“... Th e Canaanite background of the Psalms may be recognized in their poetic style. 6 As in biblical poetry, the chief formal characteristic of Canaanite verse is the use of par- allelism, a characteristic not lost in translation. In parallelistic verse, a single idea is expressed in units of two or three lines (a bicolon or a tricolon) by repetition, synonyms, or sometimes antonyms, as seen in the following lines from the Ugaritic Baal Cycle (KTU 1.2 IV 7–10; SAC  114): Let me tell you, Prince Baal, let me repeat, Rider on the Clouds: Now, your enemy, Baal, now you will kill your enemy, now you will annihilate your foe. You will take your eternal kingship, your dominion forever and ever. Th ese units consist of a tricolon framed by two bicola; each unit has one thought devel- oped by repetitive and synonymous parallelism. Not only the lines’ poetic technique but also their content are familiar from the Psalms: For your enemies, O LORD, for your enemies shall perish, all evildoers shall be scattered. (92:10[9] ) Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations. (145:13) As these two verses suggest, parallelism is broadly shared by the poetry of the Ugaritic texts and the Psalms. In addition, the Psalms bear the freight of old traditional motifs that are also at home in Ugaritic literature: divine victory over enemies and divine king ship. In the case of Psalm 92: [10] 9, this traditional image has been applied to “evil-doers” and not simply to enemy combatants. ...”