
Blake Couey – Reading Isaiah’s Poetry
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The Ox Knows Its Owner and the Assets Master's Trough
The opening lines hero heaven give your own earth actually echo the beginning of one of the poems that Moses speaks at the end of Deuteronomy. verse three is an example of really the sophistication that biblical poetry and parallelism can offer. The Septuagint of Isaiah actually in the Greek adds the word, the Greek word, me in Israel does not know me. It could also have an emphatic sense, they don't understand any Yahweh.
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