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Psalm 119
Of the 150 psalms (Greek for “song”), psalm 119 is the longest. It is an “acrostic” poem spanning 176 verses in 22 stanzas; one stanza for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Acrostic means that each letter of the Hebrew alphabet is the first letter of the first word of each stanza (aleph, bet, gimmel, dalet, heh …). There are about a dozen acrostic poems in the bible. These literary techniques were done to help people memorize the scripture.