Renewing Your Heart for Ministry

Essential and Unshakable

Change My Mind - Standing With Jesus in a Confusing World

Christ Over Everything - Colossians

I'm Just a Guy: Who's Angry

Knowing God: Pray Through His Attributes

Finding Strength in Stillness

No More Mr. Nice Guy: Saying Goodbye to Doormat Christianity

Praying the Psalms

With God in Every Breath

New International Version

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      <div class="chapter ch40" data-usfm="JOB.40.1+JOB.40.2+JOB.40.3+JOB.40.4+JOB.40.5+JOB.40.6+JOB.40.7+JOB.40.8+JOB.40.9+JOB.40.10+JOB.40.11+JOB.40.12+JOB.40.13+JOB.40.14+JOB.40.15+JOB.40.16+JOB.40.17+JOB.40.18+JOB.40.19+JOB.40.20+JOB.40.21+JOB.40.22+JOB.40.23+JOB.40.24">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.40.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Job:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.40.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.40.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.40.2"><span class="content">Let him who accuses God answer him!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.40.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.40.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then Job answered the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.40.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.40.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;I am unworthy&#8212;how can I reply to you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.40.4"><span class="content">I put my hand over my mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.40.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.40.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I spoke once, but I have no answer&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.40.5"><span class="content">twice, but I will say no more.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.40.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.40.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke to Job out of the storm:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.40.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.40.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Brace yourself like a man;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.40.7"><span class="content">I will question you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.40.7"><span class="content">and you shall answer me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.40.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.40.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Would you discredit my justice?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.40.8"><span class="content">Would you condemn me to justify yourself?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.40.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.40.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Do you have an arm like God&#8217;s,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.40.9"><span class="content">and can your voice thunder like his?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.40.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.40.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then adorn yourself with glory and splendor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.40.10"><span class="content">and clothe yourself in honor and majesty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.40.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.40.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Unleash the fury of your wrath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.40.11"><span class="content">look at all who are proud and bring them low,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.40.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.40.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">look at all who are proud and humble them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.40.12"><span class="content">crush the wicked where they stand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.40.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.40.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Bury them all in the dust together;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.40.13"><span class="content">shroud their faces in the grave.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.40.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.40.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then I myself will admit to you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.40.14"><span class="content">that your own right hand can save you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.40.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.40.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Look at Behemoth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.40.15"><span class="content">which I made along with you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.40.15"><span class="content">and which feeds on grass like an ox.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.40.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.40.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">What strength it has in its loins,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.40.16"><span class="content">what power in the muscles of its belly!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.40.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.40.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Its tail sways like a cedar;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.40.17"><span class="content">the sinews of its thighs are close-knit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.40.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.40.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Its bones are tubes of bronze,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.40.18"><span class="content">its limbs like rods of iron.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.40.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.40.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">It ranks first among the works of God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.40.19"><span class="content">yet its Maker can approach it with his sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.40.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.40.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The hills bring it their produce,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.40.20"><span class="content">and all the wild animals play nearby.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.40.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.40.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Under the lotus plants it lies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.40.21"><span class="content">hidden among the reeds in the marsh.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.40.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.40.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The lotuses conceal it in their shadow;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.40.22"><span class="content">the poplars by the stream surround it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.40.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.40.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">A raging river does not alarm it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.40.23"><span class="content">it is secure, though the Jordan should surge against its mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.40.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.40.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Can anyone capture it by the eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.40.24"><span class="content">or trap it and pierce its nose?</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch41" data-usfm="JOB.41.1+JOB.41.2+JOB.41.3+JOB.41.4+JOB.41.5+JOB.41.6+JOB.41.7+JOB.41.8+JOB.41.9+JOB.41.10+JOB.41.11+JOB.41.12+JOB.41.13+JOB.41.14+JOB.41.15+JOB.41.16+JOB.41.17+JOB.41.18+JOB.41.19+JOB.41.20+JOB.41.21+JOB.41.22+JOB.41.23+JOB.41.24+JOB.41.25+JOB.41.26+JOB.41.27+JOB.41.28+JOB.41.29+JOB.41.30+JOB.41.31+JOB.41.32+JOB.41.33+JOB.41.34">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.41.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.41.1"><span class="content">or tie down its tongue with a rope?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.41.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.41.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Can you put a cord through its nose</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.41.2"><span class="content">or pierce its jaw with a hook?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.41.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.41.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Will it keep begging you for mercy?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.41.3"><span class="content">Will it speak to you with gentle words?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.41.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.41.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Will it make an agreement with you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.41.4"><span class="content">for you to take it as your slave for life?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.41.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.41.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Can you make a pet of it like a bird</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.41.5"><span class="content">or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.41.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.41.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Will traders barter for it?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.41.6"><span class="content">Will they divide it up among the merchants?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.41.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.41.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Can you fill its hide with harpoons</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.41.7"><span class="content">or its head with fishing spears?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.41.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.41.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If you lay a hand on it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.41.8"><span class="content">you will remember the struggle and never do it again!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.41.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.41.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Any hope of subduing it is false;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.41.9"><span class="content">the mere sight of it is overpowering.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.41.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.41.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">No one is fierce enough to rouse it.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.41.10"><span class="content">Who then is able to stand against me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.41.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.41.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Who has a claim against me that I must pay?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.41.11"><span class="content">Everything under heaven belongs to me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.41.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.41.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will not fail to speak of Leviathan&#8217;s limbs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.41.12"><span class="content">its strength and its graceful form.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.41.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.41.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Who can strip off its outer coat?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.41.13"><span class="content">Who can penetrate its double coat of armor</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">41:13 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">double bridle</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.41.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.41.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Who dares open the doors of its mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.41.14"><span class="content">ringed about with fearsome teeth?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.41.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.41.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Its back has</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">41:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Its pride is its</span></span></span><span class="content"> rows of shields</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.41.15"><span class="content">tightly sealed together;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.41.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.41.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">each is so close to the next</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.41.16"><span class="content">that no air can pass between.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.41.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.41.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">They are joined fast to one another;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.41.17"><span class="content">they cling together and cannot be parted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.41.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.41.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Its snorting throws out flashes of light;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.41.18"><span class="content">its eyes are like the rays of dawn.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.41.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.41.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Flames stream from its mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.41.19"><span class="content">sparks of fire shoot out.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.41.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.41.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Smoke pours from its nostrils</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.41.20"><span class="content">as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.41.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.41.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Its breath sets coals ablaze,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.41.21"><span class="content">and flames dart from its mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.41.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.41.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Strength resides in its neck;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.41.22"><span class="content">dismay goes before it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.41.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.41.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The folds of its flesh are tightly joined;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.41.23"><span class="content">they are firm and immovable.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.41.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.41.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Its chest is hard as rock,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.41.24"><span class="content">hard as a lower millstone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.41.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.41.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When it rises up, the mighty are terrified;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.41.25"><span class="content">they retreat before its thrashing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.41.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.41.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The sword that reaches it has no effect,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.41.26"><span class="content">nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.41.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.41.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Iron it treats like straw</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.41.27"><span class="content">and bronze like rotten wood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.41.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.41.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Arrows do not make it flee;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.41.28"><span class="content">slingstones are like chaff to it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.41.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.41.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">A club seems to it but a piece of straw;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.41.29"><span class="content">it laughs at the rattling of the lance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.41.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.41.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Its undersides are jagged potsherds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.41.30"><span class="content">leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.41.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.41.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.41.31"><span class="content">and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.41.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.41.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">It leaves a glistening wake behind it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.41.32"><span class="content">one would think the deep had white hair.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.41.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.41.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Nothing on earth is its equal&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.41.33"><span class="content">a creature without fear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.41.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.41.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">It looks down on all that are haughty;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.41.34"><span class="content">it is king over all that are proud.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.43.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">But now, this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.43.1"><span class="content">he who created you, Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.43.1"><span class="content">he who formed you, Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.43.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.43.1"><span class="content">I have summoned you by name; you are mine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.43.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.43.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When you pass through the waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.43.2"><span class="content">I will be with you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.43.2"><span class="content">and when you pass through the rivers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.43.2"><span class="content">they will not sweep over you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.43.2"><span class="content">When you walk through the fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.43.2"><span class="content">you will not be burned;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.43.2"><span class="content">the flames will not set you ablaze.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.43.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.43.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.43.3"><span class="content">the Holy One of Israel, your Savior;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.43.3"><span class="content">I give Egypt for your ransom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.43.3"><span class="content">Cush</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">43:3 </span><span class="ft">That is, the upper Nile region</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Seba in your stead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.43.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.43.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Since you are precious and honored in my sight,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.43.4"><span class="content">and because I love you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.43.4"><span class="content">I will give people in exchange for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.43.4"><span class="content">nations in exchange for your life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.43.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.43.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Do not be afraid, for I am with you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.43.5"><span class="content">I will bring your children from the east</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.43.5"><span class="content">and gather you from the west.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.43.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.43.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I will say to the north, &#8216;Give them up!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.43.6"><span class="content">and to the south, &#8216;Do not hold them back.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.43.6"><span class="content">Bring my sons from afar</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.43.6"><span class="content">and my daughters from the ends of the earth&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.43.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.43.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">everyone who is called by my name,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.43.7"><span class="content">whom I created for my glory,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.43.7"><span class="content">whom I formed and made.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.43.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.43.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Lead out those who have eyes but are blind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.43.8"><span class="content">who have ears but are deaf.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.43.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.43.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">All the nations gather together</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.43.9"><span class="content">and the peoples assemble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.43.9"><span class="content">Which of their gods foretold this</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.43.9"><span class="content">and proclaimed to us the former things?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.43.9"><span class="content">Let them bring in their witnesses to prove they were right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.43.9"><span class="content">so that others may hear and say, &#8220;It is true.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.43.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.43.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;You are my witnesses,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.43.10"><span class="content">&#8220;and my servant whom I have chosen,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.43.10"><span class="content">so that you may know and believe me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.43.10"><span class="content">and understand that I am he.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.43.10"><span class="content">Before me no god was formed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.43.10"><span class="content">nor will there be one after me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.43.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.43.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I, even I, am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.43.11"><span class="content">and apart from me there is no savior.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.43.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.43.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I have revealed and saved and proclaimed&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.43.12"><span class="content">I, and not some foreign god among you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.43.12"><span class="content">You are my witnesses,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;that I am God.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.43.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.43.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Yes, and from ancient days I am he.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.43.13"><span class="content">No one can deliver out of my hand.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.43.13"><span class="content">When I act, who can reverse it?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Mercy and Israel&#8217;s Unfaithfulness</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.43.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.43.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.43.14"><span class="content">your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.43.14"><span class="content">&#8220;For your sake I will send to Babylon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.43.14"><span class="content">and bring down as fugitives all the Babylonians,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">43:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.43.14"><span class="content">in the ships in which they took pride.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.43.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.43.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, your Holy One,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.43.15"><span class="content">Israel&#8217;s Creator, your King.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.43.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.43.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.43.16"><span class="content">he who made a way through the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.43.16"><span class="content">a path through the mighty waters,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.43.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.43.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">who drew out the chariots and horses,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.43.17"><span class="content">the army and reinforcements together,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.43.17"><span class="content">and they lay there, never to rise again,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.43.17"><span class="content">extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.43.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.43.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Forget the former things;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.43.18"><span class="content">do not dwell on the past.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.43.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.43.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">See, I am doing a new thing!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.43.19"><span class="content">Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.43.19"><span class="content">I am making a way in the wilderness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.43.19"><span class="content">and streams in the wasteland.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.43.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.43.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The wild animals honor me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.43.20"><span class="content">the jackals and the owls,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.43.20"><span class="content">because I provide water in the wilderness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.43.20"><span class="content">and streams in the wasteland,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.43.20"><span class="content">to give drink to my people, my chosen,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.43.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.43.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">the people I formed for myself</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.43.21"><span class="content">that they may proclaim my praise.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.43.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.43.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yet you have not called on me, Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.43.22"><span class="content">you have not wearied yourselves for</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">43:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Jacob; / surely you have grown weary of</span></span></span><span class="content"> me, Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.43.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.43.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">You have not brought me sheep for burnt offerings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.43.23"><span class="content">nor honored me with your sacrifices.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.43.23"><span class="content">I have not burdened you with grain offerings</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.43.23"><span class="content">nor wearied you with demands for incense.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.43.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.43.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">You have not bought any fragrant calamus for me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.43.24"><span class="content">or lavished on me the fat of your sacrifices.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.43.24"><span class="content">But you have burdened me with your sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.43.24"><span class="content">and wearied me with your offenses.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.43.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.43.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;I, even I, am he who blots out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.43.25"><span class="content">your transgressions, for my own sake,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.43.25"><span class="content">and remembers your sins no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.43.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.43.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Review the past for me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.43.26"><span class="content">let us argue the matter together;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.43.26"><span class="content">state the case for your innocence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.43.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.43.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Your first father sinned;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.43.27"><span class="content">those I sent to teach you rebelled against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.43.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.43.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">So I disgraced the dignitaries of your temple;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.43.28"><span class="content">I consigned Jacob to destruction</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">43:28 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, often by totally destroying them.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.43.28"><span class="content">and Israel to scorn.</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+1CO.4.8+1CO.4.9+1CO.4.10+1CO.4.11+1CO.4.12+1CO.4.13+1CO.4.14+1CO.4.15+1CO.4.16+1CO.4.17+1CO.4.18+1CO.4.19+1CO.4.20+1CO.4.21">
         <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><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! You have begun to reign&#8212;and that without us! How I wish that you really had begun to reign so that we also might reign with you! </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored! </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage of the world&#8212;right up to this moment.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Appeal and Warning</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I am writing this not to shame you but to warn you as my dear children. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Therefore I urge you to imitate me. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which agrees with what I teach everywhere in every church.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CO.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But I will come to you very soon, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only how these arrogant people are talking, but what power they have. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CO.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CO.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod of discipline, or shall I come in love and with a gentle spirit?</span></span></div>
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