Psalm 119:1-88
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Weird…I thought I commented on this last night, but I guess I fell asleep before I actually commented! I was so exhausted… Anyway…I did get to read this Psalm 119 passage, and I felt struck by how often David talks about God’s word. I want to love and treasure the word just as David does.
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Hannah Venable posted an update about Psalm 119:1-88 in the group
”I run in the path of your commands, for you have set my heart free.” (Psalm 119:32)
Just reading this verse is freeing! When I live according to God, I live in freedom.
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Richard Venable posted an update about Psalm 119: 2 years, 2 months ago · View
I think this is a helpful reminder from Wikipedia of how to read Psalm 119 as a prayer:
”The acrostic form and the use of the Torah words constitute the framework for an elaborate prayer. The grounds for the prayer are established in the first two stanzas (alef and beth): the Torah is held up as a source of blessing and right conduct, and the psalmist pledges to dedicate himself to the law. The prayer proper begins in the third stanza (gimel, v. 17). Like many other psalms, this prayer includes both dramatic lament (e.g. verses 81-88) joyous praise (e.g., verses 45-48) and prayers for life, deliverance and vindication (e.g., verses 132-134). What makes Psalm 119 unique is the way that these requests are continually and explicitly grounded in the gift of the Torah and the psalmist’s loyalty to it.”
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Hannah Venable posted an update in the group
Does anybody have any idea what a wineskin in the smoke is like? (Psalm 119:83)
One website says:
”Drinking containers in ancient times were usually made of skin. These skin bottles were often used out in the wilderness to hang in a tent when the use of fire was needed inside and there was no chimney. The skin would absorb the smoke for a long period of time.
Immediately the skin would become hard and shriveled because of the smoke and afterwards it turned black and was useless.
A striking figure for a man of God to refer himself as yet even in this state he ”would not forget God’s Word.””
Also, one person wrote a song about it.
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