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Isaiah 12:
Let's see the chiasmus form A-B-B'-A':
A. Surely God is my salvation;
B. I will trust and not be afraid.
B' The Lord, the Lord himself, is my strength and my defense;
A' he has become my salvation.
Isaiah used this poetic structure to repeat two ideas A and B. B and B' form a synthetic parallelism.
A and A' form a synonymous parallelism. I wouldn't read much into the difference between A and A'.
What is the significance between "God is my salvation" and "he has become my salvation"? Why did Isaiah make this distinction here?
Let's see the chiasmus form A-B-B'-A':
A. Surely God is my salvation;
B. I will trust and not be afraid.
B' The Lord, the Lord himself, is my strength and my defense;
A' he has become my salvation.
Isaiah used this poetic structure to repeat two ideas A and B. B and B' form a synthetic parallelism.
A and A' form a synonymous parallelism. I wouldn't read much into the difference between A and A'.
