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17 lines
470 B
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# Connecting Statement:
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The psalmist continues speaking to God.
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# You have made the land tremble; you have torn it apart
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The psalmist speaks of the disaster in his country as if it were an earthquake. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# heal its fissures
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Making the people strong again is spoken of as repairing the fissures in the ground or walls. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# fissures
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large cracks in the ground or walls
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