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# If I fly away on the wings of the dawn and go to live in the uttermost parts across the sea
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The author uses exaggeration to explain that wherever he is, God is there too. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-hyperbole]])
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# If I fly away on the wings of the dawn
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In the ancient near east, the sun was often imagined as if it had wings which enabled it to fly across the sky. Alternate translation: "If the sun could carry me with itself across the sky" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# in the uttermost parts across the sea
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"very far away to the west"
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