Chiasm
Micah 4:5:4
Micah 4:5:43 matched frames
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 5 For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
- A' and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.
- A 8 And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion,
- A' the daughter of Jerusalem.
- A 9 Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished?
- A' for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
- A 11 Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.
- A' and thou shalt beat in pieces many people:
- A and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
- B 5:1 Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
- C 2 But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
- B' 3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
- B 5:1 Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
- A' 4 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
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