Psalms 112:1

The acrostic Psalm 112 is the companion piece to Psalm 111 (both are perfect acrostics), with Psalm 111 celebrating YHWH's works and Psalm 112 depicting the human being who mirrors those works — making the righteous person a microcosm of divine character. The opening beatitude 'blessed is the man who fears the Lord and greatly delights in his commandments' combines the Psalm 1 framework of Torah-delight with the Proverbs 1:7 principle of fear-as-wisdom-foundation. The subsequent verses develop the portrait through twelve attributes — light in darkness, gracious, compassionate, generous — many of which echo Psalm 111's attributes of YHWH, establishing the imitatio Dei pattern at the heart of Old Testament ethics. Jesus' Beatitudes (Matthew 5:3–12) operate within this same tradition of blessing-pronouncement linked to character-description.