While I prefer the KJV on all accounts, this was interesting to me because I enjoy finding elements in poetry that resurface generation to generation.

Here we have an ancient Psalm in which two stanzas end with the words "weigh this" -- something I'd never seen before.

What fascinates me is how it resonates in today's rap culture, in which a rap often ends with "Word."

I like that expression so much that I titled the poetry section of my website "Word."

Some of the beats who visited in my home when I was a child would end whatever they were saying with "Dig." or "Dig it."

"Weigh this" is almost the same thing to me. Something out of context almost, unexpected, at the end of a strophe or stanza that stops the reader cold, and returns the focus to the meaning of those lines once more before going on.

A familiar Psalm with an unexpected discovery. Thank you for sharing your scholarship, WR.

Angel