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         <div class="label">42</div><div class="ms"><span class="heading">BOOK II</span></div><div class="mr"><span class="heading">  </span><span class="heading">Psalms 42&#8211;72</span></div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 42</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In many Hebrew manuscripts Psalms </span><span class="heading">42</span><span class="heading"> and </span><span class="heading">43</span><span class="heading"> constitute one psalm.</span></span></span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts </span><span class="heading">42:1-11</span><span class="heading"> is numbered 42:2-12.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. 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 the Sons of Korah.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.42.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">As the deer pants for streams of water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.42.1"><span class="content">so my soul pants for you, my God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.42.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.42.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.42.2"><span class="content">When can I go and meet with God?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.42.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">My tears have been my food</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="content">day and night,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="content">while people say to me all day long,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is your God?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">These things I remember</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">as I pour out my soul:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">how I used to go to the house of God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">under the protection of the Mighty One</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">42:4 </span><span class="ft">See Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">with shouts of joy and praise</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">among the festive throng.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Why, my soul, are you downcast?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">Why so disturbed within me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">Put your hope in God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">for I will yet praise him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">my Savior and my God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">My soul is downcast within me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="content">therefore I will remember you</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="content">from the land of the Jordan,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="content">the heights of Hermon&#8212;from Mount Mizar.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Deep calls to deep</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="content">in the roar of your waterfalls;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="content">all your waves and breakers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="content">have swept over me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.42.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">By day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> directs his love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.42.8"><span class="content">at night his song is with me&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.42.8"><span class="content">a prayer to the God of my life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.42.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I say to God my Rock,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="content">&#8220;Why have you forgotten me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="content">Why must I go about mourning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="content">oppressed by the enemy?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My bones suffer mortal agony</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="content">as my foes taunt me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="content">saying to me all day long,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is your God?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Why, my soul, are you downcast?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="content">Why so disturbed within me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="content">Put your hope in God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="content">for I will yet praise him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="content">my Savior and my God.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">43</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 43</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In many Hebrew manuscripts Psalms </span><span class="heading">42</span><span class="heading"> and </span><span class="heading">43</span><span class="heading"> constitute one psalm.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.43.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Vindicate me, my God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.43.1"><span class="content">and plead my cause</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.43.1"><span class="content">against an unfaithful nation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.43.1"><span class="content">Rescue me from those who are</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.43.1"><span class="content">deceitful and wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.43.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.43.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You are God my stronghold.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.43.2"><span class="content">Why have you rejected me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.43.2"><span class="content">Why must I go about mourning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.43.2"><span class="content">oppressed by the enemy?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.43.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.43.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Send me your light and your faithful care,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.43.3"><span class="content">let them lead me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.43.3"><span class="content">let them bring me to your holy mountain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.43.3"><span class="content">to the place where you dwell.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.43.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.43.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then I will go to the altar of God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.43.4"><span class="content">to God, my joy and my delight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.43.4"><span class="content">I will praise you with the lyre,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.43.4"><span class="content">O God, my God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.43.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.43.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Why, my soul, are you downcast?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.43.5"><span class="content">Why so disturbed within me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.43.5"><span class="content">Put your hope in God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.43.5"><span class="content">for I will yet praise him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.43.5"><span class="content">my Savior and my God.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">44</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 44</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 44:1-26 is numbered 44:2-27.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. 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></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.44.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">We have heard it with our ears, O God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.44.1"><span class="content">our ancestors have told us</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.44.1"><span class="content">what you did in their days,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.44.1"><span class="content">in days long ago.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.44.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.44.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">With your hand you drove out the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.44.2"><span class="content">and planted our ancestors;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.44.2"><span class="content">you crushed the peoples</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.44.2"><span class="content">and made our ancestors flourish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.44.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.44.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">It was not by their sword that they won the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.44.3"><span class="content">nor did their arm bring them victory;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.44.3"><span class="content">it was your right hand, your arm,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.44.3"><span class="content">and the light of your face, for you loved them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.44.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.44.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You are my King and my God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.44.4"><span class="content">who decrees</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">44:4 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint, Aquila and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">King, O God; / command</span></span></span><span class="content"> victories for Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.44.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.44.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Through you we push back our enemies;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.44.5"><span class="content">through your name we trample our foes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.44.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.44.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I put no trust in my bow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.44.6"><span class="content">my sword does not bring me victory;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.44.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.44.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">but you give us victory over our enemies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.44.7"><span class="content">you put our adversaries to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.44.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.44.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In God we make our boast all day long,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.44.8"><span class="content">and we will praise your name forever.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">44:8 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.44.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.44.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But now you have rejected and humbled us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.44.9"><span class="content">you no longer go out with our armies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.44.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.44.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You made us retreat before the enemy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.44.10"><span class="content">and our adversaries have plundered us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.44.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.44.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You gave us up to be devoured like sheep</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.44.11"><span class="content">and have scattered us among the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.44.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.44.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You sold your people for a pittance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.44.12"><span class="content">gaining nothing from their sale.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.44.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.44.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You have made us a reproach to our neighbors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.44.13"><span class="content">the scorn and derision of those around us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.44.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.44.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">You have made us a byword among the nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.44.14"><span class="content">the peoples shake their heads at us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.44.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.44.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I live in disgrace all day long,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.44.15"><span class="content">and my face is covered with shame</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.44.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.44.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">at the taunts of those who reproach and revile me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.44.16"><span class="content">because of the enemy, who is bent on revenge.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.44.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.44.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">All this came upon us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.44.17"><span class="content">though we had not forgotten you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.44.17"><span class="content">we had not been false to your covenant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.44.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.44.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Our hearts had not turned back;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.44.18"><span class="content">our feet had not strayed from your path.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.44.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.44.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.44.19"><span class="content">you covered us over with deep darkness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.44.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.44.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">If we had forgotten the name of our God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.44.20"><span class="content">or spread out our hands to a foreign god,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.44.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.44.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">would not God have discovered it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.44.21"><span class="content">since he knows the secrets of the heart?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.44.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.44.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Yet for your sake we face death all day long;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.44.22"><span class="content">we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.44.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.44.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Awake, Lord! Why do you sleep?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.44.23"><span class="content">Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.44.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.44.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Why do you hide your face</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.44.24"><span class="content">and forget our misery and oppression?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.44.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.44.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">We are brought down to the dust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.44.25"><span class="content">our bodies cling to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.44.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.44.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Rise up and help us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.44.26"><span class="content">rescue us because of your unfailing love.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">If I speak in the tongues</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">languages</span></span></span><span class="content"> of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:3 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">body to the flames</span></span></span><span class="content"> but do not have love, I gain nothing.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.13.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For we know in part and we prophesy in part, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.13.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">14</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Intelligibility in Worship</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For anyone who speaks in a tongue</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in another language</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 4, 13, 14, 19, 26 and 27</span></span></span><span class="content"> does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouraging and comfort. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Anyone who speaks in a tongue edifies themselves, but the one who prophesies edifies the church. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I would like every one of you to speak in tongues,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in other languages</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 6, 18, 22, 23 and 39</span></span></span><span class="content"> but I would rather have you prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in other languages</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 6, 18, 22, 23 and 39</span></span></span><span class="content"> unless someone interprets, so that the church may be edified.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.14.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now, brothers and sisters, if I come to you and speak in tongues, what good will I be to you, unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or word of instruction? </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Even in the case of lifeless things that make sounds, such as the pipe or harp, how will anyone know what tune is being played unless there is a distinction in the notes? </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Again, if the trumpet does not sound a clear call, who will get ready for battle? </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So it is with you. Unless you speak intelligible words with your tongue, how will anyone know what you are saying? You will just be speaking into the air. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Undoubtedly there are all sorts of languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">If then I do not grasp the meaning of what someone is saying, I am a foreigner to the speaker, and the speaker is a foreigner to me. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So it is with you. Since you are eager for gifts of the Spirit, try to excel in those that build up the church.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.14.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For this reason the one who speaks in a tongue should pray that they may interpret what they say. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So what shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my understanding; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my understanding. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Otherwise when you are praising God in the Spirit, how can someone else, who is now put in the position of an inquirer,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:16 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">inquirer </span><span class="ft">is a technical term for someone not fully initiated into a religion; also in verses 23 and 24.</span></span></span><span class="content"> say &#8220;Amen&#8221; to your thanksgiving, since they do not know what you are saying? </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">You are giving thanks well enough, but no one else is edified.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.14.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CO.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But in the church I would rather speak five intelligible words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.14.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CO.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CO.14.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">In the Law it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CO.14.21"><span class="content">&#8220;With other tongues</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CO.14.21"><span class="content">and through the lips of foreigners</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CO.14.21"><span class="content">I will speak to this people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CO.14.21"><span class="content">but even then they will not listen to me,</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CO.14.21"><span class="content">says the Lord.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:21 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 28:11,12</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CO.14.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1CO.14.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Tongues, then, are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1CO.14.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues, and inquirers or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your mind? </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1CO.14.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But if an unbeliever or an inquirer comes in while everyone is prophesying, they are convicted of sin and are brought under judgment by all, </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1CO.14.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">as the secrets of their hearts are laid bare. So they will fall down and worship God, exclaiming, &#8220;God is really among you!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Good Order in Worship</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1CO.14.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1CO.14.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">What then shall we say, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each of you has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. Everything must be done so that the church may be built up. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1CO.14.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">If anyone speaks in a tongue, two&#8212;or at the most three&#8212;should speak, one at a time, and someone must interpret. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1CO.14.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">If there is no interpreter, the speaker should keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and to God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1CO.14.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1CO.14.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1CO.14.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">And if a revelation comes to someone who is sitting down, the first speaker should stop. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1CO.14.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">For you can all prophesy in turn so that everyone may be instructed and encouraged. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1CO.14.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The spirits of prophets are subject to the control of prophets. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="1CO.14.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">For God is not a God of disorder but of peace&#8212;as in all the congregations of the Lord&#8217;s people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="1CO.14.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="1CO.14.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Women</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:33,34 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">peace. As in all the congregations of the Lord&#8217;s people, </span><span class="fv">34 </span><span class="fqa">women</span></span></span><span class="content"> should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="1CO.14.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:34,35 </span><span class="ft">In a few manuscripts these verses come after verse 40.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="1CO.14.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="1CO.14.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Or did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only people it has reached? </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="1CO.14.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">If anyone thinks they are a prophet or otherwise gifted by the Spirit, let them acknowledge that what I am writing to you is the Lord&#8217;s command. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="1CO.14.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">But if anyone ignores this, they will themselves be ignored.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:38 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">But anyone who is ignorant of this will be ignorant</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="1CO.14.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="1CO.14.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Therefore, my brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="1CO.14.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Bricks Without Straw</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Afterward Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: &#8216;Let my people go, so that they may hold a festival to me in the wilderness.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.5.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Pharaoh said, &#8220;Who is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and I will not let Israel go.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then they said, &#8220;The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Now let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God, or he may strike us with plagues or with the sword.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But the king of Egypt said, &#8220;Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the people away from their labor? Get back to your work!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then Pharaoh said, &#8220;Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you are stopping them from working.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">That same day Pharaoh gave this order to the slave drivers and overseers in charge of the people: </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;You are no longer to supply the people with straw for making bricks; let them go and gather their own straw. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But require them to make the same number of bricks as before; don&#8217;t reduce the quota. They are lazy; that is why they are crying out, &#8216;Let us go and sacrifice to our God.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Make the work harder for the people so that they keep working and pay no attention to lies.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then the slave drivers and the overseers went out and said to the people, &#8220;This is what Pharaoh says: &#8216;I will not give you any more straw. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced at all.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So the people scattered all over Egypt to gather stubble to use for straw. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The slave drivers kept pressing them, saying, &#8220;Complete the work required of you for each day, just as when you had straw.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And Pharaoh&#8217;s slave drivers beat the Israelite overseers they had appointed, demanding, &#8220;Why haven&#8217;t you met your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as before?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then the Israelite overseers went and appealed to Pharaoh: &#8220;Why have you treated your servants this way? </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Your servants are given no straw, yet we are told, &#8216;Make bricks!&#8217; Your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.5.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Pharaoh said, &#8220;Lazy, that&#8217;s what you are&#8212;lazy! That is why you keep saying, &#8216;Let us go and sacrifice to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Now get to work. You will not be given any straw, yet you must produce your full quota of bricks.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.5.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The Israelite overseers realized they were in trouble when they were told, &#8220;You are not to reduce the number of bricks required of you for each day.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">When they left Pharaoh, they found Moses and Aaron waiting to meet them, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">and they said, &#8220;May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> look on you and judge you! You have made us obnoxious to Pharaoh and his officials and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God Promises Deliverance</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.5.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Moses returned to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and said, &#8220;Why, Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Is this why you sent me? </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people, and you have not rescued your people at all.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: Because of my mighty hand he will let them go; because of my mighty hand he will drive them out of his country.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.6.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">God also said to Moses, &#8220;I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:3 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">El-Shaddai</span></span></span><span class="content"> but by my name the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:3 </span><span class="ft">See note at 3:15.</span></span></span><span class="content"> I did not make myself fully known to them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore, say to the Israelites: &#8216;I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh labor.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his country.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But Moses said to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;If the Israelites will not listen to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with faltering lips</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:12 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">I am uncircumcised of lips</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 30</span></span></span><span class="content">?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Family Record of Moses and Aaron</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke to Moses and Aaron about the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he commanded them to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.6.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">These were the heads of their families</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:14 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">families </span><span class="ft">here and in verse 25 refers to units larger than clans.</span></span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.6.14"><span class="content">The sons of Reuben the firstborn son of Israel were Hanok and Pallu, Hezron and Karmi. These were the clans of Reuben.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.6.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clans of Simeon.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.6.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">These were the names of the sons of Levi according to their records: Gershon, Kohath and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.6.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The sons of Gershon, by clans, were Libni and Shimei.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.6.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. Kohath lived 133 years.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.6.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.6.19"><span class="content">These were the clans of Levi according to their records.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.6.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Amram married his father&#8217;s sister Jochebed, who bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.6.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg and Zikri.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.6.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan and Sithri.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.6.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.6.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Aaron married Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.6.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.6.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The sons of Korah were: Assir, Elkanah and Abiasaph. These were the Korahite clans.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.6.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.6.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Eleazar son of Aaron married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.6.25"><span class="content">These were the heads of the Levite families, clan by clan.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.6.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.6.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">It was this Aaron and Moses to whom the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;Bring the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.6.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">They were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing the Israelites out of Egypt&#8212;this same Moses and Aaron.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Aaron to Speak for Moses</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.6.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.6.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Now when the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke to Moses in Egypt, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.6.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">he said to him, &#8220;I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I tell you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.6.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.6.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">But Moses said to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;Since I speak with faltering lips, why would Pharaoh listen to me?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But I will harden Pharaoh&#8217;s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">he will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment I will bring out my divisions, my people the Israelites. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And the Egyptians will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Moses and Aaron did just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded them. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Aaron&#8217;s Staff Becomes a Snake</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses and Aaron, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;When Pharaoh says to you, &#8216;Perform a miracle,&#8217; then say to Aaron, &#8216;Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,&#8217; and it will become a snake.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts: </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron&#8217;s staff swallowed up their staffs. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Yet Pharaoh&#8217;s heart became hard and he would not listen to them, just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had said.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Plague of Blood</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Pharaoh&#8217;s heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes out to the river. Confront him on the bank of the Nile, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then say to him, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to say to you: Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the wilderness. But until now you have not listened. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: By this you will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: With the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The fish in the Nile will die, and the river will stink; the Egyptians will not be able to drink its water.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.7.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Tell Aaron, &#8216;Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt&#8212;over the streams and canals, over the ponds and all the reservoirs&#8212;and they will turn to blood.&#8217; Blood will be everywhere in Egypt, even in vessels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">even on their idols</span></span></span><span class="content"> of wood and stone.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.7.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Moses and Aaron did just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded. He raised his staff in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was changed into blood. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. Blood was everywhere in Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.7.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But the Egyptian magicians did the same things by their secret arts, and Pharaoh&#8217;s heart became hard; he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had said. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Instead, he turned and went into his palace, and did not take even this to heart. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile to get drinking water, because they could not drink the water of the river.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Plague of Frogs</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.7.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Seven days passed after the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> struck the Nile.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="nb"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 8:1-4 is numbered 7:26-29, and 8:5-32 is numbered 8:1-28.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Go to Pharaoh and say to him, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The frogs will come up on you and your people and all your officials.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Tell Aaron, &#8216;Stretch out your hand with your staff over the streams and canals and ponds, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But the magicians did the same things by their secret arts; they also made frogs come up on the land of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, &#8220;Pray to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to take the frogs away from me and my people, and I will let your people go to offer sacrifices to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Moses said to Pharaoh, &#8220;I leave to you the honor of setting the time for me to pray for you and your officials and your people that you and your houses may be rid of the frogs, except for those that remain in the Nile.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Tomorrow,&#8221; Pharaoh said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.8.10"><span class="content">Moses replied, &#8220;It will be as you say, so that you may know there is no one like the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The frogs will leave you and your houses, your officials and your people; they will remain only in the Nile.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">After Moses and Aaron left Pharaoh, Moses cried out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> about the frogs he had brought on Pharaoh. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> did what Moses asked. The frogs died in the houses, in the courtyards and in the fields. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They were piled into heaps, and the land reeked of them. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had said.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Plague of Gnats</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.8.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Tell Aaron, &#8216;Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the ground,&#8217; and throughout the land of Egypt the dust will become gnats.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">They did this, and when Aaron stretched out his hand with the staff and struck the dust of the ground, gnats came on people and animals. All the dust throughout the land of Egypt became gnats. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But when the magicians tried to produce gnats by their secret arts, they could not.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.8.18"><span class="content">Since the gnats were on people and animals everywhere, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">the magicians said to Pharaoh, &#8220;This is the finger of God.&#8221; But Pharaoh&#8217;s heart was hard and he would not listen, just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had said.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Plague of Flies</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.8.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Get up early in the morning and confront Pharaoh as he goes to the river and say to him, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">If you do not let my people go, I will send swarms of flies on you and your officials, on your people and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies; even the ground will be covered with them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.8.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;But on that day I will deal differently with the land of Goshen, where my people live; no swarms of flies will be there, so that you will know that I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, am in this land. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.8.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I will make a distinction</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:23 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint and Vulgate; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">will put a deliverance</span></span></span><span class="content"> between my people and your people. This sign will occur tomorrow.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.8.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.8.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> did this. Dense swarms of flies poured into Pharaoh&#8217;s palace and into the houses of his officials; throughout Egypt the land was ruined by the flies.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.8.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.8.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, &#8220;Go, sacrifice to your God here in the land.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.8.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.8.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">But Moses said, &#8220;That would not be right. The sacrifices we offer the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God would be detestable to the Egyptians. And if we offer sacrifices that are detestable in their eyes, will they not stone us? </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.8.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">We must take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God, as he commands us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.8.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.8.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Pharaoh said, &#8220;I will let you go to offer sacrifices to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God in the wilderness, but you must not go very far. Now pray for me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.8.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.8.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Moses answered, &#8220;As soon as I leave you, I will pray to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and tomorrow the flies will leave Pharaoh and his officials and his people. Only let Pharaoh be sure that he does not act deceitfully again by not letting the people go to offer sacrifices to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.8.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.8.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Then Moses left Pharaoh and prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EXO.8.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> did what Moses asked. The flies left Pharaoh and his officials and his people; not a fly remained. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EXO.8.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">But this time also Pharaoh hardened his heart and would not let the people go.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David at Nob</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 21:1-15 is numbered 21:2-16.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">David went to Nob, to Ahimelek the priest. Ahimelek trembled when he met him, and asked, &#8220;Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.21.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">David answered Ahimelek the priest, &#8220;The king sent me on a mission and said to me, &#8216;No one is to know anything about the mission I am sending you on.&#8217; As for my men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.21.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But the priest answered David, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have any ordinary bread on hand; however, there is some consecrated bread here&#8212;provided the men have kept themselves from women.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.21.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">David replied, &#8220;Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual whenever</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">from us in the past few days since</span></span></span><span class="content"> I set out. The men&#8217;s bodies are holy even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and replaced by hot bread on the day it was taken away.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.21.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now one of Saul&#8217;s servants was there that day, detained before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; he was Doeg the Edomite, Saul&#8217;s chief shepherd.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">David asked Ahimelek, &#8220;Don&#8217;t you have a spear or a sword here? I haven&#8217;t brought my sword or any other weapon, because the king&#8217;s mission was urgent.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.21.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The priest replied, &#8220;The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want it, take it; there is no sword here but that one.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.21.9"><span class="content">David said, &#8220;There is none like it; give it to me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David at Gath</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.21.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But the servants of Achish said to him, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t this David, the king of the land? Isn&#8217;t he the one they sing about in their dances:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.21.11"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Saul has slain his thousands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.21.11"><span class="content">and David his tens of thousands&#8217;?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.21.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">David took these words to heart and was very much afraid of Achish king of Gath. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So he pretended to be insane in their presence; and while he was in their hands he acted like a madman, making marks on the doors of the gate and letting saliva run down his beard.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.21.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Achish said to his servants, &#8220;Look at the man! He is insane! Why bring him to me? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Am I so short of madmen that you have to bring this fellow here to carry on like this in front of me? Must this man come into my house?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David at Adullam and Mizpah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and his father&#8217;s household heard about it, they went down to him there. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their commander. About four hundred men were with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">From there David went to Mizpah in Moab and said to the king of Moab, &#8220;Would you let my father and mother come and stay with you until I learn what God will do for me?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him as long as David was in the stronghold.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But the prophet Gad said to David, &#8220;Do not stay in the stronghold. Go into the land of Judah.&#8221; So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Saul Kills the Priests of Nob</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now Saul heard that David and his men had been discovered. And Saul was seated, spear in hand, under the tamarisk tree on the hill at Gibeah, with all his officials standing at his side. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He said to them, &#8220;Listen, men of Benjamin! Will the son of Jesse give all of you fields and vineyards? Will he make all of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds? </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Is that why you have all conspired against me? No one tells me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you is concerned about me or tells me that my son has incited my servant to lie in wait for me, as he does today.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But Doeg the Edomite, who was standing with Saul&#8217;s officials, said, &#8220;I saw the son of Jesse come to Ahimelek son of Ahitub at Nob. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Ahimelek inquired of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> for him; he also gave him provisions and the sword of Goliath the Philistine.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then the king sent for the priest Ahimelek son of Ahitub and all the men of his family, who were the priests at Nob, and they all came to the king. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Saul said, &#8220;Listen now, son of Ahitub.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.22.12"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, my lord,&#8221; he answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Saul said to him, &#8220;Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, giving him bread and a sword and inquiring of God for him, so that he has rebelled against me and lies in wait for me, as he does today?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Ahimelek answered the king, &#8220;Who of all your servants is as loyal as David, the king&#8217;s son-in-law, captain of your bodyguard and highly respected in your household? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Was that day the first time I inquired of God for him? Of course not! Let not the king accuse your servant or any of his father&#8217;s family, for your servant knows nothing at all about this whole affair.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.22.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But the king said, &#8220;You will surely die, Ahimelek, you and your whole family.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then the king ordered the guards at his side: &#8220;Turn and kill the priests of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, because they too have sided with David. They knew he was fleeing, yet they did not tell me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.22.17"><span class="content">But the king&#8217;s officials were unwilling to raise a hand to strike the priests of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The king then ordered Doeg, &#8220;You turn and strike down the priests.&#8221; So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck them down. That day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He also put to the sword Nob, the town of the priests, with its men and women, its children and infants, and its cattle, donkeys and sheep.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But one son of Ahimelek son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled to join David. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He told David that Saul had killed the priests of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then David said to Abiathar, &#8220;That day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, I knew he would be sure to tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of your whole family. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Stay with me; don&#8217;t be afraid. The man who wants to kill you is trying to kill me too. You will be safe with me.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David Saves Keilah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When David was told, &#8220;Look, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and are looting the threshing floors,&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">he inquired of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, saying, &#8220;Shall I go and attack these Philistines?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.23.2"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> answered him, &#8220;Go, attack the Philistines and save Keilah.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But David&#8217;s men said to him, &#8220;Here in Judah we are afraid. How much more, then, if we go to Keilah against the Philistine forces!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Once again David inquired of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> answered him, &#8220;Go down to Keilah, for I am going to give the Philistines into your hand.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So David and his men went to Keilah, fought the Philistines and carried off their livestock. He inflicted heavy losses on the Philistines and saved the people of Keilah. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">(Now Abiathar son of Ahimelek had brought the ephod down with him when he fled to David at Keilah.)</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Saul Pursues David</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.23.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, and he said, &#8220;God has delivered him into my hands, for David has imprisoned himself by entering a town with gates and bars.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And Saul called up all his forces for battle, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.23.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When David learned that Saul was plotting against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, &#8220;Bring the ephod.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">David said, &#8220;</span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, God of Israel, your servant has heard definitely that Saul plans to come to Keilah and destroy the town on account of me. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me to him? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, God of Israel, tell your servant.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.23.11"><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;He will.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.23.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Again David asked, &#8220;Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me and my men to Saul?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.23.12"><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;They will.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.23.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So David and his men, about six hundred in number, left Keilah and kept moving from place to place. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he did not go there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.23.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hills of the Desert of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God did not give David into his hands.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.23.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">While David was at Horesh in the Desert of Ziph, he learned that</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">he was afraid because</span></span></span><span class="content"> Saul had come out to take his life. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And Saul&#8217;s son Jonathan went to David at Horesh and helped him find strength in God. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid,&#8221; he said. &#8220;My father Saul will not lay a hand on you. You will be king over Israel, and I will be second to you. Even my father Saul knows this.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The two of them made a covenant before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. Then Jonathan went home, but David remained at Horesh.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.23.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.23.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah and said, &#8220;Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hakilah, south of Jeshimon? </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.23.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Now, Your Majesty, come down whenever it pleases you to do so, and we will be responsible for giving him into your hands.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.23.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.23.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Saul replied, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> bless you for your concern for me. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.23.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Go and get more information. Find out where David usually goes and who has seen him there. They tell me he is very crafty. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.23.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Find out about all the hiding places he uses and come back to me with definite information. Then I will go with you; if he is in the area, I will track him down among all the clans of Judah.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.23.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1SA.23.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">So they set out and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Desert of Maon, in the Arabah south of Jeshimon. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1SA.23.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Saul and his men began the search, and when David was told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Desert of Maon. When Saul heard this, he went into the Desert of Maon in pursuit of David.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1SA.23.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1SA.23.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Saul was going along one side of the mountain, and David and his men were on the other side, hurrying to get away from Saul. As Saul and his forces were closing in on David and his men to capture them, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1SA.23.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">a messenger came to Saul, saying, &#8220;Come quickly! The Philistines are raiding the land.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1SA.23.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then Saul broke off his pursuit of David and went to meet the Philistines. That is why they call this place Sela Hammahlekoth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:28 </span><span class="fq">Sela Hammahlekoth </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">rock of parting.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1SA.23.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:29 </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts this verse (23:29) is numbered 24:1.</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">24</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David Spares Saul&#8217;s Life</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 24:1-22 is numbered 24:22-23.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.24.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, &#8220;David is in the Desert of En Gedi.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.24.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So Saul took three thousand able young men from all Israel and set out to look for David and his men near the Crags of the Wild Goats.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.24.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.24.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He came to the sheep pens along the way; a cave was there, and Saul went in to relieve himself. David and his men were far back in the cave. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.24.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The men said, &#8220;This is the day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke of when he said</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">&#8220;Today the <span class="nd">Lord</span> is saying</span></span></span><span class="content"> to you, &#8216;I will give your enemy into your hands for you to deal with as you wish.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; Then David crept up unnoticed and cut off a corner of Saul&#8217;s robe.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.24.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.24.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Afterward, David was conscience-stricken for having cut off a corner of his robe. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.24.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He said to his men, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anointed, or lay my hand on him; for he is the anointed of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.24.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">With these words David sharply rebuked his men and did not allow them to attack Saul. And Saul left the cave and went his way.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.24.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.24.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then David went out of the cave and called out to Saul, &#8220;My lord the king!&#8221; When Saul looked behind him, David bowed down and prostrated himself with his face to the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.24.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He said to Saul, &#8220;Why do you listen when men say, &#8216;David is bent on harming you&#8217;? </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.24.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">This day you have seen with your own eyes how the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> delivered you into my hands in the cave. Some urged me to kill you, but I spared you; I said, &#8216;I will not lay my hand on my lord, because he is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anointed.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.24.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">See, my father, look at this piece of your robe in my hand! I cut off the corner of your robe but did not kill you. See that there is nothing in my hand to indicate that I am guilty of wrongdoing or rebellion. I have not wronged you, but you are hunting me down to take my life. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.24.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> judge between you and me. And may the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> avenge the wrongs you have done to me, but my hand will not touch you. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.24.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">As the old saying goes, &#8216;From evildoers come evil deeds,&#8217; so my hand will not touch you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.24.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.24.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Who are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.24.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> be our judge and decide between us. May he consider my cause and uphold it; may he vindicate me by delivering me from your hand.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.24.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.24.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When David finished saying this, Saul asked, &#8220;Is that your voice, David my son?&#8221; And he wept aloud. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.24.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;You are more righteous than I,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You have treated me well, but I have treated you badly. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.24.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">You have just now told me about the good you did to me; the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> delivered me into your hands, but you did not kill me. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.24.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When a man finds his enemy, does he let him get away unharmed? May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> reward you well for the way you treated me today. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.24.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I know that you will surely be king and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hands. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.24.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Now swear to me by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> that you will not kill off my descendants or wipe out my name from my father&#8217;s family.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.24.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.24.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">So David gave his oath to Saul. Then Saul returned home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">25</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David, Nabal and Abigail</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.25.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David moved down into the Desert of Paran.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew and some Septuagint manuscripts; other Septuagint manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Maon</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.25.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.25.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">A certain man in Maon, who had property there at Carmel, was very wealthy. He had a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.25.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">His name was Nabal and his wife&#8217;s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband was surly and mean in his dealings&#8212;he was a Calebite.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.25.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.25.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.25.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So he sent ten young men and said to them, &#8220;Go up to Nabal at Carmel and greet him in my name. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.25.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Say to him: &#8216;Long life to you! Good health to you and your household! And good health to all that is yours!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.25.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.25.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Now I hear that it is sheep-shearing time. When your shepherds were with us, we did not mistreat them, and the whole time they were at Carmel nothing of theirs was missing. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.25.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Ask your own servants and they will tell you. Therefore be favorable toward my men, since we come at a festive time. Please give your servants and your son David whatever you can find for them.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.25.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.25.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When David&#8217;s men arrived, they gave Nabal this message in David&#8217;s name. Then they waited.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.25.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.25.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Nabal answered David&#8217;s servants, &#8220;Who is this David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants are breaking away from their masters these days. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.25.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Why should I take my bread and water, and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men coming from who knows where?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.25.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.25.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">David&#8217;s men turned around and went back. When they arrived, they reported every word. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.25.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">David said to his men, &#8220;Each of you strap on your sword!&#8221; So they did, and David strapped his on as well. About four hundred men went up with David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.25.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.25.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">One of the servants told Abigail, Nabal&#8217;s wife, &#8220;David sent messengers from the wilderness to give our master his greetings, but he hurled insults at them. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.25.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Yet these men were very good to us. They did not mistreat us, and the whole time we were out in the fields near them nothing was missing. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.25.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Night and day they were a wall around us the whole time we were herding our sheep near them. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.25.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked man that no one can talk to him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.25.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.25.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:18 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 60 pounds or about 27 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.25.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then she told her servants, &#8220;Go on ahead; I&#8217;ll follow you.&#8221; But she did not tell her husband Nabal.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.25.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.25.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">As she came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, there were David and his men descending toward her, and she met them. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.25.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">David had just said, &#8220;It&#8217;s been useless&#8212;all my watching over this fellow&#8217;s property in the wilderness so that nothing of his was missing. He has paid me back evil for good. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.25.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">May God deal with David,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:22 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint manuscripts; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">with David&#8217;s enemies</span></span></span><span class="content"> be it ever so severely, if by morning I leave alive one male of all who belong to him!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.25.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.25.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down before David with her face to the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1SA.25.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">She fell at his feet and said: &#8220;Pardon your servant, my lord, and let me speak to you; hear what your servant has to say. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1SA.25.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Please pay no attention, my lord, to that wicked man Nabal. He is just like his name&#8212;his name means Fool, and folly goes with him. And as for me, your servant, I did not see the men my lord sent. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1SA.25.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">And now, my lord, as surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God lives and as you live, since the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has kept you from bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hands, may your enemies and all who are intent on harming my lord be like Nabal. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1SA.25.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And let this gift, which your servant has brought to my lord, be given to the men who follow you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1SA.25.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1SA.25.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;Please forgive your servant&#8217;s presumption. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will certainly make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because you fight the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s battles, and no wrongdoing will be found in you as long as you live. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1SA.25.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life, the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurl away as from the pocket of a sling. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1SA.25.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has fulfilled for my lord every good thing he promised concerning him and has appointed him ruler over Israel, </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1SA.25.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">my lord will not have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed or of having avenged himself. And when the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has brought my lord success, remember your servant.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1SA.25.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1SA.25.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">David said to Abigail, &#8220;Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="1SA.25.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="1SA.25.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Otherwise, as surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by daybreak.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="1SA.25.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="1SA.25.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him and said, &#8220;Go home in peace. I have heard your words and granted your request.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="1SA.25.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="1SA.25.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until daybreak. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="1SA.25.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him and he became like a stone. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="1SA.25.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">About ten days later, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> struck Nabal and he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="1SA.25.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="1SA.25.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, &#8220;Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who has upheld my cause against Nabal for treating me with contempt. He has kept his servant from doing wrong and has brought Nabal&#8217;s wrongdoing down on his own head.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="1SA.25.39"><span class="content">Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="1SA.25.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">His servants went to Carmel and said to Abigail, &#8220;David has sent us to you to take you to become his wife.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="1SA.25.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="1SA.25.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">She bowed down with her face to the ground and said, &#8220;I am your servant and am ready to serve you and wash the feet of my lord&#8217;s servants.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="1SA.25.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Abigail quickly got on a donkey and, attended by her five female servants, went with David&#8217;s messengers and became his wife. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="1SA.25.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both were his wives. </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="1SA.25.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David&#8217;s wife, to Paltiel</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:44 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Palti</span><span class="ft">, a variant of </span><span class="fq">Paltiel</span></span></span><span class="content"> son of Laish, who was from Gallim.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">29</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job&#8217;s Final Defense</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.29.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Job continued his discourse:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.29.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.29.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;How I long for the months gone by,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.29.2"><span class="content">for the days when God watched over me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.29.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.29.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">when his lamp shone on my head</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.29.3"><span class="content">and by his light I walked through darkness!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.29.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.29.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Oh, for the days when I was in my prime,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.29.4"><span class="content">when God&#8217;s intimate friendship blessed my house,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.29.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.29.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">when the Almighty was still with me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.29.5"><span class="content">and my children were around me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.29.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.29.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">when my path was drenched with cream</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.29.6"><span class="content">and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.29.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.29.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;When I went to the gate of the city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.29.7"><span class="content">and took my seat in the public square,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.29.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.29.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">the young men saw me and stepped aside</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.29.8"><span class="content">and the old men rose to their feet;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.29.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.29.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">the chief men refrained from speaking</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.29.9"><span class="content">and covered their mouths with their hands;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.29.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.29.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">the voices of the nobles were hushed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.29.10"><span class="content">and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.29.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.29.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Whoever heard me spoke well of me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.29.11"><span class="content">and those who saw me commended me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.29.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.29.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">because I rescued the poor who cried for help,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.29.12"><span class="content">and the fatherless who had none to assist them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.29.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.29.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The one who was dying blessed me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.29.13"><span class="content">I made the widow&#8217;s heart sing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.29.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.29.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I put on righteousness as my clothing;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.29.14"><span class="content">justice was my robe and my turban.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.29.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.29.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I was eyes to the blind</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.29.15"><span class="content">and feet to the lame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.29.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.29.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I was a father to the needy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.29.16"><span class="content">I took up the case of the stranger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.29.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.29.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I broke the fangs of the wicked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.29.17"><span class="content">and snatched the victims from their teeth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.29.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.29.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;I thought, &#8216;I will die in my own house,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.29.18"><span class="content">my days as numerous as the grains of sand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.29.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.29.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">My roots will reach to the water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.29.19"><span class="content">and the dew will lie all night on my branches.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.29.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.29.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">My glory will not fade;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.29.20"><span class="content">the bow will be ever new in my hand.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.29.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.29.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;People listened to me expectantly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.29.21"><span class="content">waiting in silence for my counsel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.29.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.29.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">After I had spoken, they spoke no more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.29.22"><span class="content">my words fell gently on their ears.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.29.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.29.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">They waited for me as for showers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.29.23"><span class="content">and drank in my words as the spring rain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.29.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.29.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When I smiled at them, they scarcely believed it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.29.24"><span class="content">the light of my face was precious to them.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:24 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.29.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.29.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I chose the way for them and sat as their chief;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.29.25"><span class="content">I dwelt as a king among his troops;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.29.25"><span class="content">I was like one who comforts mourners.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch30" data-usfm="JOB.30">
         <div class="label">30</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;But now they mock me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="content">men younger than I,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="content">whose fathers I would have disdained</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="content">to put with my sheep dogs.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.30.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Of what use was the strength of their hands to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.30.2"><span class="content">since their vigor had gone from them?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.30.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.30.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Haggard from want and hunger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.30.3"><span class="content">they roamed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">gnawed</span></span></span><span class="content"> the parched land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.30.3"><span class="content">in desolate wastelands at night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.30.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.30.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In the brush they gathered salt herbs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.30.4"><span class="content">and their food</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">fuel</span></span></span><span class="content"> was the root of the broom bush.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.30.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.30.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They were banished from human society,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.30.5"><span class="content">shouted at as if they were thieves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.30.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.30.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They were forced to live in the dry stream beds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.30.6"><span class="content">among the rocks and in holes in the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.30.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.30.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They brayed among the bushes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.30.7"><span class="content">and huddled in the undergrowth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.30.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.30.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">A base and nameless brood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.30.8"><span class="content">they were driven out of the land.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.30.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.30.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;And now those young men mock me in song;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.30.9"><span class="content">I have become a byword among them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.30.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.30.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They detest me and keep their distance;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.30.10"><span class="content">they do not hesitate to spit in my face.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.30.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.30.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now that God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.30.11"><span class="content">they throw off restraint in my presence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.30.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.30.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">On my right the tribe</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:12 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> attacks;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.30.12"><span class="content">they lay snares for my feet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.30.12"><span class="content">they build their siege ramps against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.30.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.30.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They break up my road;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.30.13"><span class="content">they succeed in destroying me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.30.13"><span class="content">&#8216;No one can help him,&#8217; they say.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.30.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.30.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They advance as through a gaping breach;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.30.14"><span class="content">amid the ruins they come rolling in.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.30.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.30.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Terrors overwhelm me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.30.15"><span class="content">my dignity is driven away as by the wind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.30.15"><span class="content">my safety vanishes like a cloud.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.30.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.30.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;And now my life ebbs away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.30.16"><span class="content">days of suffering grip me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.30.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.30.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Night pierces my bones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.30.17"><span class="content">my gnawing pains never rest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.30.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.30.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">In his great power God becomes like clothing to me</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:18 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">power he grasps my clothing</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.30.18"><span class="content">he binds me like the neck of my garment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.30.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.30.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He throws me into the mud,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.30.19"><span class="content">and I am reduced to dust and ashes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.30.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.30.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.30.20"><span class="content">I stand up, but you merely look at me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.30.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.30.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">You turn on me ruthlessly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.30.21"><span class="content">with the might of your hand you attack me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.30.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.30.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">You snatch me up and drive me before the wind;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.30.22"><span class="content">you toss me about in the storm.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.30.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.30.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I know you will bring me down to death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.30.23"><span class="content">to the place appointed for all the living.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.30.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.30.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.30.24"><span class="content">when he cries for help in his distress.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.30.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.30.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Have I not wept for those in trouble?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.30.25"><span class="content">Has not my soul grieved for the poor?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.30.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.30.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.30.26"><span class="content">when I looked for light, then came darkness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.30.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.30.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The churning inside me never stops;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.30.27"><span class="content">days of suffering confront me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.30.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.30.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">I go about blackened, but not by the sun;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.30.28"><span class="content">I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.30.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.30.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">I have become a brother of jackals,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.30.29"><span class="content">a companion of owls.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.30.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.30.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">My skin grows black and peels;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.30.30"><span class="content">my body burns with fever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.30.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.30.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">My lyre is tuned to mourning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.30.31"><span class="content">and my pipe to the sound of wailing.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jeremiah&#8217;s Complaint</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">You are always righteous, </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="JER.12.1"><span class="content">when I bring a case before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="content">Yet I would speak with you about your justice:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="content">Why does the way of the wicked prosper?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="content">Why do all the faithless live at ease?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.12.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You have planted them, and they have taken root;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="content">they grow and bear fruit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="content">You are always on their lips</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="content">but far from their hearts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.12.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Yet you know me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="content">you see me and test my thoughts about you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="content">Drag them off like sheep to be butchered!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="content">Set them apart for the day of slaughter!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.12.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">How long will the land lie parched</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">and the grass in every field be withered?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">Because those who live in it are wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">the animals and birds have perished.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">Moreover, the people are saying,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">&#8220;He will not see what happens to us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Answer</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.12.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you have raced with men on foot</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">and they have worn you out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">how can you compete with horses?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">If you stumble</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">you feel secure only</span></span></span><span class="content"> in safe country,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">how will you manage in the thickets by</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the flooding of</span></span></span><span class="content"> the Jordan?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.12.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Your relatives, members of your own family&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">even they have betrayed you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">they have raised a loud cry against you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">Do not trust them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">though they speak well of you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will forsake my house,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="content">abandon my inheritance;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="content">I will give the one I love</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="content">into the hands of her enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.12.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">My inheritance has become to me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="content">like a lion in the forest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="content">She roars at me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="content">therefore I hate her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.12.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Has not my inheritance become to me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">like a speckled bird of prey</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">that other birds of prey surround and attack?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">Go and gather all the wild beasts;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">bring them to devour.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.12.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Many shepherds will ruin my vineyard</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="content">and trample down my field;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="content">they will turn my pleasant field</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="content">into a desolate wasteland.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.12.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">It will be made a wasteland,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="content">parched and desolate before me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="content">the whole land will be laid waste</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="content">because there is no one who cares.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.12.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Over all the barren heights in the desert</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">destroyers will swarm,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">for the sword of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will devour</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">from one end of the land to the other;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">no one will be safe.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.12.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They will sow wheat but reap thorns;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="content">they will wear themselves out but gain nothing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="content">They will bear the shame of their harvest</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="content">because of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s fierce anger.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.12.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.12.14"><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: &#8220;As for all my wicked neighbors who seize the inheritance I gave my people Israel, I will uproot them from their lands and I will uproot the people of Judah from among them. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But after I uproot them, I will again have compassion and will bring each of them back to their own inheritance and their own country. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And if they learn well the ways of my people and swear by my name, saying, &#8216;As surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives&#8217;&#8212;even as they once taught my people to swear by Baal&#8212;then they will be established among my people. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But if any nation does not listen, I will completely uproot and destroy it,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Linen Belt</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me: &#8220;Go and buy a linen belt and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So I bought a belt, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> directed, and put it around my waist.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.13.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me a second time: </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Take the belt you bought and are wearing around your waist, and go now to Perath</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:4 </span><span class="ft">Or possibly </span><span class="fqa">to the Euphrates</span><span class="ft">; similarly in verses 5-7</span></span></span><span class="content"> and hide it there in a crevice in the rocks.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So I went and hid it at Perath, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> told me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Many days later the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Go now to Perath and get the belt I told you to hide there.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So I went to Perath and dug up the belt and took it from the place where I had hidden it, but now it was ruined and completely useless.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">These wicked people, who refuse to listen to my words, who follow the stubbornness of their hearts and go after other gods to serve and worship them, will be like this belt&#8212;completely useless! </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For as a belt is bound around the waist, so I bound all the people of Israel and all the people of Judah to me,&#8217; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8216;to be my people for my renown and praise and honor. But they have not listened.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Wineskins</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.13.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say to them: &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: Every wineskin should be filled with wine.&#8217; And if they say to you, &#8216;Don&#8217;t we know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">then tell them, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: I am going to fill with drunkenness all who live in this land, including the kings who sit on David&#8217;s throne, the priests, the prophets and all those living in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I will smash them one against the other, parents and children alike, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. I will allow no pity or mercy or compassion to keep me from destroying them.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Threat of Captivity</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.13.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Hear and pay attention,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.13.15"><span class="content">do not be arrogant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.13.15"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.13.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Give glory to 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 v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">before he brings the darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">before your feet stumble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">on the darkening hills.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">You hope for light,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">but he will turn it to utter darkness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">and change it to deep gloom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.13.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">If you do not listen,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="content">I will weep in secret</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="content">because of your pride;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="content">my eyes will weep bitterly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="content">overflowing with tears,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="content">because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s flock will be taken captive.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.13.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Say to the king and to the queen mother,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.13.18"><span class="content">&#8220;Come down from your thrones,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.13.18"><span class="content">for your glorious crowns</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.13.18"><span class="content">will fall from your heads.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.13.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The cities in the Negev will be shut up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.13.19"><span class="content">and there will be no one to open them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.13.19"><span class="content">All Judah will be carried into exile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.13.19"><span class="content">carried completely away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.13.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Look up and see</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.13.20"><span class="content">those who are coming from the north.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.13.20"><span class="content">Where is the flock that was entrusted to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.13.20"><span class="content">the sheep of which you boasted?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.13.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">What will you say when the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sets over you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.13.21"><span class="content">those you cultivated as your special allies?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.13.21"><span class="content">Will not pain grip you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.13.21"><span class="content">like that of a woman in labor?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.13.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">And if you ask yourself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.13.22"><span class="content">&#8220;Why has this happened to me?&#8221;&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.13.22"><span class="content">it is because of your many sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.13.22"><span class="content">that your skirts have been torn off</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.13.22"><span class="content">and your body mistreated.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.13.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Can an Ethiopian</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:23 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Cushite </span><span class="ft">(probably a person from the upper Nile region)</span></span></span><span class="content"> change his skin</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.13.23"><span class="content">or a leopard its spots?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.13.23"><span class="content">Neither can you do good</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.13.23"><span class="content">who are accustomed to doing evil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.13.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will scatter you like chaff</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.13.24"><span class="content">driven by the desert wind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.13.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">This is your lot,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.13.25"><span class="content">the portion I have decreed for you,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.13.25"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.13.25"><span class="content">&#8220;because you have forgotten me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.13.25"><span class="content">and trusted in false gods.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.13.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I will pull up your skirts over your face</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.13.26"><span class="content">that your shame may be seen&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.13.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">your adulteries and lustful neighings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.13.27"><span class="content">your shameless prostitution!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.13.27"><span class="content">I have seen your detestable acts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.13.27"><span class="content">on the hills and in the fields.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.13.27"><span class="content">Woe to you, Jerusalem!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.13.27"><span class="content">How long will you be unclean?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">14</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Drought, Famine, Sword</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.14.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Judah mourns,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.14.2"><span class="content">her cities languish;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.14.2"><span class="content">they wail for the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.14.2"><span class="content">and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.14.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The nobles send their servants for water;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.14.3"><span class="content">they go to the cisterns</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.14.3"><span class="content">but find no water.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.14.3"><span class="content">They return with their jars unfilled;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.14.3"><span class="content">dismayed and despairing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.14.3"><span class="content">they cover their heads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.14.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The ground is cracked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.14.4"><span class="content">because there is no rain in the land;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.14.4"><span class="content">the farmers are dismayed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.14.4"><span class="content">and cover their heads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.14.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Even the doe in the field</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.14.5"><span class="content">deserts her newborn fawn</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.14.5"><span class="content">because there is no grass.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.14.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Wild donkeys stand on the barren heights</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.14.6"><span class="content">and pant like jackals;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.14.6"><span class="content">their eyes fail</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.14.6"><span class="content">for lack of food.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.14.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Although our sins testify against us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.14.7"><span class="content">do something, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, for the sake of your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.14.7"><span class="content">For we have often rebelled;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.14.7"><span class="content">we have sinned against you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.14.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You who are the hope of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.14.8"><span class="content">its Savior in times of distress,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.14.8"><span class="content">why are you like a stranger in the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.14.8"><span class="content">like a traveler who stays only a night?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.14.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Why are you like a man taken by surprise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.14.9"><span class="content">like a warrior powerless to save?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.14.9"><span class="content">You are among us, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.14.9"><span class="content">and we bear your name;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.14.9"><span class="content">do not forsake us!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.14.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says about this people:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.14.10"><span class="content">&#8220;They greatly love to wander;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.14.10"><span class="content">they do not restrain their feet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.14.10"><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> does not accept them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.14.10"><span class="content">he will now remember their wickedness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.14.10"><span class="content">and punish them for their sins.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.14.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Do not pray for the well-being of this people. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry; though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword, famine and plague.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.14.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But I said, &#8220;Alas, Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">! The prophets keep telling them, &#8216;You will not see the sword or suffer famine. Indeed, I will give you lasting peace in this place.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.14.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">visions, worthless divinations</span></span></span><span class="content"> and the delusions of their own minds. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says about the prophets who are prophesying in my name: I did not send them, yet they are saying, &#8216;No sword or famine will touch this land.&#8217; Those same prophets will perish by sword and famine. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And the people they are prophesying to will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them, their wives, their sons and their daughters. I will pour out on them the calamity they deserve.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.14.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Speak this word to them:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.14.17"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Let my eyes overflow with tears</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.14.17"><span class="content">night and day without ceasing;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.14.17"><span class="content">for the Virgin Daughter, my people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.14.17"><span class="content">has suffered a grievous wound,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.14.17"><span class="content">a crushing blow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.14.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">If I go into the country,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.14.18"><span class="content">I see those slain by the sword;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.14.18"><span class="content">if I go into the city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.14.18"><span class="content">I see the ravages of famine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.14.18"><span class="content">Both prophet and priest</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.14.18"><span class="content">have gone to a land they know not.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.14.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Have you rejected Judah completely?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.14.19"><span class="content">Do you despise Zion?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.14.19"><span class="content">Why have you afflicted us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.14.19"><span class="content">so that we cannot be healed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.14.19"><span class="content">We hoped for peace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.14.19"><span class="content">but no good has come,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.14.19"><span class="content">for a time of healing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.14.19"><span class="content">but there is only terror.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.14.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">We acknowledge our wickedness, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.14.20"><span class="content">and the guilt of our ancestors;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.14.20"><span class="content">we have indeed sinned against you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.14.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.14.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For the sake of your name do not despise us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.14.21"><span class="content">do not dishonor your glorious throne.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.14.21"><span class="content">Remember your covenant with us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.14.21"><span class="content">and do not break it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.14.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.14.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Do any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.14.22"><span class="content">Do the skies themselves send down showers?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.14.22"><span class="content">No, it is you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.14.22"><span class="content">Therefore our hope is in you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.14.22"><span class="content">for you are the one who does all this.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">15</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me: &#8220;Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my heart would not go out to this people. Send them away from my presence! Let them go! </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And if they ask you, &#8216;Where shall we go?&#8217; tell them, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.15.2"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Those destined for death, to death;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.15.2"><span class="content">those for the sword, to the sword;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.15.2"><span class="content">those for starvation, to starvation;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.15.2"><span class="content">those for captivity, to captivity.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.15.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will send four kinds of destroyers against them,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;the sword to kill and the dogs to drag away and the birds and the wild animals to devour and destroy. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I will make them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.15.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Who will have pity on you, Jerusalem?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.15.5"><span class="content">Who will mourn for you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.15.5"><span class="content">Who will stop to ask how you are?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.15.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You have rejected me,&#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 v6" data-usfm="JER.15.6"><span class="content">&#8220;You keep on backsliding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.15.6"><span class="content">So I will reach out and destroy you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.15.6"><span class="content">I am tired of holding back.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.15.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will winnow them with a winnowing fork</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.15.7"><span class="content">at the city gates of the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.15.7"><span class="content">I will bring bereavement and destruction on my people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.15.7"><span class="content">for they have not changed their ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.15.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I will make their widows more numerous</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.15.8"><span class="content">than the sand of the sea.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.15.8"><span class="content">At midday I will bring a destroyer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.15.8"><span class="content">against the mothers of their young men;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.15.8"><span class="content">suddenly I will bring down on them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.15.8"><span class="content">anguish and terror.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.15.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The mother of seven will grow faint</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.15.9"><span class="content">and breathe her last.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.15.9"><span class="content">Her sun will set while it is still day;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.15.9"><span class="content">she will be disgraced and humiliated.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.15.9"><span class="content">I will put the survivors to the sword</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.15.9"><span class="content">before their enemies,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.15.9"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.15.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Alas, my mother, that you gave me birth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.15.10"><span class="content">a man with whom the whole land strives and contends!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.15.10"><span class="content">I have neither lent nor borrowed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.15.10"><span class="content">yet everyone curses me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.15.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.15.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Surely I will deliver you for a good purpose;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.15.11"><span class="content">surely I will make your enemies plead with you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.15.11"><span class="content">in times of disaster and times of distress.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.15.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Can a man break iron&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.15.12"><span class="content">iron from the north&#8212;or bronze?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.15.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Your wealth and your treasures</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.15.13"><span class="content">I will give as plunder, without charge,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.15.13"><span class="content">because of all your sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.15.13"><span class="content">throughout your country.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.15.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I will enslave you to your enemies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.15.14"><span class="content">in</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:14 </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac (see also 17:4); most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">I will cause your enemies to bring you / into</span></span></span><span class="content"> a land you do not know,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.15.14"><span class="content">for my anger will kindle a fire</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.15.14"><span class="content">that will burn against you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.15.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you understand;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.15.15"><span class="content">remember me and care for me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.15.15"><span class="content">Avenge me on my persecutors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.15.15"><span class="content">You are long-suffering&#8212;do not take me away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.15.15"><span class="content">think of how I suffer reproach for your sake.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.15.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.15.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When your words came, I ate them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.15.16"><span class="content">they were my joy and my heart&#8217;s delight,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.15.16"><span class="content">for I bear your name,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.15.16"><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.15.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.15.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I never sat in the company of revelers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.15.17"><span class="content">never made merry with them;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.15.17"><span class="content">I sat alone because your hand was on me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.15.17"><span class="content">and you had filled me with indignation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.15.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.15.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Why is my pain unending</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.15.18"><span class="content">and my wound grievous and incurable?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.15.18"><span class="content">You are to me like a deceptive brook,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.15.18"><span class="content">like a spring that fails.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.15.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.15.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.15.19"><span class="content">&#8220;If you repent, I will restore you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.15.19"><span class="content">that you may serve me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.15.19"><span class="content">if you utter worthy, not worthless, words,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.15.19"><span class="content">you will be my spokesman.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.15.19"><span class="content">Let this people turn to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.15.19"><span class="content">but you must not turn to them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.15.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.15.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I will make you a wall to this people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.15.20"><span class="content">a fortified wall of bronze;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.15.20"><span class="content">they will fight against you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.15.20"><span class="content">but will not overcome you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.15.20"><span class="content">for I am with you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.15.20"><span class="content">to rescue and save you,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.15.20"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.15.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.15.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will save you from the hands of the wicked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.15.21"><span class="content">and deliver you from the grasp of the cruel.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">16</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Day of Disaster</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;You must not marry and have sons or daughters in this place.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says about the sons and daughters born in this land and about the women who are their mothers and the men who are their fathers: </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;They will die of deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will be like dung lying on the ground. They will perish by sword and famine, and their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.16.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8220;Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal; do not go to mourn or show sympathy, because I have withdrawn my blessing, my love and my pity from this people,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Both high and low will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, and no one will cut themselves or shave their head for the dead. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">No one will offer food to comfort those who mourn for the dead&#8212;not even for a father or a mother&#8212;nor will anyone give them a drink to console them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.16.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;And do not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down to eat and drink. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Before your eyes and in your days I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in this place.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.16.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;When you tell these people all this and they ask you, &#8216;Why has the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> decreed such a great disaster against us? What wrong have we done? What sin have we committed against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God?&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">then say to them, &#8216;It is because your ancestors forsook me,&#8217; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8216;and followed other gods and served and worshiped them. They forsook me and did not keep my law. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But you have behaved more wickedly than your ancestors. See how all of you are following the stubbornness of your evil hearts instead of obeying me. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So I will throw you out of this land into a land neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.16.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;However, the days are coming,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;when it will no longer be said, &#8216;As surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">but it will be said, &#8216;As surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them.&#8217; For I will restore them to the land I gave their ancestors.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.16.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;But now I will send for many fishermen,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill and from the crevices of the rocks. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.16.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from me, nor is their sin concealed from my eyes. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.16.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I will repay them double for their wickedness and their sin, because they have defiled my land with the lifeless forms of their vile images and have filled my inheritance with their detestable idols.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.16.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.16.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my strength and my fortress,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.16.19"><span class="content">my refuge in time of distress,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.16.19"><span class="content">to you the nations will come</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.16.19"><span class="content">from the ends of the earth and say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.16.19"><span class="content">&#8220;Our ancestors possessed nothing but false gods,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.16.19"><span class="content">worthless idols that did them no good.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.16.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.16.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Do people make their own gods?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.16.20"><span class="content">Yes, but they are not gods!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.16.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.16.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore I will teach them&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.16.21"><span class="content">this time I will teach them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.16.21"><span class="content">my power and might.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.16.21"><span class="content">Then they will know</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.16.21"><span class="content">that my name is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="MAT.17">
         <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Transfiguration</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Peter said to Jesus, &#8220;Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up three shelters&#8212;one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, &#8220;This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When the disciples heard this, they fell facedown to the ground, terrified. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But Jesus came and touched them. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Get up,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he said. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus instructed them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t tell anyone what you have seen, until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The disciples asked him, &#8220;Why then do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;To be sure, Elijah comes and will restore all things.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But I tell you, Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but have done to him everything they wished. In the same way the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then the disciples understood that he was talking to them about John the Baptist.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Heals a Demon-Possessed Boy</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt before him. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Lord, have mercy on my son,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He has seizures and is suffering greatly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.17.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You unbelieving and perverse generation,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed at that moment.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.17.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, &#8220;Why couldn&#8217;t we drive it out?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.17.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.17.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, &#8216;Move from here to there,&#8217; and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.17.21"><span class="label">[21]</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:21 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts include here words similar to Mark 9:29.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Predicts His Death a Second Time</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.17.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.17.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When they came together in Galilee, he said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.17.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised to life.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> And the disciples were filled with grief.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Temple Tax</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.17.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma temple tax came to Peter and asked, &#8220;Doesn&#8217;t your teacher pay the temple tax?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.17.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, he does,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.17.25"><span class="content">When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What do you think, Simon?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes&#8212;from their own children or from others?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.17.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;From others,&#8221; Peter answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.17.26"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then the children are exempt,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus said to him. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch18" data-usfm="MAT.18">
         <div class="label">18</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, &#8220;Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.18.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And he said: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Causing to Stumble</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.18.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If anyone causes one of these little ones&#8212;those who believe in me&#8212;to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Parable of the Wandering Sheep</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.18.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.18.11"><span class="label">[11]</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:11 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts include here the words of Luke 19:10.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.18.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Dealing With Sin in the Church</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.18.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If your brother or sister</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">18:15 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fq">brother or sister </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphos</span>) refers here to a fellow disciple, whether man or woman; also in verses 21 and 35.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">sins,</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:15 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">sins against you</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that &#8216;every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:16 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 19:15</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.18.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.18.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">18:18 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fqa">will have been</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will have been</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">loosed in heaven.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.18.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.18.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.18.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.18.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, &#8220;Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.18.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.18.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seventy times seven</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.18.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.18.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.18.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand bags of gold</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:24 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">ten thousand talents</span><span class="ft">; a talent was worth about 20 years of a day laborer&#8217;s wages.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">was brought to him.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.18.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.18.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.18.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;At this the servant fell on his knees before him. &#8216;Be patient with me,&#8217; he begged, &#8216;and I will pay back everything.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.18.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The servant&#8217;s master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.18.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.18.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred silver coins.</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">18:28 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fqa">a hundred denarii</span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">; a denarius was the usual daily wage of a day laborer (see 20:2).</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He grabbed him and began to choke him. &#8216;Pay back what you owe me!&#8217; he demanded.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.18.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.18.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, &#8216;Be patient with me, and I will pay it back.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.18.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.18.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.18.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">When the other servants saw what had happened, they were outraged and went and told their master everything that had happened.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.18.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.18.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then the master called the servant in. &#8216;You wicked servant,&#8217; he said, &#8216;I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.18.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Shouldn&#8217;t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MAT.18.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MAT.18.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MAT.18.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Divorce</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Jesus had finished saying these things, he left Galilee and went into the region of Judea to the other side of the Jordan. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.19.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, &#8220;Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.19.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Haven&#8217;t you read,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;that at the beginning the Creator &#8216;made them male and female,&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:4 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 1:27</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and said, &#8216;For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:5 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 2:24</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.19.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why then,&#8221; they asked, &#8220;did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.19.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.19.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The disciples said to him, &#8220;If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.19.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Not everyone can accept this word, but only those to whom it has been given.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others&#8212;and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Little Children and Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.19.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then people brought little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When he had placed his hands on them, he went on from there.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Rich and the Kingdom of God</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, &#8220;Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.19.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why do you ask me about what is good?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus replied. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.19.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Which ones?&#8221; he inquired.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.19.18"><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">honor your father and mother,&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:19 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 20:12-16; Deut. 5:16-20</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and &#8216;love your neighbor as yourself.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:19 </span><span class="ft">Lev. 19:18</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.19.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;All these I have kept,&#8221; the young man said. &#8220;What do I still lack?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.19.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.19.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then Jesus said to his disciples, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.19.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, &#8220;Who then can be saved?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.19.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Jesus looked at them and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.19.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Peter answered him, &#8220;We have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.19.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:29 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts do not have </span><span class="fqa">or wife.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.19.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.</span></span></span></div>
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