Hebrews 1:9-14

The source for this text cantillated by Ezekiel Margoliouth is here. I've been buried with other work on Tanach and publishing as well as walking the dog and other chores in the wet of an atmospheric river, -- so no time to give to this passage. Here is the rest of the music and a few notes for chapter 1.

Hebrews 1:9 You have loved righteousness and hate wickedness, therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of joy above your companions.

Citing Psalm 45:8, compare with the Masoretic text:

Margoliouth does not use the te'amim of the poetry. He is reporting on the psalm in a work of prose, so the music is quite different. No genre of poetry is recognized in the NT as are the three books, Psalms, Proverbs, and the speeches of Job in the Tanach. Also the poetry uses different modes from the 21 books of prose, so comparison of the music is moot in any case. Notice that the psalmist has no internal rest point in this verse. The breath invited on the zaqef-qatan is not a cadence. 

The psalms are frequently quoted in Hebrews. They are used for most of the conversation between the Father and the Son. They are also our conversation and the record of the conversation of ancient Israel with the Most High.

Hebrews 1:10 And again, You, my Lord, long ago, you founded the earth, and the deeds of your hands, the heavens.

Hebrews 1:11 They will perish, but you, you will stand, and they all, like a garment, will wither.

Hebrews 1:12 Like raiment you will renew them and they will be renewed, and you are he, and your years will not be complete.

These three verses are from Psalm 102. The images are from my latest volume on the psalms.

Again the music is substantially different because the te'amim are the different set. There are connections from verse 10-11 in Hebrews and between the corresponding verses 26-27 of the psalm. But the verses themselves do not correspond in their content. I look upon prose that cites poetry as a 'report' rather than a poetic performance.

Hebrews 1:13 And to which from the messengers has he said ever, Sit at my right hand till I set your enemies as a stool for your feet.

This verse invokes Psalm 110, a vital part of the framework of the Psalter as a whole, being the second oracle of two in the Psalter -- matching Psalm 36 in Book 1 and drawing together the whole Psalter with Psalms 8 and 144 also being in correspondence to each other. The other psalms joining in this structural chiasm are 9-10, 145, 37, 111-112 -- all of them acrostics celebrating the psalm that just precedes them. See this post for the diagram.

Psalm 110, the most enigmatic of all the psalms

To end the chapter here is verse 14:

Hebrews 1:14 Are not they all ministering spirits, they, sent to minister on behalf of those eager for the new wine of salvation.

The complexity of this first chapter is overwhelming as it draws the First Testament into the foundation of the faith in Christ, the inheritor of all messianic titles whether of ruler or of suffering servant.

Here's a link to the pdf of my ancient diagram including Hebrews 1 based on the work of Vanhoye.  It is a full circle for me representing where I came from 20 years ago and inviting several more books! Can't go there. There's a reason I studied Hebrew. It was easier than taking on the New Testament and the massive hopes and fears of that first century so much of which the record is lost because of the destruction of Jerusalem by 'the empire'.