DID YOU KNOW?
The answer
Pairs of lines. Lowth called this parallelism, the most common pattern in Hebrew verse: two lines that say the same thing in new words, or say opposite things. Psalm 91:1 is a pair of the first kind: "You who live in the shelter of the Most High, who abide in the shadow of the Almighty."
Why it’s interesting
Parallelism survives translation, so Hebrew poetry loses less in English than one might expect. The opposite kind is rarer: "A false witness will perish, but a good listener will testify successfully" (Proverbs 21:28).
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