Looking into the Great Abyss
Psalm 23:4
Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for you are with me…


How we die is certainly of much less importance than how we live; but still it strengthens faith to see the hope and courage that are sometimes, but by no means always, felt by God's own people at the last. During the sixteen weeks in which Sir Bartle Frere was dying, though he was nearly always in great pare, not one murmur escaped him. Just at the end he said, I have looked down into the great abyss, but, God has never left me through it all." "Name that Name when I am in pain," he once said to his wife; "it calls me back."

(Quiver.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

WEB: Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.




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