is speaking out loud. He is not reading the text to himself, for several times he mentions doing it at night (Pss. 1:2; 63:6; 77:6), which would have been difficult before the invention of electric light. In line with my discussion in chapter 3, we probably should imagine him singing or reciting the psalm from memory. Another device that the author of Psalm 119 uses to stress the importance, indeed the perfection, of the law is the acrostic; in fact, Psalm 119 is the longest acrostic poem in the