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Most emphatically the Psalms must be...
Most emphatically the Psalms must be read as poems; as lyrics, with all the licenses and all the formalities, the hyperboles, the emotional rather than logical connections, which are proper to lyric poetry. . . . Otherwise we shall miss what is in them and think we see what is not.
Reflections on the Psalms (New York: HarperOne, 2017), 3. Reflections on the Psalms (New York: HarperOne, 2017), 3.