Welcome to Part 2 of this week's podcast.

John, you mentioned tender mercies from Psalm 119 for 77.

Those who are studying with us might be questioning what is up with Psalm 119.

Can you explain what all these symbols and headers are about?

Yes, I can. If you look at Psalm 119 is 176 verses, but it's divided.

And if you look at it, you will see it's divided using Hebrew symbols.

So look at Psalm 119 on page 792 if you're using ancient paper scriptures like I am.

And you'll see the symbol and the word, I hope I'm saying it right, a left, which,

and notice it starts with an A. And the next symbol just above verse 9 is Beth.

There it is. This is the Hebrew alphabet. So here's what's fun to know about this.

We will talk about this again when we talk about Proverbs, but this is called an Acrostic poem.

And some of you going, oh, cross stitch, I've done cr- no, Acrostic. Acrostic is like saying,

A is for your altruisticness. B is for your benevolence. C is for your charity.

D is for your delightfulness. Right. And each of these are divided among the consonants,

I think it was, let me see, I have a study Bible that explains it here.

Let's see what it says. This very lengthy poem is an Acrostic.

For each of the 22 consonants of the Hebrew alphabet, there are eight verses beginning with that letter,

within the Psalm, eight words for God's law occur again and again.

Law, testimonies, promise, precept, statutes, commandments, judgments, and word.

These words elaborate the application of the law of God today,

life, and to Israel's destiny. So that's why those little letters are there.

But I just want to say some things become so important to us just explaining it isn't enough.

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