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Psalms 1-48: ”The Lord Is My Shepherd”

Unshaken Saints

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The Deer Panteth After the Water Brooks, and My Soul Wetteth for Thee O God

Psalm forty two is drinking the wine, the sacramental water. It's thirst in after god. Some put this together with psalm forty three. This may be one longer poem rather than two separate ones. And you'll see some repetition between the two. That's why. But how's this for the the thirst metaphor? Or? I guess it's a simile, since he uses as as the heart. In other words, the deer, as the deer panteth after the water brooks as he's been climbing all those steep slopes with his hinds feet. As he panted after water, so pantth my soul after thee o god. My soul

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