penitential Psalm

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noun

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

Read Psalm 137, the one that was turned into the catchy reggae song “Rivers of Babylon.”
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You can even find out what the first book printed in America was (The Bay Psalm Book).
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Another quoted Psalm 137 to speak of the Jews exiled in Babylon longing for Zion.
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Very devoted, but a "wooden" woman, a "veritable penitential brush."
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Condemned to be strangled, he heard the sentence without a murmur, and went to his death singing the penitential psalms.
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I ought to add that he has tried to make reparation, and is apparently contrite to the limit of his penitential capacity.
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"Le Dieu, le Fort, l'ternel parlera," was the first line of a favorite Huguenot psalm.
History of the Rise of the Huguenots|Henry Baird
At times he thought to aggravate his victim's sufferings by singing snatches of favorite psalms from the Huguenot psalm-book.
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