Since we have just studied Psalm 119 at length in Sunday School, and I wrote about most of them, I won't go through it again line for line.

The longest Psalm......excellently organized, probably in order to help in memory.    Each stanza (there are 22), represents a different, successive, letter of the Hebrew alphabet.  There are 8 verses in each stanza, each beginning with the same letter of the alphabet.  The RSB study notes indicate that here are 8 key (Hebrew) words, which are translated into our language 7 ways:  law, testimonies, precepts, statutes, commandments, rules, and word.

Delight in, and confidence in God's Word is key......to success in everything, spiritually and otherwise.  While the author (more on that in a minute) has a strong commitment to study and do God's word, he recognized that in and of himself, he simply cannot.   He needs God's help to both take delight in, and to keep God's Word.

I have not studied the commentaries about this, but I believe most think David to be the author.  I have heard one belief that Ezra could possibly be the author, as he "...had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel."       At any rate, authorship isn't really important, or God would have given that information to us for certain.

I wish that I were as diligent about the Word as the author of Psalm 119!

I am trying, Father.  Help me, for I fail.