For those of you following along with me in your Hebrew Bibles I offer my understanding of the verbal system which shall inform my reading of the text throughout. It is merely a summary of Diethelm Michel's fine work Tempora und Satzstellung in dem Psalmen.
1. The Qtl is selected for the rendering of an action, if it is considered as self-important, as absolute. Thus it stresses the factuality of an event. With reference to the acting subject, it describes an accidental action.
2. The Yqtl is selected for the rendering of an action, if this action receives its significance from something which lies outside the action itself. Thus it is dependent. Such things which lie outside the action itself can be.
a. an action progression in which the action describes a resulting link (result, purpose, iterative use, etc),
b. the general situation (modal use), or
c. the nature of the acting person (substantial use), and
d. the intention of the speaker (expression of desire).
e. In case "a", if an action is described explicitly as a "result" then the Wyyqtl is used.
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