbering ), Miserere mei, Deus, secundum misericordiam tuam (" O God, have mercy upon me, according to thine heartfelt mercifulness ").

The quotations refer to the fulfillment of a prophecy of Psalm 2: 7 found in the Western text-type of Luke 3: 22.

According to Brichtothe, other Biblical names for Sheol were: Abaddon ( ruin ), found in Psalm 88: 11, Job 28: 22 and Proverbs 15: 11 ; Bor ( the pit ), found in Isaiah 14: 15, 24: 22, Ezekiel 26: 20 ; and Shakhat ( corruption ), found in Isaiah 38: 17, Ezekiel 28: 8.

Luke, however, made further reference to this involvement of Herod along with Pilate in Jesus ' execution and linked it with the prophecy about the Messianic King found in Psalm 2, as we can read in Luke's other book, Acts 4: 24 – 28.

A biblical example is found in Psalm 27, verse 13.

Ministry found mainstream success in the early 1990s with its most successful album Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs ( 1992 ) and touring as part of the Lollapalooza festival.

The text of the anthem consists of verses from Psalm 122, from the psalter found in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer:

The Bishop's Bible is notable for the note at Psalm xlv. 9: " Ophir is thought to be the Ilande in the west coast, of late found by Christopher Columbo, from whence at this day is brought most fine gold ".

Just as Old Testament prophets seem rooted in a direct consciousness of the Divine Presence ( e. g. Ezekiel ), the less profound such as are to be found in several psalms ( e. g. Psalm 73: 23-26 ), none-the-less, suggest a similar mystical awareness.

It is found in Romans 1: 18 – 22 ; Psalm 18: 2 ; and the teaching of Jesus in the Gospels.

The number of words can vary depending upon aspects such as whether the Hebrew alphabet in Psalm 119, the superscriptions listed in some of the Psalms, and the subscripts traditionally found at the end of the Pauline epistles, are included.

Psalm 151 is the name given to a short psalm that is found in most copies of the Septuagint but not in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible.

This divine election at the time of his baptism is known as an adoptionist Christology, and it is emphasized by the quotation of Psalm 2: 7, as found in the " Western text " of Luke 3: 23, " You are my son, this day I have begotten you.

The Tree is also often found in Psalters, especially English manuscripts, illustrating the B initial of Beatus Vir .., the beginning of Psalm 1, which often occupies a whole page.

Similar laments can be found in the Book of Jeremiah, the Book of Ezekiel and the Book of Psalms, Psalm 137 (), a song covered by Boney M in 1978 as Rivers of Babylon.

Examples of the statement " thou art God " are found in the Bible at 1 Kings 18: 36, 1 Chronicles 17: 26, Psalm 86: 10, Psalm 90: 2 and Acts 4: 24 ( KJV ).

He sees this verse as essentially just a rephrasing of Matthew 5: 3, this same wording is also found at Psalm 37: 11.

This verse is generally believed to have been taken from Psalm 24: 3-5 either by Jesus or the author of Matthew who was adding this verse that is not found in Luke.

He is the subject of many rabbinical legends, the origin of which is to be found in part in Psalm 52.