Its 176 verses are based on successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the original Hebrew, each of the psalm’s 22 stanzas has 8 lines that begin with the same letter.
ويتضمن كل مقطع ٨ ابيات يبتدئ كلٌّ منها بالحرف الابجدي العبراني نفسه .‏