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Community Bible Experience: NT

Old Testament – Major Prophets

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Psalms: Songs of Repentance

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        <div class="chapter ch2" data-usfm="DEU.2">
            <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Wanderings in the Wilderness</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DEU.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then we turned back and set out toward the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the Sea of Reeds</span></span></span><span class="content"> as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had directed me. For a long time we made our way around the hill country of Seir.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DEU.2.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;You have made your way around this hill country long enough; now turn north. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Give the people these orders: &#8216;You are about to pass through the territory of your relatives the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, but be very careful. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Do not provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, not even enough to put your foot on. I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his own. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. These forty years the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has been with you, and you have not lacked anything.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So we went on past our relatives the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion Geber, and traveled along the desert road of Moab.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any part of their land. I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">(The Emites used to live there&#8212;a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Like the Anakites, they too were considered Rephaites, but the Moabites called them Emites. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave them as their possession.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;Now get up and cross the Zered Valley.&#8221; So we crossed the valley.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had sworn to them. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s hand was against them until he had completely eliminated them from the camp.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.2.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Now when the last of these fighting men among the people had died, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Today you are to pass by the region of Moab at Ar. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When you come to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them to war, for I will not give you possession of any land belonging to the Ammonites. I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.2.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">(That too was considered a land of the Rephaites, who used to live there; but the Ammonites called them Zamzummites. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DEU.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They were a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DEU.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had done the same for the descendants of Esau, who lived in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DEU.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">And as for the Avvites who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorites coming out from Caphtor</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:23 </span><span class="ft">That is, Crete</span></span></span><span class="content"> destroyed them and settled in their place.)</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Defeat of Sihon King of Heshbon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DEU.2.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DEU.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Set out now and cross the Arnon Gorge. See, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his country. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DEU.2.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">This very day I will begin to put the terror and fear of you on all the nations under heaven. They will hear reports of you and will tremble and be in anguish because of you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DEU.2.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DEU.2.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">From the Desert of Kedemoth I sent messengers to Sihon king of Heshbon offering peace and saying, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="DEU.2.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;Let us pass through your country. We will stay on the main road; we will not turn aside to the right or to the left. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="DEU.2.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Sell us food to eat and water to drink for their price in silver. Only let us pass through on foot&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="DEU.2.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">as the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, did for us&#8212;until we cross the Jordan into the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God is giving us.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="DEU.2.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">But Sihon king of Heshbon refused to let us pass through. For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="DEU.2.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="DEU.2.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his country over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="DEU.2.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="DEU.2.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">When Sihon and all his army came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz, </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="DEU.2.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="DEU.2.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">At that time we took all his towns and completely destroyed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:34 </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.</span></span></span><span class="content"> them&#8212;men, women and children. We left no survivors. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="DEU.2.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">But the livestock and the plunder from the towns we had captured we carried off for ourselves. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="DEU.2.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the gorge, even as far as Gilead, not one town was too strong for us. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God gave us all of them. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="DEU.2.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">But in accordance with the command of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God, you did not encroach on any of the land of the Ammonites, neither the land along the course of the Jabbok nor that around the towns in the hills.</span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkJER">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="JER.12">
            <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jeremiah&#8217;s Complaint</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">You are always righteous, </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="JER.12.1"><span class="content">when I bring a case before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="content">Yet I would speak with you about your justice:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="content">Why does the way of the wicked prosper?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="content">Why do all the faithless live at ease?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You have planted them, and they have taken root;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="content">they grow and bear fruit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="content">You are always on their lips</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="content">but far from their hearts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Yet you know me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="content">you see me and test my thoughts about you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="content">Drag them off like sheep to be butchered!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="content">Set them apart for the day of slaughter!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">How long will the land lie parched</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">and the grass in every field be withered?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">Because those who live in it are wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">the animals and birds have perished.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">Moreover, the people are saying,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">&#8220;He will not see what happens to us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Answer</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you have raced with men on foot</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">and they have worn you out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">how can you compete with horses?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">If you stumble</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">you feel secure only</span></span></span><span class="content"> in safe country,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">how will you manage in the thickets by</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the flooding of</span></span></span><span class="content"> the Jordan?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Your relatives, members of your own family&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">even they have betrayed you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">they have raised a loud cry against you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">Do not trust them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">though they speak well of you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will forsake my house,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="content">abandon my inheritance;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="content">I will give the one I love</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="content">into the hands of her enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">My inheritance has become to me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="content">like a lion in the forest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="content">She roars at me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="content">therefore I hate her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Has not my inheritance become to me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">like a speckled bird of prey</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">that other birds of prey surround and attack?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">Go and gather all the wild beasts;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">bring them to devour.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Many shepherds will ruin my vineyard</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="content">and trample down my field;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="content">they will turn my pleasant field</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="content">into a desolate wasteland.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">It will be made a wasteland,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="content">parched and desolate before me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="content">the whole land will be laid waste</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="content">because there is no one who cares.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Over all the barren heights in the desert</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">destroyers will swarm,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">for the sword of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will devour</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">from one end of the land to the other;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">no one will be safe.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They will sow wheat but reap thorns;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="content">they will wear themselves out but gain nothing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="content">They will bear the shame of their harvest</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="content">because of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s fierce anger.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8220;As for all my wicked neighbors who seize the inheritance I gave my people Israel, I will uproot them from their lands and I will uproot the people of Judah from among them. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But after I uproot them, I will again have compassion and will bring each of them back to their own inheritance and their own country. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And if they learn well the ways of my people and swear by my name, saying, &#8216;As surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives&#8217;&#8212;even as they once taught my people to swear by Baal&#8212;then they will be established among my people. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But if any nation does not listen, I will completely uproot and destroy it,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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