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Isaiah 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Isaiah, one of the Book of the Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, which is the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] In this "vision of Isaiah concerning Judah and Jerusalem", the prophet calls the nation to repentance and predicts the destruction of the first temple in the siege of Jerusalem.
Oral literature is especially rich in chiastic structure, possibly as an aid to memorization and oral performance. In Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, for instance, Cedric Whitman finds chiastic patterns "of the most amazing virtuosity" that simultaneously perform both aesthetic and mnemonic functions, permitting the oral poet easily to recall the basic structure of the composition during ...
Chiasmus was particularly popular in the literature of the ancient world, including Hebrew, Greek, Latin and K'iche' Maya, [7] where it was used to articulate the balance of order within the text. Many long and complex chiasmi have been found in Shakespeare [ 8 ] and the Greek and Hebrew texts of the Bible . [ 9 ]
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Bible in Ningpo (Ningbo) Romanised (), published by the British and Foreign Bible SocietyRomanized vernacular versions. Isaiah, 1870; New Testament, Ah-lah kyiu-cü yiæ-su kyi-toh-go sing iah shü: Peng-veng fæn Nying-po t'u-wô.
Isaiah 2:16: Isaiah 13:21: Isaiah 11:3: Geneva Bible (1560) all pleasant pictures: Satyrs shall dance there shall make him prudent in the fear of the Lord King James Bible (1611) all pleasant pictures: satyrs shall dance there shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the L ORD: Book of Mormon (1830) all pleasant pictures (2 Nephi 12:16)
Because the use of chiasmus are specific to verses or stanzas where the words are laid out in a specific way like a poem or haiku. Whereas, chiastic structure has a more broader ranger of parallelism occurring throughout a chapter or an entire book, usually subject to interpretation or certain points of view.
Additionally, Isaiah’s teachings as they appear in Second Nephi form a chiasmus: chapters 12–15 discuss destruction relating to the covenant people; chapter 16 contains a call to repentance, and chapters 17–22 follow themes of God’s covenant people returning to him.