Chiasm
Malachi 2:1–4
Malachi 2:1–43 matched frames
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 2:1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
- B 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.
- C 3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces,
- C' even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
- B' 4 And ye shall know that I have sent
- B 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.
- A' this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
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