The Message
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The Message is a modern translation of the Holy Bible created by Pastor Eugene Peterson. The purpose of the translation was to capture what Peterson calls the "vitality and directness that I sensed as I read and studied the New Testament in its original Greek." Seeking to trnaslate the Bible in a way that would read to English speakers as it would have read to Greek speakers, he wrote much of it in an informal fashion.
For example, the famous line from Psalm 23 "The Lord is shepherd, there is nothing I shall want" is translated in The Message as "God, my shepherd! I don't need a thing."