penitential Psalm
any of the Psalms (the 6th, 32nd, 38th, 51st, 102nd, 130th, and 143rd) that give expression to feelings of penitence and that are used in various Christian liturgical services.
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Condemned to be strangled, he heard the sentence without a murmur, and went to his death singing the penitential psalms.
Belgium | George W. T. (George William Thomson) OmondOn his death-bed the conqueror Henry V was listening to the priests repeating the penitential psalms.
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) | Anatole FranceLuther was long since convinced of this and had, therefore, already translated the seven Penitential Psalms.
Life of Luther | Gustav JustPenitential psalms composed at a very remote period, one of the finest addressed to Istar, 71-3.
Assyria, Its Princes, Priests and People | A. H. (Archibald Henry) SayceThe Te Deum was chanted in the confederate capital; penitential psalms were sung in the northern fortresses.
The Land-War In Ireland (1870) | James Godkin
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