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            <div class="label">9</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 9</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">Psalms 9 and 10 may originally have been a single acrostic poem in which alternating lines began with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Septuagint they 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 9:1-20 is numbered 9:2-21.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. To the tune of &#8220;The Death of the Son.&#8221; A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I will give thanks to you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, with all my heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.9.1"><span class="content">I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.9.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I will be glad and rejoice in you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.9.2"><span class="content">I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">My enemies turn back;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.9.3"><span class="content">they stumble and perish before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.9.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For you have upheld my right and my cause,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.9.4"><span class="content">sitting enthroned as the righteous judge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.9.5"><span class="content">you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Endless ruin has overtaken my enemies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.9.6"><span class="content">you have uprooted their cities;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.9.6"><span class="content">even the memory of them has perished.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> reigns forever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.9.7"><span class="content">he has established his throne for judgment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He rules the world in righteousness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.9.8"><span class="content">and judges the peoples with equity.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is a refuge for the oppressed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.9.9"><span class="content">a stronghold in times of trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Those who know your name trust in you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.9.10"><span class="content">for you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, have never forsaken those who seek you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Sing the praises of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, enthroned in Zion;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.9.11"><span class="content">proclaim among the nations what he has done.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For he who avenges blood remembers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.9.12"><span class="content">he does not ignore the cries of the afflicted.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, see how my enemies persecute me!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.9.13"><span class="content">Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.9.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">that I may declare your praises</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.9.14"><span class="content">in the gates of Daughter Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.9.14"><span class="content">and there rejoice in your salvation.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.9.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.9.15"><span class="content">their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.9.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is known by his acts of justice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.9.16"><span class="content">the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:16 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Higgaion </span><span class="ft">and </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(words of uncertain meaning) here; </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">occurs also at the end of verse 20.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The wicked go down to the realm of the dead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.9.17"><span class="content">all the nations that forget God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.9.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But God will never forget the needy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.9.18"><span class="content">the hope of the afflicted will never perish.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.9.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Arise, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do not let mortals triumph;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.9.19"><span class="content">let the nations be judged in your presence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.9.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Strike them with terror, </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="PSA.9.20"><span class="content">let the nations know they are only mortal.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch10" data-usfm="PSA.10">
            <div class="label">10</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 10</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">Psalms 9 and 10 may originally have been a single acrostic poem in which alternating lines began with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Septuagint they constitute one psalm.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Why, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do you stand far off?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.10.1"><span class="content">Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.10.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.10.2"><span class="content">who are caught in the schemes he devises.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.10.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He boasts about the cravings of his heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.10.3"><span class="content">he blesses the greedy and reviles the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.10.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In his pride the wicked man does not seek him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.10.4"><span class="content">in all his thoughts there is no room for God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.10.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">His ways are always prosperous;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.10.5"><span class="content">your laws are rejected by</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:5 </span><span class="ft">See Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">/ they are haughty, and your laws are far from</span></span></span><span class="content"> him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.10.5"><span class="content">he sneers at all his enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He says to himself, &#8220;Nothing will ever shake me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.10.6"><span class="content">He swears, &#8220;No one will ever do me harm.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">His mouth is full of lies and threats;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.10.7"><span class="content">trouble and evil are under his tongue.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.10.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He lies in wait near the villages;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.10.8"><span class="content">from ambush he murders the innocent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.10.8"><span class="content">His eyes watch in secret for his victims;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.10.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">like a lion in cover he lies in wait.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.10.9"><span class="content">He lies in wait to catch the helpless;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.10.9"><span class="content">he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.10.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">His victims are crushed, they collapse;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.10.10"><span class="content">they fall under his strength.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.10.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He says to himself, &#8220;God will never notice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.10.11"><span class="content">he covers his face and never sees.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.10.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Arise, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">! Lift up your hand, O God.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.10.12"><span class="content">Do not forget the helpless.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.10.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Why does the wicked man revile God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.10.13"><span class="content">Why does he say to himself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.10.13"><span class="content">&#8220;He won&#8217;t call me to account&#8221;?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.10.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.10.14"><span class="content">you consider their grief and take it in hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.10.14"><span class="content">The victims commit themselves to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.10.14"><span class="content">you are the helper of the fatherless.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.10.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Break the arm of the wicked man;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.10.15"><span class="content">call the evildoer to account for his wickedness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.10.15"><span class="content">that would not otherwise be found out.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.10.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is King for ever and ever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.10.16"><span class="content">the nations will perish from his land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.10.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">You, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, hear the desire of the afflicted;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.10.17"><span class="content">you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.10.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">defending the fatherless and the oppressed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.10.18"><span class="content">so that mere earthly mortals</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.10.18"><span class="content">will never again strike terror.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">11</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 11</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> I take refuge.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.11.1"><span class="content">How then can you say to me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.11.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Flee like a bird to your mountain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.11.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For look, the wicked bend their bows;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.11.2"><span class="content">they set their arrows against the strings</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.11.2"><span class="content">to shoot from the shadows</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.11.2"><span class="content">at the upright in heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.11.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When the foundations are being destroyed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.11.3"><span class="content">what can the righteous do?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.11.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is in his holy temple;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.11.4"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is on his heavenly throne.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.11.4"><span class="content">He observes everyone on earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.11.4"><span class="content">his eyes examine them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.11.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> examines the righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.11.5"><span class="content">but the wicked, those who love violence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.11.5"><span class="content">he hates with a passion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.11.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">On the wicked he will rain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.11.6"><span class="content">fiery coals and burning sulfur;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.11.6"><span class="content">a scorching wind will be their lot.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.11.7"><span class="content">he loves justice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.11.7"><span class="content">the upright will see his face.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch7" data-usfm="ROM.7">
            <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Released From the Law, Bound to Christ</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Do you not know, brothers and sisters&#8212;for I am speaking to those who know the law&#8212;that the law has authority over someone only as long as that person lives? </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So then, if she has sexual relations with another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For when we were in the realm of the flesh,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:5 </span><span class="ft">In contexts like this, the Greek word for </span><span class="fq">flesh </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">sarx</span>) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit.</span></span></span><span class="content"> the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Law and Sin</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, &#8220;You shall not covet.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:7 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 20:17; Deut. 5:21</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">my flesh</span></span></span><span class="content"> For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do&#8212;this I keep on doing. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.7.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For in my inner being I delight in God&#8217;s law; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.7.25"><span class="content">So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God&#8217;s law, but in my sinful nature</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in the flesh</span></span></span><span class="content"> a slave to the law of sin.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkROM">
        <div class="chapter ch8" data-usfm="ROM.8">
            <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Life Through the Spirit</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:2 </span><span class="ft">The Greek is singular; some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">me</span></span></span><span class="content"> free from the law of sin and death. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:3 </span><span class="ft">In contexts like this, the Greek word for </span><span class="fq">flesh </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">sarx</span>) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verses 4-13.</span></span></span><span class="content"> God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">flesh, for sin</span></span></span><span class="content"> And so he condemned sin in the flesh, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God&#8217;s law, nor can it do so. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive</span></span></span><span class="content"> because of righteousness. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:11 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">bodies through</span></span></span><span class="content"> his Spirit who lives in you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation&#8212;but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:15 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">adoption to sonship </span><span class="ft">is a term referring to the full legal standing of an adopted male heir in Roman culture; also in verse 23.</span></span></span><span class="content"> And by him we cry, &#8220;</span><span class="tl"><span class="content">Abba,</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:15 </span><span class="ft">Aramaic for </span><span class="fqa">father</span></span></span><span class="content"> Father.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God&#8217;s children. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Now if we are children, then we are heirs&#8212;heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Present Suffering and Future Glory</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.8.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">that</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:20,21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">subjected it in hope. </span><span class="fv">21 </span><span class="fqa">For</span></span></span><span class="content"> the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.8.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.8.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.8.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.8.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.8.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.8.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.8.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God&#8217;s people in accordance with the will of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.8.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ROM.8.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:28 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">that all things work together for good to those who love God, who</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">that in all things God works together with those who love him to bring about what is good&#8212;with those who</span></span></span><span class="content"> have been called according to his purpose. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.8.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ROM.8.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">More Than Conquerors</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ROM.8.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ROM.8.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ROM.8.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all&#8212;how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.8.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ROM.8.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died&#8212;more than that, who was raised to life&#8212;is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ROM.8.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ROM.8.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">As it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ROM.8.36"><span class="content">&#8220;For your sake we face death all day long;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ROM.8.36"><span class="content">we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:36 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 44:22</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ROM.8.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ROM.8.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ROM.8.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:38 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">nor heavenly rulers</span></span></span><span class="content"> neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ROM.8.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.</span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkGEN">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="GEN.12">
            <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Call of Abram</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had said to Abram, &#8220;Go from your country, your people and your father&#8217;s household to the land I will show you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.12.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will make you into a great nation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.12.2"><span class="content">and I will bless you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.12.2"><span class="content">I will make your name great,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.12.2"><span class="content">and you will be a blessing.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">be seen as blessed</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.12.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I will bless those who bless you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.12.3"><span class="content">and whoever curses you I will curse;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.12.3"><span class="content">and all peoples on earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.12.3"><span class="content">will be blessed through you.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">earth / will use your name in blessings </span><span class="ft">(see 48:20)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.12.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So Abram went, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.12.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to Abram and said, &#8220;To your offspring</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seed</span></span></span><span class="content"> I will give this land.&#8221; So he built an altar there to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who had appeared to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.12.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and called on the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.12.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Abram in Egypt</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.12.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, &#8220;I know what a beautiful woman you are. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When the Egyptians see you, they will say, &#8216;This is his wife.&#8217; Then they will kill me but will let you live. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.12.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And when Pharaoh&#8217;s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his palace. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.12.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram&#8217;s wife Sarai. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.12.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">So Pharaoh summoned Abram. &#8220;What have you done to me?&#8221; he said. &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t you tell me she was your wife? </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.12.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Why did you say, &#8216;She is my sister,&#8217; so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.12.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then Pharaoh gave orders about Abram to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and everything he had.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Abram and Lot Separate</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.13.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.13.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And quarreling arose between Abram&#8217;s herders and Lot&#8217;s. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So Abram said to Lot, &#8220;Let&#8217;s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Is not the whole land before you? Let&#8217;s part company. If you go to the left, I&#8217;ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I&#8217;ll go to the left.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.13.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company: </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.13.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, &#8220;Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seed</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 16</span></span></span><span class="content"> forever. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.13.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">14</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Abram Rescues Lot</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">At the time when Amraphel was king of Shinar,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:1 </span><span class="ft">That is, Babylonia; also in verse 9</span></span></span><span class="content"> Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of Goyim, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">these kings went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboyim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar). </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">All these latter kings joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Dead Sea Valley). </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For twelve years they had been subject to Kedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.14.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and the Horites in the hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran near the desert. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then they turned back and went to En Mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who were living in Hazezon Tamar.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.14.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboyim and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) marched out and drew up their battle lines in the Valley of Siddim </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">against Kedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goyim, Amraphel king of Shinar and Arioch king of Ellasar&#8212;four kings against five. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some of the men fell into them and the rest fled to the hills. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food; then they went away. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They also carried off Abram&#8217;s nephew Lot and his possessions, since he was living in Sodom.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.14.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">A man who had escaped came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the great trees of Mamre the Amorite, a brother</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">a relative</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">an ally</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Eshkol and Aner, all of whom were allied with Abram. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">During the night Abram divided his men to attack them and he routed them, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He recovered all the goods and brought back his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the other people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.14.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom came out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King&#8217;s Valley).</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.14.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">and he blessed Abram, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.14.19"><span class="content">&#8220;Blessed be Abram by God Most High,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.14.19"><span class="content">Creator of heaven and earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.14.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And praise be to God Most High,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.14.20"><span class="content">who delivered your enemies into your hand.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.14.20"><span class="content">Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.14.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.14.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The king of Sodom said to Abram, &#8220;Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.14.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.14.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But Abram said to the king of Sodom, &#8220;With raised hand I have sworn an oath to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.14.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">that I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, &#8216;I made Abram rich.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.14.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share that belongs to the men who went with me&#8212;to Aner, Eshkol and Mamre. Let them have their share.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="GEN.15">
            <div class="label">15</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Covenant With Abram</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After this, the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to Abram in a vision:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.15.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not be afraid, Abram.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.15.1"><span class="content">I am your shield,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">sovereign</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.15.1"><span class="content">your very great reward.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">shield; / your reward will be very great</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.15.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But Abram said, &#8220;Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:2 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And Abram said, &#8220;You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.15.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to him: &#8220;This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He took him outside and said, &#8220;Look up at the sky and count the stars&#8212;if indeed you can count them.&#8221; Then he said to him, &#8220;So shall your offspring</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seed</span></span></span><span class="content"> be.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.15.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Abram believed the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and he credited it to him as righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.15.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He also said to him, &#8220;I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.15.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But Abram said, &#8220;Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.15.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to him, &#8220;Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.15.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.15.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to him, &#8220;Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.15.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.15.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.15.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.15.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">On that day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> made a covenant with Abram and said, &#8220;To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">river</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.15.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.15.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.15.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">16</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Allotment for Ephraim and Manasseh</span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The allotment for Joseph began at the Jordan, east of the springs of Jericho, and went up from there through the desert into the hill country of Bethel. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">It went on from Bethel (that is, Luz),</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:2 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Bethel to Luz</span></span></span><span class="content"> crossed over to the territory of the Arkites in Ataroth, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">descended westward to the territory of the Japhletites as far as the region of Lower Beth Horon and on to Gezer, ending at the Mediterranean Sea.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.16.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So Manasseh and Ephraim, the descendants of Joseph, received their inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.16.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">This was the territory of Ephraim, according to its clans:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.16.5"><span class="content">The boundary of their inheritance went from Ataroth Addar in the east to Upper Beth Horon </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and continued to the Mediterranean Sea. From Mikmethath on the north it curved eastward to Taanath Shiloh, passing by it to Janoah on the east. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then it went down from Janoah to Ataroth and Naarah, touched Jericho and came out at the Jordan. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">From Tappuah the border went west to the Kanah Ravine and ended at the Mediterranean Sea. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the Ephraimites, according to its clans. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">It also included all the towns and their villages that were set aside for the Ephraimites within the inheritance of the Manassites.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.16.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They did not dislodge the Canaanites living in Gezer; to this day the Canaanites live among the people of Ephraim but are required to do forced labor.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">17</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph&#8217;s firstborn, that is, for Makir, Manasseh&#8217;s firstborn. Makir was the ancestor of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because the Makirites were great soldiers. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So this allotment was for the rest of the people of Manasseh&#8212;the clans of Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher and Shemida. These are the other male descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph by their clans.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons but only daughters, whose names were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milkah and Tirzah. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They went to Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our relatives.&#8221; So Joshua gave them an inheritance along with the brothers of their father, according to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s command. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Manasseh&#8217;s share consisted of ten tracts of land besides Gilead and Bashan east of the Jordan, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">because the daughters of the tribe of Manasseh received an inheritance among the sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the descendants of Manasseh.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The territory of Manasseh extended from Asher to Mikmethath east of Shechem. The boundary ran southward from there to include the people living at En Tappuah. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">(Manasseh had the land of Tappuah, but Tappuah itself, on the boundary of Manasseh, belonged to the Ephraimites.) </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then the boundary continued south to the Kanah Ravine. There were towns belonging to Ephraim lying among the towns of Manasseh, but the boundary of Manasseh was the northern side of the ravine and ended at the Mediterranean Sea. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">On the south the land belonged to Ephraim, on the north to Manasseh. The territory of Manasseh reached the Mediterranean Sea and bordered Asher on the north and Issachar on the east.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Within Issachar and Asher, Manasseh also had Beth Shan, Ibleam and the people of Dor, Endor, Taanach and Megiddo, together with their surrounding settlements (the third in the list is Naphoth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:11 </span><span class="ft">That is, Naphoth Dor</span></span></span><span class="content">).</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Yet the Manassites were not able to occupy these towns, for the Canaanites were determined to live in that region. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they subjected the Canaanites to forced labor but did not drive them out completely.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The people of Joseph said to Joshua, &#8220;Why have you given us only one allotment and one portion for an inheritance? We are a numerous people, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has blessed us abundantly.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you are so numerous,&#8221; Joshua answered, &#8220;and if the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go up into the forest and clear land for yourselves there in the land of the Perizzites and Rephaites.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.17.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The people of Joseph replied, &#8220;The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who live in the plain have chariots fitted with iron, both those in Beth Shan and its settlements and those in the Valley of Jezreel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.17.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But Joshua said to the tribes of Joseph&#8212;to Ephraim and Manasseh&#8212;&#8220;You are numerous and very powerful. You will have not only one allotment </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">but the forested hill country as well. Clear it, and its farthest limits will be yours; though the Canaanites have chariots fitted with iron and though they are strong, you can drive them out.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch18" data-usfm="JOS.18">
            <div class="label">18</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Division of the Rest of the Land</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The whole assembly of the Israelites gathered at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The country was brought under their control, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">but there were still seven Israelite tribes who had not yet received their inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.18.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So Joshua said to the Israelites: &#8220;How long will you wait before you begin to take possession of the land that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of your ancestors, has given you? </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Appoint three men from each tribe. I will send them out to make a survey of the land and to write a description of it, according to the inheritance of each. Then they will return to me. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You are to divide the land into seven parts. Judah is to remain in its territory on the south and the tribes of Joseph in their territory on the north. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">After you have written descriptions of the seven parts of the land, bring them here to me and I will cast lots for you in the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The Levites, however, do not get a portion among you, because the priestly service of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is their inheritance. And Gad, Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have already received their inheritance on the east side of the Jordan. Moses the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave it to them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.18.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">As the men started on their way to map out the land, Joshua instructed them, &#8220;Go and make a survey of the land and write a description of it. Then return to me, and I will cast lots for you here at Shiloh in the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So the men left and went through the land. They wrote its description on a scroll, town by town, in seven parts, and returned to Joshua in the camp at Shiloh. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Joshua then cast lots for them in Shiloh in the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and there he distributed the land to the Israelites according to their tribal divisions.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Allotment for Benjamin</span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.18.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The first lot came up for the tribe of Benjamin according to its clans. Their allotted territory lay between the tribes of Judah and Joseph:</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.18.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">On the north side their boundary began at the Jordan, passed the northern slope of Jericho and headed west into the hill country, coming out at the wilderness of Beth Aven. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">From there it crossed to the south slope of Luz (that is, Bethel) and went down to Ataroth Addar on the hill south of Lower Beth Horon.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.18.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">From the hill facing Beth Horon on the south the boundary turned south along the western side and came out at Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim), a town of the people of Judah. This was the western side.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.18.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The southern side began at the outskirts of Kiriath Jearim on the west, and the boundary came out at the spring of the waters of Nephtoah. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The boundary went down to the foot of the hill facing the Valley of Ben Hinnom, north of the Valley of Rephaim. It continued down the Hinnom Valley along the southern slope of the Jebusite city and so to En Rogel. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">It then curved north, went to En Shemesh, continued to Geliloth, which faces the Pass of Adummim, and ran down to the Stone of Bohan son of Reuben. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.18.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">It continued to the northern slope of Beth Arabah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:18 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">slope facing the Arabah</span></span></span><span class="content"> and on down into the Arabah. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.18.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">It then went to the northern slope of Beth Hoglah and came out at the northern bay of the Dead Sea, at the mouth of the Jordan in the south. This was the southern boundary.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.18.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.18.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The Jordan formed the boundary on the eastern side.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.18.20"><span class="content">These were the boundaries that marked out the inheritance of the clans of Benjamin on all sides.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.18.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The tribe of Benjamin, according to its clans, had the following towns:</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.18.21"><span class="content">Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz, </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.18.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.18.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Avvim, Parah, Ophrah, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.18.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Kephar Ammoni, Ophni and Geba&#8212;twelve towns and their villages.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.18.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOS.18.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOS.18.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Mizpah, Kephirah, Mozah, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.18.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah, </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOS.18.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Zelah, Haeleph, the Jebusite city (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah and Kiriath&#8212;fourteen towns and their villages.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOS.18.28"><span class="content">This was the inheritance of Benjamin for its clans.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch19" data-usfm="JOS.19">
            <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Allotment for Simeon</span></div><div class="m"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The second lot came out for the tribe of Simeon according to its clans. Their inheritance lay within the territory of Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">It included:</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.19.2"><span class="content">Beersheba (or Sheba),</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Beersheba, Sheba</span><span class="ft">; 1 Chron. 4:28 does not have </span><span class="fq">Sheba</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> Moladah, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Hazar Shual, Balah, Ezem, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Ziklag, Beth Markaboth, Hazar Susah, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Beth Lebaoth and Sharuhen&#8212;thirteen towns and their villages;</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.19.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Ain, Rimmon, Ether and Ashan&#8212;four towns and their villages&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and all the villages around these towns as far as Baalath Beer (Ramah in the Negev).</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.19.8"><span class="content">This was the inheritance of the tribe of the Simeonites, according to its clans. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The inheritance of the Simeonites was taken from the share of Judah, because Judah&#8217;s portion was more than they needed. So the Simeonites received their inheritance within the territory of Judah.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Allotment for Zebulun</span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.19.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The third lot came up for Zebulun according to its clans:</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.19.10"><span class="content">The boundary of their inheritance went as far as Sarid. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Going west it ran to Maralah, touched Dabbesheth, and extended to the ravine near Jokneam. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">It turned east from Sarid toward the sunrise to the territory of Kisloth Tabor and went on to Daberath and up to Japhia. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then it continued eastward to Gath Hepher and Eth Kazin; it came out at Rimmon and turned toward Neah. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">There the boundary went around on the north to Hannathon and ended at the Valley of Iphtah El. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Included were Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah and Bethlehem. There were twelve towns and their villages.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">These towns and their villages were the inheritance of Zebulun, according to its clans.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Allotment for Issachar</span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.19.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The fourth lot came out for Issachar according to its clans. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Their territory included:</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.19.18"><span class="content">Jezreel, Kesulloth, Shunem, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Remeth, En Gannim, En Haddah and Beth Pazzez. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The boundary touched Tabor, Shahazumah and Beth Shemesh, and ended at the Jordan. There were sixteen towns and their villages.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Issachar, according to its clans.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Allotment for Asher</span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.19.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The fifth lot came out for the tribe of Asher according to its clans. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOS.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Their territory included:</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOS.19.25"><span class="content">Helkath, Hali, Beten, Akshaph, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOS.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Allammelek, Amad and Mishal. On the west the boundary touched Carmel and Shihor Libnath. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">It then turned east toward Beth Dagon, touched Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtah El, and went north to Beth Emek and Neiel, passing Kabul on the left. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOS.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">It went to Abdon,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:28 </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts (see also 21:30); most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Ebron</span></span></span><span class="content"> Rehob, Hammon and Kanah, as far as Greater Sidon. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOS.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">The boundary then turned back toward Ramah and went to the fortified city of Tyre, turned toward Hosah and came out at the Mediterranean Sea in the region of Akzib, </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOS.19.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Ummah, Aphek and Rehob. There were twenty-two towns and their villages.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOS.19.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOS.19.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Asher, according to its clans.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Allotment for Naphtali</span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOS.19.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOS.19.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The sixth lot came out for Naphtali according to its clans:</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOS.19.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOS.19.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Their boundary went from Heleph and the large tree in Zaanannim, passing Adami Nekeb and Jabneel to Lakkum and ending at the Jordan. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOS.19.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">The boundary ran west through Aznoth Tabor and came out at Hukkok. It touched Zebulun on the south, Asher on the west and the Jordan</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:34 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">west, and Judah, the Jordan,</span></span></span><span class="content"> on the east. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOS.19.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">The fortified towns were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Kinnereth, </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JOS.19.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Adamah, Ramah, Hazor, </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JOS.19.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Kedesh, Edrei, En Hazor, </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JOS.19.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Iron, Migdal El, Horem, Beth Anath and Beth Shemesh. There were nineteen towns and their villages.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JOS.19.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JOS.19.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Naphtali, according to its clans.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Allotment for Dan</span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JOS.19.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JOS.19.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">The seventh lot came out for the tribe of Dan according to its clans. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JOS.19.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">The territory of their inheritance included:</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JOS.19.41"><span class="content">Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir Shemesh, </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JOS.19.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah, </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="JOS.19.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Elon, Timnah, Ekron, </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="JOS.19.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath, </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JOS.19.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">Jehud, Bene Berak, Gath Rimmon, </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="JOS.19.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">Me Jarkon and Rakkon, with the area facing Joppa.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="JOS.19.46"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="JOS.19.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">(When the territory of the Danites was lost to them, they went up and attacked Leshem, took it, put it to the sword and occupied it. They settled in Leshem and named it Dan after their ancestor.)</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="JOS.19.47"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="JOS.19.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Dan, according to its clans.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Allotment for Joshua</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="JOS.19.48"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="JOS.19.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">When they had finished dividing the land into its allotted portions, the Israelites gave Joshua son of Nun an inheritance among them, </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="JOS.19.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded. They gave him the town he asked for&#8212;Timnath Serah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:50 </span><span class="ft">Also known as </span><span class="fqa">Timnath Heres </span><span class="ft">(see Judges 2:9)</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the hill country of Ephraim. And he built up the town and settled there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="JOS.19.50"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="JOS.19.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">These are the territories that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the tribal clans of Israel assigned by lot at Shiloh in the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> at the entrance to the tent of meeting. And so they finished dividing the land.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch20" data-usfm="JOS.20">
            <div class="label">20</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Cities of Refuge</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.20.1"><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 Joshua: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">so that anyone who kills a person accidentally and unintentionally may flee there and find protection from the avenger of blood. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When they flee to one of these cities, they are to stand in the entrance of the city gate and state their case before the elders of that city. Then the elders are to admit the fugitive into their city and provide a place to live among them. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If the avenger of blood comes in pursuit, the elders must not surrender the fugitive, because the fugitive killed their neighbor unintentionally and without malice aforethought. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They are to stay in that city until they have stood trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest who is serving at that time. Then they may go back to their own home in the town from which they fled.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.20.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">East of the Jordan (on the other side from Jericho) they designated Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau in the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead in the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan in the tribe of Manasseh. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Any of the Israelites or any foreigner residing among them who killed someone accidentally could flee to these designated cities and not be killed by the avenger of blood prior to standing trial before the assembly.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">7</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not mortals have hard service on earth?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.7.1"><span class="content">Are not their days like those of hired laborers?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Like a slave longing for the evening shadows,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.7.2"><span class="content">or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">so I have been allotted months of futility,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.7.3"><span class="content">and nights of misery have been assigned to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When I lie down I think, &#8216;How long before I get up?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.7.4"><span class="content">The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My body is clothed with worms and scabs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.7.5"><span class="content">my skin is broken and festering.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;My days are swifter than a weaver&#8217;s shuttle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.7.6"><span class="content">and they come to an end without hope.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.7.7"><span class="content">my eyes will never see happiness again.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The eye that now sees me will see me no longer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.7.8"><span class="content">you will look for me, but I will be no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">As a cloud vanishes and is gone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.7.9"><span class="content">so one who goes down to the grave does not return.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He will never come to his house again;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.7.10"><span class="content">his place will know him no more.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore I will not keep silent;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="content">I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="content">I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.7.12"><span class="content">that you put me under guard?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When I think my bed will comfort me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.7.13"><span class="content">and my couch will ease my complaint,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">even then you frighten me with dreams</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.7.14"><span class="content">and terrify me with visions,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">so that I prefer strangling and death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.7.15"><span class="content">rather than this body of mine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I despise my life; I would not live forever.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.7.16"><span class="content">Let me alone; my days have no meaning.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;What is mankind that you make so much of them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.7.17"><span class="content">that you give them so much attention,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.7.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">that you examine them every morning</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.7.18"><span class="content">and test them every moment?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.7.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Will you never look away from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.7.19"><span class="content">or let me alone even for an instant?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.7.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">If I have sinned, what have I done to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">you who see everything we do?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">Why have you made me your target?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">Have I become a burden to you?</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:20 </span><span class="ft">A few manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition and Septuagint; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">I have become a burden to myself.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Why do you not pardon my offenses</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">and forgive my sins?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">For I will soon lie down in the dust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">you will search for me, but I will be no more.&#8221;</span></span></div>
        </div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkJOB">
        <div class="chapter ch8" data-usfm="JOB.8">
            <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Bildad</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.8.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;How long will you say such things?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.8.2"><span class="content">Your words are a blustering wind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.8.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Does God pervert justice?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.8.3"><span class="content">Does the Almighty pervert what is right?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.8.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When your children sinned against him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.8.4"><span class="content">he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But if you will seek God earnestly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.8.5"><span class="content">and plead with the Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">if you are pure and upright,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.8.6"><span class="content">even now he will rouse himself on your behalf</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.8.6"><span class="content">and restore you to your prosperous state.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Your beginnings will seem humble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.8.7"><span class="content">so prosperous will your future be.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Ask the former generation</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.8.8"><span class="content">and find out what their ancestors learned,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">for we were born only yesterday and know nothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.8.9"><span class="content">and our days on earth are but a shadow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Will they not instruct you and tell you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.8.10"><span class="content">Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.8.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.8.11"><span class="content">Can reeds thrive without water?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">While still growing and uncut,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.8.12"><span class="content">they wither more quickly than grass.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Such is the destiny of all who forget God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.8.13"><span class="content">so perishes the hope of the godless.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">What they trust in is fragile</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:14 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.8.14"><span class="content">what they rely on is a spider&#8217;s web.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.8.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">They lean on the web, but it gives way;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.8.15"><span class="content">they cling to it, but it does not hold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.8.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.8.16"><span class="content">spreading its shoots over the garden;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.8.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.8.17"><span class="content">and looks for a place among the stones.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.8.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But when it is torn from its spot,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.8.18"><span class="content">that place disowns it and says, &#8216;I never saw you.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.8.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Surely its life withers away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.8.19"><span class="content">and</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Surely all the joy it has / is that</span></span></span><span class="content"> from the soil other plants grow.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.8.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely God does not reject one who is blameless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.8.20"><span class="content">or strengthen the hands of evildoers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.8.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He will yet fill your mouth with laughter</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.8.21"><span class="content">and your lips with shouts of joy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.8.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Your enemies will be clothed in shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.8.22"><span class="content">and the tents of the wicked will be no more.&#8221;</span></span></div>
        </div>
    </div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkISA">
        <div class="chapter ch18" data-usfm="ISA.18">
            <div class="label">18</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Cush</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Woe to the land of whirring wings</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">of locusts</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.18.1"><span class="content">along the rivers of Cush,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:1 </span><span class="ft">That is, the upper Nile region</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.18.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">which sends envoys by sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">in papyrus boats over the water.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">Go, swift messengers,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">to a people tall and smooth-skinned,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">to a people feared far and wide,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">an aggressive nation of strange speech,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">whose land is divided by rivers.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">All you people of the world,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">you who live on the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">when a banner is raised on the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">you will see it,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">and when a trumpet sounds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">you will hear it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="content">&#8220;I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="content">like shimmering heat in the sunshine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="content">like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="content">and the flower becomes a ripening grape,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="content">he will cut off the shoots with pruning knives,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="content">and cut down and take away the spreading branches.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="content">and to the wild animals;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="content">the birds will feed on them all summer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="content">the wild animals all winter.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">At that time gifts will be brought to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">from a people tall and smooth-skinned,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">from a people feared far and wide,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">an aggressive nation of strange speech,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">whose land is divided by rivers&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkISA">
        <div class="chapter ch19" data-usfm="ISA.19">
            <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Egypt</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prophecy against Egypt:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.19.1"><span class="content">See, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> rides on a swift cloud</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.19.1"><span class="content">and is coming to Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.19.1"><span class="content">The idols of Egypt tremble before him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.19.1"><span class="content">and the hearts of the Egyptians melt with fear.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.19.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.19.2"><span class="content">brother will fight against brother,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.19.2"><span class="content">neighbor against neighbor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.19.2"><span class="content">city against city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.19.2"><span class="content">kingdom against kingdom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.19.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The Egyptians will lose heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.19.3"><span class="content">and I will bring their plans to nothing;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.19.3"><span class="content">they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.19.3"><span class="content">the mediums and the spiritists.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.19.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I will hand the Egyptians over</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.19.4"><span class="content">to the power of a cruel master,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.19.4"><span class="content">and a fierce king will rule over them,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.19.4"><span class="content">declares the Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.19.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The waters of the river will dry up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.19.5"><span class="content">and the riverbed will be parched and dry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.19.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The canals will stink;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.19.6"><span class="content">the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.19.6"><span class="content">The reeds and rushes will wither,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.19.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">also the plants along the Nile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.19.7"><span class="content">at the mouth of the river.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.19.7"><span class="content">Every sown field along the Nile</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.19.7"><span class="content">will become parched, will blow away and be no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.19.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The fishermen will groan and lament,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.19.8"><span class="content">all who cast hooks into the Nile;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.19.8"><span class="content">those who throw nets on the water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.19.8"><span class="content">will pine away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Those who work with combed flax will despair,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.19.9"><span class="content">the weavers of fine linen will lose hope.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.19.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The workers in cloth will be dejected,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.19.10"><span class="content">and all the wage earners will be sick at heart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.19.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.19.11"><span class="content">the wise counselors of Pharaoh give senseless advice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.19.11"><span class="content">How can you say to Pharaoh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.19.11"><span class="content">&#8220;I am one of the wise men,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.19.11"><span class="content">a disciple of the ancient kings&#8221;?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.19.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Where are your wise men now?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.19.12"><span class="content">Let them show you and make known</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.19.12"><span class="content">what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.19.12"><span class="content">has planned against Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.19.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The officials of Zoan have become fools,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.19.13"><span class="content">the leaders of Memphis are deceived;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.19.13"><span class="content">the cornerstones of her peoples</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.19.13"><span class="content">have led Egypt astray.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has poured into them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.19.14"><span class="content">a spirit of dizziness;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.19.14"><span class="content">they make Egypt stagger in all that she does,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.19.14"><span class="content">as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.19.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">There is nothing Egypt can do&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.19.15"><span class="content">head or tail, palm branch or reed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">In that day the Egyptians will become weaklings. They will shudder with fear at the uplifted hand that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty raises against them. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And the land of Judah will bring terror to the Egyptians; everyone to whom Judah is mentioned will be terrified, because of what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty is planning against them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.19.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">In that day five cities in Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:18 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls, Symmachus and Vulgate; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">City of Destruction</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.19.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">In that day there will be an altar to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in the heart of Egypt, and a monument to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> at its border. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">It will be a sign and witness to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and he will rescue them. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. They will worship with sacrifices and grain offerings; they will make vows to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and keep them. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will strike Egypt with a plague; he will strike them and heal them. They will turn to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:24 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Assyria, whose names will be used in blessings </span><span class="ft">(see Gen. 48:20); or </span><span class="fqa">Assyria, who will be seen by others as blessed</span></span></span><span class="content"> on the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty will bless them, saying, &#8220;Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork, and Israel my inheritance.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">20</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Egypt and Cush</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the year that the supreme commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">at that time the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him, &#8220;Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet.&#8221; And he did so, going around stripped and barefoot.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.20.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;Just as my servant Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years, as a sign and portent against Egypt and Cush,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:3 </span><span class="ft">That is, the upper Nile region; also in verse 5</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">so the king of Assyria will lead away stripped and barefoot the Egyptian captives and Cushite exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared&#8212;to Egypt&#8217;s shame. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Those who trusted in Cush and boasted in Egypt will be dismayed and put to shame. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">In that day the people who live on this coast will say, &#8216;See what has happened to those we relied on, those we fled to for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Babylon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prophecy against the Desert by the Sea:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.21.1"><span class="content">Like whirlwinds sweeping through the southland,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.21.1"><span class="content">an invader comes from the desert,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.21.1"><span class="content">from a land of terror.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.21.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">A dire vision has been shown to me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.21.2"><span class="content">The traitor betrays, the looter takes loot.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.21.2"><span class="content">Elam, attack! Media, lay siege!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.21.2"><span class="content">I will bring to an end all the groaning she caused.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.21.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">At this my body is racked with pain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.21.3"><span class="content">pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.21.3"><span class="content">I am staggered by what I hear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.21.3"><span class="content">I am bewildered by what I see.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.21.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">My heart falters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.21.4"><span class="content">fear makes me tremble;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.21.4"><span class="content">the twilight I longed for</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.21.4"><span class="content">has become a horror to me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.21.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They set the tables,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.21.5"><span class="content">they spread the rugs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.21.5"><span class="content">they eat, they drink!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.21.5"><span class="content">Get up, you officers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.21.5"><span class="content">oil the shields!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.21.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">This is what the Lord says to me:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.21.6"><span class="content">&#8220;Go, post a lookout</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.21.6"><span class="content">and have him report what he sees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.21.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When he sees chariots</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.21.7"><span class="content">with teams of horses,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.21.7"><span class="content">riders on donkeys</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.21.7"><span class="content">or riders on camels,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.21.7"><span class="content">let him be alert,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.21.7"><span class="content">fully alert.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And the lookout</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:8 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls and Syriac; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">A lion</span></span></span><span class="content"> shouted,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.21.8"><span class="content">&#8220;Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.21.8"><span class="content">every night I stay at my post.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.21.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Look, here comes a man in a chariot</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.21.9"><span class="content">with a team of horses.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.21.9"><span class="content">And he gives back the answer:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.21.9"><span class="content">&#8216;Babylon has fallen, has fallen!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.21.9"><span class="content">All the images of its gods</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.21.9"><span class="content">lie shattered on the ground!&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.21.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My people who are crushed on the threshing floor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.21.10"><span class="content">I tell you what I have heard</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.21.10"><span class="content">from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.21.10"><span class="content">from the God of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Edom</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.21.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">A prophecy against Dumah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:11 </span><span class="fq">Dumah</span><span class="ft">, a wordplay on </span><span class="fq">Edom</span><span class="ft">, means silence or stillness.</span></span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.21.11"><span class="content">Someone calls to me from Seir,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.21.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Watchman, what is left of the night?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.21.11"><span class="content">Watchman, what is left of the night?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.21.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The watchman replies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.21.12"><span class="content">&#8220;Morning is coming, but also the night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.21.12"><span class="content">If you would ask, then ask;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.21.12"><span class="content">and come back yet again.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Arabia</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.21.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">A prophecy against Arabia:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.21.13"><span class="content">You caravans of Dedanites,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.21.13"><span class="content">who camp in the thickets of Arabia,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.21.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">bring water for the thirsty;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.21.14"><span class="content">you who live in Tema,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.21.14"><span class="content">bring food for the fugitives.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.21.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">They flee from the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.21.15"><span class="content">from the drawn sword,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.21.15"><span class="content">from the bent bow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.21.15"><span class="content">and from the heat of battle.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.21.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">This is what the Lord says to me: &#8220;Within one year, as a servant bound by contract would count it, all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The survivors of the archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.&#8221; The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, has spoken.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch22" data-usfm="ISA.22">
            <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy About Jerusalem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prophecy against the Valley of Vision:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.22.1"><span class="content">What troubles you now,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.22.1"><span class="content">that you have all gone up on the roofs,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">you town so full of commotion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.22.2"><span class="content">you city of tumult and revelry?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.22.2"><span class="content">Your slain were not killed by the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.22.2"><span class="content">nor did they die in battle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">All your leaders have fled together;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.22.3"><span class="content">they have been captured without using the bow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.22.3"><span class="content">All you who were caught were taken prisoner together,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.22.3"><span class="content">having fled while the enemy was still far away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.22.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Therefore I said, &#8220;Turn away from me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.22.4"><span class="content">let me weep bitterly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.22.4"><span class="content">Do not try to console me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.22.4"><span class="content">over the destruction of my people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, has a day</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.22.5"><span class="content">of tumult and trampling and terror</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.22.5"><span class="content">in the Valley of Vision,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.22.5"><span class="content">a day of battering down walls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.22.5"><span class="content">and of crying out to the mountains.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Elam takes up the quiver,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.22.6"><span class="content">with her charioteers and horses;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.22.6"><span class="content">Kir uncovers the shield.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.22.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Your choicest valleys are full of chariots,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.22.7"><span class="content">and horsemen are posted at the city gates.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.22.8"><span class="content">and you looked in that day</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.22.8"><span class="content">to the weapons in the Palace of the Forest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You saw that the walls of the City of David</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.22.9"><span class="content">were broken through in many places;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.22.9"><span class="content">you stored up water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.22.9"><span class="content">in the Lower Pool.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You counted the buildings in Jerusalem</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.22.10"><span class="content">and tore down houses to strengthen the wall.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You built a reservoir between the two walls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.22.11"><span class="content">for the water of the Old Pool,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.22.11"><span class="content">but you did not look to the One who made it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.22.11"><span class="content">or have regard for the One who planned it long ago.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.22.12"><span class="content">called you on that day</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.22.12"><span class="content">to weep and to wail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.22.12"><span class="content">to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But see, there is joy and revelry,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.22.13"><span class="content">slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.22.13"><span class="content">eating of meat and drinking of wine!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.22.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Let us eat and drink,&#8221; you say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.22.13"><span class="content">&#8220;for tomorrow we die!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty has revealed this in my hearing: &#8220;Till your dying day this sin will not be atoned for,&#8221; says the Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">This is what the Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.22.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Go, say to this steward,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.22.15"><span class="content">to Shebna the palace administrator:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.22.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">What are you doing here and who gave you permission</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.22.16"><span class="content">to cut out a grave for yourself here,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.22.16"><span class="content">hewing your grave on the height</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.22.16"><span class="content">and chiseling your resting place in the rock?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Beware, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is about to take firm hold of you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.22.17"><span class="content">and hurl you away, you mighty man.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He will roll you up tightly like a ball</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.22.18"><span class="content">and throw you into a large country.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.22.18"><span class="content">There you will die</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.22.18"><span class="content">and there the chariots you were so proud of</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.22.18"><span class="content">will become a disgrace to your master&#8217;s house.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I will depose you from your office,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.22.19"><span class="content">and you will be ousted from your position.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day I will summon my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash around him and hand your authority over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David; what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I will drive him like a peg into a firm place; he will become a seat</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:23 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">throne</span></span></span><span class="content"> of honor for the house of his father. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots&#8212;all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.22.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, &#8220;the peg driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down.&#8221; The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken.</span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkMRK">
        <div class="chapter ch7" data-usfm="MRK.7">
            <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">That Which Defiles</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">(The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the elders. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they wash. And they observe many other traditions, such as the washing of cups, pitchers and kettles.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:4 </span><span class="ft">Some early manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">pitchers, kettles and dining couches</span></span></span><span class="content">)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with defiled hands?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.7.6"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;These people honor me with their lips,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.7.6"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">but their hearts are far from me.</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They worship me in vain;</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.7.7"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">their teachings are merely human rules.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">7:7 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Isaiah 29:13
          </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And he continued, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:9 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">set up</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">your own traditions!</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For Moses said, &#8216;Honor your father and mother,&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:10 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 20:12; Deut. 5:16</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and, &#8216;Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:10 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 21:17; Lev. 20:9</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is Corban (that is, devoted to God)&#8212;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">then you no longer let them do anything for their father or mother.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to me, everyone, and understand this.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.7.16"><span class="label">[16]</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:16 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts include here the words of 4:23.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Are you so dull?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For it doesn&#8217;t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.7.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He went on: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What comes out of a person is what defiles them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For it is from within, out of a person&#8217;s heart, that evil thoughts come&#8212;sexual immorality, theft, murder,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">All these evils come from inside and defile a person.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Honors a Syrophoenician Woman&#8217;s Faith</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.7.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Jesus left that place and went to the vicinity of Tyre.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:24 </span><span class="ft">Many early manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Tyre and Sidon</span></span></span><span class="content"> He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it; yet he could not keep his presence secret. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">In fact, as soon as she heard about him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an impure spirit came and fell at his feet. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.7.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.7.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.7.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;First let the children eat all they want,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he told her, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;for it is not right to take the children&#8217;s bread and toss it to the dogs.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.7.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.7.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;Lord,&#8221; she replied, &#8220;even the dogs under the table eat the children&#8217;s crumbs.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.7.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.7.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Then he told her, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;For such a reply, you may go; the demon has left your daughter.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.7.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MRK.7.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">She went home and found her child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Heals a Deaf and Mute Man</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MRK.7.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.7.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:31 </span><span class="ft">That is, the Ten Cities</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.7.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">There some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged Jesus to place his hand on him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.7.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MRK.7.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man&#8217;s ears. Then he spit and touched the man&#8217;s tongue. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.7.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him, </span><span class="tl"><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Ephphatha!&#8221;</span></span></span><span class="content"> (which means </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Be opened!&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">). </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MRK.7.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">At this, the man&#8217;s ears were opened, his tongue was loosened and he began to speak plainly.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MRK.7.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.7.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone. But the more he did so, the more they kept talking about it. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MRK.7.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">People were overwhelmed with amazement. &#8220;He has done everything well,&#8221; they said. &#8220;He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">During those days another large crowd gathered. Since they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to him and said, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, because some of them have come a long distance.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.8.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">His disciples answered, &#8220;But where in this remote place can anyone get enough bread to feed them?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;How many loaves do you have?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.8.5"><span class="content">&#8220;Seven,&#8221; they replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He told the crowd to sit down on the ground. When he had taken the seven loaves and given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples to distribute to the people, and they did so. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They had a few small fish as well; he gave thanks for them also and told the disciples to distribute them. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The people ate and were satisfied. Afterward the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">About four thousand were present. After he had sent them away, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">he got into the boat with his disciples and went to the region of Dalmanutha.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.8.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The Pharisees came and began to question Jesus. To test him, they asked him for a sign from heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He sighed deeply and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why does this generation ask for a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to it.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then he left them, got back into the boat and crossed to the other side.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Yeast of the Pharisees and Herod</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The disciples had forgotten to bring bread, except for one loaf they had with them in the boat. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Be careful,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus warned them. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and that of Herod.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.8.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They discussed this with one another and said, &#8220;It is because we have no bread.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.8.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked them: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don&#8217;t you remember?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.8.19"><span class="content">&#8220;Twelve,&#8221; they replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.8.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.8.20"><span class="content">They answered, &#8220;Seven.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.8.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you still not understand?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Heals a Blind Man at Bethsaida</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.8.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.8.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spit on the man&#8217;s eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you see anything?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.8.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.8.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">He looked up and said, &#8220;I see people; they look like trees walking around.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.8.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.8.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Once more Jesus put his hands on the man&#8217;s eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.8.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Jesus sent him home, saying, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t even go into</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:26 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">go and tell anyone in</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">the village.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Peter Declares That Jesus Is the Messiah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.8.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.8.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Who do people say I am?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.8.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.8.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">They replied, &#8220;Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.8.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.8.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But what about you?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Who do you say I am?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.8.29"><span class="content">Peter answered, &#8220;You are the Messiah.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.8.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MRK.8.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about him.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Predicts His Death</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MRK.8.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.8.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.8.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.8.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MRK.8.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Get behind me, Satan!&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he said. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Way of the Cross</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MRK.8.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.8.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MRK.8.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For whoever wants to save their life</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:35 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word means either </span><span class="fqa">life </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">soul</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 36 and 37.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.8.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MRK.8.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MRK.8.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father&#8217;s glory with the holy angels.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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