While flipping through Isaiah last summer*, I happened upon Isaiah 24:19: "The earth is utterly broken, the earth is split apart, the earth is violently shaken" [ESV]. The repetition of the subject in each clause provides a greater sense of this fragmentation than a single subject with a compound predicate would ("The earth is utterly broken, split apart, and violently shaken").
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*I was referencing chapter 22. The Gospel reading on Worship Anew (
Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, 3 August) was Luke 12:13-21, and I noticed "relax, eat, drink, be merry" in verse 19, which seems to have been combined with "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die" in Isaiah 22:13 in the saying "Let us eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die."
