
Click here to read PSALM 119 in poetic form.
Background
Psalm 119 is in the Deuteronomy Book of the Psalms (Psalms 107-150). These 44 Psalms, like the Book of Deuteronomy in the Old Testament, show God’s Word as the source of salvation, deliverance, and healing. This would be fully carried out in the life of the coming Messiah, the living Word, Jesus Christ. Psalm 119 is a magnificent acrostic Psalm that declares the Messiah’s total trust in the Lord and his great love for God’s Word (that speaks of his authority and mission). The concept of “keeping alive or continuing in life” is found eleven times in this Psalm, and shows how God would raise the Messiah from the dead to eternal life.