Chiasm
Psalm 41:1–5
Psalm 41:1–52 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 1 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: Yahweh will deliver him in time OF TROUBLE.
- B 2 Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto THE WILL of his enemies.
- C 3 Yahweh will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
- B' 4 I said, Yahweh, be merciful unto me: heal MY SOUL; for I have sinned against thee.
- B 2 Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto THE WILL of his enemies.
- A' 5 Mine enemies speak EVIL of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?