of uncertainty exists. The manuscripts on which our modern Hebrew texts and English translations are based were not written in verse, so a person cannot tell the difference between poetry and prose in these texts just by looking at them. At times, such as in Isaiah 4:2, scholars disagree about whether the text is poetry or prose. Thus, those who edit our contemporary English translations make decisions as to which portions of the text are poetry and which are prose. The scholars who produce the translations
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