Aleph: ELeICha  ( To Thee, O Lord  ) ,NaFShI  ESAa (I lift up  my soul)

Beith: BeCha (In Thee) , BaTaChTI (I trust)

Gimel: GaM (also) KOL- QOVeICha  ( Also every one who waits for You,  may they evade humiliation)

Daleth:  DaRCheICha (Thy Ways)

Hei: HaDRICheiNI (Lead me)

Vav, O Cholam:  OOTCHa (Thee)

Vav, V:  QiVITI  (I wait)

Vav, O:  KoL Ha-JOM,  All the day long

Zayin:  ZChOR (Remember),

Chet: ChaTAOth (Sins) AL-TIZKOR ( Remember not)

Tet:  TUVCHA (Thy goodness) , TOV (Good) Ve JaShaR  ( and upright is the Lord )

Jod:  JaSHaR (Upright),  JOReH  (He instructs) BaDeReCh ( in the way) ,  JaDReICH (He leads in  what is right) va-JeLaMeD ( and teaches His way) DaRKO / His way)

K, Khaf: DaRKO (The paths of the Lord )

K, Khaf:  KhOL- (All)

K, Chaf-Sofith :  ShiMCha    (Thy Name)

Lamed:  Le-MA´aN (For sake of Thy Name ) ShiMCha

Lamed : Ve-SaLaChTa  La´AVoNI(Pardon my guilt)

Mem:  MI- (Who)

Nun:  NaFShO (His soul, he himself))

Sammech:  SOD (secret)

´Ayin:  ´EINAI ( My eyes)

Peh:  PNeH- (Turn your face   to)

Zadeh:  ZaROTh (troubles)

Qof:  Mi-MeZuQOTaI (out of my distresses )

Resh:   ReEh ( See and consider)

Sin:  Ve–SiNATh-ChaMaS  SNEiUNI  (And with  violent hatred they hate me )

Shin:  ShoMRah NaFShI (Guard my life)

Tav: TAM (integrity)

Thav : QiVIThiCha ( I wait for You) ,    ETh- ( Article, meaning total object: PDeh Eth- Israel, Redeem  all the  Israel )

Of cause  this psalm  has many more alphabetical  examples  from the usage of the letters  in their  3 positions in the word , than these  mentioned above.

The Hebrew Language is very beautiful  and deeply poetic written as a  great symphony- where any  exeption from the high  divine style  should be  detected quite soon as an unskilled  player  in a fine tuned concert can be detected by listeners. So also  in the translations of the Bible. Sometimes there are  modern  translations, without faithfulness to the Bible, sometimes because of lack of better understanding but sometimes also  because of intentions to make  a change to the  core of the Bible. It is a very good  thing, if the  modern youth begins to study Hebrew and Greek, the original  texts of the Bible.

Another Psalm with more  examples about alphabetical order of the verses  is the very  long  Psalm  119.

The Alphabetical order makes it  easier to remember  the  psalm by heart.

That kind of order  is very difficult to translate into other languages.

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