Hebrew Poetry – Acrostics & Psalm 119
While poetry today makes heavy use of lines that end with rhyming words, Hebrew poetry never knew anything like that. However, they did make use of the beginning of their lines of poetry in some instances. They often used acrostics – starting each line with a different letter of the alphabet. Turn to Lamentations and […]
Psalm 1
1 Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the wicked, nor stood in the way of sinners or sat in the assembly of mockers. 2 But from the law of Yahweh is his delight and on his law he recites day and night. 3 He is like a tree transplanted […]