Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough
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How Well do you Know the Psalms?

1. How many psalms are there?
2. It’s more commonly known as the Venite, but it’s actually psalm number what?
3. What is the number of the psalm that begins: ‘The Lord is my Shepherd’
4. Which psalm is the longest — with 176 verses?
5. What is the number of the Harvest Psalm: ‘Thou O God art praised in Zion’?
6. Psalm 100 is better known as which canticle?
7. To whom are the psalms attributed?
8. What is the name of the ‘Glory be to the Father .....’ which follows each psalm?
9. Which psalm begins: ‘O praise God in his holiness; praise him in the firmament of His power.’?
10. Psalm 19: The heavens are telling the ...’ what?
11. Psalm 121: I lift up mine eyes unto the ...' what?
12. Psalm 67 (‘God be merciful unto us and bless us’) is which canticle?
13. Where were the cedars in Psalm 29?
14. In Psalm 19, the firmament showeth God’s what?
15. What two musical instruments are mentioned in the Cantate Domino, which is Psalm 98?
16. From which psalm comes the text ‘Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer’? .

 

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