Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Bryant J. Williams III" <bjwvmw AT com-pair.net>]

Dear Karl and Bryan,

Ps 79:11 are the cries/groanings (whether spoken or non-spoken makes no
difference) of condemned prisoners for "mercy (implied) before God by the
one who is interceding their behalf,"  while Ps 88:2 is the cry of one who
is pleading in prayer for help by the petitioner himself. Now, would not the
poetic genre allow for a slight looser grammatical structure to come into
play here?

Rev. Bryant J. Williams III


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] labo' lepaney and Gen 6:13


> Bryon:
>
> I think you are confusing grammar with literary style.
>
> While it is true that the examples in Psalms are human caused, that is
> a literary stylistic effect that puts it grammatically as an inanimate
> event that goes before God's face. In the grammatical sense,
> therefore, it is the same as Genesis 6.
>
> I think you are reading something in the text that grammar by itself
> does not support.
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
>
> On 4/20/07, B. M. Rocine <brocine AT twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> > Hi Karl,
> >
> > How about if we exercise just a bit of imagination in reading the poetry
> > and see the human supplicants that come as "required attachments" to the
> > groan and the petition?
> >
> > I believe the technical name for the figures in verses you quote is
> > metonymy.  The two vv. in Psa are very much about gaining an audience
> > with YHWH.
> >
> > Shalom,
> > Bryan
> >
> > K Randolph wrote:
> > > In Psalm 79:11 the subject is a groan, in 88:2 it is my petition.
> > >
> > > Karl W. Randolph.
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