Verses 2-5
2-5. First strain .
JAH A poetic abbreviation of JAHVEH, restricted in use to the higher kinds of poetry, and found often in compound names, as Yirm’jah, (Jeremiah;) also in certain formulas, as Hallelu-jah, (Praise ye Jah . )
This is my God A gesture here directs the hearer heavenward .
The God of my father Father is taken collectively, bringing up to view the patriarchs, the covenants made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob . It was as their God that Jehovah spoke to Moses from the burning bramble . This is a double strain, of two quatrains, or four-line stanzas . Parallelisms of thought and expression, such as are described in the Introduction, will be noticed in the first three lines of the first quatrain, the fourth line proclaiming in simple grandeur JEHOVAH as the hero of this victory . So in the second quatrain the lines of the first couplet are parallel with each other, and then those of the second also, in both instances rising in climax. Similar parallels are readily traced throughout the ode.
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