Psalms- Comparisons and Contrasts

You will need to use the King James Version for this worksheet.

Who or what is compared or contrasted with something else in the following passages?

1. Who is like a tree?  (1:1-3) ______________________________________

2. Who is like the chaff?  (1:4) _____________________________________

3. What is like a dry potsherd?  (22:15) ______________________________

4. Who will be cut down like grass?  (37:2) ___________________________

5. What is like a sharp razor?  (52:2) ________________________________

6. Who is like a green olive tree?  (52:8) _____________________________

7. Who is like a snake and snake’s poison?  (58:4) _______________________

8. Who is like a barking dog?  (59:6) _______________________________

9. Who is like sheep?  (78:52) ______________________________________

10. What is shed like water?  (79:3) _________________________________

11. What may burn like fire?  (79:5) ________________________________

12. Who will flourish like a palm tree?  (92:12) ________________________

13. What is consumed like smoke?  (102:3) ___________________________

14. What is like a shadow?  (102:11) _________________________________

15. What is renewed like an eagle’s?  (103:5) ___________________________

16. Some men stagger like what?  (107:27) _____________________________

17. What skipped like a ram?  (114:4) _________________________________  

18. Enemies of God are compared with what insect?  (118:12) _________________

19. To what animal does the Psalmist compare himself? (119:176) ______________

20. Who is compared to a fruitful vine? (128:3) ______________________________

Maxim of the Moment

I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. - George Burns