Psalm 119 (1 of 190 notes)

The Psalm is alphabetical. Eight stanzas commence with one letter, and then another eight with the next letter, and so the whole psalm proceeds through the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. This sacred ode is a little Bible, the Scriptures condensed, rewritten in holy emotions and actions. Blessed are they who can read and understand these saintly aphorisms; they will find golden apples and come to reckon that this psalm, like the whole Scripture which it praises, is a pearl island, or, better still, a garden of sweet flowers.