In order to sing the Psalms it is very useful to understand how Hebrew poetry works. Hebrew poetry is mainly in the form of:
- Parallelism
- Acrostic
Modern English bibles use indentation as markers for assisting the reader in identifying Hebrew Parallelism. The following is an Insert to help identify the forms of Hebrew Parallelism:
When preparing a Psalm to be sung, try to split the Psalm into the two columns of parallelism. Prior to learning Hebrew/Parallelism – I would split the song verses up by the English punctuation - later I discovered that the punctuation would roughly follow parallelism.
