Chiasm
Jeremiah 6:1–6
Jeremiah 6:1–63 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A Jeremiah 6:1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem:
- B Jeremiah 6:1 for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction. Jeremiah 6:2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman. Jeremiah 6:3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
- C Jeremiah 6:4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon.
- D Jeremiah 6:4 Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
- C' Jeremiah 6:5 Arise, and let us go by night,
- C Jeremiah 6:4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon.
- B' Jeremiah 6:5 and let us destroy her palaces.
- B Jeremiah 6:1 for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction. Jeremiah 6:2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman. Jeremiah 6:3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
- A' Jeremiah 6:6 For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.