Walter Brueggemann Column
Church Anew is honored to host Walter Brueggemann as our featured columnist. We look forward to sharing Walter’s work with church leaders and faithful people worldwide. May his powerful and reflective writings inspire, energize, guide, and comfort you.
The Empowering, Illuminating Word From Elsewhere
In Psalm 119, by contrast, each letter gets eight successive lines. Thus with twenty-two letters in the alphabet, and each letter reiterated eight times, we get a sum of 176 verses. It is for that reason that the Psalm is so long. Our verse 105 occurs as the first of eight verses that start with nun (n) (vv. 105-112). The first word in verse 105, the first of eight lines with nun, is “ner” (lamp).
