Chiastic Structures
The Old Testament
Chiastic Parallels
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12 For thus saith the Lord, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.
13 There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.
14 All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not;

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for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one,

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for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.

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15 Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable

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for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased,

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I have done these things unto thee.
16 Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.

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17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.