It is easy, in Psalm 119, to pay so much attention to the lines which contain the key-word which describes Yahweh’s truth—‘word’, ‘teaching’, commandment’, etc.—that we overlook what the parallel line says. Look, for example, at verse 2: line one is hugely important in commending to blessing those who ‘preserve Yahweh’s testimonies’. Of course we dwell on the word ‘testimonies’. What an assertion! God himself has gone into the witness box and has personally born witness to what