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...gricultural bounty."<ref>William Brown, ''Seeing the Psalms: A Theology of Metaphor'', (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002), 198.</ref>. ...חוּ– offering sacrifices is metonymic for worship, though it may also be a metaphor for contrition (cf. Ps. 51:19)

*'''v. 7''' is its own section, and has six instances of shins/sins. ...metaphor used in 4b: oppressing people is compared to devouring them! The metaphor already emphasizes the idea, and the alliteration strengthens the amplifica

...centered around the '''peak of the Psalm''', line 9a. It contains numerous instances of language related to judgment (see Poetic Feature #2). ...ARRIOR are united into one larger metaphor: YHWH as KING, which is a "root metaphor" in the Psalter (see J.L. Mays, The Lord Reigns.)

...<ref>[https://glossary.sil.org/term/deixis SIL Glossary]. Both options are instances of object deixis, which "concerns deictic phenomena that involve a referent ...cannot be a locative adverb (Tanner 2014, 465n14 :C:). Rather, as in other instances in which the referent of שָׁם is absent/unclear, it is probably tempora

...use of earth (3a), the use of the word ''goyim'' (3b), perhaps the debated metaphor of crops/harvest (7a), and another metonymic reference with the ends of the ...but without any explicit reference to the Promised Land. Rather, the four instances of the word in this poem work together to expand the idea of "the land" far

...rain. The statement "I have sought shelter in YHWH" (Ps. 11:1) assumes the metaphor, "YHWH is a shelter" (cf. Ps. 46:1). ...ossession–possessor (Ps. 63:11; 2 Chron. 31:3, 4; cf. Neh. 13:10). In four instances, the relationship is something other than possession–possessor (Jer. 13:2

+ <Onoma rule>: "There are two instances of observance of the 'onoma rule', that is, ὄνομα is constructed with ...aces concrete metaphors for God with words that express the content of the metaphor (52).

...a concentric structure, with עֹנִי in v. 10a at the center, and the other instances of the vocalic sequence ני enveloping it more sparsely from both sides. A ...ng word of the psalm חֹשֶׁךְ, not as representing the underworld, but as a metaphor to the psalmist's miserable conditions (cf. [[The Text and Meaning of Ps. 8

...of the psalm (i.e., YHWH as David's shepherd), and it is characterized by instances of '''marked focus''' (cf. vv. 2-3), the presence of the subordinating mark ...o that his whole life is restored.<ref>Cf. VanGemeren 2008, 254. For other instances of scalar focus, see Ps 119:2.</ref>

...a concentric structure, with עֹנִי in v. 10a at the center, and the other instances of the vocalic sequence ני enveloping it more sparsely from both sides. A ...ng word of the psalm חֹשֶׁךְ, not as representing the underworld, but as a metaphor to the psalmist's miserable conditions (cf. [[The Text and Meaning of Ps. 8

+ <Similar expression>: another number of instances of להאיר פני... על... lack mention of physical deliverance #dispr ...light to my eyes” contrasts sharply with “sleep in death.” Sleep is an apt metaphor for death, for a sleeping body could at times be mistaken for a dead one.

...ation and hope (Wilson 2002 :C:), as seen in other uses of this conceptual metaphor in the Old Testament. + <ANE gate structures>: Other instances of שַׁעַר explicitly refer to the people involved therein.

+ <S-V to describe states>: "In the great majority of instances... the position of the subject at the beginning of the clause is not intend ...details/godiskingunderst0000bret ''God Is King: Understanding an Israelite Metaphor'']. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 76. Sheffield, England: JSOT