Hyperbole is exaggerating for the purpose of making your point with emphasis, with rhetorical power. It’s kind of like putting your point in bold, italicizing it, underlining it, and changing the color of the font. In fact, we use hyperbole all the time (which is an example of hyperbole). “It took forever to get home last night”—not literally. What we’re saying is it took a really, really long time. There is hyperbole in the Bible. I could say that the book of Psalms is filled with hyperbole. I don’t