Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomim:

Psalms 119:82: “Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying when wilt thou comfort me?”

As many of you know Psalms 119 is called an acrostic Psalm.  This is a form of Hebrew poetry where every sentence begins with the same letter. In this case David takes you through the entire Hebrew Alphabet  with each letter of the Alphabet have eight verse each and each verse starts with the particular letter of the Aphabet it falls under. Verse 82 falls under the Hebrew letter Kap.

Ok, you know that.  Something else is that each letter of the Hebrew Alphabet has certain meanings or representations.  Ok, you know that also.  But did you know that in Psalm 119, each group of eight verses under the heading of a letter of the Hebrew Alphabet will follow the picture, meaning or representation of that letter it falls under.   In this case verse 82 falls under the letter Kap and begins with a Kap.  The first word in the verse is “kalu.” (fail).  Now this gets really interesting because the word “kalu” has two possible root words, it could be “kalah” which is spelled Kap, Lamed, Hei and means to become weary, wasted, destroyed, completed, finished etc.   The other possible root is “kala’” spelled Kap, Lamed, Aleph and means to confine, shut up, restrain, withhold.

Some translations will render the word for “word” as promises.  I tend to agree with that rendering.   Thus David is saying his eyes are growing weaker or are destroyed waiting for God’s promises or he is saying that his eyes are being restrained, shut up, withheld waiting for the promises.   The word eyes is ayin which could mean a physical seeing or insightful type of seeing.  Either way David has certain promises from God and he has not see them fulfilled in a physical sense nor within his own heart and the comfort that these promises once brought is beginning to fade.

I am a little confused about this word “kalu.”   Just what is happening with his eyes. Are they growing weaker or is he being restrained from seeing the fulfillment of God’s promises.  As I ponder this I suddenly hear a noise behind me.  It is my Daleth shaking my “Looking Glass.”   There is a bright glow coming from the “Looking Glass” indicating that there is some message for me behind it.

I pass through my “Looking Glass” and suddenly the bright light fades into almost total darkness.   I see a bare light bulb sending out a dim light.  As my eyes adjust to the darkness I see that I am in a room with no windows, three walls and a set of prison bars in front of me.  I grab the bars and cry out: “I’m in prison, why, what did I do?”  I hear a voice behind me say: “It’s what you didn’t do,”  I look over and see my cellmate, it is Hei.

Suddenly I hear a clanging sound and a voice singing: “Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen.”   It’s Kap in a cell across from me scrapping his tin cup on the bars singing: “Sometimes I’m up, sometimes I’m down”   “Oh yes, lord” sings another voice which I see to be Aleph sharing a cell with Kap.   “Sometimes I’m almost to the ground” continues Kap.  “Oh, yes Lord,”  this from Hei in my cell mate.  “If you get there before I do” sings Kap.   “Enough!!!! Silence!!!”  I scream.  “Ok, what’s all the fuss about.”  I look down the hall and it is Lamed dressed as a prison guard walking toward me swinging a set of keys.

“Lamed,” I cry, “Lamed, you must hear me, I’m innocent, I don’t belong here.

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