Chiasm
Revelation 16:8–12
Revelation 16:8–122 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
- B 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
- C 10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
- B' 11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
- B 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
- A' 12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.