For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm. (Ps 33:9 NRSV) The difficulty comes, however, in attempting to understand the relationship between the lines. Due to the various relationships that can be expressed between the two lines, Lowth forwarded the notion that parallelism could be found in one of three basic forms: synonymous, antithetic and synthetic (or constructive). Although Lowth’s tripartite division of parallelism has been challenged by more recent studies of Hebrew