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            <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Purification After Childbirth</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LEV.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LEV.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say to the Israelites: &#8216;A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be ceremonially unclean for seven days, just as she is unclean during her monthly period. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LEV.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">On the eighth day the boy is to be circumcised. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LEV.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then the woman must wait thirty-three days to be purified from her bleeding. She must not touch anything sacred or go to the sanctuary until the days of her purification are over. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LEV.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If she gives birth to a daughter, for two weeks the woman will be unclean, as during her period. Then she must wait sixty-six days to be purified from her bleeding.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LEV.12.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LEV.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;When the days of her purification for a son or daughter are over, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a dove for a sin offering.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">purification offering</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 8</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LEV.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He shall offer them before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to make atonement for her, and then she will be ceremonially clean from her flow of blood.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LEV.12.7"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;These are the regulations for the woman who gives birth to a boy or a girl. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LEV.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But if she cannot afford a lamb, she is to bring two doves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Regulations About Defiling Skin Diseases</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LEV.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses and Aaron, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LEV.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;When anyone has a swelling or a rash or a shiny spot on their skin that may be a defiling skin disease,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:2 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word for </span><span class="fq">defiling skin disease</span><span class="ft">, traditionally translated &#8220;leprosy,&#8221; was used for various diseases affecting the skin; here and throughout verses 3-46.</span></span></span><span class="content"> they must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">descendants</span></span></span><span class="content"> who is a priest. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LEV.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The priest is to examine the sore on the skin, and if the hair in the sore has turned white and the sore appears to be more than skin deep, it is a defiling skin disease. When the priest examines that person, he shall pronounce them ceremonially unclean. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LEV.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">If the shiny spot on the skin is white but does not appear to be more than skin deep and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest is to isolate the affected person for seven days. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LEV.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">On the seventh day the priest is to examine them, and if he sees that the sore is unchanged and has not spread in the skin, he is to isolate them for another seven days. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LEV.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">On the seventh day the priest is to examine them again, and if the sore has faded and has not spread in the skin, the priest shall pronounce them clean; it is only a rash. They must wash their clothes, and they will be clean. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LEV.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But if the rash does spread in their skin after they have shown themselves to the priest to be pronounced clean, they must appear before the priest again. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LEV.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The priest is to examine that person, and if the rash has spread in the skin, he shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LEV.13.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LEV.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;When anyone has a defiling skin disease, they must be brought to the priest. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LEV.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The priest is to examine them, and if there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white and if there is raw flesh in the swelling, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LEV.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">it is a chronic skin disease and the priest shall pronounce them unclean. He is not to isolate them, because they are already unclean.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LEV.13.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LEV.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;If the disease breaks out all over their skin and, so far as the priest can see, it covers all the skin of the affected person from head to foot, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LEV.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">the priest is to examine them, and if the disease has covered their whole body, he shall pronounce them clean. Since it has all turned white, they are clean. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LEV.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But whenever raw flesh appears on them, they will be unclean. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LEV.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When the priest sees the raw flesh, he shall pronounce them unclean. The raw flesh is unclean; they have a defiling disease. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LEV.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">If the raw flesh changes and turns white, they must go to the priest. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LEV.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The priest is to examine them, and if the sores have turned white, the priest shall pronounce the affected person clean; then they will be clean.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LEV.13.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LEV.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;When someone has a boil on their skin and it heals, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LEV.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">and in the place where the boil was, a white swelling or reddish-white spot appears, they must present themselves to the priest. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LEV.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The priest is to examine it, and if it appears to be more than skin deep and the hair in it has turned white, the priest shall pronounce that person unclean. It is a defiling skin disease that has broken out where the boil was. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LEV.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But if, when the priest examines it, there is no white hair in it and it is not more than skin deep and has faded, then the priest is to isolate them for seven days. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LEV.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">If it is spreading in the skin, the priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling disease. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LEV.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But if the spot is unchanged and has not spread, it is only a scar from the boil, and the priest shall pronounce them clean.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LEV.13.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LEV.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;When someone has a burn on their skin and a reddish-white or white spot appears in the raw flesh of the burn, </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LEV.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">the priest is to examine the spot, and if the hair in it has turned white, and it appears to be more than skin deep, it is a defiling disease that has broken out in the burn. The priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LEV.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in the spot and if it is not more than skin deep and has faded, then the priest is to isolate them for seven days. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LEV.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">On the seventh day the priest is to examine that person, and if it is spreading in the skin, the priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LEV.13.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">If, however, the spot is unchanged and has not spread in the skin but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce them clean; it is only a scar from the burn.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LEV.13.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LEV.13.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;If a man or woman has a sore on their head or chin, </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LEV.13.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">the priest is to examine the sore, and if it appears to be more than skin deep and the hair in it is yellow and thin, the priest shall pronounce them unclean; it is a defiling skin disease on the head or chin. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LEV.13.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">But if, when the priest examines the sore, it does not seem to be more than skin deep and there is no black hair in it, then the priest is to isolate the affected person for seven days. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LEV.13.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">On the seventh day the priest is to examine the sore, and if it has not spread and there is no yellow hair in it and it does not appear to be more than skin deep, </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LEV.13.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">then the man or woman must shave themselves, except for the affected area, and the priest is to keep them isolated another seven days. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LEV.13.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">On the seventh day the priest is to examine the sore, and if it has not spread in the skin and appears to be no more than skin deep, the priest shall pronounce them clean. They must wash their clothes, and they will be clean. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LEV.13.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">But if the sore does spread in the skin after they are pronounced clean, </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LEV.13.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">the priest is to examine them, and if he finds that the sore has spread in the skin, he does not need to look for yellow hair; they are unclean. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LEV.13.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">If, however, the sore is unchanged so far as the priest can see, and if black hair has grown in it, the affected person is healed. They are clean, and the priest shall pronounce them clean.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LEV.13.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LEV.13.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">&#8220;When a man or woman has white spots on the skin, </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LEV.13.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">the priest is to examine them, and if the spots are dull white, it is a harmless rash that has broken out on the skin; they are clean.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LEV.13.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LEV.13.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">&#8220;A man who has lost his hair and is bald is clean. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LEV.13.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">If he has lost his hair from the front of his scalp and has a bald forehead, he is clean. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LEV.13.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">But if he has a reddish-white sore on his bald head or forehead, it is a defiling disease breaking out on his head or forehead. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LEV.13.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">The priest is to examine him, and if the swollen sore on his head or forehead is reddish-white like a defiling skin disease, </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="LEV.13.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">the man is diseased and is unclean. The priest shall pronounce him unclean because of the sore on his head.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="LEV.13.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="LEV.13.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone with such a defiling disease must wear torn clothes, let their hair be unkempt,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:45 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">clothes, uncover their head</span></span></span><span class="content"> cover the lower part of their face and cry out, &#8216;Unclean! Unclean!&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="LEV.13.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">As long as they have the disease they remain unclean. They must live alone; they must live outside the camp.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Regulations About Defiling Molds</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="LEV.13.46"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="LEV.13.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">&#8220;As for any fabric that is spoiled with a defiling mold&#8212;any woolen or linen clothing, </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="LEV.13.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">any woven or knitted material of linen or wool, any leather or anything made of leather&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="LEV.13.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">if the affected area in the fabric, the leather, the woven or knitted material, or any leather article, is greenish or reddish, it is a defiling mold and must be shown to the priest. </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="LEV.13.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">The priest is to examine the affected area and isolate the article for seven days. </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="LEV.13.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">On the seventh day he is to examine it, and if the mold has spread in the fabric, the woven or knitted material, or the leather, whatever its use, it is a persistent defiling mold; the article is unclean. </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="LEV.13.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">He must burn the fabric, the woven or knitted material of wool or linen, or any leather article that has been spoiled; because the defiling mold is persistent, the article must be burned.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="LEV.13.52"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="LEV.13.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">&#8220;But if, when the priest examines it, the mold has not spread in the fabric, the woven or knitted material, or the leather article, </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="LEV.13.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">he shall order that the spoiled article be washed. Then he is to isolate it for another seven days. </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="LEV.13.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">After the article has been washed, the priest is to examine it again, and if the mold has not changed its appearance, even though it has not spread, it is unclean. Burn it, no matter which side of the fabric has been spoiled. </span></span><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="LEV.13.56"><span class="label">56</span><span class="content">If, when the priest examines it, the mold has faded after the article has been washed, he is to tear the spoiled part out of the fabric, the leather, or the woven or knitted material. </span></span><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="LEV.13.57"><span class="label">57</span><span class="content">But if it reappears in the fabric, in the woven or knitted material, or in the leather article, it is a spreading mold; whatever has the mold must be burned. </span></span><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="LEV.13.58"><span class="label">58</span><span class="content">Any fabric, woven or knitted material, or any leather article that has been washed and is rid of the mold, must be washed again. Then it will be clean.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="LEV.13.58"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="LEV.13.59"><span class="label">59</span><span class="content">These are the regulations concerning defiling molds in woolen or linen clothing, woven or knitted material, or any leather article, for pronouncing them clean or unclean.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch13" data-usfm="ROM.13.8+ROM.13.9+ROM.13.10+ROM.13.11+ROM.13.12+ROM.13.13+ROM.13.14">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The commandments, &#8220;You shall not commit adultery,&#8221; &#8220;You shall not murder,&#8221; &#8220;You shall not steal,&#8221; &#8220;You shall not covet,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:9 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deut. 5:17-19,21</span></span></span><span class="content"> and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: &#8220;Love your neighbor as yourself.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:9 </span><span class="ft">Lev. 19:18</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Day Is Near</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.13.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:14 </span><span class="ft">In contexts like this, the Greek word for </span><span class="fq">flesh </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">sarx</span>) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.</span></span></span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">One person&#8217;s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Who are you to judge someone else&#8217;s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.14.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.14.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:10 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brother or sister </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphos</span>) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in verses 13, 15 and 21.</span></span></span><span class="content">? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God&#8217;s judgment seat. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">It is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.14.11"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;As surely as I live,&#8217; says the Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.14.11"><span class="content">&#8216;every knee will bow before me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.14.11"><span class="content">every tongue will acknowledge God.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:11 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 45:23</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.14.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.14.12"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">22</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 22</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 22:1-31 is numbered 22:2-32.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. To the tune of &#8220;The Doe of the Morning.&#8221; A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.22.1"><span class="content">Why are you so far from saving me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.22.1"><span class="content">so far from my cries of anguish?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.22.2"><span class="content">by night, but I find no rest.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">night, and am not silent</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.22.3"><span class="content">you are the one Israel praises.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Yet you are holy, / enthroned on the praises of Israel</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.22.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In you our ancestors put their trust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.22.4"><span class="content">they trusted and you delivered them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">To you they cried out and were saved;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.22.5"><span class="content">in you they trusted and were not put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But I am a worm and not a man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.22.6"><span class="content">scorned by everyone, despised by the people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.22.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All who see me mock me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.22.7"><span class="content">they hurl insults, shaking their heads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;He trusts in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,&#8221; they say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"><span class="content">&#8220;let the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> rescue him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"><span class="content">Let him deliver him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"><span class="content">since he delights in him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Yet you brought me out of the womb;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.22.9"><span class="content">you made me trust in you, even at my mother&#8217;s breast.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">From birth I was cast on you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.22.10"><span class="content">from my mother&#8217;s womb you have been my God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Do not be far from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.22.11"><span class="content">for trouble is near</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.22.11"><span class="content">and there is no one to help.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Many bulls surround me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.22.12"><span class="content">strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Roaring lions that tear their prey</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.22.13"><span class="content">open their mouths wide against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I am poured out like water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"><span class="content">and all my bones are out of joint.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"><span class="content">My heart has turned to wax;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"><span class="content">it has melted within me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My mouth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:15 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">strength</span></span></span><span class="content"> is dried up like a potsherd,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.22.15"><span class="content">and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.22.15"><span class="content">you lay me in the dust of death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.22.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Dogs surround me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.22.16"><span class="content">a pack of villains encircles me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.22.16"><span class="content">they pierce</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:16 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls and some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Septuagint and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">me, / like a lion</span></span></span><span class="content"> my hands and my feet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">All my bones are on display;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.22.17"><span class="content">people stare and gloat over me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They divide my clothes among them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.22.18"><span class="content">and cast lots for my garment.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do not be far from me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.22.19"><span class="content">You are my strength; come quickly to help me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Deliver me from the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.22.20"><span class="content">my precious life from the power of the dogs.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.22.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Rescue me from the mouth of the lions;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.22.21"><span class="content">save me from the horns of the wild oxen.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.22.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I will declare your name to my people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.22.22"><span class="content">in the assembly I will praise you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.22.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">You who fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, praise him!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.22.23"><span class="content">All you descendants of Jacob, honor him!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.22.23"><span class="content">Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.22.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For he has not despised or scorned</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.22.24"><span class="content">the suffering of the afflicted one;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.22.24"><span class="content">he has not hidden his face from him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.22.24"><span class="content">but has listened to his cry for help.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.22.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.22.25"><span class="content">before those who fear you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:25 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">him</span></span></span><span class="content"> I will fulfill my vows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.22.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The poor will eat and be satisfied;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.22.26"><span class="content">those who seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will praise him&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.22.26"><span class="content">may your hearts live forever!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.22.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">All the ends of the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.22.27"><span class="content">will remember and turn to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.22.27"><span class="content">and all the families of the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.22.27"><span class="content">will bow down before him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.22.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">for dominion belongs to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.22.28"><span class="content">and he rules over the nations.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">All the rich of the earth will feast and worship;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.22.29"><span class="content">all who go down to the dust will kneel before him&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.22.29"><span class="content">those who cannot keep themselves alive.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.22.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Posterity will serve him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.22.30"><span class="content">future generations will be told about the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.22.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.22.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">They will proclaim his righteousness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.22.31"><span class="content">declaring to a people yet unborn:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.22.31"><span class="content">He has done it!</span></span></div>
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