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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkLEV">
        <div class="chapter ch26" data-usfm="LEV.26">
            <div class="label">26</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Reward for Obedience</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LEV.26.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LEV.26.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LEV.26.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LEV.26.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LEV.26.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LEV.26.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LEV.26.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want and live in safety in your land.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LEV.26.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LEV.26.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove wild beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LEV.26.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LEV.26.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LEV.26.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LEV.26.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LEV.26.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You will still be eating last year&#8217;s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LEV.26.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I will put my dwelling place</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">my tabernacle</span></span></span><span class="content"> among you, and I will not abhor you. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LEV.26.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LEV.26.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Punishment for Disobedience</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LEV.26.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LEV.26.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LEV.26.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LEV.26.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">then I will do this to you: I will bring on you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and sap your strength. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LEV.26.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LEV.26.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LEV.26.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LEV.26.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LEV.26.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LEV.26.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LEV.26.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LEV.26.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I will send wild animals against you, and they will rob you of your children, destroy your cattle and make you so few in number that your roads will be deserted.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LEV.26.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LEV.26.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If in spite of these things you do not accept my correction but continue to be hostile toward me, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LEV.26.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LEV.26.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And I will bring the sword on you to avenge the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague among you, and you will be given into enemy hands. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LEV.26.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LEV.26.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LEV.26.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If in spite of this you still do not listen to me but continue to be hostile toward me, </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LEV.26.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LEV.26.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LEV.26.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:30 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">your funeral offerings</span></span></span><span class="content"> on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LEV.26.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">I will turn your cities into ruins and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will take no delight in the pleasing aroma of your offerings. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LEV.26.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">I myself will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who live there will be appalled. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LEV.26.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and your cities will lie in ruins. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LEV.26.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LEV.26.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LEV.26.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LEV.26.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;As for those of you who are left, I will make their hearts so fearful in the lands of their enemies that the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. They will run as though fleeing from the sword, and they will fall, even though no one is pursuing them. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LEV.26.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">They will stumble over one another as though fleeing from the sword, even though no one is pursuing them. So you will not be able to stand before your enemies. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LEV.26.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LEV.26.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Those of you who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins; also because of their ancestors&#8217; sins they will waste away.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LEV.26.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LEV.26.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors&#8212;their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me, </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LEV.26.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">which made me hostile toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies&#8212;then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin, </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LEV.26.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LEV.26.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">For the land will be deserted by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected my laws and abhorred my decrees. </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="LEV.26.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> their God. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="LEV.26.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="LEV.26.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="LEV.26.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> established at Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkPSA">
        <div class="chapter ch137" data-usfm="PSA.137">
            <div class="label">137</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 137</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.137.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.137.1"><span class="content">when we remembered Zion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.137.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.137.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There on the poplars</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.137.2"><span class="content">we hung our harps,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.137.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.137.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">for there our captors asked us for songs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.137.3"><span class="content">our tormentors demanded songs of joy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.137.3"><span class="content">they said, &#8220;Sing us one of the songs of Zion!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.137.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.137.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">How can we sing the songs of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.137.4"><span class="content">while in a foreign land?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.137.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.137.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If I forget you, Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.137.5"><span class="content">may my right hand forget its skill.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.137.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.137.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.137.6"><span class="content">if I do not remember you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.137.6"><span class="content">if I do not consider Jerusalem</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.137.6"><span class="content">my highest joy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.137.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.137.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Remember, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, what the Edomites did</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.137.7"><span class="content">on the day Jerusalem fell.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.137.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Tear it down,&#8221; they cried,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.137.7"><span class="content">&#8220;tear it down to its foundations!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.137.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.137.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.137.8"><span class="content">happy is the one who repays you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.137.8"><span class="content">according to what you have done to us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.137.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.137.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Happy is the one who seizes your infants</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.137.9"><span class="content">and dashes them against the rocks.</span></span></div>
        </div>
    </div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkPSA">
        <div class="chapter ch138" data-usfm="PSA.138">
            <div class="label">138</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 138</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.138.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I will praise you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, with all my heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.138.1"><span class="content">before the &#8220;gods&#8221; I will sing your praise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.138.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.138.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I will bow down toward your holy temple</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.138.2"><span class="content">and will praise your name</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.138.2"><span class="content">for your unfailing love and your faithfulness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.138.2"><span class="content">for you have so exalted your solemn decree</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.138.2"><span class="content">that it surpasses your fame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.138.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.138.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When I called, you answered me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.138.3"><span class="content">you greatly emboldened me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.138.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.138.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">May all the kings of the earth praise you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.138.4"><span class="content">when they hear what you have decreed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.138.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.138.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">May they sing of the ways of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.138.5"><span class="content">for the glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is great.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.138.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.138.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Though the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is exalted, he looks kindly on the lowly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.138.6"><span class="content">though lofty, he sees them from afar.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.138.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.138.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Though I walk in the midst of trouble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.138.7"><span class="content">you preserve my life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.138.7"><span class="content">You stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.138.7"><span class="content">with your right hand you save me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.138.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.138.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will vindicate me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.138.8"><span class="content">your love, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, endures forever&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.138.8"><span class="content">do not abandon the works of your hands.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkPSA">
        <div class="chapter ch139" data-usfm="PSA.139">
            <div class="label">139</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 139</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.139.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">You have searched me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.139.1"><span class="content">and you know me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.139.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.139.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You know when I sit and when I rise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.139.2"><span class="content">you perceive my thoughts from afar.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.139.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.139.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You discern my going out and my lying down;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.139.3"><span class="content">you are familiar with all my ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.139.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.139.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Before a word is on my tongue</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.139.4"><span class="content">you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, know it completely.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.139.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.139.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You hem me in behind and before,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.139.5"><span class="content">and you lay your hand upon me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.139.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.139.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.139.6"><span class="content">too lofty for me to attain.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.139.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.139.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Where can I go from your Spirit?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.139.7"><span class="content">Where can I flee from your presence?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.139.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.139.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If I go up to the heavens, you are there;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.139.8"><span class="content">if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.139.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.139.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If I rise on the wings of the dawn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.139.9"><span class="content">if I settle on the far side of the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.139.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.139.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">even there your hand will guide me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.139.10"><span class="content">your right hand will hold me fast.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.139.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.139.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">If I say, &#8220;Surely the darkness will hide me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.139.11"><span class="content">and the light become night around me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.139.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.139.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">even the darkness will not be dark to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.139.12"><span class="content">the night will shine like the day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.139.12"><span class="content">for darkness is as light to you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.139.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.139.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For you created my inmost being;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.139.13"><span class="content">you knit me together in my mother&#8217;s womb.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.139.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.139.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.139.14"><span class="content">your works are wonderful,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.139.14"><span class="content">I know that full well.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.139.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.139.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My frame was not hidden from you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.139.15"><span class="content">when I was made in the secret place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.139.15"><span class="content">when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.139.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Your eyes saw my unformed body;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="content">all the days ordained for me were written in your book</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="content">before one of them came to be.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.139.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">How precious to me are your thoughts,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">139:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">How amazing are your thoughts concerning me</span></span></span><span class="content"> God!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.139.17"><span class="content">How vast is the sum of them!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.139.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.139.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Were I to count them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.139.18"><span class="content">they would outnumber the grains of sand&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.139.18"><span class="content">when I awake, I am still with you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.139.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.139.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">If only you, God, would slay the wicked!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.139.19"><span class="content">Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.139.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.139.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They speak of you with evil intent;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.139.20"><span class="content">your adversaries misuse your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.139.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.139.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Do I not hate those who hate you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.139.21"><span class="content">and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.139.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.139.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I have nothing but hatred for them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.139.22"><span class="content">I count them my enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.139.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.139.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Search me, God, and know my heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.139.23"><span class="content">test me and know my anxious thoughts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.139.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.139.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">See if there is any offensive way in me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.139.24"><span class="content">and lead me in the way everlasting.</span></span></div>
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