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444 THE BIBLE, THE PSALMS OF SOLOMON, AND QUMRAN
from the hand of someone stronger than him;
from the hand of the powerful you have saved my soul.
Synonymous parallelism is found here only in 31c–32a and, perhaps,
34de. There is no antithetical parallelism.
On the other hand, synonymous parallelism is a bit more common
elsewhere in the Scrolls. One might consider, for example, 1QM
12.10–15:
10 Get up, hero,
take your prisoner, glorious one,
11 collect your spoil, worker of heroic deeds!
Place you hand on the neck of you foes
and your foot on the piles of the dead!
Strike the nations, your foes,
12 and may your sword consume guilty flesh!
Fill the land with glory
and your inheritance with blessing:
herds of flocks in your fields,
gold, /silver, / and precious stones in your palaces!
13 Rejoice, Sion, passionately!
Shine with jubilation, Jerusalem!
Exult, all the cities of Judah!
14 Open the gates for ever
so that the wealth of the nations can come in!
Their kings shall wait on you,
all your oppressors lie prone before you,
15[and they shall lick] the dust [of your feet].
[Daughters] of my people, shout with jubilant voice!
Deck yourselves with splendid finery!
Rule over the gover[nment of…]
Synonymous parallelism abounds: 10ab–11a, 11bc, 11d–12a, 12bc, 12de,
13abc, 14bc–15a, 15bc. Again, however, there is no antithetical parallelism
here.
Charlesworth noted that, in contrast to the Thanksgiving Hymns, the Pss.
Sol. “are composed in the style of the Psalter and continue the poetic
norm of parallelismus membrorum.” 35 A good example is Pss. Sol. 6:
1 Happy is the man whose heart is ready to call on the name of the Lord;
when he remembers the name of the Lord, he will be saved.
2 His ways are directed by the Lord,
and the works of his hands are protected by the Lord his God.
35. Charlesworth, ibid., 416.