Chiastic Structures
The Old Testament
Chiastic Parallels
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A

1 When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;

B

2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.

C

3 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.

D

4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.

C'

5 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?

D'

6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?

B'

7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob;

A'

8 Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.