Chiasm
Psalm 18:8–15
Psalm 18:8–154 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 18:8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
- B 18:9-10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
- C 18:11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
- D 18:12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
- E 18:13 Yahweh also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice;
- D' 18:13-14 hail stones and coals of fire. Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
- D 18:12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
- C' 18:15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Yahweh,
- C 18:11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
- B' 18:15 at the blast of the breath
- B 18:9-10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
- A' 18:15 of thy nostrils.