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         <div class="label">122</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 122</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A song of ascents. Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.122.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I rejoiced with those who said to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.122.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Let us go to the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.122.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.122.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Our feet are standing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.122.2"><span class="content">in your gates, Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.122.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.122.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Jerusalem is built like a city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.122.3"><span class="content">that is closely compacted together.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.122.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.122.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">That is where the tribes go up&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.122.4"><span class="content">the tribes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.122.4"><span class="content">to praise the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.122.4"><span class="content">according to the statute given to Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.122.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.122.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">There stand the thrones for judgment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.122.5"><span class="content">the thrones of the house of David.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.122.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.122.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.122.6"><span class="content">&#8220;May those who love you be secure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.122.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.122.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">May there be peace within your walls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.122.7"><span class="content">and security within your citadels.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.122.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.122.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For the sake of my family and friends,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.122.8"><span class="content">I will say, &#8220;Peace be within you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.122.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.122.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For the sake of the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.122.9"><span class="content">I will seek your prosperity.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">123</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 123</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A song of ascents.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.123.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I lift up my eyes to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.123.1"><span class="content">to you who sit enthroned in heaven.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.123.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.123.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.123.2"><span class="content">as the eyes of a female slave look to the hand of her mistress,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.123.2"><span class="content">so our eyes look to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.123.2"><span class="content">till he shows us his mercy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.123.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.123.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Have mercy on us, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, have mercy on us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.123.3"><span class="content">for we have endured no end of contempt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.123.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.123.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">We have endured no end</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.123.4"><span class="content">of ridicule from the arrogant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.123.4"><span class="content">of contempt from the proud.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">124</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 124</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A song of ascents. Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.124.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">If the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had not been on our side&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.124.1"><span class="content">let Israel say&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.124.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.124.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">if the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had not been on our side</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.124.2"><span class="content">when people attacked us,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.124.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.124.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">they would have swallowed us alive</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.124.3"><span class="content">when their anger flared against us;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.124.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.124.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">the flood would have engulfed us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.124.4"><span class="content">the torrent would have swept over us,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.124.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.124.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">the raging waters</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.124.5"><span class="content">would have swept us away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.124.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.124.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.124.6"><span class="content">who has not let us be torn by their teeth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.124.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.124.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">We have escaped like a bird</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.124.7"><span class="content">from the fowler&#8217;s snare;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.124.7"><span class="content">the snare has been broken,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.124.7"><span class="content">and we have escaped.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.124.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.124.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Our help is in the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.124.8"><span class="content">the Maker of heaven and earth.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JAS.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JAS.1.1"><span class="content">To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JAS.1.1"><span class="content">Greetings.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Trials and Temptations</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JAS.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JAS.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:2 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in verses 16 and 19; and in 2:1, 5, 14; 3:10, 12; 4:11; 5:7, 9, 10, 12, 19.</span></span></span><span class="content"> whenever you face trials of many kinds, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JAS.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JAS.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JAS.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JAS.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JAS.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JAS.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JAS.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JAS.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Believers in humble circumstances ought to take pride in their high position. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JAS.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But the rich should take pride in their humiliation&#8212;since they will pass away like a wild flower. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JAS.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way, the rich will fade away even while they go about their business.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JAS.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JAS.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JAS.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JAS.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When tempted, no one should say, &#8220;God is tempting me.&#8221; For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JAS.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JAS.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JAS.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JAS.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Don&#8217;t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JAS.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JAS.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Listening and Doing</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JAS.1.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JAS.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JAS.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JAS.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JAS.1.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JAS.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JAS.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JAS.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JAS.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it&#8212;not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it&#8212;they will be blessed in what they do.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JAS.1.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JAS.1.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JAS.1.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Favoritism Forbidden</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JAS.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JAS.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JAS.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, &#8220;Here&#8217;s a good seat for you,&#8221; but say to the poor man, &#8220;You stand there&#8221; or &#8220;Sit on the floor by my feet,&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JAS.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JAS.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JAS.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him? </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JAS.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court? </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JAS.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Are they not the ones who are blaspheming the noble name of him to whom you belong?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JAS.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JAS.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, &#8220;Love your neighbor as yourself,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:8 </span><span class="ft">Lev. 19:18</span></span></span><span class="content"> you are doing right. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JAS.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JAS.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JAS.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For he who said, &#8220;You shall not commit adultery,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:11 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 20:14; Deut. 5:18</span></span></span><span class="content"> also said, &#8220;You shall not murder.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:11 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 20:13; Deut. 5:17</span></span></span><span class="content"> If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JAS.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JAS.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JAS.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Faith and Deeds</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JAS.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JAS.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JAS.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JAS.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">If one of you says to them, &#8220;Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,&#8221; but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JAS.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JAS.2.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JAS.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But someone will say, &#8220;You have faith; I have deeds.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JAS.2.18"><span class="content">Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JAS.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that&#8212;and shudder.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JAS.2.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JAS.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:20 </span><span class="ft">Some early manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">dead</span></span></span><span class="content">? </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JAS.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JAS.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JAS.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">And the scripture was fulfilled that says, &#8220;Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:23 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 15:6</span></span></span><span class="content"> and he was called God&#8217;s friend. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JAS.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JAS.2.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JAS.2.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction? </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JAS.2.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Taming the Tongue</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JAS.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JAS.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JAS.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JAS.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JAS.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JAS.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JAS.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one&#8217;s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JAS.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JAS.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and sea creatures are being tamed and have been tamed by mankind, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JAS.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JAS.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JAS.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God&#8217;s likeness. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JAS.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JAS.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JAS.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">My brothers and sisters, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Two Kinds of Wisdom</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JAS.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JAS.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JAS.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JAS.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Such &#8220;wisdom&#8221; does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JAS.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JAS.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JAS.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JAS.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Obedience Commanded</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DEU.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now, Israel, hear the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God that I give you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You saw with your own eyes what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> did at Baal Peor. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God destroyed from among you everyone who followed the Baal of Peor, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">but all of you who held fast to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God are still alive today.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">See, I have taught you decrees and laws as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to take possession of it. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear about all these decrees and say, &#8220;Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God is near us whenever we pray to him? </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws as this body of laws I am setting before you today?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Remember the day you stood before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God at Horeb, when he said to me, &#8220;Assemble the people before me to hear my words so that they may learn to revere me as long as they live in the land and may teach them to their children.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain while it blazed with fire to the very heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of words but saw no form; there was only a voice. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> directed me at that time to teach you the decrees and laws you are to follow in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Idolatry Forbidden</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You saw no form of any kind the day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire. Therefore watch yourselves very carefully, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">or like any animal on earth or any bird that flies in the air, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">or like any creature that moves along the ground or any fish in the waters below. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars&#8212;all the heavenly array&#8212;do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But as for you, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> took you and brought you out of the iron-smelting furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of his inheritance, as you now are.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DEU.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was angry with me because of you, and he solemnly swore that I would not cross the Jordan and enter the good land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is giving you as your inheritance. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DEU.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I will die in this land; I will not cross the Jordan; but you are about to cross over and take possession of that good land. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DEU.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Be careful not to forget the covenant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has forbidden. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DEU.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DEU.4.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DEU.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">After you have had children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time&#8212;if you then become corrupt and make any kind of idol, doing evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God and arousing his anger, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DEU.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live there long but will certainly be destroyed. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="DEU.4.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will drive you. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="DEU.4.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="DEU.4.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">But if from there you seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="DEU.4.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God and obey him. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="DEU.4.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your ancestors, which he confirmed to them by oath.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading"> Is God</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="DEU.4.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="DEU.4.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of? </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="DEU.4.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Has any other people heard the voice of God</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:33 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">of a god</span></span></span><span class="content"> speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived? </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="DEU.4.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, or by great and awesome deeds, like all the things the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="DEU.4.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="DEU.4.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">You were shown these things so that you might know that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is God; besides him there is no other. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="DEU.4.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">From heaven he made you hear his voice to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from out of the fire. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="DEU.4.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Because he loved your ancestors and chose their descendants after them, he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence and his great strength, </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="DEU.4.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you into their land to give it to you for your inheritance, as it is today.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="DEU.4.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="DEU.4.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="DEU.4.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God gives you for all time.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Cities of Refuge</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="DEU.4.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="DEU.4.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Then Moses set aside three cities east of the Jordan, </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="DEU.4.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">to which anyone who had killed a person could flee if they had unintentionally killed a neighbor without malice aforethought. They could flee into one of these cities and save their life. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="DEU.4.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">The cities were these: Bezer in the wilderness plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Introduction to the Law</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="DEU.4.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="DEU.4.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">This is the law Moses set before the Israelites. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="DEU.4.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">These are the stipulations, decrees and laws Moses gave them when they came out of Egypt </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="DEU.4.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">and were in the valley near Beth Peor east of the Jordan, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon and was defeated by Moses and the Israelites as they came out of Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="DEU.4.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan. </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="DEU.4.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">This land extended from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge to Mount Sirion</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:48 </span><span class="ft">Syriac (see also 3:9); Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Siyon</span></span></span><span class="content"> (that is, Hermon), </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="DEU.4.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">and included all the Arabah east of the Jordan, as far as the Dead Sea,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:49 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">the Sea of the Arabah</span></span></span><span class="content"> below the slopes of Pisgah.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Ten Commandments</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DEU.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Moses summoned all Israel and said:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DEU.5.1"><span class="content">Hear, Israel, the decrees and laws I declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">It was not with our ancestors</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">not only with our parents</span></span></span><span class="content"> that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> made this covenant, but with us, with all of us who are alive here today. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">(At that time I stood between the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and you to declare to you the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain.) And he said:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pi3"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;You shall have no other gods before</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">besides</span></span></span><span class="content"> me.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.5.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;You shall not misuse the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has commanded you. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Six days you shall labor and do all your work, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">but the seventh day is a sabbath to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns, so that your male and female servants may rest, as you do. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.5.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Honor your father and your mother, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is giving you.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.5.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;You shall not murder.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.5.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;You shall not commit adultery.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.5.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;You shall not steal.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.5.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.5.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DEU.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;You shall not covet your neighbor&#8217;s wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor&#8217;s house or land, his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DEU.5.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DEU.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">These are the commandments the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness; and he added nothing more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DEU.5.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DEU.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When you heard the voice out of the darkness, while the mountain was ablaze with fire, all the leaders of your tribes and your elders came to me. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DEU.5.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And you said, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God has shown us his glory and his majesty, and we have heard his voice from the fire. Today we have seen that a person can live even if God speaks with them. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DEU.5.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">But now, why should we die? This great fire will consume us, and we will die if we hear the voice of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God any longer. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DEU.5.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For what mortal has ever heard the voice of the living God speaking out of fire, as we have, and survived? </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="DEU.5.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Go near and listen to all that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God says. Then tell us whatever the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God tells you. We will listen and obey.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="DEU.5.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="DEU.5.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> heard you when you spoke to me, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;I have heard what this people said to you. Everything they said was good. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="DEU.5.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="DEU.5.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="DEU.5.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go, tell them to return to their tents. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="DEU.5.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">But you stay here with me so that I may give you all the commands, decrees and laws you are to teach them to follow in the land I am giving them to possess.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="DEU.5.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="DEU.5.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">So be careful to do what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has commanded you; do not turn aside to the right or to the left. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="DEU.5.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Walk in obedience to all that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Love the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading"> Your God</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DEU.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">These are the commands, decrees and laws the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of your ancestors, promised you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Hear, O Israel: The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is one.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> our God is one <span class="nd">Lord</span></span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> is our God, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> is one</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> is our God, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> alone</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Love the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you&#8212;a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant&#8212;then when you eat and are satisfied, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">be careful that you do not forget the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Do not put the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God to the test as you did at Massah. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Be sure to keep the commands of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Do what is right and good in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s sight, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take over the good land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> promised on oath to your ancestors, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">thrusting out all your enemies before you, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.6.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">In the future, when your son asks you, &#8220;What is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees and laws the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God has commanded you?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DEU.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">tell him: &#8220;We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DEU.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Before our eyes the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sent signs and wonders&#8212;great and terrible&#8212;on Egypt and Pharaoh and his whole household. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DEU.6.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land he promised on oath to our ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DEU.6.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DEU.6.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And if we are careful to obey all this law before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bk2CH">
      <div class="chapter ch25" data-usfm="2CH.25">
         <div class="label">25</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Amaziah King of Judah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.25.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother&#8217;s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.25.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He did what was right in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, but not wholeheartedly. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.25.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">After the kingdom was firmly in his control, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.25.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Yet he did not put their children to death, but acted in accordance with what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded: &#8220;Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor children be put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:4 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 24:16</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.25.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.25.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Amaziah called the people of Judah together and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He then mustered those twenty years old or more and found that there were three hundred thousand men fit for military service, able to handle the spear and shield. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.25.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He also hired a hundred thousand fighting men from Israel for a hundred talents</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:6 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 3 3/4 tons or about 3.4 metric tons; also in verse 9</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.25.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.25.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But a man of God came to him and said, &#8220;Your Majesty, these troops from Israel must not march with you, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is not with Israel&#8212;not with any of the people of Ephraim. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.25.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Even if you go and fight courageously in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has the power to help or to overthrow.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.25.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.25.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Amaziah asked the man of God, &#8220;But what about the hundred talents I paid for these Israelite troops?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.25.9"><span class="content">The man of God replied, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> can give you much more than that.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.25.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.25.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So Amaziah dismissed the troops who had come to him from Ephraim and sent them home. They were furious with Judah and left for home in a great rage.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.25.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.25.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Amaziah then marshaled his strength and led his army to the Valley of Salt, where he killed ten thousand men of Seir. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.25.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The army of Judah also captured ten thousand men alive, took them to the top of a cliff and threw them down so that all were dashed to pieces.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.25.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.25.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Meanwhile the troops that Amaziah had sent back and had not allowed to take part in the war raided towns belonging to Judah from Samaria to Beth Horon. They killed three thousand people and carried off great quantities of plunder.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.25.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.25.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When Amaziah returned from slaughtering the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the people of Seir. He set them up as his own gods, bowed down to them and burned sacrifices to them. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.25.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The anger of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> burned against Amaziah, and he sent a prophet to him, who said, &#8220;Why do you consult this people&#8217;s gods, which could not save their own people from your hand?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.25.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.25.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">While he was still speaking, the king said to him, &#8220;Have we appointed you an adviser to the king? Stop! Why be struck down?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.25.16"><span class="content">So the prophet stopped but said, &#8220;I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.25.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.25.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">After Amaziah king of Judah consulted his advisers, he sent this challenge to Jehoash</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:17 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Joash, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Jehoash</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 18, 21, 23 and 25</span></span></span><span class="content"> son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel: &#8220;Come, let us face each other in battle.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.25.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.25.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: &#8220;A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, &#8216;Give your daughter to my son in marriage.&#8217; Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle underfoot. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.25.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You say to yourself that you have defeated Edom, and now you are arrogant and proud. But stay at home! Why ask for trouble and cause your own downfall and that of Judah also?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.25.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.25.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Amaziah, however, would not listen, for God so worked that he might deliver them into the hands of Jehoash, because they sought the gods of Edom. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.25.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So Jehoash king of Israel attacked. He and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth Shemesh in Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CH.25.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Judah was routed by Israel, and every man fled to his home. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CH.25.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:23 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Jehoahaz, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Ahaziah</span></span></span><span class="content"> at Beth Shemesh. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate&#8212;a section about four hundred cubits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:23 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 600 feet or about 180 meters</span></span></span><span class="content"> long. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CH.25.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the temple of God that had been in the care of Obed-Edom, together with the palace treasures and the hostages, and returned to Samaria.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CH.25.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2CH.25.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2CH.25.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">As for the other events of Amaziah&#8217;s reign, from beginning to end, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel? </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2CH.25.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">From the time that Amaziah turned away from following the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, they conspired against him in Jerusalem and he fled to Lachish, but they sent men after him to Lachish and killed him there. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2CH.25.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">He was brought back by horse and was buried with his ancestors in the City of Judah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:28 </span><span class="ft">Most Hebrew manuscripts; some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac (see also 2 Kings 14:20) </span><span class="fqa">David</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">26</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Uzziah King of Judah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.26.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:1 </span><span class="ft">Also called </span><span class="fqa">Azariah</span></span></span><span class="content"> who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.26.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after Amaziah rested with his ancestors.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.26.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.26.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother&#8217;s name was Jekoliah; she was from Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.26.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He did what was right in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, just as his father Amaziah had done. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.26.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He sought God during the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:5 </span><span class="ft">Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac; other Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">vision</span></span></span><span class="content"> of God. As long as he sought the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, God gave him success.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.26.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.26.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He went to war against the Philistines and broke down the walls of Gath, Jabneh and Ashdod. He then rebuilt towns near Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.26.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabs who lived in Gur Baal and against the Meunites. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.26.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The Ammonites brought tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread as far as the border of Egypt, because he had become very powerful.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.26.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.26.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate and at the angle of the wall, and he fortified them. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.26.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He also built towers in the wilderness and dug many cisterns, because he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain. He had people working his fields and vineyards in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.26.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.26.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Uzziah had a well-trained army, ready to go out by divisions according to their numbers as mustered by Jeiel the secretary and Maaseiah the officer under the direction of Hananiah, one of the royal officials. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.26.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The total number of family leaders over the fighting men was 2,600. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.26.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Under their command was an army of 307,500 men trained for war, a powerful force to support the king against his enemies. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.26.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Uzziah provided shields, spears, helmets, coats of armor, bows and slingstones for the entire army. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.26.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">In Jerusalem he made devices invented for use on the towers and on the corner defenses so that soldiers could shoot arrows and hurl large stones from the walls. His fame spread far and wide, for he was greatly helped until he became powerful.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.26.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.26.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But after Uzziah became powerful, his pride led to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God, and entered the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to burn incense on the altar of incense. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.26.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Azariah the priest with eighty other courageous priests of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> followed him in. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.26.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They confronted King Uzziah and said, &#8220;It is not right for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. That is for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who have been consecrated to burn incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful; and you will not be honored by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.26.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.26.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Uzziah, who had a censer in his hand ready to burn incense, became angry. While he was raging at the priests in their presence before the incense altar in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s temple, leprosy</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:19 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">leprosy </span><span class="ft">was used for various diseases affecting the skin; also in verses 20, 21 and 23.</span></span></span><span class="content"> broke out on his forehead. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.26.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">When Azariah the chief priest and all the other priests looked at him, they saw that he had leprosy on his forehead, so they hurried him out. Indeed, he himself was eager to leave, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had afflicted him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.26.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.26.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">King Uzziah had leprosy until the day he died. He lived in a separate house</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in a house where he was relieved of responsibilities</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;leprous, and banned from the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. Jotham his son had charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.26.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CH.26.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The other events of Uzziah&#8217;s reign, from beginning to end, are recorded by the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CH.26.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Uzziah rested with his ancestors and was buried near them in a cemetery that belonged to the kings, for people said, &#8220;He had leprosy.&#8221; And Jotham his son succeeded him as king.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">27</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jotham King of Judah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. His mother&#8217;s name was Jerusha daughter of Zadok. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He did what was right in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, just as his father Uzziah had done, but unlike him he did not enter the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. The people, however, continued their corrupt practices. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and did extensive work on the wall at the hill of Ophel. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He built towns in the hill country of Judah and forts and towers in the wooded areas.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.27.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Jotham waged war against the king of the Ammonites and conquered them. That year the Ammonites paid him a hundred talents</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 3 3/4 tons or about 3.4 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver, ten thousand cors</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 1,800 tons or about 1,600 metric tons of wheat</span></span></span><span class="content"> of wheat and ten thousand cors</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 1,500 tons or about 1,350 metric tons of barley</span></span></span><span class="content"> of barley. The Ammonites brought him the same amount also in the second and third years.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.27.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Jotham grew powerful because he walked steadfastly before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.27.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The other events in Jotham&#8217;s reign, including all his wars and the other things he did, are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Jotham rested with his ancestors and was buried in the City of David. And Ahaz his son succeeded him as king.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">28</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ahaz King of Judah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.28.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. Unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.28.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He followed the ways of the kings of Israel and also made idols for worshiping the Baals. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.28.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He burned sacrifices in the Valley of Ben Hinnom and sacrificed his children in the fire, engaging in the detestable practices of the nations the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had driven out before the Israelites. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.28.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.28.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.28.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Therefore the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God delivered him into the hands of the king of Aram. The Arameans defeated him and took many of his people as prisoners and brought them to Damascus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.28.5"><span class="content">He was also given into the hands of the king of Israel, who inflicted heavy casualties on him. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.28.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">In one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed a hundred and twenty thousand soldiers in Judah&#8212;because Judah had forsaken the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of their ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.28.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Zikri, an Ephraimite warrior, killed Maaseiah the king&#8217;s son, Azrikam the officer in charge of the palace, and Elkanah, second to the king. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.28.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The men of Israel took captive from their fellow Israelites who were from Judah two hundred thousand wives, sons and daughters. They also took a great deal of plunder, which they carried back to Samaria.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.28.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.28.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But a prophet of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army when it returned to Samaria. He said to them, &#8220;Because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of your ancestors, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches to heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.28.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And now you intend to make the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem your slaves. But aren&#8217;t you also guilty of sins against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God? </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.28.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now listen to me! Send back your fellow Israelites you have taken as prisoners, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s fierce anger rests on you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.28.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.28.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then some of the leaders in Ephraim&#8212;Azariah son of Jehohanan, Berekiah son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai&#8212;confronted those who were arriving from the war. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.28.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;You must not bring those prisoners here,&#8221; they said, &#8220;or we will be guilty before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. Do you intend to add to our sin and guilt? For our guilt is already great, and his fierce anger rests on Israel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.28.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.28.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So the soldiers gave up the prisoners and plunder in the presence of the officials and all the assembly. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.28.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The men designated by name took the prisoners, and from the plunder they clothed all who were naked. They provided them with clothes and sandals, food and drink, and healing balm. All those who were weak they put on donkeys. So they took them back to their fellow Israelites at Jericho, the City of Palms, and returned to Samaria.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.28.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.28.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">At that time King Ahaz sent to the kings</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:16 </span><span class="ft">Most Hebrew manuscripts; one Hebrew manuscript, Septuagint and Vulgate (see also 2 Kings 16:7) </span><span class="fqa">king</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Assyria for help. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.28.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The Edomites had again come and attacked Judah and carried away prisoners, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.28.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">while the Philistines had raided towns in the foothills and in the Negev of Judah. They captured and occupied Beth Shemesh, Aijalon and Gederoth, as well as Soko, Timnah and Gimzo, with their surrounding villages. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.28.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:19 </span><span class="ft">That is, Judah, as frequently in 2 Chronicles</span></span></span><span class="content"> for he had promoted wickedness in Judah and had been most unfaithful to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.28.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Tiglath-Pileser</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:20 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Tilgath-Pilneser, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Tiglath-Pileser</span></span></span><span class="content"> king of Assyria came to him, but he gave him trouble instead of help. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.28.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Ahaz took some of the things from the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and from the royal palace and from the officials and presented them to the king of Assyria, but that did not help him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.28.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CH.28.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">In his time of trouble King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CH.28.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus, who had defeated him; for he thought, &#8220;Since the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them so they will help me.&#8221; But they were his downfall and the downfall of all Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CH.28.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CH.28.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Ahaz gathered together the furnishings from the temple of God and cut them in pieces. He shut the doors of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s temple and set up altars at every street corner in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2CH.28.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">In every town in Judah he built high places to burn sacrifices to other gods and aroused the anger of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of his ancestors.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2CH.28.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2CH.28.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The other events of his reign and all his ways, from beginning to end, are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2CH.28.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Ahaz rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of Jerusalem, but he was not placed in the tombs of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son succeeded him as king.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">26</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.26.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Like snow in summer or rain in harvest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.26.1"><span class="content">honor is not fitting for a fool.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.26.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.26.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Like a fluttering sparrow or a darting swallow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.26.2"><span class="content">an undeserved curse does not come to rest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.26.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.26.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.26.3"><span class="content">and a rod for the backs of fools!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.26.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.26.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Do not answer a fool according to his folly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.26.4"><span class="content">or you yourself will be just like him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.26.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.26.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Answer a fool according to his folly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.26.5"><span class="content">or he will be wise in his own eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.26.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.26.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Sending a message by the hands of a fool</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.26.6"><span class="content">is like cutting off one&#8217;s feet or drinking poison.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.26.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.26.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Like the useless legs of one who is lame</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.26.7"><span class="content">is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.26.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.26.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Like tying a stone in a sling</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.26.8"><span class="content">is the giving of honor to a fool.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.26.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.26.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Like a thornbush in a drunkard&#8217;s hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.26.9"><span class="content">is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.26.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.26.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Like an archer who wounds at random</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.26.10"><span class="content">is one who hires a fool or any passer-by.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.26.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.26.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">As a dog returns to its vomit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.26.11"><span class="content">so fools repeat their folly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.26.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.26.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Do you see a person wise in their own eyes?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.26.12"><span class="content">There is more hope for a fool than for them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.26.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.26.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">A sluggard says, &#8220;There&#8217;s a lion in the road,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.26.13"><span class="content">a fierce lion roaming the streets!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.26.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.26.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">As a door turns on its hinges,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.26.14"><span class="content">so a sluggard turns on his bed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.26.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.26.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">A sluggard buries his hand in the dish;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.26.15"><span class="content">he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.26.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.26.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.26.16"><span class="content">than seven people who answer discreetly.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.26.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.26.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Like one who grabs a stray dog by the ears</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.26.17"><span class="content">is someone who rushes into a quarrel not their own.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.26.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.26.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Like a maniac shooting</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.26.18"><span class="content">flaming arrows of death</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.26.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.26.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">is one who deceives their neighbor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.26.19"><span class="content">and says, &#8220;I was only joking!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.26.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.26.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Without wood a fire goes out;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.26.20"><span class="content">without a gossip a quarrel dies down.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.26.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.26.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">As charcoal to embers and as wood to fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.26.21"><span class="content">so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.26.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.26.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The words of a gossip are like choice morsels;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.26.22"><span class="content">they go down to the inmost parts.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.26.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.26.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Like a coating of silver dross on earthenware</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.26.23"><span class="content">are fervent</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:23 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">smooth</span></span></span><span class="content"> lips with an evil heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.26.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.26.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Enemies disguise themselves with their lips,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.26.24"><span class="content">but in their hearts they harbor deceit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.26.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.26.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Though their speech is charming, do not believe them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.26.25"><span class="content">for seven abominations fill their hearts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.26.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.26.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Their malice may be concealed by deception,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.26.26"><span class="content">but their wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.26.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.26.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Whoever digs a pit will fall into it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.26.27"><span class="content">if someone rolls a stone, it will roll back on them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.26.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.26.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">A lying tongue hates those it hurts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.26.28"><span class="content">and a flattering mouth works ruin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">27</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Do not boast about tomorrow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.27.1"><span class="content">for you do not know what a day may bring.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.27.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.27.2"><span class="content">an outsider, and not your own lips.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.27.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Stone is heavy and sand a burden,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.27.3"><span class="content">but a fool&#8217;s provocation is heavier than both.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.27.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.27.4"><span class="content">but who can stand before jealousy?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.27.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Better is open rebuke</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.27.5"><span class="content">than hidden love.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.27.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Wounds from a friend can be trusted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.27.6"><span class="content">but an enemy multiplies kisses.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.27.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">One who is full loathes honey from the comb,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.27.7"><span class="content">but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.27.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Like a bird that flees its nest</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.27.8"><span class="content">is anyone who flees from home.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.27.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.27.9"><span class="content">and the pleasantness of a friend</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.27.9"><span class="content">springs from their heartfelt advice.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.27.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.27.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.27.10"><span class="content">and do not go to your relative&#8217;s house when disaster strikes you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.27.10"><span class="content">better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.27.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.27.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.27.11"><span class="content">then I can answer anyone who treats me with contempt.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.27.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.27.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The prudent see danger and take refuge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.27.12"><span class="content">but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.27.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.27.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.27.13"><span class="content">hold it in pledge if it is done for an outsider.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.27.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.27.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">If anyone loudly blesses their neighbor early in the morning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.27.14"><span class="content">it will be taken as a curse.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.27.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.27.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">A quarrelsome wife is like the dripping</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.27.15"><span class="content">of a leaky roof in a rainstorm;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.27.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.27.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">restraining her is like restraining the wind</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.27.16"><span class="content">or grasping oil with the hand.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.27.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.27.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">As iron sharpens iron,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.27.17"><span class="content">so one person sharpens another.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.27.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.27.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The one who guards a fig tree will eat its fruit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.27.18"><span class="content">and whoever protects their master will be honored.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.27.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.27.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">As water reflects the face,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.27.19"><span class="content">so one&#8217;s life reflects the heart.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">so others reflect your heart back to you</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.27.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.27.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Death and Destruction</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:20 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Abaddon</span></span></span><span class="content"> are never satisfied,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.27.20"><span class="content">and neither are human eyes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.27.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.27.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.27.21"><span class="content">but people are tested by their praise.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.27.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.27.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Though you grind a fool in a mortar,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.27.22"><span class="content">grinding them like grain with a pestle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.27.22"><span class="content">you will not remove their folly from them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.27.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.27.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Be sure you know the condition of your flocks,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.27.23"><span class="content">give careful attention to your herds;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.27.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.27.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">for riches do not endure forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.27.24"><span class="content">and a crown is not secure for all generations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.27.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.27.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When the hay is removed and new growth appears</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.27.25"><span class="content">and the grass from the hills is gathered in,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.27.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.27.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">the lambs will provide you with clothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.27.26"><span class="content">and the goats with the price of a field.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.27.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.27.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">You will have plenty of goats&#8217; milk to feed your family</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.27.27"><span class="content">and to nourish your female servants.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HAB.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The prophecy that Habakkuk the prophet received.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Habakkuk&#8217;s Complaint</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HAB.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HAB.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">How long, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, must I call for help,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HAB.1.2"><span class="content">but you do not listen?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HAB.1.2"><span class="content">Or cry out to you, &#8220;Violence!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HAB.1.2"><span class="content">but you do not save?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HAB.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HAB.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Why do you make me look at injustice?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HAB.1.3"><span class="content">Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HAB.1.3"><span class="content">Destruction and violence are before me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HAB.1.3"><span class="content">there is strife, and conflict abounds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HAB.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HAB.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Therefore the law is paralyzed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HAB.1.4"><span class="content">and justice never prevails.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HAB.1.4"><span class="content">The wicked hem in the righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HAB.1.4"><span class="content">so that justice is perverted.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Answer</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HAB.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HAB.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Look at the nations and watch&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HAB.1.5"><span class="content">and be utterly amazed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HAB.1.5"><span class="content">For I am going to do something in your days</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HAB.1.5"><span class="content">that you would not believe,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HAB.1.5"><span class="content">even if you were told.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HAB.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HAB.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I am raising up the Babylonians,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HAB.1.6"><span class="content">that ruthless and impetuous people,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HAB.1.6"><span class="content">who sweep across the whole earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HAB.1.6"><span class="content">to seize dwellings not their own.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HAB.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HAB.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They are a feared and dreaded people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HAB.1.7"><span class="content">they are a law to themselves</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HAB.1.7"><span class="content">and promote their own honor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HAB.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HAB.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Their horses are swifter than leopards,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HAB.1.8"><span class="content">fiercer than wolves at dusk.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HAB.1.8"><span class="content">Their cavalry gallops headlong;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HAB.1.8"><span class="content">their horsemen come from afar.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HAB.1.8"><span class="content">They fly like an eagle swooping to devour;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HAB.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HAB.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">they all come intent on violence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HAB.1.9"><span class="content">Their hordes</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:9 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> advance like a desert wind</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HAB.1.9"><span class="content">and gather prisoners like sand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HAB.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HAB.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They mock kings</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HAB.1.10"><span class="content">and scoff at rulers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HAB.1.10"><span class="content">They laugh at all fortified cities;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HAB.1.10"><span class="content">by building earthen ramps they capture them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HAB.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HAB.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then they sweep past like the wind and go on&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HAB.1.11"><span class="content">guilty people, whose own strength is their god.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Habakkuk&#8217;s Second Complaint</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HAB.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HAB.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, are you not from everlasting?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HAB.1.12"><span class="content">My God, my Holy One, you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:12 </span><span class="ft">An ancient Hebrew scribal tradition; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">we</span></span></span><span class="content"> will never die.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HAB.1.12"><span class="content">You, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, have appointed them to execute judgment;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HAB.1.12"><span class="content">you, my Rock, have ordained them to punish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HAB.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HAB.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Your eyes are too pure to look on evil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HAB.1.13"><span class="content">you cannot tolerate wrongdoing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HAB.1.13"><span class="content">Why then do you tolerate the treacherous?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HAB.1.13"><span class="content">Why are you silent while the wicked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HAB.1.13"><span class="content">swallow up those more righteous than themselves?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HAB.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HAB.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">You have made people like the fish in the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HAB.1.14"><span class="content">like the sea creatures that have no ruler.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HAB.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HAB.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The wicked foe pulls all of them up with hooks,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HAB.1.15"><span class="content">he catches them in his net,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HAB.1.15"><span class="content">he gathers them up in his dragnet;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HAB.1.15"><span class="content">and so he rejoices and is glad.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HAB.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HAB.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Therefore he sacrifices to his net</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HAB.1.16"><span class="content">and burns incense to his dragnet,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HAB.1.16"><span class="content">for by his net he lives in luxury</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HAB.1.16"><span class="content">and enjoys the choicest food.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HAB.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HAB.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Is he to keep on emptying his net,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HAB.1.17"><span class="content">destroying nations without mercy?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch2" data-usfm="HAB.2">
         <div class="label">2</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HAB.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I will stand at my watch</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HAB.2.1"><span class="content">and station myself on the ramparts;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HAB.2.1"><span class="content">I will look to see what he will say to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HAB.2.1"><span class="content">and what answer I am to give to this complaint.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and what to answer when I am rebuked</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Answer</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HAB.2.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HAB.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HAB.2.2"><span class="content">&#8220;Write down the revelation</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HAB.2.2"><span class="content">and make it plain on tablets</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HAB.2.2"><span class="content">so that a herald</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">so that whoever reads it</span></span></span><span class="content"> may run with it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HAB.2.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HAB.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For the revelation awaits an appointed time;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HAB.2.3"><span class="content">it speaks of the end</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HAB.2.3"><span class="content">and will not prove false.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HAB.2.3"><span class="content">Though it linger, wait for it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HAB.2.3"><span class="content">it</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Though he linger, wait for him; / he</span></span></span><span class="content"> will certainly come</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HAB.2.3"><span class="content">and will not delay.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HAB.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HAB.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, the enemy is puffed up;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HAB.2.4"><span class="content">his desires are not upright&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HAB.2.4"><span class="content">but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">faith</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HAB.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HAB.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">indeed, wine betrays him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HAB.2.5"><span class="content">he is arrogant and never at rest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HAB.2.5"><span class="content">Because he is as greedy as the grave</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HAB.2.5"><span class="content">and like death is never satisfied,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HAB.2.5"><span class="content">he gathers to himself all the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HAB.2.5"><span class="content">and takes captive all the peoples.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HAB.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HAB.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Will not all of them taunt him with ridicule and scorn, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HAB.2.6"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Woe to him who piles up stolen goods</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HAB.2.6"><span class="content">and makes himself wealthy by extortion!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HAB.2.6"><span class="content">How long must this go on?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HAB.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HAB.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Will not your creditors suddenly arise?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HAB.2.7"><span class="content">Will they not wake up and make you tremble?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HAB.2.7"><span class="content">Then you will become their prey.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HAB.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HAB.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Because you have plundered many nations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HAB.2.8"><span class="content">the peoples who are left will plunder you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HAB.2.8"><span class="content">For you have shed human blood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HAB.2.8"><span class="content">you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HAB.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HAB.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HAB.2.9"><span class="content">setting his nest on high</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HAB.2.9"><span class="content">to escape the clutches of ruin!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HAB.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HAB.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You have plotted the ruin of many peoples,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HAB.2.10"><span class="content">shaming your own house and forfeiting your life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HAB.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HAB.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The stones of the wall will cry out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HAB.2.11"><span class="content">and the beams of the woodwork will echo it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HAB.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HAB.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HAB.2.12"><span class="content">and establishes a town by injustice!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HAB.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HAB.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Has not the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty determined</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HAB.2.13"><span class="content">that the people&#8217;s labor is only fuel for the fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HAB.2.13"><span class="content">that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HAB.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HAB.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HAB.2.14"><span class="content">as the waters cover the sea.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HAB.2.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HAB.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HAB.2.15"><span class="content">pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HAB.2.15"><span class="content">so that he can gaze on their naked bodies!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HAB.2.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HAB.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">You will be filled with shame instead of glory.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HAB.2.16"><span class="content">Now it is your turn! Drink and let your nakedness be exposed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:16 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls, Aquila, Vulgate and Syriac (see also Septuagint) </span><span class="fqa">and stagger</span></span></span><span class="content">!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HAB.2.16"><span class="content">The cup from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s right hand is coming around to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HAB.2.16"><span class="content">and disgrace will cover your glory.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HAB.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HAB.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The violence you have done to Lebanon will overwhelm you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HAB.2.17"><span class="content">and your destruction of animals will terrify you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HAB.2.17"><span class="content">For you have shed human blood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HAB.2.17"><span class="content">you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HAB.2.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HAB.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Of what value is an idol carved by a craftsman?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HAB.2.18"><span class="content">Or an image that teaches lies?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HAB.2.18"><span class="content">For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HAB.2.18"><span class="content">he makes idols that cannot speak.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HAB.2.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HAB.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Woe to him who says to wood, &#8216;Come to life!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HAB.2.19"><span class="content">Or to lifeless stone, &#8216;Wake up!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HAB.2.19"><span class="content">Can it give guidance?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HAB.2.19"><span class="content">It is covered with gold and silver;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HAB.2.19"><span class="content">there is no breath in it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HAB.2.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="HAB.2.20"><span class="label">20</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 v20" data-usfm="HAB.2.20"><span class="content">let all the earth be silent before him.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkHAB">
      <div class="chapter ch3" data-usfm="HAB.3">
         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Habakkuk&#8217;s Prayer</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HAB.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet. On </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">shigionoth</span></span><span class="content">.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:1 </span><span class="ft">Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HAB.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HAB.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I have heard of your fame;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HAB.3.2"><span class="content">I stand in awe of your deeds, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HAB.3.2"><span class="content">Repeat them in our day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HAB.3.2"><span class="content">in our time make them known;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HAB.3.2"><span class="content">in wrath remember mercy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HAB.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HAB.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">God came from Teman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HAB.3.3"><span class="content">the Holy One from Mount Paran.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:3 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the middle of verse 9 and at the end of verse 13.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HAB.3.3"><span class="content">His glory covered the heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HAB.3.3"><span class="content">and his praise filled the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HAB.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HAB.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">His splendor was like the sunrise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HAB.3.4"><span class="content">rays flashed from his hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HAB.3.4"><span class="content">where his power was hidden.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HAB.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HAB.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Plague went before him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HAB.3.5"><span class="content">pestilence followed his steps.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HAB.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HAB.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He stood, and shook the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HAB.3.6"><span class="content">he looked, and made the nations tremble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HAB.3.6"><span class="content">The ancient mountains crumbled</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HAB.3.6"><span class="content">and the age-old hills collapsed&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HAB.3.6"><span class="content">but he marches on forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HAB.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HAB.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I saw the tents of Cushan in distress,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HAB.3.7"><span class="content">the dwellings of Midian in anguish.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HAB.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HAB.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Were you angry with the rivers, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HAB.3.8"><span class="content">Was your wrath against the streams?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HAB.3.8"><span class="content">Did you rage against the sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HAB.3.8"><span class="content">when you rode your horses</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HAB.3.8"><span class="content">and your chariots to victory?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HAB.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HAB.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You uncovered your bow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HAB.3.9"><span class="content">you called for many arrows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HAB.3.9"><span class="content">You split the earth with rivers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HAB.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HAB.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">the mountains saw you and writhed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HAB.3.10"><span class="content">Torrents of water swept by;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HAB.3.10"><span class="content">the deep roared</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HAB.3.10"><span class="content">and lifted its waves on high.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HAB.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HAB.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Sun and moon stood still in the heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HAB.3.11"><span class="content">at the glint of your flying arrows,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HAB.3.11"><span class="content">at the lightning of your flashing spear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HAB.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HAB.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">In wrath you strode through the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HAB.3.12"><span class="content">and in anger you threshed the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HAB.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HAB.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You came out to deliver your people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HAB.3.13"><span class="content">to save your anointed one.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HAB.3.13"><span class="content">You crushed the leader of the land of wickedness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HAB.3.13"><span class="content">you stripped him from head to foot.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HAB.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HAB.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">With his own spear you pierced his head</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HAB.3.14"><span class="content">when his warriors stormed out to scatter us,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HAB.3.14"><span class="content">gloating as though about to devour</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HAB.3.14"><span class="content">the wretched who were in hiding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HAB.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HAB.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You trampled the sea with your horses,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HAB.3.15"><span class="content">churning the great waters.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HAB.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HAB.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I heard and my heart pounded,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HAB.3.16"><span class="content">my lips quivered at the sound;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HAB.3.16"><span class="content">decay crept into my bones,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HAB.3.16"><span class="content">and my legs trembled.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HAB.3.16"><span class="content">Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HAB.3.16"><span class="content">to come on the nation invading us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HAB.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HAB.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Though the fig tree does not bud</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HAB.3.17"><span class="content">and there are no grapes on the vines,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HAB.3.17"><span class="content">though the olive crop fails</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HAB.3.17"><span class="content">and the fields produce no food,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HAB.3.17"><span class="content">though there are no sheep in the pen</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HAB.3.17"><span class="content">and no cattle in the stalls,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HAB.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HAB.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">yet I will rejoice in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HAB.3.18"><span class="content">I will be joyful in God my Savior.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HAB.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HAB.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is my strength;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HAB.3.19"><span class="content">he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HAB.3.19"><span class="content">he enables me to tread on the heights.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HAB.3.19"><span class="content">For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkACT">
      <div class="chapter ch9" data-usfm="ACT.9">
         <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Saul&#8217;s Conversion</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord&#8217;s disciples. He went to the high priest </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Who are you, Lord?&#8221; Saul asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.9.5"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he replied. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The men traveling with Saul stood there speechless; they heard the sound but did not see anyone. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could see nothing. So they led him by the hand into Damascus. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For three days he was blind, and did not eat or drink anything.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">In Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias. The Lord called to him in a vision, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Ananias!&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.9.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, Lord,&#8221; he answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The Lord told him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">In a vision he has seen a man named Ananias come and place his hands on him to restore his sight.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Lord,&#8221; Ananias answered, &#8220;I have heard many reports about this man and all the harm he has done to your holy people in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And he has come here with authority from the chief priests to arrest all who call on your name.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.9.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But the Lord said to Ananias, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go! This man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Ananias went to the house and entered it. Placing his hands on Saul, he said, &#8220;Brother Saul, the Lord&#8212;Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here&#8212;has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul&#8217;s eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">and after taking some food, he regained his strength.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Saul in Damascus and Jerusalem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.9.19"><span class="content">Saul spent several days with the disciples in Damascus. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">At once he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">All those who heard him were astonished and asked, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t he the man who raised havoc in Jerusalem among those who call on this name? And hasn&#8217;t he come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Yet Saul grew more and more powerful and baffled the Jews living in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Messiah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.9.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">After many days had gone by, there was a conspiracy among the Jews to kill him, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">but Saul learned of their plan. Day and night they kept close watch on the city gates in order to kill him. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">But his followers took him by night and lowered him in a basket through an opening in the wall.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.9.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">When he came to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he really was a disciple. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles. He told them how Saul on his journey had seen the Lord and that the Lord had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had preached fearlessly in the name of Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.9.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">So Saul stayed with them and moved about freely in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in the name of the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.9.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">He talked and debated with the Hellenistic Jews,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:29 </span><span class="ft">That is, Jews who had adopted the Greek language and culture</span></span></span><span class="content"> but they tried to kill him. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.9.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">When the believers learned of this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.9.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.9.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Aeneas and Dorcas</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.9.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.9.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">As Peter traveled about the country, he went to visit the Lord&#8217;s people who lived in Lydda. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.9.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">There he found a man named Aeneas, who was paralyzed and had been bedridden for eight years. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.9.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">&#8220;Aeneas,&#8221; Peter said to him, &#8220;Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and roll up your mat.&#8221; Immediately Aeneas got up. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.9.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">All those who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him and turned to the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.9.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.9.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (in Greek her name is Dorcas); she was always doing good and helping the poor. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.9.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">About that time she became sick and died, and her body was washed and placed in an upstairs room. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.9.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Lydda was near Joppa; so when the disciples heard that Peter was in Lydda, they sent two men to him and urged him, &#8220;Please come at once!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.9.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ACT.9.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Peter went with them, and when he arrived he was taken upstairs to the room. All the widows stood around him, crying and showing him the robes and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ACT.9.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="ACT.9.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Peter sent them all out of the room; then he got down on his knees and prayed. Turning toward the dead woman, he said, &#8220;Tabitha, get up.&#8221; She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter she sat up. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.9.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">He took her by the hand and helped her to her feet. Then he called for the believers, especially the widows, and presented her to them alive. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="ACT.9.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">This became known all over Joppa, and many people believed in the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="ACT.9.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Peter stayed in Joppa for some time with a tanner named Simon.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Cornelius Calls for Peter</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was known as the Italian Regiment. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He and all his family were devout and God-fearing; he gave generously to those in need and prayed to God regularly. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">One day at about three in the afternoon he had a vision. He distinctly saw an angel of God, who came to him and said, &#8220;Cornelius!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.10.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Cornelius stared at him in fear. &#8220;What is it, Lord?&#8221; he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.10.4"><span class="content">The angel answered, &#8220;Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Now send men to Joppa to bring back a man named Simon who is called Peter. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He is staying with Simon the tanner, whose house is by the sea.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier who was one of his attendants. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He told them everything that had happened and sent them to Joppa.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Peter&#8217;s Vision</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.10.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then a voice told him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.10.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely not, Lord!&#8221; Peter replied. &#8220;I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.10.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The voice spoke to him a second time, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.10.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.10.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">While Peter was wondering about the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius found out where Simon&#8217;s house was and stopped at the gate. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They called out, asking if Simon who was known as Peter was staying there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.10.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">While Peter was still thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, &#8220;Simon, three</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:19 </span><span class="ft">One early manuscript </span><span class="fqa">two</span><span class="ft">; other manuscripts do not have the number.</span></span></span><span class="content"> men are looking for you. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.10.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So get up and go downstairs. Do not hesitate to go with them, for I have sent them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.10.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.10.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Peter went down and said to the men, &#8220;I&#8217;m the one you&#8217;re looking for. Why have you come?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.10.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.10.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The men replied, &#8220;We have come from Cornelius the centurion. He is a righteous and God-fearing man, who is respected by all the Jewish people. A holy angel told him to ask you to come to his house so that he could hear what you have to say.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.10.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then Peter invited the men into the house to be his guests.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Peter at Cornelius&#8217;s House</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.10.23"><span class="content">The next day Peter started out with them, and some of the believers from Joppa went along. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.10.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The following day he arrived in Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.10.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As Peter entered the house, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet in reverence. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.10.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">But Peter made him get up. &#8220;Stand up,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I am only a man myself.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.10.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.10.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">While talking with him, Peter went inside and found a large gathering of people. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.10.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">He said to them: &#8220;You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.10.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">So when I was sent for, I came without raising any objection. May I ask why you sent for me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.10.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.10.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Cornelius answered: &#8220;Three days ago I was in my house praying at this hour, at three in the afternoon. Suddenly a man in shining clothes stood before me </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.10.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">and said, &#8216;Cornelius, God has heard your prayer and remembered your gifts to the poor. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.10.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter. He is a guest in the home of Simon the tanner, who lives by the sea.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.10.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">So I sent for you immediately, and it was good of you to come. Now we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has commanded you to tell us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.10.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.10.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Then Peter began to speak: &#8220;I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.10.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.10.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, announcing the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.10.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">You know what has happened throughout the province of Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.10.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.10.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ACT.10.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">&#8220;We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a cross, </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="ACT.10.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.10.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen&#8212;by us who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="ACT.10.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one whom God appointed as judge of the living and the dead. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="ACT.10.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="ACT.10.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="ACT.10.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="ACT.10.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on Gentiles. </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="ACT.10.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">For they heard them speaking in tongues</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:46 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">other languages</span></span></span><span class="content"> and praising God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="ACT.10.46"><span class="content">Then Peter said, </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="ACT.10.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="ACT.10.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked Peter to stay with them for a few days.</span></span></div>
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