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🗓️ 30 May 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap. |
| 0:13.1 | We are 150 days in and today we read the longest chapter in the Bible. |
| 0:18.4 | You probably either knew it was the longest chapter or at least hoped it was. |
| 0:21.9 | It's even longer than some entire books of the Bible. |
| 0:25.4 | And it's the center chapter of the Bible. |
| 0:28.2 | This song is written as a Hebrew Acroostic poem where each of the 22 sections starts with |
| 0:32.8 | the subsequent letter of the Hebrew alphabet and each of the 8 verses within each section |
| 0:37.6 | starts with that letter as well. |
| 0:40.2 | For us, that would be like 8 verses that start with the letter A, then 8 verses that |
| 0:44.4 | start with the letter B, and so forth. |
| 0:46.4 | And as a former songwriter, this intimidates me. |
| 0:49.5 | This song was a labor of love. |
| 0:52.3 | No one knows who wrote it, but a lot of people think it was Ezra, The Priest, and Scribe. |
| 0:56.4 | All we know is that this particular Psalmist loved the Word of God. |
| 1:00.7 | This kind of detailed demanding songwriting isn't done in a half-hearted manner. |
| 1:05.5 | Not only does he love the Word of God, but he wants to love it even more. |
| 1:09.3 | He's not a perfect man. |
| 1:10.6 | He even ends the Psalm by saying he's a lost sheep who has gone astray and asked God to |
| 1:15.2 | come find him. |
| 1:16.6 | But in all this, he shows a deep understanding of God and his character. |
| 1:21.2 | In fact, the Psalm points out at least seven primary prayers where the attributes of God |
| 1:25.6 | and his character. |
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