More than any other psalm, Psalm 119 is an extended meditation on the Law. This is the most elaborate of the psalms; it is in both content and form a tribute to the perfection the Psalmist finds in the law of the Lord. C.S. Lewis points out that this is not a poem, not really. “It is a pattern,” he says, “a thing done like embroidery, stitch by stitch, through long, quiet hours, for the love of the subject.”