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_, And the _beam_ out of the _timbers_ shall answer it. Herewith the image of a building rises before the prophet as before the reader. A thought flashes through the prophet’s mind, and he proceeds, (beginning of strophe) Woe to him that _buildeth_ a _town_ with blood And _stablisheth_ a _city_ by iniquity. And as an example of the inclusion we may quote Jeremiah xlvi. 20-24: (beginning of strophe) _Egypt_ is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the _north_ is come, it is come. (end of strophe) The daughter of _Egypt_ shall be put to shame, she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the _north_. In the second chapter of Zephaniah, we find an example of the two-lined inclusion: (beginning of strophe) 8) I have heard the _reproach_ of Moab, and the _revilings_ of the children of Ammon, Wherewith they have reproached _my people_ and _magnified_ themselves against my border. (end of strophe) 10) This shall they have for their _pride_, Because they have _reproached_ and _magnified themselves_ against the people of the Lord of hosts. Thus the three literary forms, besides the strophic measure, which govern the composition of the prophetic books are--the _responsion_, the _concatenation_, and the _inclusion_. If the responsion is the expression of the outward and inward symmetry--of substance and form--proper to two strophic organisms which, though they may be far apart, show their relation one to another by similarity of character and structure, and correspond to each other more or less, either by analogy or antithesis, the _concatenation_ may be regarded as the complement and counterpart of the responsion, inasmuch as it unites the two strophic organisms by an outward and inward bond--of substance and form. By this means the two are combined to constitute a greater whole. For this reason the _concatenation_ does not run parallel to the responsion, but joins the _end_ of one strophe to the _beginning_ of a second, and leads from one field of thought to another. The _inclusion_ may be regarded as, in a certain sense, the reverse of the concatenation. As the concatenation brings about the conjunction of two strophes, so the inclusion constitutes the boundary line that cuts one strophic organism off from the next. The concatenation obliterates the distinctive character of two separate strophic organisms, the inclusion rounds off and defines a strophe, or group of strophes, and emphasises its distinctive character. AN EXAMPLE FROM ISAIAH