Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken—
and ends—
We should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
The second strophe-column begins—
Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom;
Give ear unto the Lord our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
Here, as we see, the beginning of the second column answers to the beginning of the first and is linked with its conclusion.
Habakkuk (ii. 11) affords another example,
(end of strophe)
For the stone shall cry out of the wall,