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         <div class="label">55</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 55</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 55:1-23 is numbered 55:2-24.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.55.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Listen to my prayer, O God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.55.1"><span class="content">do not ignore my plea;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.55.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.55.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">hear me and answer me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.55.2"><span class="content">My thoughts trouble me and I am distraught</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.55.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.55.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">because of what my enemy is saying,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.55.3"><span class="content">because of the threats of the wicked;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.55.3"><span class="content">for they bring down suffering on me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.55.3"><span class="content">and assail me in their anger.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.55.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.55.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">My heart is in anguish within me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.55.4"><span class="content">the terrors of death have fallen on me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.55.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.55.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Fear and trembling have beset me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.55.5"><span class="content">horror has overwhelmed me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.55.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.55.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I said, &#8220;Oh, that I had the wings of a dove!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.55.6"><span class="content">I would fly away and be at rest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.55.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.55.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I would flee far away</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.55.7"><span class="content">and stay in the desert;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">55:7 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and in the middle of verse 19.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.55.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.55.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I would hurry to my place of shelter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.55.8"><span class="content">far from the tempest and storm.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.55.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.55.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Lord, confuse the wicked, confound their words,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.55.9"><span class="content">for I see violence and strife in the city.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.55.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.55.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Day and night they prowl about on its walls;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.55.10"><span class="content">malice and abuse are within it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.55.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.55.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Destructive forces are at work in the city;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.55.11"><span class="content">threats and lies never leave its streets.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.55.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.55.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If an enemy were insulting me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.55.12"><span class="content">I could endure it;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.55.12"><span class="content">if a foe were rising against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.55.12"><span class="content">I could hide.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.55.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.55.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But it is you, a man like myself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.55.13"><span class="content">my companion, my close friend,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.55.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.55.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.55.14"><span class="content">at the house of God,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.55.14"><span class="content">as we walked about</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.55.14"><span class="content">among the worshipers.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.55.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.55.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Let death take my enemies by surprise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.55.15"><span class="content">let them go down alive to the realm of the dead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.55.15"><span class="content">for evil finds lodging among them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.55.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.55.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">As for me, I call to God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.55.16"><span class="content">and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> saves me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.55.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.55.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Evening, morning and noon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.55.17"><span class="content">I cry out in distress,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.55.17"><span class="content">and he hears my voice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.55.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.55.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He rescues me unharmed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.55.18"><span class="content">from the battle waged against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.55.18"><span class="content">even though many oppose me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.55.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.55.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">God, who is enthroned from of old,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.55.19"><span class="content">who does not change&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.55.19"><span class="content">he will hear them and humble them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.55.19"><span class="content">because they have no fear of God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.55.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.55.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">My companion attacks his friends;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.55.20"><span class="content">he violates his covenant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.55.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.55.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">His talk is smooth as butter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.55.21"><span class="content">yet war is in his heart;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.55.21"><span class="content">his words are more soothing than oil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.55.21"><span class="content">yet they are drawn swords.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.55.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.55.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Cast your cares on the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.55.22"><span class="content">and he will sustain you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.55.22"><span class="content">he will never let</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.55.22"><span class="content">the righteous be shaken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.55.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.55.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But you, God, will bring down the wicked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.55.23"><span class="content">into the pit of decay;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.55.23"><span class="content">the bloodthirsty and deceitful</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.55.23"><span class="content">will not live out half their days.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.55.23"><span class="content">But as for me, I trust in you.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">138</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 138</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.138.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I will praise you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, with all my heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.138.1"><span class="content">before the &#8220;gods&#8221; I will sing your praise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.138.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.138.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I will bow down toward your holy temple</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.138.2"><span class="content">and will praise your name</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.138.2"><span class="content">for your unfailing love and your faithfulness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.138.2"><span class="content">for you have so exalted your solemn decree</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.138.2"><span class="content">that it surpasses your fame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.138.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.138.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When I called, you answered me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.138.3"><span class="content">you greatly emboldened me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.138.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.138.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">May all the kings of the earth praise you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.138.4"><span class="content">when they hear what you have decreed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.138.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.138.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">May they sing of the ways of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.138.5"><span class="content">for the glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is great.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.138.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.138.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Though the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is exalted, he looks kindly on the lowly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.138.6"><span class="content">though lofty, he sees them from afar.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.138.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.138.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Though I walk in the midst of trouble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.138.7"><span class="content">you preserve my life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.138.7"><span class="content">You stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.138.7"><span class="content">with your right hand you save me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.138.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.138.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will vindicate me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.138.8"><span class="content">your love, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, endures forever&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.138.8"><span class="content">do not abandon the works of your hands.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch139" data-usfm="PSA.139.1+PSA.139.2+PSA.139.3+PSA.139.4+PSA.139.5+PSA.139.6+PSA.139.7+PSA.139.8+PSA.139.9+PSA.139.10+PSA.139.11+PSA.139.12+PSA.139.13+PSA.139.14+PSA.139.15+PSA.139.16+PSA.139.17">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.139.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">You have searched me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.139.1"><span class="content">and you know me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.139.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.139.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You know when I sit and when I rise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.139.2"><span class="content">you perceive my thoughts from afar.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.139.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.139.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You discern my going out and my lying down;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.139.3"><span class="content">you are familiar with all my ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.139.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.139.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Before a word is on my tongue</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.139.4"><span class="content">you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, know it completely.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.139.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.139.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You hem me in behind and before,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.139.5"><span class="content">and you lay your hand upon me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.139.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.139.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.139.6"><span class="content">too lofty for me to attain.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.139.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.139.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Where can I go from your Spirit?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.139.7"><span class="content">Where can I flee from your presence?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.139.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.139.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If I go up to the heavens, you are there;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.139.8"><span class="content">if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.139.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.139.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If I rise on the wings of the dawn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.139.9"><span class="content">if I settle on the far side of the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.139.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.139.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">even there your hand will guide me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.139.10"><span class="content">your right hand will hold me fast.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.139.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.139.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">If I say, &#8220;Surely the darkness will hide me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.139.11"><span class="content">and the light become night around me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.139.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.139.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">even the darkness will not be dark to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.139.12"><span class="content">the night will shine like the day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.139.12"><span class="content">for darkness is as light to you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.139.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.139.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For you created my inmost being;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.139.13"><span class="content">you knit me together in my mother&#8217;s womb.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.139.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.139.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.139.14"><span class="content">your works are wonderful,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.139.14"><span class="content">I know that full well.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.139.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.139.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My frame was not hidden from you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.139.15"><span class="content">when I was made in the secret place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.139.15"><span class="content">when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.139.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Your eyes saw my unformed body;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="content">all the days ordained for me were written in your book</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="content">before one of them came to be.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.139.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">How precious to me are your thoughts,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">139:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">How amazing are your thoughts concerning me</span></span></span><span class="content"> God!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.139.17"><span class="content">How vast is the sum of them!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.139.17"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch139" data-usfm="PSA.139.18+PSA.139.19+PSA.139.20+PSA.139.21+PSA.139.22+PSA.139.23">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.139.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Were I to count them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.139.18"><span class="content">they would outnumber the grains of sand&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.139.18"><span class="content">when I awake, I am still with you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.139.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.139.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">If only you, God, would slay the wicked!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.139.19"><span class="content">Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.139.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.139.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They speak of you with evil intent;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.139.20"><span class="content">your adversaries misuse your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.139.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.139.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Do I not hate those who hate you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.139.21"><span class="content">and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.139.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.139.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I have nothing but hatred for them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.139.22"><span class="content">I count them my enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.139.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.139.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Search me, God, and know my heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.139.23"><span class="content">test me and know my anxious thoughts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.139.23"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch41" data-usfm="GEN.41.1+GEN.41.2+GEN.41.3+GEN.41.4+GEN.41.5+GEN.41.6+GEN.41.7+GEN.41.8+GEN.41.9+GEN.41.10+GEN.41.11+GEN.41.12+GEN.41.13">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.41.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing by the Nile, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.41.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">when out of the river there came up seven cows, sleek and fat, and they grazed among the reeds. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.41.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">After them, seven other cows, ugly and gaunt, came up out of the Nile and stood beside those on the riverbank. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.41.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven sleek, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.41.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.41.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He fell asleep again and had a second dream: Seven heads of grain, healthy and good, were growing on a single stalk. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.41.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted&#8212;thin and scorched by the east wind. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.41.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy, full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up; it had been a dream.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.41.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.41.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In the morning his mind was troubled, so he sent for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.41.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.41.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, &#8220;Today I am reminded of my shortcomings. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.41.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Pharaoh was once angry with his servants, and he imprisoned me and the chief baker in the house of the captain of the guard. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.41.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Each of us had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.41.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams, and he interpreted them for us, giving each man the interpretation of his dream. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.41.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And things turned out exactly as he interpreted them to us: I was restored to my position, and the other man was impaled.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.41.13"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch4" data-usfm="1CO.4.1+1CO.4.2+1CO.4.3+1CO.4.4+1CO.4.5+1CO.4.6+1CO.4.7">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now, brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, &#8220;Do not go beyond what is written.&#8221; Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over against the other. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch2" data-usfm="MRK.2.23+MRK.2.24+MRK.2.25+MRK.2.26+MRK.2.27+MRK.2.28">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The Pharisees said to him, &#8220;Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.2.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.2.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.2.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">In the days of Abiathar the high priest, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.2.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.2.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Then he said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.2.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch3" data-usfm="MRK.3.1+MRK.3.2+MRK.3.3+MRK.3.4+MRK.3.5+MRK.3.6">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Another time Jesus went into the synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Some of them were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Jesus said to the man with the shriveled hand, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Stand up in front of everyone.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then Jesus asked them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> But they remained silent.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Stretch out your hand.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.</span></span></div>
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