Wisdom and Instruction

1.  Multiple choice: Psalm 115 : 3 tells us that God is in heaven and does:
(a) What is right; (b) what is  good; or (c) whatever He pleases.

(c) Whatever He pleases (Psalm 115 : 3 )

2. Fill in the blanks: According to Psalm 115, we should trust in God rather than
-------- , because God does whatever He pleases but an --------- can't do  anything.

Idols-----idol   (Psalm 115: 3-8 ).
If one reads the entire psalm, one finds that God "pleases" to be a help and shield for His people.

3. Multiple choice: According to Psalm 118, who rejected "the chief cornerstone"?
(a) The quarrymen; (b) the builders; or (c) the architects.

(b) The builders (Psalm 118 : 22 ).
Jesus is the  "chief cornerstone", and the "builders" were the Jewish people and leaders who rejected Christ (1 Pet. 2 : 1-8 ).

Wisdom and Instruction

1.  Multiple choice:  According to Psalm 107, God "satisfies the longing soul, And fills the hungry soul with: (a) Goodness; (b) truth; or (c) love."

Goodness (Psalm 107 :9 )

2. According to Psalm 110, the Messiah is a priest of what order?
(a) Levi; (b) Eli; or (c) Melchizedek

(c) Melchizedek ( Psalm 110 : 4 ). For a fuller explanation of this priesthood read Hebrews 7: 1-28.

3. Question: Psalm 115: 8 states, "Those who make them are like them; So is everyone who trusts in them." To what does "them refer in this psalm?

Idols (Psalm 115 :3-8 ).  We become like that which we worship.

Wisdom and Instruction

1. Multiple choice:  According to  Psalm 103, the ministry of the  Lord in our  lives renews our  youth like the:
(a) Lion's; (b) eagle's (c) tiger's.

(b) Eagle's ( Psalm 103 :5 )

2.  Fill in the blank:  Why members of the animal kingdom live and die and age is a mystery to man. According to Psalm 104,death occurs when God takes away the --------  of the creature.

Breath (Psalm 104:29 ). In Genesis 2 :7, we read that man became a living creature when God breathed into him the breath of life. God is sovereign over both the beginning and end of life.

3.  It is not always good to get what we want . The psalmist reminds us that God gave the Israelites what they desired in the wilderness, but it resulted in --------
in their soul.

Leanness (Psalm 106 : 15 )

Wisdom and Instruction

1.  Question : Psalm 100 tells us how we are to approach the Lord. Four different words are used to express the attitude we should have. Name one of the four.

Gladness, singing ,thanksgiving, praise (Psalm 100: 2,4 )

2. Multiple choice: According to Psalm 101, whoever does what to his neighbor will be destroyed  by God? (a) Slanders; (b) robs; or (c) hates.

(a) Slanders (Psalm 101:5 )

3.  In contrasting the changelessness of God with the aging  of  His creation, the psalmist  states that the heavens will grow old like a garment and that God will change them like a what? (a)Tunic; (b) cloak; or (c) robe.

(b) Cloak (Psalm 102 : 26 ) Here is a foreshadowing of the new heaven and new earth described in Revelation 21 and 22.

Wisdom and Instruction

1.  Multiple choice:  According to Psalm 95, what is withheld from a person who hardens  his heart against  the Lord? (a) Peace; (b) joy; or (c) rest.

(c) rest (Psalm 95 : 8-11


2.  True or false?  Man has been given the right by God to take vengeance on someone who has wronged him.


False. Vengeance belongs to God (Psalm 94 :1 ).


3. Fill in the blank:  According to Psalm 97, if we love the Lord we are to hate
------- .

Evil. (Psalm 97 : 10 )

Wisdom and Instruction

1. Question: According to Psalm 90, the average life span of a human being  is how many years?

Seventy years (Psalm 90 : 10 )

2.  Fill in the blanks:  As the psalmist  contemplates  the brevity of life  in Psalm 90,

he compares our lives to -------- that grows in the morning and is cut down in the evening.

Grass (Psalm 90 : 5,6 )

3. "The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, He shall grow like a ------ in Lebanon."

Cedar (Psalm 92 : 12 )

The cedars of Lebanon were symbols of strength and stability throughout the ancient world.

Wisdom and Instruction

1.  Fill in the blanks: Psalm 78 tells of God's dealings with the nation  of Israel.

The psalmist writes it for the sake of the children so they will "set their hope in God, And not forget the ------- of God, But keep His  ------- ".

" Works-----commandments" (Psalm 78 : 7 )

2. Psalm 78, which recounts God's dealings with the unfaithful nation of Israel, was written so that the children would not be like their  --------- .

Fathers (Psalm 78 : 8 )

Because God dwells in eternity, not in time, a thousand years to us are as a -------

in the night to God.

Watch (Psalm 90 : 4 )