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=Macrosyntax=
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Notes.

Word order:
* '''v. 2a: ליהוה '''focus fronted (probably exclusive)
* '''v. 2b: הוא '''focus fronted (probably verum/exclusive)
* '''v. 2b-c:''' PPs''' על־ימים '''and '''על־נהרות '''fronted for poetic superimposition
*''' v. 4b:''' PP''' לשׁוא '''pre-patient as either (1) repeating (in this case, preemptively) the structure of 4c which has no object or (2) contrasting focus to the actions/attitudes of v. 4a

* '''Paragraph breaks''' are indicated by סלה and imperatives/vocatives from v.7ff.

* '''Vocative position vv. 7a/9a''': Tentatively, the medial-vocative simply slows down processing and partitions the line into manageable chunks (since the imperatival VP is 'all new'). Other explanations include mitigation/marking superiority of addressee (Revell 1996: 338 / Kim 2022: 187), dividing theme-rheme (Kim 2022: 191) or simply "poetic" (ibid.: 190) None of these are satisfying here.
* '''Vocative position vv. 7b/9b''': According to Kim's (2022) understanding of a C-unit, פתחי עולם would be C-unit medial (as the resulting weyiqtol clause would be contained within the same C-unit), and either "focussing" the weyiqtol clause or at least delaying its utterance for higher prominence / attention-grabbing. I think that works here.

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