Chiasm
Isaiah 8:16–20
Isaiah 8:16–202 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
- B 17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
- C CENTER: 18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.
- B' 19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
- B 17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
- A' 20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, no light in them.