Chiasm
Zephaniah 2:5–9
Zephaniah 2:5–93 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 2:5 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of Yahweh is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
- B 2:6-7a And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening:
- C 2:7b for Yahweh their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.
- D 2:8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
- C' 2:9a Therefore as I live, saith Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation:
- C 2:7b for Yahweh their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.
- B' 2:9b the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant
- B 2:6-7a And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening:
- A' 2:9c of my people shall possess them.
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