Day 46 ~ The entirety of Your word is truth

As freqently as David glorifies God, he invokes God's wrath. Why not pray for his enemies to be converted to followers of God? In Psalm 109, as in many others written by David, when David gets offended, he wants God to strike them down. No tender mercies from David.

• 109:31 - right hand - and again in 110:1
• 111:10 - "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom"
• Psalm 115 contrasts the real living God with the inanimate idols
• Psalm 117 - only one verse long - shortest psalm, perhaps even the shortest chapter in the Bible?
• 118:8-9 - misplaced trust
• 118:22 - Messianic - "The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone."
• 118:24; 26 - songs - This is the day the LORD has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it; Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD!

Have you ever received the email about Psalm 118 being the middle of the Bible? This is an interesting link that proves/disproves this idea. http://www.snopes.com/religion/center.asp

The 176 verses of Psalm 119 are divided into 22 stanzas of eight lines each: one stanza for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet. In the first stanza, each of the 8 lines begin with the first letter of the alphabet; in the next stanza, each of the lines begin with the second letter, and so on through the entire alphabet. Poems that use patterns involving the initial letter of a line are called acrostics Psalm 119 is one of about a dozen alphabetic acrostic poems in the Bible (including Psalm 9, 10, 25, 34, 37, 111, 112, and 145). Of course the beauty of this structure is lost on us when it is translated into english.

The second stanza is for the Hebrew letter "Beth," or "Bet" or "Beit" or "vet" (why can't we have only one translation of this one letter)? How fitting, especially verse 15: I will meditate on Your precepts, and contemplate Your ways." I've been meditating and contemplating for 46 days now!

Psalm 118 is basically saying teach me your commands and help me to know and follow them. No less than eight words are used to describe these important writings: word, law, testimonies, precepts, statues, commands, ordinances, judgements.

• 119:105 - song - Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.
• 119:145 starts a new stanza with the letter "Qoph" - great scrabble word.
• 119:156 - tender mercies
• 119:160 - "The entirety of Your word is truth"

I may just start signing my correspondence ב (beth)