Seriously, learn your alphabet, King David.
With my last post we looked at the way Hebrew poetry sometimes uses the Hebrew alphabet, beginning each line of a poem or song with consecutive letters of that alphabet. These poems or songs are called alphabetic acrostics, and show up a lot in Psalms, most of Lamentations, and once in Proverbs. Some folks also point to Nahum 1, but it's a little weird. Nahum 1. Not unlike your relationship status. Today I want to talk about something cool that happened with an acrostic in Psalms. That's the nerdiest sentence I've ever written. Actually, probably not. So that's embarrassing... anyway... Psalm 145 is a psalm of praise to God. It's grand and majestic in its description of the works and character of God as understood by ancient Israel. And it even does this in the form of an acrostic. Verse 1 begins with the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, verse 2 begins with the second letter, and so on. Well, until you get to verse 14. Verse 14 should begin with