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A. 107 Deliverence by the healing word.

B. 108-110 The true David's humiliation, deliverence, and exaltation.

C. 111-113 Praise, Three hallelujah psalms.

111. Praise for Jehovah's WORKS.

112. Praise for Jehovah's WAYS.

113. Praise for Jehovah HIMSELF.

D. 114-115 Deliverance from Egypt, and Egypt's idols.

E. 116-118 Praise. Three Psalms. The first two ending with "Hallelujah". The

Third beginning and ending with "O Give thanks".

A. 119 Quickening and Sustaining by the revealing Word.

B. 120-134 Deliverance from Sennacherib Typical of Israel's Future deliverance.

These fifteen Psalms are arranged in Five Triads.

C. 135-136 Praise. Two Psalms linked together by one combined structure.

D. 137 Deliverance of captives. Sennacherib's captives.

E. 138 Praise.

F. 139 Deliverance from an evil heart. (Compare to Ezekiel 36:26)

G. 140-144 Prayer and Praise.

H. 145 The true David leading the Praises of His People (144:9).

I. 146-150 Five Hallelujah Psalms, beginning and ending "Hallelujah".

Notes on the structure of

The Deuteronomy book of Psalms.

Deuteronomy is man's name for this book. The name comes from the Greek Septuagint, and means "the second Law". The reason for naming this book as such is that Deuteronomy was a repetition of the Law, with variations, to suit the needs of the new generation in the land. The title in the Hebrew Canon is `elleh haddebarim', "These are the words". The first set of laws were given for instruction to Aaron and his family, the Levitical priests, to lead the people as they traveled in the wilderness for forty years. The second set was given by Moses, which is the law put in layman's terms. The Israelites were about to enter into the promise land; thirty eight years had passed from the time of their captivity, and Moses gathered them all together for his last instructions. Most all of that first generation leaving Egypt were dead and gone, and these were the children and newborns since the time the law was given at mount Sinai.

Thus, in the Deuteronomy Book of Psalms we have the same leading subject. Its teachings, like the other books of Psalms is Dispensational, and grouped around the Word. What a wonderful thing for one to be brought to say "O how I love Thy Law!" (Psalms 119:37), when the breaking of the law was the cause of all the suffering! But it will be noted that this is said only after the Resurrection of the Righteous Magnifier of that Law has been celebrated (Psalms 118).

This is the theme of the Deuteronomy-Book of the Psalms. It consists of forty-four Psalms, in which the title Jehovah occurs 293 times; Jah, 13 times; Elohim occurs only 41 times, and El, 10 times; and Eloha, twice. While the structure of the other books is in two or three sections, this Book of the Law of God is in only one, a perfect whole. The first chapter of this book, like the first chapters of the other four books of the Psalms, set the key-note, or epitome, for the entire book.

In Hebrew "Shehith" or "grave", or pits "Shahath"="to destroy" occurs only here and in Lamentation 4:20. The two passages, taken together, tell us that it is not merely the written Word which delivers from deep afflictions, but that the Living and Divine Word, Who was "taken from their pits", is the only Deliverer of His People from their graves.

Just as Psalms 84 was characteristic of the Leviticus book or the Psalms, and Psalms 90 of the Numbers Book; Psalms 119 will be the characteristic chapter of the book of Deuteronomy. The characteristic then for Psalms 119 is "The quickening and sustaining Word". We will see the verb "Hayah" (to breathe, to live, to continue to live) used sixteen times, and always in the sense of "keeping alive, or continuing in life".

There are five groups of Psalms to this book of Deuteronomy of the Psalms, and within these five groups there are fifteen "Psalms of degrees". Each of the fifteen years correspond to the fifteen years that were added to Hezekiah's life. Ten of the degrees of Hezekiah correspond with the number of "the degrees" by which the shadow of the sun went backward on the sun-dial of Ahaz, or 2 Kings 20:8-11. The five other degrees relate to David and Solomon. The Solomon Psalms (127) is the very center of this book, with the others equally in front and following the chapter of Solomon.