THE BOOK OF LAMENTATIONS 97
yfm vrmrmH | ynyf tvfmdb vlk
Consumed with tears are mine eyes, | in a ferment are my
bowels.
The scheme is a2. b | a'. b' ; and it is prefer-
able to regard iii. 4,
He hath worn out my flesh and my skin, | he hath broken
my bones,
as an example of a. b2 | a'. b' rather than of the
scheme a. b. c | a'. b'.
Other examples of complete parallelism in
chapters i.-iv. occurring in sections that are not
perhaps strictly normal are
vnl vbrx rbdmb | vnqld Myrhh-lf
Upon the mountains they chased us, | in the wilderness they
lay in wait for us.
hnfl ynvrh | Myrvrmb ynfybwh
He hath filled me with bitterness, | he hath sated me with
wormwood.
These will be found in iv. 19 and iii. 15; they
are both examples of a. b | a'. b', or, if we
prefer to regard the pronominal suffixes as in-
dependent terms, of a. b. c | a'. b'. c; another
example occurs in iv. 13, and there are perhaps
a few others: but in the 242 sections of chapters
i.-iv. there are but few, if any, more examples
of complete parallelism than in the twenty-two
distichs of chapter v.; or, in other words, com-
plete parallelism is, relatively, about eleven times
as frequent in chapter v. as in chapters i.-iv.