Chiasm
Ezekiel 38:8–12
Ezekiel 38:8–124 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 8 After a long time you will be summoned. In the latter years you will enter a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel,
- B 8 which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and
- C 8 all now dwell securely.
- D 9 You and all your troops, and many peoples with you will go up, advancing like a thunderstorm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.
- E 10 This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.
- D' 11 You will say, 'I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will come against a tranquil people
- D 9 You and all your troops, and many peoples with you will go up, advancing like a thunderstorm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.
- C' 11 who dwell securely, all of them living without walls or bars or gates—
- C 8 all now dwell securely.
- B' 12 in order to seize the spoil and carry off the plunder, to turn a hand against the desolate places now inhabited
- B 8 which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and
- A' 12 and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and possessions and who live at the center of the land.'