Sometimes you just need a little push to get started studying God’s Word. If you want one, here’s one for you!

Psalm 119 is the longest “chapter” in the Bible (though we don’t usually call psalms “chapters”). There’s a different feel to it when compared to other psalms. But there’s a lot we can mine from its pages. To begin this study, I recommend that you copy the entire psalm onto pages you can write on. (You can copy actual pages from your Bible or print off Psalm 119 from an online Bible source.)

You can use different colored inks or highlighters to search for each of the categories listed below. You can also come up with other categories! Copy and paste the categories listed below into a word doc or hand write them on another paper to fill in the answers. Have fun!

When you are finished, look over the results. What can you learn from the psalmist? What impressions do you get from the words he used? What can you tell about the author? What do you learn about God? About His Word?

A. Names of God’s Word

Example: The law of the LORD, Your law, the law of Your mouth

B. Names of God; Descriptions

Example: My God

C. Description of Author (example: I am needy)

Example: With my whole heart I seek You.

Example: I have stored up Your word in my heart, that I might not sin..

D. Requests of Author

Example: v. 10 Let me not wander from Your commandments!

Example: v. 12 Teach me Your statutes!

E. Part 1 – Comparisons (if this, then that)

Example: vv. 5-6 Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping Your statutes! Then I shall not be put

to shame, having my eyes fixed on all Your commandments.

Part 2 – Comparisons (opposites) Such and such is this way, but…

Example: v. 51 The insolent utterly deride me, but I do not turn away from Your law.

F. Descriptions of ungodly

Example: v. 21 God rebukes the insolent, accursed ones, who wander from His commandments.

G. Results of Keeping God’s Word

Example: v. 1. You will be blessed, and your way will be blameless. (1 Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD.)

H. Results of NOT keeping God’s Word

Example: v. 21 God rebukes the insolent.

I. Attitudes of Author

J. Descriptions of God’s Word

Example: v. 7 Righteous (also 75, 106, 128), right (137, 172)

K. How Author Uses God’s Word (meditates)

L. Author’s “I will” Statements

Example: v. 7 I will praise You with an upright heart, when I learn Your righteous rules.

M. Author’s “I will not” Statements

Example: v. 16 I will not forget Your word.

N. Author’s “I have” Statements (Positive Actions)

Example: v. 11 I have stored up Your word in my heart, that I might not sin against You.

O. Author’s Motivations for Keeping God’s Law

Example: v. 168 I keep all your precepts and testimonies, for all my ways are before You.

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Created by Susan Jane Smith