Chiasm
Ezekiel 33:10–20
Ezekiel 33:10–202 matched frames
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 10 Now as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: 'Our transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?'
- A' 11 For why will you die, O house of Israel?'
- A 12 Therefore, son of man, say to your people: 'The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression;
- B 12 neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness.
- B' 14-16 But if I tell the wicked man, 'You will surely die,' and he turns from his sin and does what is just and right—if he restores a pledge, makes restitution for what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without practicing iniquity—then he will surely live; he will not die. None of the sins he has committed will be held against him. He has done what is just and right; he will surely live.
- A' 12-13 Nor will the righteous man be able to live by his righteousness when he sins. If I tell the righteous man that he will surely live, but he then trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, then none of his righteous works will be remembered; he will die because of the iniquity he has committed.