Psalms Study Guide Answers 

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Psalm 1 

  1. He doesn’t walk in the counsel of the ungodly,  stand in the way of sinners, or sit in the seat of the scornful
  2. He delights in it and meditates in it day and night
  3. A tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth his fruit in his season
  4. In the judgment, or in the congregation of the righteous
  5. The righteous

 Psalm 2 

  1. When kings and rulers counsel together against the LORD
  2. Jesus
  3. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
  4. They that put their trust in him

Psalm 3 

  1. There is no help for him in God
  2. A shield, his glory, and the lifter up of his head
  3. God’s blessing

Psalm 4 

  1. The godly
  2. Sacrifices of righteousness
  3. Gladness
  4. The LORD makes us dwell in safety

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 Psalm 5 

  1. In the morning
  2. Wickedness
  3. Those that put their trust in you God
  4. The righteous

Psalm 6 

  1. In death and the grave
  2. Weeping, supplication and prayer

Psalm 7 

  1. The LORD
  2. If he rewarded evil to him that was at peace with him
  3. They will fall into it

 Psalm 8 

  1. The name of the LORD
  2. Jesus
  3. What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit him?
  4. All things including mammals, birds, and fish

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 Psalm 9 

  1. In righteousness
  2. The oppressed and those in trouble
  3. The humble and needy
  4. The wicked and all nations that forget God

 Psalm 10 

  1. The wicked
  2. You should

  Psalm 11 

  1. Because we trust in the LORD
  2. Snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest:
  3. Righteousness

 Psalm 12 

  1. All flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things
  2. As silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times
  3. For ever

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Psalm 13 

  1. In God’s salvation
  2. Because God dealt bountifully with him

Psalm 14 

  1. The fool
  2. To see if there were any that did understand, and seek God

Psalm 15 

  1. Walks uprightly, works righteousness, and speaks the truth
  2. Backbite, do evil to his neighbor, take up a reproach against his neighbor, put out his money to usury, take reward against the innocent.

Psalm 16 

  1. The LORD
  2. What prophesy is given of the resurrection of Jesus? (10, Acts 2:27) You will not leave my soul in hell; neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption
  3. In God’s presence

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Psalm 17 

  1. Unfeigned
  2. As the apple of the eye

Psalm 18 

  1. Strength, rock, fortress, deliverer, buckler, horn of salvation, and high tower
  2. Distress
  3. The merciful
  4. God’s gentleness
  5. The God of his salvation

 Psalm 19 

  1. The heavens
  2. The law of the LORD
  3. The testimony of the LORD
  4. The statutes of the LORD
  5. The commandment of the LORD
  6. The fear of the LORD
  7. The judgments of the LORD
  8. The words of the LORD
  9. Keeping the words of the LORD
  10. The words of his mouth, and the meditation of his heart

Psalm 20 

  1. Salvation
  2. Chariots and horses

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Psalm 21 

  1. In the salvation of the LORD
  2. Your enemies and those that hate you
  3. The LORD

Psalm 22 

  1. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
  2. The praises of Israel
  3. The chief priests, scribes and elders
  4. When Jesus was crucified
  5. All the ends of the world

Psalm 23 

  1. The LORD
  2. In paths of righteousness
  3. Our soul
  4. Evil
  5. A table in the presence of our enemies
  6. Goodness and mercy

 Psalm 24 

  1. The earth and all that dwells on it
  2. He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully
  3. The LORD strong and mighty

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Psalm 25 

  1. Because he trusted in God and did not want his enemies to triumph over him
  2. To be shown the way of the LORD and His paths
  3. Tender mercies and loving kindnesses
  4. The sins of his youth
  5. Them that fear Him
  6. Integrity and uprightness

Psalm 26 

  1. In integrity
  2. The habitation of the house of the LORD, and the place where His honor dwells

 Psalm 27 

  1. The LORD was the strength of his life and his salvation
  2. That he might dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of his life, behold the beauty of the LORD, and inquire in his temple
  3. Your face, LORD, will I seek.
  4. The LORD
  5. He will strengthen our heart

 Psalm 28 

  1. Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands
  2. Because he was helped

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Psalm 29 

  1. The glory due to his name
  2. In the beauty of holiness
  3. The voice of the LORD

Psalm 30 

  1. He was healed
  2. The remembrance of his holiness
  3. Joy
  4. For ever

Psalm 31 

  1. Into your hand I commit my spirit
  2. His times
  3. Love the LORD, Be of good courage

Psalm 32 

  1. He whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered, and in whose spirit there is no guile
  2. His bones waxed old, God’s hand was heavy on him
  3. He acknowledged and confessed his sins
  4. With His eye
  5. The horse or mule

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Psalm 33 

  1. With rejoicing
  2. Skillfully
  3. Right
  4. By the word of the LORD
  5. The counsel of the LORD
  6. The nation whose God is the LORD
  7. Them that fear him and that hope in his mercy

 Psalm 34 

  1. At all times

  2. The angel of the LORD

3.    That the LORD is good

  1. Evil and guile

  2. Them that are of a broken heart and a contrite spirit

Psalm 35 

  1. Confusion, shame, persecution, and destruction
  2. According to God’s righteousness

 Psalm 36 

  1. Like the heavens, clouds, mountains and the deep
  2. God

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Psalm 37 

  1. They shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb
  2. He shall give you the desires of your heart
  3. The meek shall inherit the earth
  4. The wicked
  5. A good man
  6. The righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread

 Psalm 38 

  1. His wounds stunk, trouble, mourning, and loathsome disease
  2. He declared it and was sorry for his sin

Psalm 39 

  1. With his tongue
  2. As an handbreath

 Psalm 40 

  1. Out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay
  2. Sacrifice and offering
  3. Delight to do God’s will
  4. God’s truth

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Psalm 41 

  1. He that considers the poor
  2. My own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me

  Psalm 42 

  1. As the hart pants after the water brooks
  2. Hope in God: praise Him for help

Psalm 43 

  1. Deceitful and unjust men
  2. God’s light and  truth

 Psalm 44 

  1. God’s right hand, arm, light of countenance, and name
  2. God
  3. Defeat, confusion, shame, reproach, affliction and oppression

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Psalm 45 

  1. The pen of a ready writer
  2. For ever and ever: anointed with the oil of gladness
  3. In all generations

 Psalm 46 

  1. God
  2. Very present
  3. God

Psalm 47 

  1. Clap hands, shout, sing
  2. God

 Psalm 48 

  1. The LORD
  2. The towers, bulwarks and palaces

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Psalm 49 

  1. Redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him
  2. God
  3. Nothing
  4. He dies and perishes

Psalm 50 

  1. Beasts, cattle, fowls
  2. Whoever offers praise

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Psalm 51 

  1. Transgressions, iniquity, sin
  2. Transgressions and sin
  3. God
  4. He was shaped in iniquity; and in sin was conceived
  5. A clean heart and a right spirit
  6. To teach transgressors God’s ways; and convert sinners
  7. A broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart

 Psalm 52 

  1. The man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches
  2. A green olive tree in the house of God

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Psalm 53 

  1. There is no God
  2. None
  3. Rejoice and be glad

 

Psalm 54 

  1. God
  2. All trouble

 Psalm 55 

  1. He could fly away form fear and horror
  2. Evening, and morning, and at noon
  3. The LORD

Psalm 56 

  1. What flesh could do to him
  2. His enemies would turn back

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Psalm 57 

  1. Merciful
  2. Fixed
  3. Above the heavens

 Psalm 58 

  1. As soon as they are born
  2. The righteous

 Psalm 59 

  1. From his enemies
  2. God

Psalm 60 

  1. Them that fear God
  2. The help of man
  3. Valiantly: tread down our enemies

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Psalm 61

  1. The rock that was higher than him

Psalm 62

  1. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defense; I shall not be moved
  2. Trust in him

 

Psalm 63

 

  1. Early
  2. God’s loving kindness

 Psalm 64

  1. The secret counsel of the wicked; and the insurrection of the workers of iniquity
  2. Be glad in the LORD, and  trust in him

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 Psalm 65

  1. All flesh
  2. With His goodness

Psalm 66

  1. Worship and sing to God and His name
  2. As silver is tried
  3. If we regard iniquity in our hearts

Psalm 67

  1. On earth among all nations
  2. Let the people praise you, O God; let all the people praise you.

 Psalm 68

  1. God
  2. In a dry land
  3. A great company
  4. Benefits
  5. Strength and power

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Psalm 69

  1. Our foolishness and sins
  2. The zeal of your house has eaten me up

Psalm 70

1. Let God be magnified

Psalm 71

  1. Rock, fortress, hope, trust, and strong refuge
  2. Show God’s strength and His power to his generation and those to come

Psalm 72

  1. Poor and needy
  2. The LORD God, the God of Israel

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Psalm 73

  1. He saw the prosperity of the wicked
  2. He went into the sanctuary of God
  3. God

Psalm 74

  1. His congregation, that the enemy has reproached, and that the foolish people have blasphemed God’s name
  2. Day, night, summer, winter

 Psalm 75

  1. God

 

Psalms (61-120) Study Questions with Answers

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 Psalm 76

  1. The LORD God

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Psalm 77

  1. God, his song, the years of the right hand of the most High, the works of the LORD and wonders of old

Psalm 78

  1. The praises of the LORD, his strength, his wonderful works and his law
  2. From the deliverance out of Egypt until the entering of the promised land
  3. David

Psalm 79

  1. Thanks for ever and praise to all generations

Psalm 80

  1. The man of his right hand, on the son of man whom he made strong

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Psalm 81

  1. Tambourine, pleasant harp, and trumpet
  2. Listened to Him and walked in His ways

Psalm 82

  1. In the congregation of the mighty

Psalm 83

  1. A wheel, as the stubble before the wind and as the fire burns wood
  2. That God, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, is the most high over all the earth

Psalm 84

  1. They that dwell in God’s house, the man whose strength is in God, the man that trusts in God
  2. Be a doorkeeper in the house of his God
  3. No good thing

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Psalm 85

  1. God’s mercy
  2. Salvation
  3. Mercy and truth; righteousness and peace

Psalm 86

  1. Daily
  2. Good, ready to forgive, great, does wondrous things, God alone, full of compassion, gracious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth

 Psalm 87

  1. The gates of Zion

 Psalm 88

  1.  Full of troubles: and his life near to the grave

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Psalm 89

  1. His seed would be established for ever, and his throne to all generations
  2. The raging of the sea
  3. The name of the LORD
  4. Blessed be the LORD for ever more. Amen, and Amen.

 Psalm 90

  1. From everlasting to everlasting
  2. 70 to 80 years
  3. To number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom

 Psalm 91

  1. He that dwells in the secret place of the most High
  2. The snare of the fowler and the noisome pestilence.
  3. The terror by night; the arrow that flies by day; the pestilence that walks in darkness; nor the destruction that wastes at noonday
  4. For he shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways. They shall bear you up in their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone

 Psalm 92

  1. Give thanks unto the lord, sing praises unto his name, show forth his loving kindness in the morning, and his faithfulness every night
  2. Those that be planted in the house of the LORD

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Psalm 93 

  1. Majesty and strength
  2. The noise of many waters and the mighty waves of the sea

Psalm 94 

  1. The Lord God
  2. The LORD
  3. The man whom God chastens
  4. God’s mercy

Psalm 95

  1. With thanksgiving
  2. The people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand

Psalm 96

  1. A new song
  2. As great, greatly to be praised, and to be feared above all gods
  3. In the beauty of holiness
  4. To judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

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Psalm 97

  1. His righteousness, and glory
  2. Hate evil

Psalm 98

  1.  Sing to the LORD a new song. Let the sea roar, and the fullness thereof… For he comes to judge the earth…
  2. Make a joyful noise to the LORD

Psalm 99

  1. He is holy

 Psalm 100 

  1. With gladness
  2. With thanksgiving and praise
  3. His truth

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Psalm 101

  1. Wicked things
  2. Whoever privately slanders his neighbor
  3. He that tells lies

Psalm 102

  1. Smoke, shadow
  2. Pelican, owl, sparrow
  3. For ever, throughout all generations, His years shall have no end
  4. The foundation of the earth

Psalm 103

  1. Bless the LORD
  2. All His benefits
  3. Forgives all iniquities; heals all diseases
  4. He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the children of Israel
  5. To anger
  6. As far as the east is from the west
  7. Our frame; he remembers that we are dust
  8. As grass: as a flower of the field

Psalm 104

  1. The wings of the wind
  2. His angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire
  3. The foundations of the earth
  4. The waters which stood above the mountains
  5. Sap
  6. As long as he lived

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Psalm 105

  1. The land of Canaan for an inheritance
  2. Joseph
  3. There was not one feeble person among their tribes

Psalm 106

  1. For his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
  2. Leanness into their soul
  3. God their savior
  4. Unadvisedly with his lips
  5. For their iniquity

Psalm 107

  1. Talk about it
  2. In their trouble
  3. For his goodness and his wonderful works to the children of men
  4. He sent his word

Psalm 108

  1. Among the nations
  2. Vain is the help of man.
  3. Valiantly

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Psalm 109

  1. Let his days be few; and let another take his office

Psalm 110

  1. The LORD said to my Lord, Sit you at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool
  2. You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek

Psalm 111

1.      Holy and reverend

2.      They that do God’s commandments

Psalm 112

  1. The man that fears the LORD and that delights greatly in his commandments and the generation of the upright
  2. With discretion

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Psalm 113

  1. From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same
  2. He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the dunghill
  3. He makes her to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children

Psalm 114

  1.  The earth

Psalm 115

  1. Whatever he has pleased
  2. Speak, see, hear, smell, handle or walk
  3. The children of men
  4. The dead

Psalm 116

  1. Take the cup of salvation, call on the name of the LORD, and pay our vows
  2. The death of his saints
  3. I will pay my vows to the LORD now in the presence of all his people

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Psalm 117 

  1. For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endures for ever

Psalm 118 

  1. O give thanks to the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endures for ever
  2. The LORD is on our side
  3. Trust in the LORD
  4. The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner
  5. The day which the LORD has made
  6. Praise and give thanks to the LORD

Psalm 119

  1. The law of the LORD, testimonies, his ways, precepts , statutes, commandments, judgments
  2. By taking heed to God’s word
  3. That we might not sin against God
  4. Delight
  5. God’s commandments, law, testimonies, word, precepts
  6. Gold and silver
  7. For ever
  8. Teachers and the ancients
  9. Lamp and light
  10. To be right
  11. Light
  12. In God’s word
  13. His heart stood in awe of God’s word
  14. Great peace and nothing shall offend them
  15. 176

Psalm 120

  1. Cry to the LORD

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Psalms (121-150) Study Questions with Answers

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Psalm 121 

  1. From the LORD, which made heaven and earth
  2. He neither slumbers nor sleeps
  3. Your soul,  your going out and your coming in

Psalm 122 

  1. When they said to him, Let us go into the house of the LORD
  2. The peace of Jerusalem

Psalm 123

  1.  Lift I up our eyes and wait on the LORD

Psalm 124

  1. Their enemies would have swallowed them up quickly
  2. As a bird out of the snare of the fowlers when the snare is broken

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Psalm 125

  1. As mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but stays for ever

Psalm 126

  1. The LORD has done great things for them
  2. Sheaves with rejoicing

Psalm 127 

  1. Building a house
  2. Sleep
  3. Children
  4. The man whose quiver is full of children

Psalm 128 

  1. Every one that fears the LORD; that walks in his ways

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Psalm 129 

  1. The cords of the wicked

Psalm 130 

  1. Out of the depths
  2. Iniquities

Psalm 131

  1. Hope in the LORD

Psalm 132 

  1. The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it
  2. God would teach them, and their children shall also sit on David’s throne for ever more

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Psalm 133 

  1.  For brothers to dwell together in unity

Psalm 134

  1. Lift up your hands and bless the LORD

Psalm 135 

  1. Praise the LORD and sing praises to his name
  2. Idols

Psalm 136 

  1. For his mercy endures for ever
  2. In Genesis it mentions the greater and lesser lights while in Psalms it identifies these as the sun, moon, and stars.

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Psalm 137 

  1. Sat down, wept and hung their harps on the willows
  2. How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?
  3. Jerusalem

Psalm 138 

  1. His word
  2. The lowly

Psalm 139 

  1. Our sitting down, rising up, and lying down. Also our thoughts, words, and ways.
  2. Everywhere both day and night
  3. We are fearfully and wonderfully made
  4. Precious, great and innumerable
  5. Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting

Psalm 140 

  1. From the evil and violent man

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Psalm 141 

  1. As incense
  2. Set a watch before my mouth; keep the door of my lips

Psalm 142

  1.  No man

Psalm 143 

  1. The days of old
  2. To do God’s will

Psalm 144 

  1. That people, whose God is the LORD

Psalm 145

  1.  Every day
  2. To all them that call on him in truth

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Psalm 146 

  1. Praise you the LORD
  2. Having God of Jacob for your help and hoping in the LORD

Psalm 147 

  1. The number of the stars and their names
  2. Them that fear him and hope in his mercy

Psalm 148 

  1. Angels, kings of the earth, all people, princes, judges, young men, maidens, old men, and children

Psalm 149 

  1. A new song

Psalm 150 

  1. In his sanctuary
  2. His mighty acts
  3. With the sound of the trumpet, psaltery, harp, tambourine and dance, stringed instruments and organs, loud cymbals, and high sounding cymbals
  4. Every thing that has breath

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