Psalm 119 (commentary)
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Psalms 119 is the longest chapter in the entire Bible, and is an abecedarian, which means that in its original Hebrew each stanza begins, in order, with successive letters of the alphabet (in English, "a b c d e ...").[1] There are a total of 176 verses in Psalms 119.
Each of the 22 stanzas in Psalms starts with a different Hebrew letter in its alphabet. Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in the Bible with 176 verses. It has a similar length to some of the Bible's shorter books like Philippians, James, or Ruth! 3. The structure of Psalm 119 is comprised of 22 stanzas, each starting with a different letter in the Hebrew alphabet.