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Remember the word to Your servant, Upon which You have caused me to hope. This is my comfort in my affliction, For Your word has given me life.
The proud have me in great derision, Yet I do not turn aside from Your law. I remembered Your judgments of old, O LORD, And have comforted myself.
Indignation has taken hold of me Because of the wicked, who forsake Your law. Your statutes have been my songs In the house of my pilgrimage.
I remember Your name in the night, O LORD, And I keep Your law. This has become mine, Because I kept Your precepts.
“Remember the Word to Your servant” Who was this servant? I have not found a single hint in all my study of the precious hymn to our LORD, God, the Almighty. But lets look at the hints in this one stanza that shed some light on his relationship with Elohim.
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He was a servant.
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He found his comfort there.
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His hope was through Elohim
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His life is through Elohim
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He is steadfast in the Word
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He is indignant with the lawbreakers
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His song is continually based on the statutes of Elohim throughout his life of pilgrimage.
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The Law has be come his because he has kept Elohim's precepts.
Surely he must have been recognized as Ish-Ha-Elohim, the Man of the God.
Disclaimer, I am not a Hebrew scholar, but I have friends who are. They would probably prefer to remain nameless rather than take the blame for my miss-interpretation of their wisdom.
Reading
Morning Psalm 130, Noon Psalm 119:81-88, Evening Psalm 26
Alternate Reading Plan based on 7 chapters/day from 7 sections of the Scriptures. My groupings are: Genesis-Joshua, Judges to Esther, Job to Song of Solomon, Psalms breaking 119 into convenient sets, Isaiah to Malachi, Matthew to Acts, Romans to Revelation.
Set your own up in convenient groupings as fits your study habits.
I suggest either setting aside a period of the day to read all, or break the readings up into morning, mid-day, and evening series. Both approaches have their advantages, and both will build an awareness of the Bible as a whole over time.