Facts About Psalm 119
Psalm 119 is an acrostic. Each section of the Psalm correlates with one of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. You may be able to see this noted in your own Bible. Some Bibles indicate the sections by noting the Hebrew letter as the section header. This is designated to break our study reading into different sections.
The theme of Psalm 119 is a love for God’s Word! Hence, our focus on turning our attention to this specific Psalm to renew our hunger for God’s Word. There are 176 total verses in this Psalm, and in my opinion, we don’t even get to some of the best verses by the end of this study.
There’s much speculation about the authorship of Psalm 119. We tend to assume every Psalm was written by King David, but that’s not necessarily true. There is no specific indication that this Psalm was written by David himself. There’s also no indication that this Psalm was written in one sitting - that would be an epic!
We invite you to join us as we Renew Hunger in Psalm 119!