Chiasm
Psalm 40:13–17
Psalm 40:13–172 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 13 Be pleased, O Yahweh, to deliver me: O Yahweh, make haste TO HELP me.
- B 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 15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
- B' 16 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 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.
- A' 17 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.