“Death is mining away here, slowly but surely, in the dark. Blessed Jesus! what would I do now but for Thee?” LESSONS: 1. The sheep of Jehovah are saved from poverty. 2. From wandering. 3. From uselessness. 4. From fear. 5. From sorrow. The image is changed, but we have substantially the same ideas as those given in the earlier portion of the psalm. There are, as before, the food, the guardianship, the peril, the journey. Jehovah is here regarded as a Bountiful Host
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