Chiasm
Psalm 42:2–8
Psalm 42:2–84 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 2 My soul thirsteth for God, for THE LIVING GOD: when shall I come and appear before God?
- B 3 My tears have been my meat DAY AND NIGHT, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
- C 4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I HAD GONE with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
- D 5 Why art thou CAST DOWN, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me?
- E 5 hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
- D' 6 O my God, my soul IS CAST DOWN within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
- D 5 Why art thou CAST DOWN, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me?
- C' 7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows ARE GONE over me.
- C 4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I HAD GONE with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
- B' 8 Yet Yahweh will command his lovingkindness IN THE DAYTIME, AND IN THE NIGHT his song shall be with me,
- B 3 My tears have been my meat DAY AND NIGHT, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
- A' 8 and my prayer unto THE GOD OF MY LIFE.