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Rhymes And Metaphors In Psalm 22

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Literal sense: In Psalm 22, someone cries out to God and pleads for Him to save him from torments of his enemies. Progressively through the passage, he changes his tone. It goes from angry and negative to positive. He then thanks God for rescuing him. The man in distress says there’s no one else who can help him besides God. By reading this, one can clearly tell that this poetic literature because of the rhymes and metaphors.
Moral sense: We learn from this that God does not always answer in a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ fashion. It may be a ‘wait’ because He has something better in store. Even if we do not see direct results when we beseech God for something, He will have something equal or better. We may not even realize that God is helping us daily,

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