Form There is no one obvious solution to the textual difficulties in vv. 1* and 2*. Text-critical and metrical problems are mutually intertwined and make the decision difficult. In any case, we can hardly bypass the fact that the refrain of v. 9* stands in need of its own metrical version in v. 2*. A suitable explanation could be given with the metrical unit 2 + 2 + 2 (cf. Ps. 1:1*). V. 1b* would then have to be thought of as a free-standing 4-unit meter. For v. 2*, cf. textual note b; but one would