====== Isaiah's Writing Style: Repetition =====

  * [[Isaiah]]

I remember reading somewhere that Hebrew poetry uses repetition a lot, instead of rhyme (and maybe meter).  In [[Isaiah 2]], this is really evident.  The helpful part of this is that if you don't understand a phrase or sentence, the prophet always repeats himself, so you have a pair of analogies to use as similar sayings.  They are often finished by testimony or admonition.

== Isaiah 2:3 ==

  * the mountain of the Lord / the house of the God of Jacob
  * he will teach of us his ways / we will walk in his paths

== Isaiah 2:4 ==

  * he shall judge among the nations / shall rebuke many people
  * they shall beat their swords into plowshares/ their spears into pruning hooks

== Isaiah 2:5 ==

An invitation

  * come ye / let us walk

His style is also helpful with confusing verses:

  * 2:7 - horses / chariots
  * 2:9 - the mean man / the great man
  * 2:10 - the rock / the dust
  * 2:11 - the lofty looks / the haughtiness
  * 2:12 - proud and lofty / lifted up
  * 2:13 - the cedars of Lebanon / high and lifted up / the oaks of Bashan
  * 2:15 - high towers / fenced walls
  * 2:19 - the holes of the rocks / the caves of the earth
  * 2:20 - the moles / the bats
  * 2:21 - the clefts of the rocks / the tops of the ragged rocks