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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Judah&#8217;s sin is engraved with an iron tool,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.17.1"><span class="content">inscribed with a flint point,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.17.1"><span class="content">on the tablets of their hearts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.17.1"><span class="content">and on the horns of their altars.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.17.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Even their children remember</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.17.2"><span class="content">their altars and Asherah poles</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:2 </span><span class="ft">That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.17.2"><span class="content">beside the spreading trees</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.17.2"><span class="content">and on the high hills.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">My mountain in the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.17.3"><span class="content">and your</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:2,3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">hills / </span><span class="fv">3 </span><span class="fqa">and the mountains of the land. / Your</span></span></span><span class="content"> wealth and all your treasures</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.17.3"><span class="content">I will give away as plunder,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.17.3"><span class="content">together with your high places,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.17.3"><span class="content">because of sin throughout your country.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Through your own fault you will lose</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.17.4"><span class="content">the inheritance I gave you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.17.4"><span class="content">I will enslave you to your enemies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.17.4"><span class="content">in a land you do not know,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.17.4"><span class="content">for you have kindled my anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.17.4"><span class="content">and it will burn forever.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.17.5"><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is the one who trusts in man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.17.5"><span class="content">who draws strength from mere flesh</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.17.5"><span class="content">and whose heart turns away from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">That person will be like a bush in the wastelands;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.17.6"><span class="content">they will not see prosperity when it comes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.17.6"><span class="content">They will dwell in the parched places of the desert,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.17.6"><span class="content">in a salt land where no one lives.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;But blessed is the one who trusts in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.17.7"><span class="content">whose confidence is in him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.17.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They will be like a tree planted by the water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.17.8"><span class="content">that sends out its roots by the stream.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.17.8"><span class="content">It does not fear when heat comes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.17.8"><span class="content">its leaves are always green.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.17.8"><span class="content">It has no worries in a year of drought</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.17.8"><span class="content">and never fails to bear fruit.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The heart is deceitful above all things</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.17.9"><span class="content">and beyond cure.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.17.9"><span class="content">Who can understand it?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> search the heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.17.10"><span class="content">and examine the mind,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.17.10"><span class="content">to reward each person according to their conduct,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.17.10"><span class="content">according to what their deeds deserve.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.17.11"><span class="content">are those who gain riches by unjust means.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.17.11"><span class="content">When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.17.11"><span class="content">and in the end they will prove to be fools.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.17.12"><span class="content">is the place of our sanctuary.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.17.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you are the hope of Israel;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.17.13"><span class="content">all who forsake you will be put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.17.13"><span class="content">Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.17.13"><span class="content">because they have forsaken the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.17.13"><span class="content">the spring of living water.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Heal me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and I will be healed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.17.14"><span class="content">save me and I will be saved,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.17.14"><span class="content">for you are the one I praise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">They keep saying to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.17.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.17.15"><span class="content">Let it now be fulfilled!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.17.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I have not run away from being your shepherd;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.17.16"><span class="content">you know I have not desired the day of despair.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.17.16"><span class="content">What passes my lips is open before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.17.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Do not be a terror to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.17.17"><span class="content">you are my refuge in the day of disaster.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.17.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Let my persecutors be put to shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.17.18"><span class="content">but keep me from shame;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.17.18"><span class="content">let them be terrified,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.17.18"><span class="content">but keep me from terror.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.17.18"><span class="content">Bring on them the day of disaster;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.17.18"><span class="content">destroy them with double destruction.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.17.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me: &#8220;Go and stand at the Gate of the People,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Army</span></span></span><span class="content"> through which the kings of Judah go in and out; stand also at all the other gates of Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.17.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Say to them, &#8216;Hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you kings of Judah and all people of Judah and everyone living in Jerusalem who come through these gates. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.17.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Be careful not to carry a load on the Sabbath day or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.17.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Do not bring a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.17.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Yet they did not listen or pay attention; they were stiff-necked and would not listen or respond to discipline. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But if you are careful to obey me, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy by not doing any work on it, </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">then kings who sit on David&#8217;s throne will come through the gates of this city with their officials. They and their officials will come riding in chariots and on horses, accompanied by the men of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">People will come from the towns of Judah and the villages around Jerusalem, from the territory of Benjamin and the western foothills, from the hill country and the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and incense, and bringing thank offerings to the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But if you do not obey me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying any load as you come through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in the gates of Jerusalem that will consume her fortresses.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">18</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">At the Potter&#8217;s House</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go down to the potter&#8217;s house, and there I will give you my message.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So I went down to the potter&#8217;s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.18.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. &#8220;Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.18.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But they will reply, &#8216;It&#8217;s no use. We will continue with our own plans; we will all follow the stubbornness of our evil hearts.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.18.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.18.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Inquire among the nations:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.18.13"><span class="content">Who has ever heard anything like this?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.18.13"><span class="content">A most horrible thing has been done</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.18.13"><span class="content">by Virgin Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.18.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Does the snow of Lebanon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.18.14"><span class="content">ever vanish from its rocky slopes?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.18.14"><span class="content">Do its cool waters from distant sources</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.18.14"><span class="content">ever stop flowing?</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:14 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.18.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Yet my people have forgotten me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="content">they burn incense to worthless idols,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="content">which made them stumble in their ways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="content">in the ancient paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="content">They made them walk in byways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="content">on roads not built up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Their land will be an object of horror</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.18.16"><span class="content">and of lasting scorn;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.18.16"><span class="content">all who pass by will be appalled</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.18.16"><span class="content">and will shake their heads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.18.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Like a wind from the east,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.18.17"><span class="content">I will scatter them before their enemies;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.18.17"><span class="content">I will show them my back and not my face</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.18.17"><span class="content">in the day of their disaster.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.18.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.18.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They said, &#8220;Come, let&#8217;s make plans against Jeremiah; for the teaching of the law by the priest will not cease, nor will counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets. So come, let&#8217;s attack him with our tongues and pay no attention to anything he says.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.18.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.18.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Listen to me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.18.19"><span class="content">hear what my accusers are saying!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.18.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.18.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Should good be repaid with evil?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.18.20"><span class="content">Yet they have dug a pit for me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.18.20"><span class="content">Remember that I stood before you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.18.20"><span class="content">and spoke in their behalf</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.18.20"><span class="content">to turn your wrath away from them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.18.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So give their children over to famine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.18.21"><span class="content">hand them over to the power of the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.18.21"><span class="content">Let their wives be made childless and widows;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.18.21"><span class="content">let their men be put to death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.18.21"><span class="content">their young men slain by the sword in battle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.18.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.18.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Let a cry be heard from their houses</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.18.22"><span class="content">when you suddenly bring invaders against them,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.18.22"><span class="content">for they have dug a pit to capture me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.18.22"><span class="content">and have hidden snares for my feet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.18.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.18.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, know</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.18.23"><span class="content">all their plots to kill me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.18.23"><span class="content">Do not forgive their crimes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.18.23"><span class="content">or blot out their sins from your sight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.18.23"><span class="content">Let them be overthrown before you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.18.23"><span class="content">deal with them in the time of your anger.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">26</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.26.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Agrippa said to Paul, &#8220;You have permission to speak for yourself.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.26.1"><span class="content">So Paul motioned with his hand and began his defense: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.26.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;King Agrippa, I consider myself fortunate to stand before you today as I make my defense against all the accusations of the Jews, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.26.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and especially so because you are well acquainted with all the Jewish customs and controversies. Therefore, I beg you to listen to me patiently.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.26.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.26.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;The Jewish people all know the way I have lived ever since I was a child, from the beginning of my life in my own country, and also in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.26.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They have known me for a long time and can testify, if they are willing, that I conformed to the strictest sect of our religion, living as a Pharisee. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.26.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And now it is because of my hope in what God has promised our ancestors that I am on trial today. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.26.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">This is the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to see fulfilled as they earnestly serve God day and night. King Agrippa, it is because of this hope that these Jews are accusing me. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.26.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Why should any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.26.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.26.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;I too was convinced that I ought to do all that was possible to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.26.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And that is just what I did in Jerusalem. On the authority of the chief priests I put many of the Lord&#8217;s people in prison, and when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.26.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Many a time I went from one synagogue to another to have them punished, and I tried to force them to blaspheme. I was so obsessed with persecuting them that I even hunted them down in foreign cities.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.26.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.26.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;On one of these journeys I was going to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.26.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">About noon, King Agrippa, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, blazing around me and my companions. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.26.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Hebrew</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.26.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.26.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then I asked, &#8216;Who are you, Lord?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.26.15"><span class="content">&#8220; </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> the Lord replied. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.26.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen and will see of me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.26.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.26.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.26.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.26.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the vision from heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.26.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">First to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I preached that they should repent and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.26.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">That is why some Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.26.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But God has helped me to this very day; so I stand here and testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.26.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">that the Messiah would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would bring the message of light to his own people and to the Gentiles.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.26.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.26.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">At this point Festus interrupted Paul&#8217;s defense. &#8220;You are out of your mind, Paul!&#8221; he shouted. &#8220;Your great learning is driving you insane.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.26.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.26.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;I am not insane, most excellent Festus,&#8221; Paul replied. &#8220;What I am saying is true and reasonable. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.26.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The king is familiar with these things, and I can speak freely to him. I am convinced that none of this has escaped his notice, because it was not done in a corner. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.26.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know you do.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.26.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.26.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then Agrippa said to Paul, &#8220;Do you think that in such a short time you can persuade me to be a Christian?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.26.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.26.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Paul replied, &#8220;Short time or long&#8212;I pray to God that not only you but all who are listening to me today may become what I am, except for these chains.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.26.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.26.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The king rose, and with him the governor and Bernice and those sitting with them. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.26.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">After they left the room, they began saying to one another, &#8220;This man is not doing anything that deserves death or imprisonment.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.26.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.26.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Agrippa said to Festus, &#8220;This man could have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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