Chiasm
Psalm 40:10–16
Psalm 40:10–163 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and THY SALVATION: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
- B 11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Yahweh: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth CONTINUALLY preserve me.
- C 12 For innumerable EVILS have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
- D 13 Be pleased, O Yahweh, to deliver me: O Yahweh, make haste to help me.
- C' 14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me EVIL.
- C 12 For innumerable EVILS have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
- B' 15-16 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha. Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say CONTINUALLY, The Yahweh be magnified.
- B 11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Yahweh: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth CONTINUALLY preserve me.
- A' 16 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. Let such as love THY SALVATION.