Time for the next installment on my Psalm 119 project. To recap for any new readers, Psalm 119 was originally written as an acrostic poem with each part starting with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. I wanted to try to see how I could do writing each part starting with the english equivalents. I’m posting the real portion of the Psalm first for comparison purposes. I’ll post as I go along.

RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law. Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word. Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes. Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments. Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies. I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word. Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness. Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

Psalms 119:153-160 KJV

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Psalm 119 – Resh (R)

Ransom me; affliction reigns.
I know Thy law I’ve heard.
Refuse me not, please quicken me
According to Thy word.

Redemption does not come to those
Who do not seek Thy law.
Reveal Thy mercies, quicken me
With judgments causing awe.

Replete with enemies, am I,
Yet I hold fast to Thee.
Receive my love and quicken me
With loving kindness, free.

Righteous is Thy word, O Lord.
Its truth is from of old.
Righteous are Thy judgments, too.
Enduring more than gold.

© 2013 Denise McKenney

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God bless,
Denise McKenney