Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Robert Alter on Isaiah 42:25

  

fury, / His wrath. The Masoretic cantillation markings put these two nouns together (“fury His wrath”), but both metrically and in regard to semantic parallelism, “His wrath” belongs at the beginning of the second verset. (Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, 3 vols. [New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019], 2:761)

 

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