penitential Psalm


noun
  1. 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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How to use penitential Psalm in a sentence

  • 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) Omond
  • On his death-bed the conqueror Henry V was listening to the priests repeating the penitential psalms.

  • Luther was long since convinced of this and had, therefore, already translated the seven Penitential Psalms.

    Life of Luther | Gustav Just
  • Penitential 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) Sayce
  • The Te Deum was chanted in the confederate capital; penitential psalms were sung in the northern fortresses.