Children, each of you,
how long will you humiliate my glory?
your love empty?
your seeking a lie?
Selah
Labuschange has verse 5 as would be expected since he is doing mid-point verses. (There is no atenach in this verse - curious. I am using the Me'ir Halevi (Max) Letteris edition of the te'amim.)
Shudder and do not sin
promise in your heart
where you lie down and be mute
Selah
The numerological approach could be a strategy for locking in the copying process.
Similar to verse 3, no word is repeated from verse 8 in the rest of the poem.
You have given gladness in my heart
more than when their grain
and their new wine multiplied
Imagine this:
- Poet reads Torah, or an early prophet
- inspired to write psalm, composes or copies key text(s) on the gift(s) received
- sketches the keywords,
- writes poem around the key verses using keywords and parallelism to lock in the vertical grammar,
- holds the word(s) revealed (in this case verses 3, 8),
- sketches the music,
- and then locates the centre of the poem and locks in the content by imposing word counts.
Redaction process to come ... Courage, friends - and count the words in the whole book...
| Word and gloss * first usage | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Vs | Root |
* בקראי when I call
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| 2 | קרא | |||||||||
* צדקי my righteousness
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| 2 | צדק | |||||||||
* ושׁמע and hear
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| 2 | שׁמע | |||||||||
סלה Selah
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| 3 | סלה | |||||||||
כי --
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| 4 | כי | |||||||||
יהוה יהוה
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| 4 | יהוה | |||||||||
יהוה יהוה
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| 4 | יהוה | |||||||||
* ישׁמע will hear
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| 4 | שׁמע | |||||||||
* בקראי when I call
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| 4 | קרא | |||||||||
* אמרו promise
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| 5 | אמר | |||||||||
* משׁכבכם you lie down
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| 5 | שׁכב | |||||||||
סלה Selah
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| 5 | סלה | |||||||||
* זבחו offer
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| 6 | זבח | |||||||||
* זבחי offerings of
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| 6 | זבח | |||||||||
* צדק righteousness
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| 6 | צדק | |||||||||
* ובטחו and trust
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| 6 | בטח | |||||||||
יהוה יהוה
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| 6 | יהוה | |||||||||
* אמרים say
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| 7 | אמר | |||||||||
יהוה יהוה
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| 7 | יהוה | |||||||||
* אשׁכבה I will lie down
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| 9 | שׁכב | |||||||||
כי for
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| 9 | כי | |||||||||
יהוה יהוה
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| 9 | יהוה | |||||||||
* לבטח to trust
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| 9 | בטח |
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