232 FORMS OF HEBREW POETRY
tbwv dfvm | Nvycb hvhy Hkw
Nhkv jlm | vpx Mfzb Cxbyv
Yahweh hath caused to be forgotten in Sion
Festal meeting and Sabbath;
And hath spurned in the indignation of his anger
King and priest.
Judge the line from a grammatical point of view
only, and Duhm's division of Jeremiah iv. 4
seems to be at least a legitimate alternative to
the division of the line after hvhy; but once
the sense and parallelism are considered, how
improbable does such a division appear. vlmh
and tlrf vrsh together are parallel terms, a
clause of two terms being parallel to a single
term, according to a practice which I have
abundantly illustrated in a previous chapter:^1
what Duhm does is to chop this second parallel
into two, giving one half to the line that has
already expressed the whole idea, and leaving
to the second line a mere lifeless fragment.
My other example of Duhm's methods is taken
from the fine apocalyptic vision in Jeremiah iv.
23-26. I give it first exactly as it stands in the
Hebrew text, the divisions of the text being of
course my own:
Mrvx Nyxv Mymwh lxv | vhbv vht hnhv | Crxh tx ytyxr 23
vlqlqth tvfbgh lkv | Mywfr hnhv | Myrhh ytyxr 24
vddn Mymwh Jvf lkv | Mdxh Nyx | hnhv ytyxr 25
hvhy ynpm vctn vyrf lkv | rbdmh lmrkh | hnhv ytyxr 26
1 See above, pp. 70-82