120 - 150

Question 1

120

Answer 1

TENSE meshech

Alas, that I abide a stranger in Meshech, dwell among the tents of Kedar

To the Lord in the hour of my distress
I call and he answers me.
2 “O Lord, save my soul from lying lips,
from the tongue of the deceitful.”
3 What shall he repay you in return,
O treacherous tongue?
4 The warriors arrows sharpened
and coals, redhot,
blazing.
5 (Alas, that I abide a stranger in Meshech,
dwell among the tents of Kedar!)
6 Long enough have I been dwelling
with those who hate peace.
7 I am for peace, but when I speak,
they are for fighting.

Question 2

121

Answer 2

DONUT / guard

The Lord is your guard and your shade. At your right side he stands.

May he never allow you to stumble!

Let him sleep not, your guard. No he sleeps not nor slumbers, Israel’s guard.

The Lord is your guard and your shade. At your right side he stands.

By day the sun shall not smite you, nor the moon in the night. The Lord will guard you from evil. He will guard your soul.

Question 3

122

Answer 3

TEENY-WEENY / strongly compact

Jerusalem is built as a city strongly compact.

I rejoiced when I heard them say: “Let us go to God’s house.”

And now our feet are standing within your gates, O Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is built as a city strongly compact.

It is there that the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord.

Question 4

123

Answer 4

AUTONOMY / proud man’s disdain

Like the eyes of a servant on the hand of her mistress

To you have I lifted up my eyes, you who dwell in the heavens.

My eyes like the eyes of slaves on the hand of their lords.

Like the eyes of a servant on the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the Lord our God till he show us his mercy.

Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy. We are filled with contempt. Indeed all too full is our soul with the scorn of the rich, with the proud man’s disdain.

Question 5

124

Answer 5

DINNER / escape

Our life, like a bird, has escaped from the snare of the fowler

“If the Lord had not been on our side,”this is Israel’s song.

“If the Lord had not been on our side when men rose up against us, then would they have swallowed us alive when their anger was kindled.

Then would the waters have engulfed us, the torrent gone over us; over our head would have swept the raging waters.”

Blessed be the Lord who did not give us a prey to their teeth! Our life, like a bird, has escaped from the snare of the fowler. Indeed the snare has been broken and we have escaped. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Question 6

125

Answer 6

TOENAIL / mountains

Jerusalem! The mountains surround her, so the Lord surrounds his people

Those who put their trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, that cannot be shaken, that stands forever.

Jerusalem! The mountains surround her, so the Lord surrounds his people both now and forever.

For the scepter of the wicked shall not rest over the land of the just for fear that the hands of the just should turn to evil.

Do good, Lord, to those who are good, to the upright of heart; but the crooked and those who do evil, drive them away! On Israel, peace!

Question 7

126

Answer 7

DANISH / sheaves

they come back, they come back, full of song, carrying their sheaves

When the Lord delivered Zion from bondage, it seemed like a dream.

Then was our mouth filled with laughter, on our lips there were songs. The heathens themselves said: “What marvels the Lord worked for them!” What marvels the Lord worked for us! Indeed we were glad.

Deliver us, O Lord, from our bondage as streams in dry land.

Those who are sowing in tears will sing when they reap. They go out, they go out, full of tears, carrying seed for the sowing: they come back, they come back, full of song, carrying their sheaves.

Question 8

127

Answer 8

TWINKIE / gifts

he pours gifts on his beloved while they slumber

ITLDNBTH, IVDIBL
ITLDNWOTC, IVDTWKV
IVIYER, YGLTR,
YWTFTBYE, WHPGOHBWTS
TSAAGFTL, AB, TFOTW
ITSOY, ALAITHOAW
OTHOTM, WHFHQWTA
HWHNCFSWH, DWHFITG

If the Lord does not build the house,
in vain do its builders labor;
if the Lord does not watch over the city,
in vain does the watchman keep vigil.

In vain is your earlier rising,
your going later to rest,
you who toil for the bread you eat,
when he pours gifts on his beloved while they slumber.

Truly sons are a gift from the Lord,
a blessing, the fruit of the womb.
Indeed the sons of youth
are like arrows in the hand of a warrior.

O the happiness of the man
who has filled his quiver with these arrows!
He will have no cause for shame
when he disputes with his foes in the gateways.

“Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.”
‭‭John‬ ‭15‬:‭4‬-‭8‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Question 9

128

Answer 9

HAD ENUFF / wife

the wife like a fruitful vine in the heart of your house

O blessed are those who fear the Lord and walk in his ways!

By the labor of your hands you shall eat. You will be happy and prosper;

the wife like a fruitful vine in the heart of your house;

Your children like shoots of the olive, around the your table

Question 10

129

Answer 10

TUNE-UP / plowed

They plowed my back like plowmen, drawing long furrows.

They have pressed me hard from my youth,”
this is Israel’s song.
2 “They have pressed me hard from my youth
but could never destroy me.
3 They plowed my back like plowmen,
drawing long furrows.
4 But the Lord who is just, has destroyed
the yoke of the wicked.”
5 Let them be shamed and routed,
those who hate Zion!
6 Let them be like grass on the roof
that withers before it flowers.
7 With that no reaper fill his arms,
no binder makes his sheaves
8 and those passing by will not say:
“On you the Lord’s blessing!”
“We bless you in the name of the Lord.”

Question 11

130

Answer 11

DEMISE / depths

Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord, Lord, hear my voice!

O let your ears be attentive
to the voice of my pleading.
If you, O Lord, should mark our guilt,
Lord, who would survive?

But with you is found forgiveness:
for this we revere you.
My soul is waiting for the Lord.
I count on his word.

My soul is longing for the Lord
more than watchman for daybreak.
(Let the watchman count on daybreak
and Israel on the Lord.)
Because with the Lord there is mercy
and fullness of redemption,
Israel indeed he will redeem
from all its iniquity.

Question 12

131

Answer 12

TIMEOUT / weaned child

A weaned child on its mother’s breast, even so is my soul.

O Lord, my heart is not proud
nor haughty my eyes.
I have not gone after things too great
nor marvels beyond me.

Truly I have set my soul
in silence and peace.
A weaned child on its mother’s breast,
even so is my soul.

O Israel, hope in the Lord
both now and forever

Question 13

132

Answer 13

DEMON / arc

At Ephrata we heard of the ark;
we found it in the plains of Yearim.

O Lord, remember David
and all the many hardships he endured,
2 the oath he swore to the Lord,
his vow to the Strong One of Jacob.
3 “I will not enter the house where I live
nor go the bed where I rest.
4 I will give no sleep to my eyes,
to my eyelids I will give no slumber
5 till I find a place for the Lord,
a dwelling for the Strong One of Jacob.”
6 At Ephrata we heard of the ark;
we found it in the plains of Yearim.
7 “Let us go to the place of his dwelling;
let us go to kneel at his footstool.”
8 Go up, Lord, to the place of your rest,
you and the ark of your strength.
9 Your priests shall be clothed with holiness;
your faithful shall ring out their joy.
10 For the sake of David your servant
do not reject your anointed.
11 The Lord swore an oath to David;
he will not go back on this word:
“A son, the fruit of your body,
will I set upon your throne.
12 If they keep my covenant in truth
and my laws that I have taught them,
their sons too shall rule
on your throne from age to age.”
13 For the Lord has chosen Zion;
he has desired it for his dwelling:
14 “This is my restingplace
for ever;
here have I chosen to live.
15 I will greatly bless her produce,
I will fill her poor with bread.
16 I will clothe her priests with salvation
and her faithful shall ring out their joy.
17 There David’s stock will flower;
I will prepare a lamp for my anointed.
18 I will cover his enemies with shame
but on him my crown shall shine.”

Question 14

133

Answer 14

TOO MUCH MONEY / unity

How good and how pleasant it is,
when brothers live in unity!

How good and how pleasant it is,
when brothers live in unity!

It is like precious oil upon the head
running down upon the beard,

running down upon Aaron’s beard,
upon the collar of his robes.

It is like the dew of Hermon which falls
on the heights of Zion.
For there the Lord gives his blessing,
life forever.

Question 15

134

Answer 15

TOMORROW / thru the night

Lift up your hands to the holy place
and bless the Lord through the night

O come, bless the Lord,
all you who serve the Lord,
who stand in the house of the Lord,
in the courts of the house of our God.
2 Lift up your hands to the holy place
and bless the Lord through the night.
3 May the Lord bless you from Zion,
he who made both heaven and earth.

Question 16

135

Answer 16

OATMEAL / possession

For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself and Israel for his own possession.

Praise the Lord for the Lord is good.
Sing a psalm to his name for he is loving.
For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself
and Israel for his own possession.

For I know that the Lord is great,
that our Lord is high above all gods
.
The Lord does whatever he wills,
in heaven, on earth, in the seas.

He summons clouds from the ends of the earth;
makes lightning produce the rain;
from his treasuries he sends forth the wind.

Question 17

136

Answer 17

DAMAGE / gives food

He gives food to all living things,
for his love endures forever.

He remembered us in our distress,
for his love endures forever.

And he snatched us away from our foes,
for his love endures for ever.

He gives food to all living things,
for his love endures forever.

To the God of heaven give thanks,
for his love endures for ever

Question 18

137

Answer 18

TOMAHAWK / babylon

By the rivers of Babylon there we sat and wept, remembering Zion

By the rivers of Babylon
there we sat and wept,
remembering Zion;

on the poplars that grew there
we hung up our harps.

For it was there that they asked us,
our captors, for songs,
our oppressors, for joy.
“Sing to us,” they said,
“one of Zion’s songs.”

O how could we sing
the song of the Lord
on alien soil?
If I forget you, Jerusalem,
let my right hand wither!

Question 19

138

Answer 19

DMV / kings

All earth’s kings shall thank you
when they hear the words of your mouth

I thank you, Lord, with all my heart,
you have heard the words of my mouth.
In the presence of the angels I will bless you.
I will adore before your holy temple.

I thank you for your faithfulness and love
which excel all we ever knew of you.
On the day I called, you answered;
you increased the strength of my soul.

All earth’s kings shall thank you
when they hear the words of your mouth.
They shall sing of the Lord’s ways:
“How great is the glory of the Lord!”

The Lord is high yet he looks on the lowly
and the haughty he knows from afar.
Though I walk in the midst of affliction
you give me life and frustrate my foes.

You stretch out your hand and save me,
your hand will do all things for me.
Your love, O Lord, is eternal,
discard not the work of your hands.

Question 20

139

Answer 20

TEMPO / knowledge

Too wonderful for me this knowledge, too high, beyond my reach

1 O Lord, you search me and you know me,
2 you know my resting and my rising,
you discern my purpose from afar.
3 You mark when I walk or lie down,
all my ways lie open to you.

4 Before ever a word is on my tongue
you know it, O Lord, through and through.
5 Behind and before you besiege me,
your hand ever laid upon me.
6 Too wonderful for me this knowledge,
too high, beyond my reach.

7 O where can I go from your spirit,
or where can I flee from your face?
8 If I climb the heavens, you are there.
If I lie in the grave, you are there.

9 If I take the wings of the dawn
and dwell at the sea’s furthest end,
10 even there your hand would lead me,
your right hand would hold me fast.

11 If I say: “Let the darkness hide me
and the light around me be night,”
12 even darkness is not dark for you
and the night is as clear as the day.

13 For it was you who created my being,
knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I thank you for the wonder of my being,
for the wonders of all your creation.

Already you knew my soul
15 my body held no secret from you
when I was being fashioned in secret
and molded in the depths of the earth.

16 Your eyes saw all my actions,
they were all of them written in your book;
every one of my days was decreed
before one of them came into being.

17 To me, how mysterious your thoughts,
the sum of them not to be numbered!
18 If I count them, they are more than the sand;
to finish, I must be eternal, like you.

19 O God, that you would slay the wicked!
Men of blood, keep far away from me!
20 With deceit they rebel against you
and set your designs at naught.

21 Do I not hate those who hate you,
abhor those who rise against you?
22 I hate them with a perfect hate
and they are foes to me.

23 O search me, God, and know my heart.
O test me and know my thoughts.
24 See that I follow not the wrong path
and lead me in the path of life eternal

Question 21

140

Answer 21

ODORUS / stir up strife

Rescue me, Lord, from evil men; from the violent keep me safe, from those who plan evil in their hearts and stir up strife every day;

who sharpen their tongue like an adder’s,
with the poison of viper on their lips.

Lord, guard me from the hands of the wicked;
from the violent keep me safe;
they plan to make me stumble.

The proud have hidden a trap,
have spread out lines in a net,
set snares across my path

Question 22

141

Answer 22

DART / incense

Let my prayer arise before you like incense, the raising of my hands like an evening oblation.

I have called to you, Lord; hasten to help me!
Hear my voice when I cry to you.
Let my prayer arise before you like incense,
the raising of my hands like an evening oblation.

Set, O Lord, a guard over my mouth;
keep watch, O Lord, at the door of my lips!
Do not turn my heart to things that are wrong,
to evil deeds with men who are sinners.

Never allow me to share in their feasting.
If a just man strikes or reproves me it is kindness

but let the oil of the wicked not anoint my head.
Let my prayer be ever against their malice.

Question 23

142

Answer 23

DRAIN / prison

Bring my soul out of this prison
and then I shall praise your name.

I cry to you, O Lord.
I have said: “You are my refuge
all I have in the land of the living.”

Listen, then, to my cry
for I am in the depths of distress.
Rescue me from those who pursue me
for they are stronger than I.

Bring my soul out of this prison
and then I shall praise your name.

Around me the just will assemble
because of your goodness to me.

Question 24

143

Answer 24

DRM / no one is just

Do not call your servant to judgment for no one is just in your sight.

Lord, listen to my prayer:
turn your ear to my appeal.
You are faithful, you are just; give answer.
Do not call your servant to judgment
for no one is just in your sight.

The enemy pursues my soul;
he has crushed my life to the ground;
he has made me dwell in darkness
like the dead, long forgotten.

Therefore my spirit fails;
my heart is numb within me.
I remember the days that are past:
I ponder all your works.
I muse on what your hand has wrought
and to you I stretch out my hands.

Like a parched land my soul thirsts for you.
Lord, make haste and answer;
for my spirit fails within me.
Do not hide your face
lest I become like those in the grave.

Question 25

144

Answer 25

TERRIER / daughters

our daughters graceful as columns,
adorned as though for a palace.

Let our sons then flourish like saplings
grown tall and strong from their youth,

our daughters graceful as columns,
adorned as though for a palace.

Let our barns be filled to overflowing
with crops of every kind;
our sheep increasing by thousands,
myriads of sheep in our fields,
our cattle heavy with young,

no ruined wall, no exile,
no sound of weeping in our streets.
Happy the people with such blessings;
happy the people whose God is the Lord

Question 26

145

Answer 26

TROLL / kingdom

Yours is an everlasting kingdom; your rule lasts from age to age.

1 I will give you glory, O God my king,
I will bless your name for ever.

2 I will bless you day after day
and praise your name for ever.
3 The Lord is great, highly to be praised,
his greatness cannot be measured.

4 Age to age shall proclaim your works,
shall declare your mighty deeds,
5 shall speak of your splendor and glory,
tell the tale of your wonderful works.
6 They will speak of your terrible deeds,
recount your greatness and might.
7 They will recall your abundant goodness;
age to age shall ring out your justice.

8 The Lord is kind and full of compassion,
slow to anger, abounding in love.
9 How good is the Lord to all,
compassionate to all his creatures.

10 All your creatures shall thank you, O Lord,
and your friends shall repeat their blessing.
11 They shall speak of the glory of your reign
and declare your might, O God,

12 to make known to all your mighty deeds
and the glorious splendor of your reign.
13 Yours is an everlasting kingdom;
your rule lasts from age to age.

The Lord is faithful in all his words
and loving in all his deeds.
14 The Lord supports all who fall
and raise up all who are bowed down.

15 The eyes of all creatures look to you
and you give them their food in due time.
16 You open wide your hand,
grant the desires of all who live.

17 The Lord is just in all his ways
and loving in all his deeds.
18 He is close to all who call him,
who call on him from their hearts.

19 He grants the desires of those who fear him,
he hears their cry and he saves them.
20 The Lord protects all who love him ;
the wicked he will utterly destroy.

21 Let me speak the praise of the Lord,
let all peoples bless his holy name
for ever, for ages unending.

Question 27

146

Answer 27

TORCH / blind

the Lord who gives sight to the blind, who raises up those who are bowed down,

My soul, give praise to the Lord;
2 I will praise the Lord all my days,
make music to my God while I live.
3 Put no trust in princes,
In mortal men in whom there is no help.
4 Take their breath, they return to clay
and their plans that day come to nothing.
5 He is happy who is helped by Jacob’s God,
whose hope is in the Lord his God,
6 who alone made heaven and earth,
the seas and all they contain.
It is the Lord who keeps faith for ever,
7 who is just to those who are oppressed.
It is he who gives bread to the hungry,
the Lord, who sets prisoners free,
8 the Lord who gives sight to the blind,
who raises up those who are bowed down,
9 the Lord, who protects the stranger
and upholds the widow and orphan.
8c It is the Lord who loves the just
9c but thwarts the path of the wicked.
10 The Lord will reign for ever,
Zion’s God, from age to age.

Question 28

147

Answer 28

TRUCK / snow

He showers down snow white as wool, he scatters hoar-frost like ashes

Praise the Lord for he is good;
sing to our God for he is loving:
to him our praise is due.
2 The Lord builds up Jerusalem
and brings back Israel’s exiles,
3 he heals the brokenhearted,
he binds up all their wounds.
4 He fixes the number of the stars;
he calls each one by its name.
5 Our Lord is great and almighty;
his wisdom can never be measured.
6 The Lord raises the lowly;
he humbles the wicked to the dust.
7 O sing to the Lord giving thanks;
sing psalms to our God with the harp.
8 He covers the heavens with clouds;
he prepares the rain for the earth,
making mountains sprout with grass
and with plants to serve man’s needs.
9 He provides the beasts with their food
and young ravens that call upon him.
10 His delight is not in horses
nor his pleasure in warriors’ strength.
11 The Lord delights in those who revere him,
in those who wait for his love.
Psalm 147.2(147)
Lauda, Jerusalem
12 O praise the Lord, Jerusalem!
Zion praise your God!
13 He has strengthened the bars of your gates
he has blessed the children within you.
14 He established peace on your borders,
he feeds you with finest wheat.
15 He sends out his word to the earth
and swiftly runs his command.
16 He showers down snow white as wool,
he scatters hoarfrost
like ashes.
17 He hurls down hailstones like crumbs.
The waters are frozen at his touch;
18 he sends forth his word and it melts them:
at the breath of his mouth the waters flow.
19 He makes his word known to Jacob,
to Israel his laws and decrees.
20 He has not dealt thus with other nations;
he has not taught them his decrees.

Question 29

148

Answer 29

TROVE / wild and tame

beasts, wild and tame,
reptiles and birds on the wing;

Praise the Lord from the earth,
sea creatures and all oceans,

fire and hail, snow and mist,
stormy winds that obey his word;

all mountains and hills,
all fruit trees and cedars,
beasts, wild and tame,
reptiles and birds on the wing;

all earth’s kings and peoples,
earth’s princes and rulers,
young men and maidens,
the old men together with children.

Question 30

149

Answer 30

THERAPY / preordained

to carry out the sentence pre-ordained: this honor is for all his faithful.

ALLELUIA!

Sing a new song to the Lord,
his praise in the assembly of the faithful.
2 Let Israel rejoice in its Maker,
let Zion’s sons exult in their king.
3 Let them praise his name with dancing
and make music with timbrel and harp.

4 For the Lord takes delight in his people.
He crowns the poor with salvation.
5 Let the faithful rejoice in their glory,
shout for joy and take their rest.
6 Let the praise of God be on their lips
and a two-edged sword in their hand,

7 to deal out vengeance to the nations
and punishment on all the peoples;
8 to bind their kings in chains
and their nobles in fetters of iron;
9 to carry out the sentence pre-ordained:
this honor is for all his faithful.

ALLELUIA!

Question 31

150

Answer 31

DALLAS / cymbals

O praise him with resounding cymbals, praise him with clashing of cymbals.

ALLELUIA!

Praise God in his holy place,
praise him in his mighty heavens.
Praise him for his powerful deeds,
praise his surpassing greatness.

O praise him with sound of trumpet,
praise him with lute and harp.
Praise him with timbrel and dance,
praise him with strings and pipes.

O praise him with resounding cymbals,
praise him with clashing of cymbals.
Let everything that lives and that breathes
give praise to the Lord.

ALLELUIA!