▶ 시가 詩歌 Poetry.

The Books of Job, the Psalms, Proverbs, Song of Solomon, and various parts of the Prophets are poetical. It is not easy to define Hebrew poetry. It appears clear that the lines did not end with corresponding sounds, and it cannot be discovered in what the rhythm consists, the ancient pronunciation of the language being lost. Ewald concluded that in the Hebrew poetry there was a thought rhythm, and not one of sound.

One of their most marked styles is an alphabetical poem. These consist of twenty-two lines or stanzas, or systems of lines, and the lines or stanzas begin with letters which follow in alphabetical order: the first A, the second B, and so on. There is doubtless a spiritual significance in these arrangements: such as intense human exercises, emotions, etc., under the working of the Spirit. And they may have assisted the memory, at least in the Psalms when they were sung. Such may be found in Ps. 25; Ps. 34; Ps. 37; Ps. 111; Ps. 112; Ps. 119; Ps. 145; Prov. 31:10-31; Lam. 1; Lam. 2; Lam. 3; Lam. 4.


In some stanzas, called 'synthetical,' 인위적 one half corresponds to the other, either in expressing the same sentiment or explaining it: thus -

"But ye said, No; for we will flee upon horses;
 Therefore shall ye flee:
 And, We will ride upon the swift;
 Therefore shall they that pursue you be swift."  Isa. 30:16,

(사30:16 이르기를 아니라 우리가 말 타고 도망하리라 한 고로 너희가 도망할 것이요 또 이르기를 우리가 빠른 짐승을 타리라 한 고로 너희를 쫓는 자가 빠르리니


Other stanzas are called 'antithetical,' 대조 in which the second half is the reverse of the first: as

"The memory of the just is blessed:
 But the name of the wicked shall rot."    Prov. 10:7

(잠10:7 의인을 기념할 때에는 칭찬하거니와 악인의 이름은 썩으리라

From these simple examples the form of the stanzas varies in many ways. The first example we meet with is what Lamech said to his wives. It will be seen that it is in parallelism, or correspondence.

"Adah and Zillah, hear my voice;
 Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech:
 For I have slain a man to my wounding,
 And a young man to my hurt.
 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold,
 Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold."    Gen. 4:23, 24. 

(창04:23-24 23 라멕이 아내들에게 이르되 아다와 씰라여 내 소리를 들으라 라멕의 아내들이여 내 말을 들으라 나의 창상을 인하여 내가 사람을 죽였고 나의 상함을 인하여 소년을 죽였도다 24 가인을 위하여는 벌이 칠배일진대 라멕을 위하여는 벌이 칠십 칠배이리로다 하였더라

Towards the end of the O.T., Habakkuk (Hab. 3:18, 19), when all earthly blessings were failing, sang

(합03:18-19 18 나는 여호와를 인하여 즐거워하며 나의 구원의 하나님을 인하여 기뻐하리로다 19 주 여호와는 나의 힘이시라 나의 발을 사슴과 같게 하사 나로 나의 높은 곳에 다니게 하시리로다 이 노래는 영장을 위하여 내 수금에 맞춘 것이니라

"Yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
 I will joy in the God of my salvation.
 The Lord God is my strength,
 And he will make my feet like hinds' feet,
 And he will make me to walk upon mine high places." 

--- Morrish Bible Dictionary
   


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