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NASB | Psalm 18:1 "I love You, O LORD, my strength." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Psalm 18:1 "I love You [fervently and devotedly], O LORD, my strength." |
Subject: does this refer to exodus or creation? |
Bible Note: vnct blzn, I think the key here is to recognize that this is poetry, not history. We don't accuse poetry of falsehood or deception because it describes things in over the top ways. For example if in a poem where I had been jilted I wrote something along the lines of... "You have torn out my heart yet I can not hate you. All my life has been reduced to ruins and ashes for the loss of you." NONE of that actually happened. She did not pull my heart out of my chest, nothing has been burned. Yet you would not read my poem then stand up and say, "Wait! That didn't happen!." Because you would understand that this is poetry and that such standards are not the realm of poetry. We need to realize the Psalm in question is poetry. David is speaking of God delivering him in over the top ways. To do such when writing poetry isn't error, falsehood, or being deceitful. In Christ, Beja |