The Gift that Keeps Giving and Giving and Giving and …
“ His anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning ” —Psalm 30:5, NIV. parallelism | ˈ par ə lel ˌ iz ə m| noun the state of being parallel or of corresponding in some way. • the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc. This verse from Psalm 30 is one of those many biblical examples of parallelism. The difference lies in the perspective from which each phrase is written. “ His anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime ” refers to God. The second phrase: “ weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing in the morning ” refers to us. They are connected—they are parallel. They are the same statement from two different perspectives, though we don’t always apply them with that in mind. Our trouble often lies in separating the two phrases with more than a semi-colon. For example, we often use the secon...