Chiasm
Psalm 10:1–5
Psalm 10:1–52 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 10:1 Why standest thou afar off, O Yahweh? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
- B 10:2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
- C 10:3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom Yahweh abhorreth.
- B' 10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
- B 10:2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
- A' 10:5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
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