Chiasm
Psalm 84:5–12
Psalm 84:5–123 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
- B 6-7 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. 7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. 8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
- C 9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
- D 10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
- C' 11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
- C 9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
- B' 12 O LORD of hosts,
- B 6-7 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. 7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. 8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
- A' 12 blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.