119. This great “Psalm of the Law,” the longest poem in the Psalter, is the literary composition of a psalmist whose earnest desire is to make God’s law the governing principle of his conduct. He has arranged his meditations in an elaborate acrostic form (compare Pss 9–10, 25, 34, 37, 111, 112, 145), adopted perhaps as an aid to memory. For each letter of the Hebrew alphabet there is a stanza of eight verses which all begin with that letter; thus there are twenty-two stanzas. One encounters