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20to 3 in number, each constitute a pasuq in MT and an utterance or strophe asdefined above:2:22:22:22:32:32:22:22:2Ps 46:7הָ‏ מוּ גוֹיִםנָ‏ תַ‏ ן בְּ‏ קוֹלוֹמִ‏ דַּ‏ ם חֲ‏ לָ‏ לִ‏ יםקֶ‏ שֶׁ‏ ת יְהוֹנָ‏ תָ‏ ןוְ‏ חֶ‏ רֶ‏ ב שָׁ‏ אוּלעַ‏ ל-כֵּ‏ ן מָ‏ לְ‏ אוּצִ‏ ירִ‏ ים אֲ‏ חָ‏ זוּנִ‏ ינַ‏ עֲ‏ וֵ‏ יתִ‏ י מִ‏ שְּׁ‏ מֹעַ‏מָ‏ טוּ מַ‏ מְ‏ לָ‏ כוֹתתָּ‏ מוּג אָ‏ רֶ‏ ץמֵ‏ חֵ‏ לֶ‏ ב גִּ‏ בּוֹרִ‏ יםל ‏ֹא נָ‏ שׂוֹג אָ‏ חוֹרל ‏ֹא תָ‏ שׁוּב רֵ‏ יקָ‏ םמָ‏ תְ‏ נַ‏ י חַ‏ לְ‏ חָ‏ לָ‏ הכְּ‏ צִ‏ ירֵ‏ י יוֹלֵ‏ דָ‏ הנִ‏ בְ‏ הַ‏ לְ‏ תִּ‏ י מֵ‏ רְ‏ אוֹתNations rage,kingdoms topple;he gives forth his voice,the earth melts.2 Sam 1:22 From blood of the slain,from fat of the mighty,the bow of Jonathandid not turn back,the sword of Sauldid not return empty.Isa 21:3Therefore my loinsare full with trembling,pangs seize melike a woman in travail;I am too distraught to hear,too frightened to see.Beyond the Level of Strophe or UtterancePs 46:72 Sam 1:22Isa 21:3A unit consisting of two or three utterances, referred to as a stanza in thegeneral rule, has no equivalent in prosodic structure theory. Stanzas also lacka firm foundation in the prosodic divisions preserved in MT. They are not asreadily identifiable as strophes or sections. Nevertheless, the assumption thatstanzas are composed of 2 to 3 strophes consistently yields acceptableresults.A unit consisting of 2 to 3 stanzas, referred to as a section in the generalrule, also has no equivalent in prosodic structure theory. The outer