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Psalm 23 can be regarded as a psalm of high praise of God. It is one of

the shortest psalms out of the four , but it gets its point across very directly

and clearly. It makes use of the extended metaphor which is a metaphor

that develops at length and includes several points of comparison. This psalm

also uses the idea of parallelism that gives an idea in the first lines and keeps

on repeating and elaborating in the later lines.

Psalm 23 gives the comparison of God being a shepherd. This means

that God protects and guides people like a real shepherd would do with

sheep. The line that says , " He maketh me to lie down to green pastures: he

leadeth me beside the still waters" (Verse 2). That line serves to be an

example of how God looks out for his creation or in other word his people.

This starts off the extended metaphor and ends in the last line with the author

mentioning how he will dwell in the house of the Lord forever which......

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