Telephone
Though I walk through the
Though I walk through the shadow of the valley of death...
Think about it– why would there be a valley attributed to some "shadow of death"? What does that even mean?
Yet it makes sense there might be a "valley of death" such as the biblical Gehenna, a valley known for child sacrifices to a false god. The psalmist imagines having to walk though the shadow cast by such a valley. This way the metaphor is preserved– maybe having been lost in a long game of telephone before being scribed?
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