Chiasm
Amos 1:15–2:4
Amos 1:15–2:43 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 1:15 And their king SHALL GO into captivity,
- B 1:15 he and HIS PRINCES together, saith Yahweh.
- C 2:1 Thus saith Yahweh; For three transgressions OF MOAB, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
- D 2:1 because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
- C' 2:2 But I will send a fire UPON MOAB, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and MOAB shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet:
- C 2:1 Thus saith Yahweh; For three transgressions OF MOAB, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof;
- B' 2:3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay ALL THE PRINCES thereof with him, saith Yahweh.
- B 1:15 he and HIS PRINCES together, saith Yahweh.
- A' 2:4 Thus saith Yahweh; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of Yahweh, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers HAVE WALKED:
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