Psalm 16. One of the last days of Henry Martyn's life was spent in "writing notes on Psalms 15 and 16." Hugh M'Kail, a young Scottish insurgent, repeated the first line of Psalm 16 on the evening before his execution.
Psalm 17. The funeral text of John Howard, the great prison reformer, was taken from Psalm 17, lines 18, 19.
Psalm 19. Another great nature Psalm. Joseph Addison (1672-1719) paraphrased it in the hymn--
"The spacious firmament on high."
Psalm 23. No Psalm has been translated in verse so often. George Herbert, an English poet (1593-1632), is the author of one version--
"The God of love my Shepherd is."
Joseph Addison, of another--
"The Lord my pasture shall prepare."
Psalm 25. In the Indian Mutiny an English collector, Mr. Edwards, was for weeks among natives of doubtful loyalty, hidden with a few other English in a cowhouse, almost stifled with the heat. He derived, according to his letters, unspeakable comfort from the 25th Psalm, especially lines 28-34.
Psalm 27. The motto of the University of Oxford, "Dominus illuminatio mea," is taken from the first two lines of Psalm 27.