Not a man's to walk or settle his steps!
Not being in the Qînah measure, both these passages are denied to Jeremiah by Duhm. Is not this arbitrary?
The sections of the Book which pass from verse to prose and from prose to verse are frequent.
One of the most striking is the narrative of the Prophet's call, Ch. I. 4-19, which I leave to be rendered in the next lecture. In Chap. VII. 28 ff. we have, to begin with, two verses:—
This is the folk that obeyed not
The voice of the Lord,[68]
That would not accept correction;
Lost[69] is truth from their mouth.
Shear and scatter thy locks,
Raise a dirge on the heights,