לֹא-כֵן הָרְשָׁעִים כִּי אִם כַּמֹּץ אֲשֶׁר-תִּדְּפֶנּוּ רוּחַ | 4 | Not so the-many wicked in contrast: like chaff that blows in the wind |
עַל-כֵּן לֹא-יָקֻמוּ רְשָׁעִים - בַּמִּשְׁפָּט וְחַטָּאִים בַּעֲדַת צַדִּיקִים | 5 | So it is that they will not arise the wicked - in the judgment nor sinners in the assembly of the-many righteous |
כִּי-יוֹדֵעַ יְהוָה דֶּרֶךְ צַדִּיקִים וְדֶרֶךְ רְשָׁעִים תֹּאבֵד | 6 | For יְהוָה knows the way of those righteous but the way of those wicked will perish |
What we observe here is a pair of circular forms pivoting around the word wicked with an ultimate focus on the way.
Now my job is to learn to see and to write what I see. Do I see here in the beginning the statement that the assembly of the righteous is the judgment? Does this anticipate the binding of the kings by the merciful in Psalm 149?
As Hooker noted - what is there necessarie for man to know which the Psalmes are not able to teach?
(quoted in Renaissance Quarterly > Vol. 55, No. 1, Spring, 2002 > Psalm Culture in the English Renaissance: Readings of Psalm 137 by Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, and Others.)
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