He called his poems psalms and sonnets, though he never consciously wrote in either form.

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Yaakov, the Chasid, told me that God had saved his family because grandmother Etel had said Psalms before boarding the bus.

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The Bay Psalm Book, which was printed in Massachusetts in 1640, is one of 11 remaining copies of a translated version of the Book of Psalms.

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Speaking on Broadcasting House Aitken - a former Conservative cabinet minister - said he sent Huhne a book of psalms, along with a "cheerful" note, and received a "nice letter back".

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Colonists John Cotton, Richard Mather and John Eliot, who wrote the book, wanted a version of the psalms which they believed was closer to the original Hebrew than the ones they had brought with them from England.

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The virtue of the One Year Bible has always been that it offers daily readings from the Old Testament, the New Testament, the Psalms, and Proverbs, but it still offers the psychological barriers that come with such a massive undertaking as trying to Read the Whole Thing.

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If the reader is looking for a change of pace, it can always be found, shifting from the psalms, to the apocalyptic visions of Daniel, the spiritual journey of Job, the pithy proverbs, the novella of Joseph and his brothers, the diverse prophecies, lamentations, the farcical Esther, the Song of Songs, the (quite different) Song of Deborah, the tales of Samson, et cetera, etc.

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