{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Daily Psalms - Classical Psalms Every Day","title":"Psalm Chapter 119","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":954,"description":"Psalm 119: The Long Love Letter\nThis is the longest chapter in the Bible — 176 verses, every one of them about the word of God — and the temptation is to find it tedious. We should resist. What looks like repetition is actually obsession, the way a lover circles back again and again to the beloved's name, finding new angles of light on the same face. \"O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.\" \"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.\" \"How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!\" The psalmist is not compiling a theology of Scripture; he is confessing an addiction to it. And woven through the ecstasy are the darker threads — affliction, persecution, proud men who forge lies, wicked hands that lay snares. This is not ivory-tower devotion. It is the testimony of someone who found that when everything else was stripped away — reputation, safety, comfort — the word of God was the one thing that could not be taken. \"I have gone astray like a lost sheep,\" he admits at the very end. Even after 175 verses of devotion, he knows himself. Seek thy servant, he asks. For I do not forget thy commandments.\n00:00 Blessed Are the Undefiled\n01:00 Thy Word Have I Hid in My Heart\n02:00 My Soul Cleaveth unto the Dust\n03:00 Incline My Heart\n04:00 I Will Speak Before Kings\n05:00 I Made Haste to Keep Thy Commandments\n06:00 It Is Good That I Was Afflicted\n07:00 My Soul Fainteth for Thy Salvation\n08:00 Forever Settled in Heaven\n09:00 Sweeter Than Honey\n10:00 My Hiding Place and Shield\n11:00 Give Me Understanding\n12:00 Rivers of Waters Run Down Mine Eyes\n13:00 I Hoped in Thy Word\n14:00 Great Peace Have They Which Love Thy Law\n15:00 Seek Thy Servant","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/C2WseAXS5mwLSdrov_M_2jK4yq73Ie3qsXM5YHymD9c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zYTI4/MzVhZWJjYTI1MDMy/ODg4MTI5NzlhMDg5/NmY2ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}