Chiasm
Psalm 146:1–10
Psalm 146:1–103 matched frames
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 1 Praise ye the LORD.
- B 2 Praise the LORD, O my soul. While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
- C 3-4 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
- C' 5-6 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God: Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:
- B' 6b-9 Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners: The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous: The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
- B 2 Praise the LORD, O my soul. While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
- A' 10 The LORD shall reign for ever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.