61-90

Question 1

61

Answer 1

CHAT / tower

On a rock too high for me to reach
set me on high, O you who have been my refuge, my tower against the foe.

Let me dwell in your tent for ever
and hide in the shelter of your wings.
For you, O God, hear my prayer,
grant me the heritage of those who fear you.

May you lengthen the life of the king;
may his years cover many generations.
May he ever sit enthroned before God:
bid love and truth be his protection.

So I will always praise your name
and day after day fulfill my vows.

Question 2

62

Answer 2

CHIN / God alone

Their plan is only to destroy, they take pleasure in lies.

With their mouth they utter blessing but in their heart they curse.

In God alone be at rest my soul for my hope comes from him.

He alone is my rock my stronghold my fortress I stand firm.

Question 3

63

Answer 3

CHIME / body pines

O God you are my God for you I long, for you my soul is thirsting. My body pines for you like a dry weary land without water.

So I gaze on you in the sanctuary to see your strength and your glory.

Question 4

64

Answer 4

CHEERIO / arrow

He will search who searches the mind and who knows the depths of the heart. God has shot them with his arrow and has dealt them sudden wounds. Their own tongue has brought them to ruin and all who see them mock.

2 Hear my voice, O God, as I complain,
guard my life from dread of the foe.
3 Hide me from the band of the wicked,
from the throng of those who do evil.

4 They sharpen their tongues like swords;
they aim bitter words like arrows
5 to shoot at the innocent from ambush,
shooting suddenly and recklessly.

6 They scheme their evil course;
they conspire to lay secret snares.
They say: “Who will see us?
7 Who can search out our crimes?”

He will search who searches the mind
and knows the depths of the heart.
8 God has shot them with his arrow
and dealt them sudden wounds.
9 Their own tongue has brought them to ruin
and all who see them mock.

10 Then will all men fear;
they will tell what God has done.
They will understand God’s deeds.
11 The just will rejoice in the Lord
and fly to him for refuge.
All the upright hearts will glory

Question 5

65

Answer 5

CHILL / abundance

Abundance flows in your steps;
in the pastures of the wilderness it flows.

You crown the year with your goodness.

Abundance flows in your steps;
in the pastures of the wilderness it flows.

The hills are girded with joy,
the meadows covered with flocks,

the valleys are decked with wheat.
They shout for joy, yes they sing.

Question 6

66

Answer 6

CHOO CHOO / fire and water

You let foes ride over our heads;
we went through fire and through water

For you, O God, have tested us,
you have tried us as silver is tried;

you led us, God, into the snare;
you laid a heavy burden on our backs.

You let foes ride over our heads;
we went through fire and through water
but then you brought us relief.

Burnt offering I bring to your house;
to you I will pay my vows,
the vows which my lips have uttered,
which my mouth spoke in my distress.

Question 7

67

Answer 7

CHEEK / face

O God be gracious and bless us, and let your face shed its light upon us.

So will your ways be known upon earth

and all nations learn your saving help.

Question 8

68

Answer 8

CHIEF / highway

Make a highway for the CHIEF who rides on the clouds.

Let God arise, let his foes be scattered. Let those who hate him flee before him.

As smoke is blown away so will they be blown away. Like wax that melts before the fire, so the wicked shall perish at the presence of God.

But the just shall rejoice at the presence of God, they shall exalt and dance for joy.

O sing to the Lord make music to his name, make a highway for him who rides on the clouds.

Question 9

69

Answer 9

CHEAP poison

For food they gave me poison. In my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Let their table be a snare to them and their festive banquets a trap

Let their eyes grow dim and blind;
let their limbs tremble and shake.

Pour out your anger upon them,
let the heat of your fury overtake them.

Question 10

70

Answer 10

KISS / haste

O Lord make haste to my rescue, lord come to my aid.

Let there be shame and confusion on those who seek my life.

O let them turn back in confusion who delight in my harm.

Let them retreat covered with shame who jeer at my lot.

Question 11

71

Answer 11

KID / old

O God, you have taught me from my youth and I proclaim your wonders still. Now that I am old and gray-headed, do not forsake me, God.

Let me tell of your strength and justice to the skies,
tell of you who have worked such wonders.
O God, who is like you?

You have burdened me with bitter troubles
but you will give me back my life.
You will raise me from the depths of the earth;
you will exalt me and console me again.

Question 12

72

Answer 12

CAN / sheba

The kings of Sheba and Seba shall bring him gifts.

Before him his enemies shall fall, his foes lick the dust.

The kings of Tarshish and the seacoasts shall pay him tribute.

The kings of Sheba and Seba shall bring him gifts.

Before him all kings shall fall prostrate,
all nations shall serve him.

Question 13

73

Answer 13

GUM / beast

I was stupid and did not understand no better than a beast in your sight.

And so when my heart grew embittered and when I was cut to the quick

I was stupid and did not understand no better than a beast in your sight.

Yet I was always in your presence you were holding me by my right hand.

You will guide me by your counsel and so you will lead me to glory.

Question 14

74

Answer 14

CAR / axes

Their axes have battered the wood of its doors.

Your foes have made uproar in your house of prayer:

they have set up their emblems, their foreign emblems,
high above the entrance to the sanctuary.

Their axes have battered the wood of its doors.
They have struck together with hatchet and pickax.

O God, they have set your sanctuary on fire;
they have razed and profaned the place where you dwell.

Question 15

75

Answer 15

KILL / boast

to the boastful I say: ‘Do not boast,’
to the wicked: ‘Do not flaunt your strength,

When I reach the appointed time,
then I will judge with justice.

Though the earth and all who dwell in it may rock,
it is I who uphold its pillars.

to the boastful I say: ‘Do not boast,’
to the wicked: ‘Do not flaunt your strength,
do not flaunt your strength on high.
Do not speak with insolent pride.’ “

For neither from the east nor the west,
nor from desert or mountains comes judgment,
but God himself is the judge.
One he humbles, another he exalts.

Question 16

76

Answer 16

CASH / terror

You you alone strike terror. Who shall stand when your anger is roused?

You uttered your sentence from the heavens

the earth in terror was still when God arose to judge to save the humble of the earth.

Question 17

77

Answer 17

KOOK / withheld sleep

You withheld sleep from my eyes.
I was troubled, I could not speak

.2 I cry aloud to God,
cry aloud to God that he may hear me.
.3 In the day of my distress I sought the Lord.
My hands were raised at night without ceasing;
my soul refused to be consoled.
.4 I remembered my God and I groaned.
I pondered and my spirit fainted.
.5 You withheld sleep from my eyes.
I was troubled, I could not speak.
.6 I thought of the days of long ago
and remembered the years long past.
.7 At night I mused within my heart.
I pondered and my spirit questioned.
.8 “Will the Lord reject us for ever?
Will he show us his favor no more?
.9 Has his love vanished for ever?
Has his promise come to an end?
.10 Does God forget his mercy
or in anger withhold his compassion?”
.11 I said: “This is what causes my grief;
that the way of the Most High has changed.”
.12 I remember the deeds of the Lord,
I remember your wonders of old,
.13 I muse on all your works
and ponder your mighty deeds.
.14 Your ways, O God, are holy.
What god is as great as our God?
.15 You are the God who works wonders.
You showed your power among the peoples.
.16 Your strong arm redeemed your people,
the sons of Jacob and Joseph.
.17 The waters saw you, O God,
the waters saw you and trembled;
the depths were moved with terror.
.18 The clouds poured down rain,
the skies sent forth their voice;
your arrows flashed to and fro.
.19 Your thunder rolled round the sky,
your flashes lighted up the world.
The earth was moved and trembled
.20 when your way led through the sea,
your path through the mighty waters
and no one saw your footprints.
.21 You guided your people like a flock
by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Question 18

78

Answer 18

CUFF / not faithful

For their hearts were not truly with him; they were not faithful to his covenant.

But the words they spoke were mere flattery; they lied to him with their lips.

For their hearts were not truly with him; they were not faithful to his covenant.

Yet he who is full of compassion forgave them their sin and spared them. So often he held back his anger when he might have stirred up his rage.

He remembered they were only men, a breath that passes never to return.

Question 19

79

Answer 19

CAP / blood

Let us see the nations around us repaid with vengeance for the blood of your servants that was shed.

1 O God, the nations have invaded your land,
they have profaned your holy temple.
They have made Jerusalem a heap of ruins.
2 They have handed over the bodies of your servants
as food to feed the birds of heaven
and the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth.

3 They have poured out blood like water in Jerusalem;
no one is left to bury the dead.
4 We have become the taunt of our neighbors,
the mockery and scorn of those who surround us.
5 How long, O Lord? Will you be angry for ever;
how long will your anger burn like fire?

6 Pour out your rage on the nations,
the nations that do not know you.
Pour out your rage on the kingdoms
that do not call on your name,
7 for they have devoured Jacob
and laid waste the land where they dwell.

8 Do not hold the guilt of our father against us.
Let your compassion hasten to meet us;
we are left in the depths of distress.
9 O God our savior, come to our help.
Come for the sake of the glory of your name.
O Lord our God, forgive us our sins;
rescue us for the sake of your name.

10 Why should the nations say: “Where is their God?”

Let us see the nations around us repaid
with vengeance for the blood of your servants that was shed!
11 Let the groans of the prisoners come before you;
let your strong arm reprieve those condemned to die.

12 Pay back to our neighbors seven times over
the taunts with which they taunted you, O Lord.
13 But we, your people, the flock of your pasture,
will give you thanks for ever and ever.
We will tell your praise from age to age

Question 20

80

Answer 20

FUSS / vine

Visit the vine and protect it, or Br. Christopher will FUSS.

God of hosts, turn again, we implore,
look down from heaven and see.

Visit the vine and protect it,
the vine your right hand has planted.

They have burnt it with fire and destroyed it.
May they perish at the frown of your face.

May your hand be on the man you have chosen,
the man you have given your strength.
And we shall never forsake you again;
give us life that we may call upon your name.

Question 21

81

Answer 21

FUD / honey

But Israel I would feed with finest wheat and fill them with honey from the rock

I am the Lord your God,
who brought you from the land of Egypt.
Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.

But my people did not heed my voice
and Israel would not obey,
so I left them in their stubbornness of heart
to follow their own designs.

O that my people would heed me,
that Israel would walk in my ways!
At once I would subdue their foes,
turn my hand against their enemies.

The Lord’s enemies would cringe at their feet
and their subjection would last for ever.
But Israel I would feed with finest wheat
and fill them with honey from the rock.”

Question 22

82

Answer 22

FUN / gods

I have said to you you are gods and all of you, sons of the most high.

Unperceiving they grope in the darkness

and the order of the world is shaken.

I have said to you you are gods and all of you, sons of the most high. And yet you shall die like men, you shall fall like any of the princes.

Arise O God judge the earth for you rule all the nations.

Question 23

83

Answer 23

FAME / midian

Treat them like Midian, like Sisera, ike Jabin at the River Kishon

Treat them like Midian, like Sisera,
like Jabin at the River Kishon,
the men who were destroyed at Endor,
whose bodies rotted on the ground.

Make their captains like Oreb and Zeeb,
all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

the men who said: “Let us take
the fields of God for ourselves.”
My God, scatter them like chaff,
drive them like straw in the wind!

As fire that burns away the forest,
as flame that sets the mountains ablaze,
drive them away with your tempest
and fill them with terror at your storm.
Cover their faces with shame,
till they seek your name, O Lord.

Question 24

84

Answer 24

FUR / threshold

The threshold of the House of God I prefer to the dwellings of the wicked.

2 How lovely is your dwelling place,
Lord, God of hosts.

3 My soul is longing and yearning,
is yearning for the courts of the Lord.
My heart and my soul ring out their joy
to God, the living God.

4 The sparrow herself finds a home
and the swallow a nest for her brood;
she lays her young by your altars,
Lord of hosts, my king and my God.

5 They are happy, who dwell in your house,
for ever singing your praise.
6 They are happy, whose strength is in you,
in whose hearts are the roads to Zion.

7 As they go through the Bitter Valley
they make it a place of springs
(the autumn rain covers it with blessings).
8 They walk with ever growing strength,
they will see the God of gods in Zion.

9 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer,
give ear, O God of Jacob.
10 Turn your eyes, O God, our shield,
look on the face of your anointed.

11 One day within your courts
is better than a thousand elsewhere.
The threshold of the house of God
I prefer to the dwellings of the wicked.

12 For the Lord God is a rampart, a shield;
he will give us his favor and glory.
The Lord will not refuse any good
to those who walk without blame.

13 Lord, God of hosts,
happy the man who trusts in you

Question 25

85

Answer 25

FEEL / met

Mercy and faithfulness have met, justice and peace have embraced.

I will hear what the lord God has to say, a voice that speaks of peace.

Peace for his people and his friends and those who turn to him in their hearts.

His help is near for those who fear him and his glory will dwell in our land.

Mercy and faithfulness have met, justice and peace have embraced. Faithfulness shall spring from the earth and justice look down from heaven.

Question 26

86

Answer 26

FISH / forgiving

Oh Lord, you are good and forgiving, full of love to all who call.

Turn your ear, O Lord, and give answer
for I am poor and needy.
2 Preserve my life, for I am faithful;
save the servant who trusts in you.

3 You are my God, have mercy on me, Lord,
for I cry to you all the day long.
4 Give joy to your servant, O Lord,
for to you I lift up my soul.

5 O Lord, you are good and forgiving,
full of love to all who call.
6 Give heed, O Lord, to my prayer
and attend to the sound of my voice.

7 In the day of distress I will call
and surely you will reply.
8 Among the gods there is none like you, O Lord;
nor work to compare with yours.

9 All the nations shall come to adore you
and glorify your name, O Lord:
10 for you are great and do marvelous deeds,
you who alone are God.

11 Show me, Lord, your way
so that I may walk in your truth.
Guide my heart to fear your name.

12 I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart
and glorify your name for ever;
13 for your love to me has been great:
you have saved me from the depths of the grave.

14 The proud have risen against me;
ruthless men seek my life;
to you they pay no heed.

15 But you, God of mercy and compassion,
slow to anger, O Lord,
abounding in love and truth,
16 turn and take pity on me.

O give your strength to your servant
and save your handmaid’s child.
17 Show me the sign of your favor
that my foes may see to their shame
that you console me and give me your help.

Question 27

87

Answer 27

FAKE / mother

And Zion shall be called mother for all shall be her children.

It is he the Lord most high who gives each his place. In his register of people he writes these are her children.

And while they dance they will sing in you all find their home

Question 28

88

Answer 28

FIVE / darkness

Friend and neighbor you have taken away. My one companion is darkness.

Wretched close to death from my youth I have borne your trials I am numb.

Your fury has swept down upon me your terrors have utterly destroyed me.

They surround me all the day like a flood they assail me altogether.

Friend and neighbor you have taken away. My one companion is darkness.

Question 29

89

Answer 29

FIB / rahab

It is you who trod Rahab underfoot like a corpse scattering your foes with your mighty arm.

O Lord God of hosts who is your equal? You are mighty o Lord and truth is your garment.

It is you who rule the sea in its pride. It is you who still the surging of its waves.

It is you who trod Rahab underfoot like a corpse
scattering your foes with your mighty arm.

Question 30

90

Answer 30

BOSS / years

To your eyes 1000 years are like yesterday come and gone.

You turn men back to dust

and say go back sons of men.

To your eyes 1000 years are like yesterday come and gone.

No more than a watch in the night.