be certain consequences. For instance, it may be harder to trace connected lines of thought in the psalm. Not a big deal, but those of us with a western kind of thought process like to carve things up in manageable, coherent chunks and that can be harder to do when a writer is focusing on telling about something following an A-to-Z, item-by-item, pattern. However, as long as we don’t try to be too rigid, I think we can see certain dominant emphases as we walk through the psalm. The first of these