Psalm 130. One of Luther's best known German hymns is founded on this Psalm--
"Aus tiefer Noth schrel Ich zu dir."
Beza died repeating lines 5 and 6, and it was one of the sustaining influences of Bunyan in his spiritual struggles with himself.
Psalm 136. Milton's hymn, written when a student at Cambridge, at the age of 15, is founded on Psalm 136--
| "Let us with a gladsome mind Praise the Lord for he is kind, For his mercies aye endure, Ever faithful, ever sure." |
Psalm 144 was used by Bernard as a text from which to preach a crusade to win Jerusalem from the Saracens. Lines 10 and 11 have been used, both in England and in France, as a motto on the face of sundials. "Man is like to vanity. His days are as a shadow that passeth away."
Psalm 145 is the base of Gerhardt's hymn--
"I who so oft in deep distress."
Milton has paraphrased it in Paradise Lost, Book XII, 11, 561-6, beginning--