Rod and Staff

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your word.

– Psalm 119:67

David wrote in that familiar psalm, Psalm 23, “Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.” The rod and the staff were shepherd’s tools. The staff was a long, crooked instrument the shepherd would use when a sheep was going astray. But the rod was simply a club, which was used when the staff wasn’t working anymore.

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