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OCTOBER 17
“Perhaps he can be induced; To keep Your statutes!
Then we will prevail against him, 6 Then I would not be ashamed,
And we will take our revenge on him.” When I look into all Your
commandments.
11 But the LORD is with me as a mighty, 7
awesome One. I will praise You with uprightness of
heart,
Therefore my persecutors will stumble, When I learn Your righteous
and will not prevail.
judgments.
They will be greatly ashamed, for they 8 I will keep Your statutes;
will not prosper.
Their everlasting confusion will never Oh, do not forsake me utterly!
be forgotten.
12 But, O LORD of hosts,
You who test the righteous,
And see the mind and heart, 119:1–176 This longest of psalms and chap-
Let me see Your vengeance on them; ters in the Bible stands as the “Mt. Everest” of
For I have pleaded my cause before the Psalter. It joins Psalms 1 and 19 in exalting
You. God’s Word.The author is unknown for certain,
although David, Daniel, or Ezra have reason-
13 Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD! ably been suggested.The psalmist apparently
For He has delivered the life of the wrote while under some sort of serious duress
poor as comes through in many verses. This is an
From the hand of evildoers. acrostic psalm (Pss. 9; 10; 25; 34; 37; 111; 112;
145) composed of 22 sections, each contain-
14 Cursed be the day in which I was born! ing 8 lines. All 8 lines of the first section start
Let the day not be blessed in which my with the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet;
mother bore me! thus the psalm continues until all 22 letters
15 Let the man be cursed have been used in order.The 8 different terms
Who brought news to my father, referring to Scripture occurring throughout the
saying, psalm are: 1) law, 2) testimonies, 3) precepts, 4)
“A male child has been born to you!” statutes, 5) commandments, 6) judgments, 7)
Making him very glad. word,and 8) ordinances.From before sunrise to
16 And let that man be like the cities beyond sunset the Word of God dominated the
Which the LORD overthrew, and did not psalmist’s life:1) before dawn (v.147),2) daily (v.
relent; 97), 3) 7 times daily (v. 164), 4) nightly (vv.
Let him hear the cry in the morning 55,148),and 5) at midnight (v.62).
And the shouting at noon,
17 Because he did not kill me from the
womb, Proverbs 27:13
That my mother might have been my 13 Take the garment of him who is surety
grave,
And her womb always enlarged with me. for a stranger,
18 Why did I come forth from the womb And hold it in pledge when he is surety
to see labor and sorrow, for a seductress.
That my days should be consumed 1 Thessalonians 4:1–18
with shame?
Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort
Psalm 119:1–8 4 in the Lord Jesus that you should abound
more and more, just as you received from us
ALEPH 2
A how you ought to walk and to please God; for
B lessed are the undefiled in the way, you know what commandments we gave you
through the Lord Jesus.
Who walk in the law of the LORD!
2 3
Blessed are those who keep His For this is the will of God, your sanctification:
testimonies, that you should abstain from sexual immorality;
Who seek Him with the whole heart! 4 that each of you should know how to possess
They also do no iniquity; his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not
3 5
They walk in His ways. in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not
You have commanded us know God; that no one should take advantage
4 6
To keep Your precepts diligently. of and defraud his brother in this matter,
5
Oh, that my ways were directed because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as
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