Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Vadim Cherny <vadimcherny AT gmail.com>]

I don't see anything questionable about those verbs, Dishanta is a  
simple past tense because the psalmist had already been anointed.  
Veshavti should be read literally, "and + past tense", and denotes a  
highly assured prediction, which is practically done. Note that major  
commandments are often formulated as weqatal.

I recall reading a book on English rhetoric which showed on  
Shakespeare's many quotes the mixture of tenses in poetry, which it  
said was a common rhetoric device with some obscure name that I won't  
recall easily.

Vadim Cherny


Bryant J. Williams III wrote:

For instance, in Ps. 23, all the finite verbs are PC1 except for v. 5,
‏dishanta. (The questionable form veshavti in v. 6 I leave out).