Chiasm
Malachi 1:14–2:5
Malachi 1:14–2:54 matched frames
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 1:14 But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith Yahweh of hosts, and my name is dreadful <03372> among the heathen.
- B 2:1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
- C 2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith Yahweh of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
- D 3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces <06440>,
- D' even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
- C' 4 And ye shall know that I have sent
- C 2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith Yahweh of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
- B' this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
- B 2:1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
- A' 5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared <03372> me, and was afraid before my name.
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