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            <div class="label">20</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Water From the Rock</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the first month the whole Israelite community arrived at the Desert of Zin, and they stayed at Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.20.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now there was no water for the community, and the people gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They quarreled with Moses and said, &#8220;If only we had died when our brothers fell dead before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">! </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Why did you bring the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s community into this wilderness, that we and our livestock should die here? </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to this terrible place? It has no grain or figs, grapevines or pomegranates. And there is no water to drink!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.20.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Moses and Aaron went from the assembly to the entrance to the tent of meeting and fell facedown, and the glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to them. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.20.7"><span class="label">7</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 v8" data-usfm="NUM.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so they and their livestock can drink.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.20.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So Moses took the staff from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s presence, just as he commanded him. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.20.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, &#8220;Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.20.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.20.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses and Aaron, &#8220;Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.20.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">These were the waters of Meribah,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:13 </span><span class="fq">Meribah </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">quarreling.</span></span></span><span class="content"> where the Israelites quarreled with the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and where he was proved holy among them.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Edom Denies Israel Passage</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.20.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.20.14"><span class="content">&#8220;This is what your brother Israel says: You know about all the hardships that have come on us. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived there many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our ancestors, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">but when we cried out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, he heard our cry and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.20.16"><span class="content">&#8220;Now we are here at Kadesh, a town on the edge of your territory. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Please let us pass through your country. We will not go through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will travel along the King&#8217;s Highway and not turn to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.20.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But Edom answered:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.20.18"><span class="content">&#8220;You may not pass through here; if you try, we will march out and attack you with the sword.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.20.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.20.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The Israelites replied:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.20.19"><span class="content">&#8220;We will go along the main road, and if we or our livestock drink any of your water, we will pay for it. We only want to pass through on foot&#8212;nothing else.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.20.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.20.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Again they answered:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.20.20"><span class="content">&#8220;You may not pass through.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.20.20"><span class="content">Then Edom came out against them with a large and powerful army. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.20.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Since Edom refused to let them go through their territory, Israel turned away from them.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Death of Aaron</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.20.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.20.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The whole Israelite community set out from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.20.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">At Mount Hor, near the border of Edom, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses and Aaron, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.20.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Aaron will be gathered to his people. He will not enter the land I give the Israelites, because both of you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.20.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Get Aaron and his son Eleazar and take them up Mount Hor. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.20.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Remove Aaron&#8217;s garments and put them on his son Eleazar, for Aaron will be gathered to his people; he will die there.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.20.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.20.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Moses did as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded: They went up Mount Hor in the sight of the whole community. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.20.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Moses removed Aaron&#8217;s garments and put them on his son Eleazar. And Aaron died there on top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.20.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">and when the whole community learned that Aaron had died, all the Israelites mourned for him thirty days.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch21" data-usfm="NUM.21">
            <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Arad Destroyed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming along the road to Atharim, he attacked the Israelites and captured some of them. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then Israel made this vow to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: &#8220;If you will deliver these people into our hands, we will totally destroy</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:2 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, often by totally destroying them; also in verse 3.</span></span></span><span class="content"> their cities.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> listened to Israel&#8217;s plea and gave the Canaanites over to them. They completely destroyed them and their towns; so the place was named Hormah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:3 </span><span class="fq">Hormah </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">destruction.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Bronze Snake</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.21.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the Sea of Reeds</span></span></span><span class="content"> to go around Edom. But the people grew impatient on the way; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, &#8220;Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.21.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The people came to Moses and said, &#8220;We sinned when we spoke against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and against you. Pray that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will take the snakes away from us.&#8221; So Moses prayed for the people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Journey to Moab</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.21.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The Israelites moved on and camped at Oboth. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then they set out from Oboth and camped in Iye Abarim, in the wilderness that faces Moab toward the sunrise. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">From there they moved on and camped in the Zered Valley. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They set out from there and camped alongside the Arnon, which is in the wilderness extending into Amorite territory. The Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">That is why the Book of the Wars of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.21.14"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8230;Zahab</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:14 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Waheb</span></span></span><span class="content"> in Suphah and the ravines,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.21.14"><span class="content">the Arnon </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:14,15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">&#8220;I have been given from Suphah and the ravines / of the Arnon </span><span class="fv">15 </span><span class="fqa">to</span></span></span><span class="content"> the slopes of the ravines</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.21.15"><span class="content">that lead to the settlement of Ar</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.21.15"><span class="content">and lie along the border of Moab.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.21.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">From there they continued on to Beer, the well where the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Gather the people together and I will give them water.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.21.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Israel sang this song:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.21.17"><span class="content">&#8220;Spring up, O well!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.21.17"><span class="content">Sing about it,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.21.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">about the well that the princes dug,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.21.18"><span class="content">that the nobles of the people sank&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.21.18"><span class="content">the nobles with scepters and staffs.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.21.18"><span class="content">Then they went from the wilderness to Mattanah, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">from Mattanah to Nahaliel, from Nahaliel to Bamoth, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Defeat of Sihon and Og</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.21.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Israel sent messengers to say to Sihon king of the Amorites:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.21.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Let us pass through your country. We will not turn aside into any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will travel along the King&#8217;s Highway until we have passed through your territory.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.21.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. He mustered his entire army and marched out into the wilderness against Israel. When he reached Jahaz, he fought with Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.21.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Israel, however, put him to the sword and took over his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, but only as far as the Ammonites, because their border was fortified. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.21.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its surrounding settlements. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.21.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken from him all his land as far as the Arnon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.21.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.21.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">That is why the poets say:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.21.27"><span class="content">&#8220;Come to Heshbon and let it be rebuilt;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.21.27"><span class="content">let Sihon&#8217;s city be restored.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.21.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.21.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;Fire went out from Heshbon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.21.28"><span class="content">a blaze from the city of Sihon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.21.28"><span class="content">It consumed Ar of Moab,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.21.28"><span class="content">the citizens of Arnon&#8217;s heights.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.21.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.21.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Woe to you, Moab!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.21.29"><span class="content">You are destroyed, people of Chemosh!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.21.29"><span class="content">He has given up his sons as fugitives</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.21.29"><span class="content">and his daughters as captives</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.21.29"><span class="content">to Sihon king of the Amorites.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.21.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.21.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;But we have overthrown them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.21.30"><span class="content">Heshbon&#8217;s dominion has been destroyed all the way to Dibon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.21.30"><span class="content">We have demolished them as far as Nophah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.21.30"><span class="content">which extends to Medeba.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.21.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.21.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">So Israel settled in the land of the Amorites.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.21.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NUM.21.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">After Moses had sent spies to Jazer, the Israelites captured its surrounding settlements and drove out the Amorites who were there. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NUM.21.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Then they turned and went up along the road toward Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army marched out to meet them in battle at Edrei.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NUM.21.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NUM.21.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your hands, along with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NUM.21.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NUM.21.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">So they struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army, leaving them no survivors. And they took possession of his land.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">49</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 49</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 49:1-20 is numbered 49:2-21.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.49.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear this, all you peoples;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.49.1"><span class="content">listen, all who live in this world,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.49.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.49.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">both low and high,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.49.2"><span class="content">rich and poor alike:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.49.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.49.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">My mouth will speak words of wisdom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.49.3"><span class="content">the meditation of my heart will give you understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.49.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.49.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I will turn my ear to a proverb;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.49.4"><span class="content">with the harp I will expound my riddle:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.49.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.49.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Why should I fear when evil days come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.49.5"><span class="content">when wicked deceivers surround me&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.49.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.49.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">those who trust in their wealth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.49.6"><span class="content">and boast of their great riches?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.49.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.49.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">No one can redeem the life of another</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.49.7"><span class="content">or give to God a ransom for them&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.49.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.49.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">the ransom for a life is costly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.49.8"><span class="content">no payment is ever enough&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.49.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.49.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">so that they should live on forever</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.49.9"><span class="content">and not see decay.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.49.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.49.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For all can see that the wise die,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.49.10"><span class="content">that the foolish and the senseless also perish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.49.10"><span class="content">leaving their wealth to others.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.49.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.49.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Their tombs will remain their houses</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:11 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">In their thoughts their houses will remain</span></span></span><span class="content"> forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.49.11"><span class="content">their dwellings for endless generations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.49.11"><span class="content">though they had</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">generations, / for they have</span></span></span><span class="content"> named lands after themselves.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.49.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.49.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">People, despite their wealth, do not endure;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.49.12"><span class="content">they are like the beasts that perish.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.49.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.49.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">This is the fate of those who trust in themselves,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.49.13"><span class="content">and of their followers, who approve their sayings.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:13 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 15.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.49.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.49.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They are like sheep and are destined to die;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.49.14"><span class="content">death will be their shepherd</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.49.14"><span class="content">(but the upright will prevail over them in the morning).</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.49.14"><span class="content">Their forms will decay in the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.49.14"><span class="content">far from their princely mansions.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.49.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.49.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But God will redeem me from the realm of the dead;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.49.15"><span class="content">he will surely take me to himself.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.49.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.49.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Do not be overawed when others grow rich,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.49.16"><span class="content">when the splendor of their houses increases;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.49.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.49.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">for they will take nothing with them when they die,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.49.17"><span class="content">their splendor will not descend with them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.49.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.49.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Though while they live they count themselves blessed&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.49.18"><span class="content">and people praise you when you prosper&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.49.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.49.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">they will join those who have gone before them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.49.19"><span class="content">who will never again see the light of life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.49.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.49.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">People who have wealth but lack understanding</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.49.20"><span class="content">are like the beasts that perish.</span></span></div>
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