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I've been tutoring a girl for her bat mitzvah and we're working on the Psalm 29 for returning the Torah to the ark. It's fun marching tune, with 4 sections, each one set off by a solo line sung by the leader. Personally, I've found it hard to remember which "verse" to pick up with, after each break in the tune. Too many start the same way with "Kol Adonai..."

So, I spent some time today with her looking over the imagery of each "verse" and each "solo line", trying to see if there's a coherent pattern to draw out. I thought I'd share with you what I found, because it's kind of nifty. Translations are my own and approximate. Ditto transliteration spellings.

( The four verses and three solos )

That neatly connects each "verse" with it's adjacent "solo" lines. But ALSO, the overall pattern is:
Creation --- Exodus --- Temple
(That's not quite the famous "Creation/Revelation/Redemption" triple, but it's pretty close)

There's another neat pattern too:

( Each section (if you split & group solo/verse as I did above) can be mapped to a cardinal direction! )