Chiasm
Jonah 3:10–4:5
Jonah 3:10–4:54 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 3:10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way;
- B 3:10 and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
- C 4:1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
- D 4:2 And he prayed unto Yahweh, and said, I pray thee, O Yahweh, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish:
- E 4:2 for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
- D' 4:3 Therefore now, O Yahweh, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
- D 4:2 And he prayed unto Yahweh, and said, I pray thee, O Yahweh, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish:
- C' 4:4 Then said Yahweh, Doest thou well to be angry?
- C 4:1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
- B' 4:5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow,
- B 3:10 and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
- A' 4:5 till he might see what would become of the city.
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