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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

The sameness of word order, semantic similarities and line length of the two clauses make the parallelism in this verse quite obvious. In line a “he causes me to lie down” is paralleled in line b by “he leads me,” and the same is true of the paired expressions at the end of the two lines. The movement between the two lines is nearly static. They simply say that a is so, and b is so. He makes me lie down: the causative form of the verb “to lie down” does not have the sense of “he forces
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