Choice Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Comprehension The questions below refer to the selections “Psalm 23” and “Psalm 137. ” ____1. Which of the following descriptions of God’s gifts to humankind is not stated in Psalm 23? |a. |Protection from evil |c. |Ecstasy and joy | |b. |Goodness and mercy |d. |Righteousness | ____2.
According to the author of Psalm 23, the speaker’s interactions with God resemble the relationship of a flock to its shepherd because both the psalmist and a flock — |a. |follow and trust |c. |wander and wonder | |b. |live in a large group |d. |fear and flee | ____3. The banquet in Psalm 23 is a(n) — |a. |ritual meal celebrated by God’s most devout followers | |b. metaphor representing the wealth one will receive in exchange for trusting God | |c. |example of how followers of God will not need shepherds | |d. |metaphor for the comfort and protection God provides his followers | ____4. Psalm 23 suggests that in exchange for following God, people can expect — |a. |material gain |c. |peace and serenity | |b. |prestige and power |d. a long, healthy life | ____5.
In Psalm 137, what does “Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth” mean? |a. |Let me be burned by scalding hot food. | |b. |Let me be unable to speak. | |c. |Let me be able to stick out my tongue as far as possible. | |d. |Leave me alone while I am making faces. | ____6. What do the children of Edom want to do to the city of Jerusalem? |a. |Rebuild it |c. |Settle in it | |b. |Destroy it |d. |Write about it | ___7. The Hebrews weep by the waters of Babylon because they — |a. |regret going to war |c. |are wounded | |b. |miss their children |d. |are homesick | ____8. In Psalm 137, when the Hebrews remember and praise Zion, they are also recalling and hoping to regain a — |a. |chance to sing psalms | |b. |chance to make peace with the Babylonians | |c. lost belief in their own God | |d. |safe place of their own to live | ____9. In Psalm 137, Mount Zion can be said to represent — |a. |all of Israel |c. |the countries of the Middle East | |b. |a national park in the Sinai desert |d. |peace and prosperity | ____10.
The Essay on Comfort and Gods Glory
In the decision to discuss two topics included within this reflection paper I have been led to discuss two doctrines that are close to all Christians. The comfort of God and the glory of God are the two doctrines that I have focused on over the last several weeks. The comfort of God has touched me at times over the course of my life however, never as much as it has over the last year. I wish to ...
At the end of Psalm 137, the psalmist expresses hope for — |a. |the destruction of Israel’s enemies | |b. |reunion with the people of Edom | |c. |many descendants | |d. |a return of the barren desert into fertile farmland | Literary Focus: Parallelism
The questions below refer to the selections “Psalm 23” and “Psalm 137. ” ____11. Parallelism is the repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure or that — |a. |sound good together | |b. |have different grammatical structure | |c. |state the same basic idea | |d. |name the same human or divine persons | ___12. The psalmists did not use parallelism to — |a. |show relationships among ideas | |b. |increase the emotional impact of an idea or statement | |c. |create rhythm and balance | |d. |use sounds that closely resemble one another | ____13. Parallelism was especially appropriate to the Psalms because — |a. there were 150 of them, so length was required | |b. |they were created to be sung or recited | |c. |they were originally written in Hebrew | |d. |they were translated by a committee named by King James I | ____14. Which quotation from the Psalms shows parallelism? |a. “Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem . . . ” | |b. |“If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, / Let my right hand forget her cunning. / If I do not remember thee, / Let my tongue | | |cleave to the roof of my mouth . . . ” | |c. |“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. ” | |d. |“How shall we sing the Lord’s song / In a strange land? ” | Comprehension
