Chiasm
Ezekiel 38:12–16
Ezekiel 38:12–163 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A Ezekiel 38:12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations,
- B Ezekiel 38:12 which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
- C Ezekiel 38:13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
- D Ezekiel 38:14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
- C' Ezekiel 38:15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
- C Ezekiel 38:13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
- B' Ezekiel 38:16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land,
- B Ezekiel 38:12 which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
- A' Ezekiel 38:16 that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.