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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkISA">
        <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="ISA.6">
            <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Isaiah&#8217;s Commission</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And they were calling to one another:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.6.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Holy, holy, holy is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.6.3"><span class="content">the whole earth is full of his glory.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Woe to me!&#8221; I cried. &#8220;I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">With it he touched my mouth and said, &#8220;See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, &#8220;Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.6.8"><span class="content">And I said, &#8220;Here am I. Send me!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;Go and tell this people:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.6.9"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Be ever hearing, but never understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.6.9"><span class="content">be ever seeing, but never perceiving.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Make the heart of this people calloused;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">make their ears dull</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">and close their eyes.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:9,10 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">&#8216;You will be ever hearing, but never understanding; / you will be ever seeing, but never perceiving.&#8217; / </span><span class="fv">10 </span><span class="fqa">This people&#8217;s heart has become calloused; / they hardly hear with their ears, / and they have closed their eyes</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">Otherwise they might see with their eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">hear with their ears,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">understand with their hearts,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">and turn and be healed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then I said, &#8220;For how long, Lord?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">And he answered:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Until the cities lie ruined</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">and without inhabitant,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">until the houses are left deserted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">and the fields ruined and ravaged,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">until the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has sent everyone far away</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.6.12"><span class="content">and the land is utterly forsaken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And though a tenth remains in the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="content">it will again be laid waste.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="content">But as the terebinth and oak</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="content">leave stumps when they are cut down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="content">so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bk1PE">
        <div class="chapter ch2" data-usfm="1PE.2.4+1PE.2.5+1PE.2.6+1PE.2.7+1PE.2.8+1PE.2.9+1PE.2.10">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1PE.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">As you come to him, the living Stone&#8212;rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1PE.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">into a temple of the Spirit</span></span></span><span class="content"> to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For in Scripture it says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="content">&#8220;See, I lay a stone in Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="content">a chosen and precious cornerstone,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="content">and the one who trusts in him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="content">will never be put to shame.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:6 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 28:16</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.2.7"><span class="content">&#8220;The stone the builders rejected</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.2.7"><span class="content">has become the cornerstone,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:7 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 118:22</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"><span class="content">&#8220;A stone that causes people to stumble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"><span class="content">and a rock that makes them fall.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:8 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 8:14</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"><span class="content">They stumble because they disobey the message&#8212;which is also what they were destined for.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1PE.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God&#8217;s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1PE.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.</span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkEXO">
        <div class="chapter ch34" data-usfm="EXO.34.33+EXO.34.34+EXO.34.35">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EXO.34.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">When Moses finished speaking to them, he put a veil over his face. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EXO.34.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">But whenever he entered the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s presence to speak with him, he removed the veil until he came out. And when he came out and told the Israelites what he had been commanded, </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="EXO.34.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">they saw that his face was radiant. Then Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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