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The Wonder of the Wilderness

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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="book bkISA">
      <div class="chapter ch7" data-usfm="ISA.7">
         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Sign of Immanuel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now the house of David was told, &#8220;Aram has allied itself with</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">has set up camp in</span></span></span><span class="content"> Ephraim&#8221;; so the hearts of Ahaz and his people were shaken, as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Isaiah, &#8220;Go out, you and your son Shear-Jashub,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:3 </span><span class="fq">Shear-Jashub </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">a remnant will return.</span></span></span><span class="content"> to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer&#8217;s Field. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Say to him, &#8216;Be careful, keep calm and don&#8217;t be afraid. Do not lose heart because of these two smoldering stubs of firewood&#8212;because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Aram, Ephraim and Remaliah&#8217;s son have plotted your ruin, saying, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Let us invade Judah; let us tear it apart and divide it among ourselves, and make the son of Tabeel king over it.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Yet this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.7.7"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;It will not take place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.7.7"><span class="content">it will not happen,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">for the head of Aram is Damascus,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.7.8"><span class="content">and the head of Damascus is only Rezin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.7.8"><span class="content">Within sixty-five years</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.7.8"><span class="content">Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The head of Ephraim is Samaria,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.7.9"><span class="content">and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah&#8217;s son.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.7.9"><span class="content">If you do not stand firm in your faith,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.7.9"><span class="content">you will not stand at all.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Again the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke to Ahaz, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Ask the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God for a sign, whether in the deepest depths or in the highest heights.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But Ahaz said, &#8220;I will not ask; I will not put the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to the test.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then Isaiah said, &#8220;Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of humans? Will you try the patience of my God also? </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Therefore the Lord himself will give you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:14 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is plural.</span></span></span><span class="content"> a sign: The virgin</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">young woman</span></span></span><span class="content"> will conceive and give birth to a son, and</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:14 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls </span><span class="fqa">son, and he </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">son, and they</span></span></span><span class="content"> will call him Immanuel.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:14 </span><span class="fq">Immanuel </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">God with us.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He will be eating curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">for before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since Ephraim broke away from Judah&#8212;he will bring the king of Assyria.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Assyria, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Instrument</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.7.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">In that day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will whistle for flies from the Nile delta in Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">They will all come and settle in the steep ravines and in the crevices in the rocks, on all the thornbushes and at all the water holes. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">In that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River&#8212;the king of Assyria&#8212;to shave your heads and private parts, and to cut off your beards also. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">In that day, a person will keep alive a young cow and two goats. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">And because of the abundance of the milk they give, there will be curds to eat. All who remain in the land will eat curds and honey. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">In that day, in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:23 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> there will be only briers and thorns. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As for all the hills once cultivated by the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns; they will become places where cattle are turned loose and where sheep run.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkISA">
      <div class="chapter ch8" data-usfm="ISA.8">
         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Isaiah and His Children as Signs</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:1 </span><span class="fq">Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 3.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So I called in Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah as reliable witnesses for me. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then I made love to the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For before the boy knows how to say &#8216;My father&#8217; or &#8216;My mother,&#8217; the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke to me again:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Because this people has rejected</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.8.6"><span class="content">the gently flowing waters of Shiloah</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.8.6"><span class="content">and rejoices over Rezin</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.8.6"><span class="content">and the son of Remaliah,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">therefore the Lord is about to bring against them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.8.7"><span class="content">the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.8.7"><span class="content">the king of Assyria with all his pomp.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.8.7"><span class="content">It will overflow all its channels,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.8.7"><span class="content">run over all its banks</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.8.8"><span class="content">passing through it and reaching up to the neck.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.8.8"><span class="content">Its outspread wings will cover the breadth of your land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.8.8"><span class="content">Immanuel</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:8 </span><span class="fq">Immanuel </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">God with us.</span></span></span><span class="content">!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Raise the war cry,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Do your worst</span></span></span><span class="content"> you nations, and be shattered!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.8.9"><span class="content">Listen, all you distant lands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.8.9"><span class="content">Prepare for battle, and be shattered!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.8.9"><span class="content">Prepare for battle, and be shattered!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.8.10"><span class="content">propose your plan, but it will not stand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.8.10"><span class="content">for God is with us.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:10 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Immanuel</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.8.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way of this people:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not call conspiracy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.8.12"><span class="content">everything this people calls a conspiracy;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.8.12"><span class="content">do not fear what they fear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.8.12"><span class="content">and do not dread it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.8.13"><span class="content">he is the one you are to fear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.8.13"><span class="content">he is the one you are to dread.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He will be a holy place;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="content">for both Israel and Judah he will be</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="content">a stone that causes people to stumble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="content">and a rock that makes them fall.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="content">And for the people of Jerusalem he will be</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="content">a trap and a snare.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Many of them will stumble;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.8.15"><span class="content">they will fall and be broken,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.8.15"><span class="content">they will be snared and captured.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.8.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Bind up this testimony of warning</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.8.16"><span class="content">and seal up God&#8217;s instruction among my disciples.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.8.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I will wait for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.8.17"><span class="content">who is hiding his face from the descendants of Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.8.17"><span class="content">I will put my trust in him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.8.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Here am I, and the children the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Darkness Turns to Light</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.8.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When someone tells you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Consult God&#8217;s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Distressed and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">133</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 133</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A song of ascents. Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.133.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">How good and pleasant it is</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.133.1"><span class="content">when God&#8217;s people live together in unity!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.133.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.133.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">It is like precious oil poured on the head,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.133.2"><span class="content">running down on the beard,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.133.2"><span class="content">running down on Aaron&#8217;s beard,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.133.2"><span class="content">down on the collar of his robe.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.133.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.133.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">It is as if the dew of Hermon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.133.3"><span class="content">were falling on Mount Zion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.133.3"><span class="content">For there the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> bestows his blessing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.133.3"><span class="content">even life forevermore.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Collection for the Lord&#8217;s People</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">And now, brothers and sisters, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the Macedonian churches. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">In the midst of a very severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For I testify that they gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability. Entirely on their own, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the Lord&#8217;s people. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And they exceeded our expectations: They gave themselves first of all to the Lord, and then by the will of God also to us. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So we urged Titus, just as he had earlier made a beginning, to bring also to completion this act of grace on your part. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But since you excel in everything&#8212;in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in the love we have kindled in you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:7 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">and in your love for us</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;see that you also excel in this grace of giving.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CO.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And here is my judgment about what is best for you in this matter. Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. The goal is equality, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">as it is written: &#8220;The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:15 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 16:18</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Titus Sent to Receive the Collection</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.8.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same concern I have for you. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For Titus not only welcomed our appeal, but he is coming to you with much enthusiasm and on his own initiative. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And we are sending along with him the brother who is praised by all the churches for his service to the gospel. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CO.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">What is more, he was chosen by the churches to accompany us as we carry the offering, which we administer in order to honor the Lord himself and to show our eagerness to help. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CO.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">We want to avoid any criticism of the way we administer this liberal gift. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CO.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For we are taking pains to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord but also in the eyes of man.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CO.8.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CO.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">In addition, we are sending with them our brother who has often proved to us in many ways that he is zealous, and now even more so because of his great confidence in you. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CO.8.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">As for Titus, he is my partner and co-worker among you; as for our brothers, they are representatives of the churches and an honor to Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CO.8.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Therefore show these men the proof of your love and the reason for our pride in you, so that the churches can see it.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">There is no need for me to write to you about this service to the Lord&#8217;s people. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting about it to the Macedonians, telling them that since last year you in Achaia were ready to give; and your enthusiasm has stirred most of them to action. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove hollow, but that you may be ready, as I said you would be. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we&#8212;not to say anything about you&#8212;would be ashamed of having been so confident. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to visit you in advance and finish the arrangements for the generous gift you had promised. Then it will be ready as a generous gift, not as one grudgingly given.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Generosity Encouraged</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CO.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">As it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.9.9"><span class="content">&#8220;They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.9.9"><span class="content">their righteousness endures forever.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:9 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 112:9</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of the Lord&#8217;s people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, others will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And in their prayers for you their hearts will go out to you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!</span></span></div>
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