Daily Reading – Day 8 Psalm 119:49-56

The letter Zayin is the seventh letter of the Aleph-Bet, having the numeric value of seven. The pictograph for Zayin looks like a sword, Its design is the form of a sword. The top of the zayin is the handle, and the vertical leg is the blade. Another interpretation of the zayin’s design is that it represents a crown and a scepter. The zayin thus alludes to power and authority.

Zayin

⁴⁹Remember the word to Your servant,
In which You have made me hope.
⁵⁰This is my comfort in my misery,
That Your word has revived me.
⁵¹The arrogant utterly deride me,
Yet I do not turn aside from Your Law.
⁵²I have remembered Your judgments from of old, Lord,
And comfort myself.
⁵³Burning indignation has seized me because of the wicked,
Who abandon Your Law.
⁵⁴Your statutes are my songs
In the house of my pilgrimage.
⁵⁵Lord, I remember Your name in the night,
And keep Your Law.
⁵⁶This has become mine,
That I comply with Your precepts.