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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...
The difficulties of breaking this section into paragraphs have already been mentioned. Verses 2–8 have the form of an alphabetic poem, usually called an acrostic. Some scholars say that the poem extends to verse 10, others, to verse 14, but there is no general agreement. An acrostic poem is a poem in which the first word of each new line in Hebrew begins with a different letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The letters occur in alphabetical order. This type of poem is found in several places in the Old
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