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# Connecting Statement:
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The psalmist continues speaking to God.
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# You have made the land tremble; you have torn it apart
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The psalmist speaks of the disaster in his country as if it were an earthquake. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
# heal its fissures
Making the people strong again is spoken of as repairing the fissures in the ground or walls. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
# fissures
large cracks in the ground or walls
# You have made your people see difficult things
Here "see" represents "experience" or "suffer." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
# drink the wine of staggering
Being helpless is spoken of as staggering around, barely able to stand upright. The abstract noun "staggering" can be stated as a verb. AT: "the wine that makes us stagger" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]])