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   <div class="book bkMAT">
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judging Others</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not judge, or you too will be judged.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother&#8217;s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">How can you say to your brother, &#8216;Let me take the speck out of your eye,&#8217; when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother&#8217;s eye.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ask, Seek, Knock</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Narrow and Wide Gates</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">True and False Prophets</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep&#8217;s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">True and False Disciples</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.7.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Not everyone who says to me, &#8216;Lord, Lord,&#8217; will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Many will say to me on that day, &#8216;Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Then I will tell them plainly, &#8216;I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Wise and Foolish Builders</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.7.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.7.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.7.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.7.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.7.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.7.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkISA">
      <div class="chapter ch55" data-usfm="ISA.55">
         <div class="label">55</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Invitation to the Thirsty</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come, all you who are thirsty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">come to the waters;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">and you who have no money,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">come, buy and eat!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">Come, buy wine and milk</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">without money and without cost.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Why spend money on what is not bread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="content">and your labor on what does not satisfy?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="content">Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="content">and you will delight in the richest of fare.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Give ear and come to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="content">listen, that you may live.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="content">I will make an everlasting covenant with you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="content">my faithful love promised to David.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.55.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.55.4"><span class="content">a ruler and commander of the peoples.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.55.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Surely you will summon nations you know not,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">and nations you do not know will come running to you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">because of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">the Holy One of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">for he has endowed you with splendor.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.55.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> while he may be found;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.55.6"><span class="content">call on him while he is near.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.55.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Let the wicked forsake their ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="content">and the unrighteous their thoughts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="content">Let them turn to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and he will have mercy on them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="content">and to our God, for he will freely pardon.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.55.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;For my thoughts are not your thoughts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.55.8"><span class="content">neither are your ways my ways,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.55.8"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.55.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.55.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;As the heavens are higher than the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.55.9"><span class="content">so are my ways higher than your ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.55.9"><span class="content">and my thoughts than your thoughts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.55.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">As the rain and the snow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">come down from heaven,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">and do not return to it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">without watering the earth</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">and making it bud and flourish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">so is my word that goes out from my mouth:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="content">It will not return to me empty,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="content">but will accomplish what I desire</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="content">and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You will go out in joy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">and be led forth in peace;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">the mountains and hills</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">will burst into song before you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">and all the trees of the field</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">will clap their hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="content">and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="content">This will be for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s renown,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="content">for an everlasting sign,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="content">that will endure forever.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkISA">
      <div class="chapter ch56" data-usfm="ISA.56">
         <div class="label">56</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Salvation for Others</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.56.1"><span class="label">1</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 v1" data-usfm="ISA.56.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Maintain justice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.56.1"><span class="content">and do what is right,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.56.1"><span class="content">for my salvation is close at hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.56.1"><span class="content">and my righteousness will soon be revealed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.56.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.56.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Blessed is the one who does this&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.56.2"><span class="content">the person who holds it fast,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.56.2"><span class="content">who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.56.2"><span class="content">and keeps their hands from doing any evil.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.56.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.56.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Let no foreigner who is bound to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.56.3"><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will surely exclude me from his people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.56.3"><span class="content">And let no eunuch complain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.56.3"><span class="content">&#8220;I am only a dry tree.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.56.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.56.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For 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 v4" data-usfm="ISA.56.4"><span class="content">&#8220;To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.56.4"><span class="content">who choose what pleases me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.56.4"><span class="content">and hold fast to my covenant&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.56.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.56.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">to them I will give within my temple and its walls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.56.5"><span class="content">a memorial and a name</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.56.5"><span class="content">better than sons and daughters;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.56.5"><span class="content">I will give them an everlasting name</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.56.5"><span class="content">that will endure forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.56.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.56.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And foreigners who bind themselves to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.56.6"><span class="content">to minister to him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.56.6"><span class="content">to love the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.56.6"><span class="content">and to be his servants,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.56.6"><span class="content">all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.56.6"><span class="content">and who hold fast to my covenant&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.56.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.56.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">these I will bring to my holy mountain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.56.7"><span class="content">and give them joy in my house of prayer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.56.7"><span class="content">Their burnt offerings and sacrifices</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.56.7"><span class="content">will be accepted on my altar;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.56.7"><span class="content">for my house will be called</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.56.7"><span class="content">a house of prayer for all nations.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.56.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.56.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> declares&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.56.8"><span class="content">he who gathers the exiles of Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.56.8"><span class="content">&#8220;I will gather still others to them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.56.8"><span class="content">besides those already gathered.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Accusation Against the Wicked</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.56.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.56.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Come, all you beasts of the field,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.56.9"><span class="content">come and devour, all you beasts of the forest!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.56.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.56.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Israel&#8217;s watchmen are blind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.56.10"><span class="content">they all lack knowledge;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.56.10"><span class="content">they are all mute dogs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.56.10"><span class="content">they cannot bark;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.56.10"><span class="content">they lie around and dream,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.56.10"><span class="content">they love to sleep.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.56.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.56.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They are dogs with mighty appetites;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.56.11"><span class="content">they never have enough.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.56.11"><span class="content">They are shepherds who lack understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.56.11"><span class="content">they all turn to their own way,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.56.11"><span class="content">they seek their own gain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.56.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.56.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come,&#8221; each one cries, &#8220;let me get wine!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.56.12"><span class="content">Let us drink our fill of beer!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.56.12"><span class="content">And tomorrow will be like today,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.56.12"><span class="content">or even far better.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">57</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The righteous perish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"><span class="content">and no one takes it to heart;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"><span class="content">the devout are taken away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"><span class="content">and no one understands</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"><span class="content">that the righteous are taken away</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"><span class="content">to be spared from evil.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.57.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Those who walk uprightly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.57.2"><span class="content">enter into peace;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.57.2"><span class="content">they find rest as they lie in death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.57.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.57.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;But you&#8212;come here, you children of a sorceress,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.57.3"><span class="content">you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.57.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.57.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Who are you mocking?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.57.4"><span class="content">At whom do you sneer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.57.4"><span class="content">and stick out your tongue?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.57.4"><span class="content">Are you not a brood of rebels,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.57.4"><span class="content">the offspring of liars?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.57.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.57.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You burn with lust among the oaks</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.57.5"><span class="content">and under every spreading tree;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.57.5"><span class="content">you sacrifice your children in the ravines</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.57.5"><span class="content">and under the overhanging crags.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.57.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.57.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The idols among the smooth stones of the ravines are your portion;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.57.6"><span class="content">indeed, they are your lot.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.57.6"><span class="content">Yes, to them you have poured out drink offerings</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.57.6"><span class="content">and offered grain offerings.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.57.6"><span class="content">In view of all this, should I relent?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.57.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.57.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You have made your bed on a high and lofty hill;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.57.7"><span class="content">there you went up to offer your sacrifices.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.57.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Behind your doors and your doorposts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="content">you have put your pagan symbols.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="content">Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="content">you climbed into it and opened it wide;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="content">you made a pact with those whose beds you love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="content">and you looked with lust on their naked bodies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.57.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You went to Molek</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">57:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">to the king</span></span></span><span class="content"> with olive oil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.57.9"><span class="content">and increased your perfumes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.57.9"><span class="content">You sent your ambassadors</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">57:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">idols</span></span></span><span class="content"> far away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.57.9"><span class="content">you descended to the very realm of the dead!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.57.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.57.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You wearied yourself by such going about,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.57.10"><span class="content">but you would not say, &#8216;It is hopeless.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.57.10"><span class="content">You found renewal of your strength,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.57.10"><span class="content">and so you did not faint.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.57.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Whom have you so dreaded and feared</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="content">that you have not been true to me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="content">and have neither remembered me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="content">nor taken this to heart?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="content">Is it not because I have long been silent</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="content">that you do not fear me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.57.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I will expose your righteousness and your works,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.57.12"><span class="content">and they will not benefit you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.57.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When you cry out for help,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">let your collection of idols save you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">The wind will carry all of them off,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">a mere breath will blow them away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">But whoever takes refuge in me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">will inherit the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">and possess my holy mountain.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Comfort for the Contrite</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.57.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And it will be said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.57.14"><span class="content">&#8220;Build up, build up, prepare the road!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.57.14"><span class="content">Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.57.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For this is what the high and exalted One says&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">he who lives forever, whose name is holy:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">&#8220;I live in a high and holy place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">to revive the spirit of the lowly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">and to revive the heart of the contrite.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I will not accuse them forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"><span class="content">nor will I always be angry,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"><span class="content">for then they would faint away because of me&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"><span class="content">the very people I have created.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.57.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I was enraged by their sinful greed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.57.17"><span class="content">I punished them, and hid my face in anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.57.17"><span class="content">yet they kept on in their willful ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.57.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.57.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I have seen their ways, but I will heal them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.57.18"><span class="content">I will guide them and restore comfort to Israel&#8217;s mourners,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.57.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.57.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">creating praise on their lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.57.19"><span class="content">Peace, peace, to those far and near,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.57.19"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. &#8220;And I will heal them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.57.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.57.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But the wicked are like the tossing sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.57.20"><span class="content">which cannot rest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.57.20"><span class="content">whose waves cast up mire and mud.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.57.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.57.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;There is no peace,&#8221; says my God, &#8220;for the wicked.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">75</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 75</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 75:1-10 is numbered 75:2-11.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. To the tune of &#8220;Do Not Destroy.&#8221; A psalm of Asaph. A song.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.75.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">We praise you, God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.75.1"><span class="content">we praise you, for your Name is near;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.75.1"><span class="content">people tell of your wonderful deeds.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.75.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.75.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You say, &#8220;I choose the appointed time;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.75.2"><span class="content">it is I who judge with equity.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.75.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.75.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When the earth and all its people quake,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.75.3"><span class="content">it is I who hold its pillars firm.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">75:3 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.75.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.75.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">To the arrogant I say, &#8216;Boast no more,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.75.4"><span class="content">and to the wicked, &#8216;Do not lift up your horns.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">75:4 </span><span class="fq">Horns </span><span class="ft">here symbolize strength; also in verses 5 and 10.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.75.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.75.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Do not lift your horns against heaven;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.75.5"><span class="content">do not speak so defiantly.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.75.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.75.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">No one from the east or the west</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.75.6"><span class="content">or from the desert can exalt themselves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.75.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.75.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">It is God who judges:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.75.7"><span class="content">He brings one down, he exalts another.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.75.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.75.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In the hand of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is a cup</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.75.8"><span class="content">full of foaming wine mixed with spices;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.75.8"><span class="content">he pours it out, and all the wicked of the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.75.8"><span class="content">drink it down to its very dregs.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.75.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.75.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">As for me, I will declare this forever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.75.9"><span class="content">I will sing praise to the God of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.75.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.75.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">who says, &#8220;I will cut off the horns of all the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.75.10"><span class="content">but the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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