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Philippians

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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Moral Benefits of Wisdom</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My son, if you accept my words</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.2.1"><span class="content">and store up my commands within you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.2.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">turning your ear to wisdom</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.2.2"><span class="content">and applying your heart to understanding&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.2.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">indeed, if you call out for insight</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.2.3"><span class="content">and cry aloud for understanding,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">and if you look for it as for silver</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.2.4"><span class="content">and search for it as for hidden treasure,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">then you will understand the fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.2.5"><span class="content">and find the knowledge of God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gives wisdom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.2.6"><span class="content">from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He holds success in store for the upright,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.2.7"><span class="content">he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">for he guards the course of the just</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.2.8"><span class="content">and protects the way of his faithful ones.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then you will understand what is right and just</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.2.9"><span class="content">and fair&#8212;every good path.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For wisdom will enter your heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.2.10"><span class="content">and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Discretion will protect you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.2.11"><span class="content">and understanding will guard you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.2.12"><span class="content">from men whose words are perverse,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">who have left the straight paths</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.2.13"><span class="content">to walk in dark ways,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">who delight in doing wrong</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.2.14"><span class="content">and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.2.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">whose paths are crooked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.2.15"><span class="content">and who are devious in their ways.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.2.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.2.16"><span class="content">from the wayward woman with her seductive words,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">who has left the partner of her youth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.2.17"><span class="content">and ignored the covenant she made before God.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">covenant of her God</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.2.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Surely her house leads down to death</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.2.18"><span class="content">and her paths to the spirits of the dead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.2.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">None who go to her return</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.2.19"><span class="content">or attain the paths of life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.2.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Thus you will walk in the ways of the good</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.2.20"><span class="content">and keep to the paths of the righteous.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.2.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For the upright will live in the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.2.21"><span class="content">and the blameless will remain in it;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.2.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">but the wicked will be cut off from the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.2.22"><span class="content">and the unfaithful will be torn from it.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">36</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.36.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah&#8217;s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.36.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then the king of Assyria sent his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. When the commander stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer&#8217;s Field, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.36.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.36.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.36.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The field commander said to them, &#8220;Tell Hezekiah:</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.36.4"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours? </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.36.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You say you have counsel and might for war&#8212;but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me? </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.36.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.36.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But if you say to me, &#8220;We are depending on the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God&#8221;&#8212;isn&#8217;t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, &#8220;You must worship before this altar&#8221;?</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.36.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.36.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses&#8212;if you can put riders on them! </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.36.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">How then can you repulse one officer of the least of my master&#8217;s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">36:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">charioteers</span></span></span><span class="content">? </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.36.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this land without the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">? The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.36.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.36.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, &#8220;Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don&#8217;t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.36.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.36.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But the commander replied, &#8220;Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall&#8212;who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.36.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.36.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, &#8220;Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.36.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. He cannot deliver you! </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.36.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> when he says, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.36.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.36.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree and drink water from your own cistern, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.36.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">until I come and take you to a land like your own&#8212;a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.36.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.36.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will deliver us.&#8217; Have the gods of any nations ever delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria? </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.36.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand? </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.36.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Who of all the gods of these countries have been able to save their lands from me? How then can the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> deliver Jerusalem from my hand?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.36.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.36.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, &#8220;Do not answer him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.36.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.36.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn, and told him what the field commander had said.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">38</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hezekiah&#8217;s Illness</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.38.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.38.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.38.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.38.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Remember, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.&#8221; And Hezekiah wept bitterly.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.38.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.38.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to Isaiah: </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.38.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go and tell Hezekiah, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.38.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.38.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.38.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;This is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s sign to you that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will do what he has promised: </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.38.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.38.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.38.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.38.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I said, &#8220;In the prime of my life</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="content">must I go through the gates of death</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="content">and be robbed of the rest of my years?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.38.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I said, &#8220;I will not again see the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> himself</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="content">in the land of the living;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="content">no longer will I look on my fellow man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="content">or be with those who now dwell in this world.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.38.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Like a shepherd&#8217;s tent my house</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">has been pulled down and taken from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">Like a weaver I have rolled up my life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">and he has cut me off from the loom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">day and night you made an end of me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.38.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.38.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I waited patiently till dawn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.38.13"><span class="content">but like a lion he broke all my bones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.38.13"><span class="content">day and night you made an end of me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.38.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I cried like a swift or thrush,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="content">I moaned like a mourning dove.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="content">My eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="content">I am being threatened; Lord, come to my aid!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.38.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But what can I say?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="content">He has spoken to me, and he himself has done this.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="content">I will walk humbly all my years</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="content">because of this anguish of my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.38.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Lord, by such things people live;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="content">and my spirit finds life in them too.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="content">You restored me to health</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="content">and let me live.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.38.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Surely it was for my benefit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">that I suffered such anguish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">In your love you kept me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">from the pit of destruction;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">you have put all my sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">behind your back.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.38.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For the grave cannot praise you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="content">death cannot sing your praise;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="content">those who go down to the pit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="content">cannot hope for your faithfulness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.38.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The living, the living&#8212;they praise you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="content">as I am doing today;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="content">parents tell their children</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="content">about your faithfulness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.38.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will save me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="content">and we will sing with stringed instruments</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="content">all the days of our lives</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="content">in the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.38.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.38.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Isaiah had said, &#8220;Prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.38.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.38.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Hezekiah had asked, &#8220;What will be the sign that I will go up to the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">39</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Envoys From Babylon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.39.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">At that time Marduk-Baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent Hezekiah letters and a gift, because he had heard of his illness and recovery. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.39.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Hezekiah received the envoys gladly and showed them what was in his storehouses&#8212;the silver, the gold, the spices, the fine olive oil&#8212;his entire armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.39.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.39.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked, &#8220;What did those men say, and where did they come from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.39.3"><span class="content">&#8220;From a distant land,&#8221; Hezekiah replied. &#8220;They came to me from Babylon.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.39.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.39.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The prophet asked, &#8220;What did they see in your palace?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.39.4"><span class="content">&#8220;They saw everything in my palace,&#8221; Hezekiah said. &#8220;There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.39.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.39.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, &#8220;Hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty: </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.39.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.39.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.39.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.39.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> you have spoken is good,&#8221; Hezekiah replied. For he thought, &#8220;There will be peace and security in my lifetime.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Closing Appeal for Steadfastness and Unity</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PHP.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, dear friends!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PHP.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PHP.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I plead with Euodia and I plead with Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PHP.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Yes, and I ask you, my true companion, help these women since they have contended at my side in the cause of the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my co-workers, whose names are in the book of life.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Final Exhortations</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PHP.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PHP.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PHP.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PHP.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PHP.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PHP.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PHP.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable&#8212;if anything is excellent or praiseworthy&#8212;think about such things. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PHP.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me&#8212;put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Thanks for Their Gifts</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PHP.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PHP.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I rejoiced greatly in the Lord that at last you renewed your concern for me. Indeed, you were concerned, but you had no opportunity to show it. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PHP.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PHP.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PHP.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I can do all this through him who gives me strength.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PHP.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PHP.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Yet it was good of you to share in my troubles. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PHP.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Moreover, as you Philippians know, in the early days of your acquaintance with the gospel, when I set out from Macedonia, not one church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving, except you only; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PHP.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">for even when I was in Thessalonica, you sent me aid more than once when I was in need. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PHP.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Not that I desire your gifts; what I desire is that more be credited to your account. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PHP.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I have received full payment and have more than enough. I am amply supplied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PHP.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PHP.4.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PHP.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">To our God and Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Final Greetings</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PHP.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PHP.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Greet all God&#8217;s people in Christ Jesus. The brothers and sisters who are with me send greetings. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PHP.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">All God&#8217;s people here send you greetings, especially those who belong to Caesar&#8217;s household.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PHP.4.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PHP.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:23 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts do not have </span><span class="fq">Amen</span><span class="ft">.</span></span></span></span></div>
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