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    <div class="book bkPSA">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="PSA.12">
            <div class="label">12</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 12</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 12:1-8 is numbered 12:2-9.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. According to </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">sheminith.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Help, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, for no one is faithful anymore;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.12.1"><span class="content">those who are loyal have vanished from the human race.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.12.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Everyone lies to their neighbor;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.12.2"><span class="content">they flatter with their lips</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.12.2"><span class="content">but harbor deception in their hearts.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.12.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> silence all flattering lips</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.12.3"><span class="content">and every boastful tongue&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.12.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">those who say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.12.4"><span class="content">&#8220;By our tongues we will prevail;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.12.4"><span class="content">our own lips will defend us&#8212;who is lord over us?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.12.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.12.5"><span class="content">I will now arise,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.12.5"><span class="content">&#8220;I will protect them from those who malign them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.12.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And the words of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> are flawless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.12.6"><span class="content">like silver purified in a crucible,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.12.6"><span class="content">like gold</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:6 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">earth</span></span></span><span class="content"> refined seven times.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, will keep the needy safe</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.12.7"><span class="content">and will protect us forever from the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.12.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">who freely strut about</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.12.8"><span class="content">when what is vile is honored by the human race.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch13" data-usfm="PSA.13">
            <div class="label">13</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 13</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 13:1-6 is numbered 13:2-6.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">How long, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">? Will you forget me forever?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.13.1"><span class="content">How long will you hide your face from me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.13.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">How long must I wrestle with my thoughts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.13.2"><span class="content">and day after day have sorrow in my heart?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.13.2"><span class="content">How long will my enemy triumph over me?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.13.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Look on me and answer, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.13.3"><span class="content">Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.13.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">and my enemy will say, &#8220;I have overcome him,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.13.4"><span class="content">and my foes will rejoice when I fall.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.13.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But I trust in your unfailing love;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.13.5"><span class="content">my heart rejoices in your salvation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I will sing the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s praise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.13.6"><span class="content">for he has been good to me.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch14" data-usfm="PSA.14">
            <div class="label">14</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 14</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The fool</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:1 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew words rendered </span><span class="fq">fool </span><span class="ft">in Psalms denote one who is morally deficient.</span></span></span><span class="content"> says in his heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.14.1"><span class="content">&#8220;There is no God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.14.1"><span class="content">They are corrupt, their deeds are vile;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.14.1"><span class="content">there is no one who does good.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.14.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> looks down from heaven</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.14.2"><span class="content">on all mankind</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.14.2"><span class="content">to see if there are any who understand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.14.2"><span class="content">any who seek God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.14.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">All have turned away, all have become corrupt;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.14.3"><span class="content">there is no one who does good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.14.3"><span class="content">not even one.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.14.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Do all these evildoers know nothing?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.14.4"><span class="content">They devour my people as though eating bread;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.14.4"><span class="content">they never call on the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.14.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But there they are, overwhelmed with dread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.14.5"><span class="content">for God is present in the company of the righteous.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.14.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You evildoers frustrate the plans of the poor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.14.6"><span class="content">but the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is their refuge.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.14.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.14.7"><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> restores his people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.14.7"><span class="content">let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!</span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkROM">
        <div class="chapter ch9" data-usfm="ROM.9">
            <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Anguish Over Israel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I speak the truth in Christ&#8212;I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people, those of my own race, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised!</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Messiah, who is over all. God be forever praised! </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Messiah. God who is over all be forever praised!</span></span></span><span class="content"> Amen.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Sovereign Choice</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">It is not as though God&#8217;s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham&#8217;s children. On the contrary, &#8220;It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:7 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 21:12</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God&#8217;s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham&#8217;s offspring. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For this was how the promise was stated: &#8220;At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:9 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 18:10,14</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Not only that, but Rebekah&#8217;s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad&#8212;in order that God&#8217;s purpose in election might stand: </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">not by works but by him who calls&#8212;she was told, &#8220;The older will serve the younger.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:12 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 25:23</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Just as it is written: &#8220;Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:13 </span><span class="ft">Mal. 1:2,3</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.9.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For he says to Moses,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.9.15"><span class="content">&#8220;I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.9.15"><span class="content">and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:15 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 33:19</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.9.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God&#8217;s mercy. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For Scripture says to Pharaoh: &#8220;I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:17 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 9:16</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.9.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">One of you will say to me: &#8220;Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? &#8220;Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, &#8216;Why did you make me like this?&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:20 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 29:16; 45:9</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.9.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath&#8212;prepared for destruction? </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As he says in Hosea:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.9.25"><span class="content">&#8220;I will call them &#8216;my people&#8217; who are not my people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.9.25"><span class="content">and I will call her &#8216;my loved one&#8217; who is not my loved one,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:25 </span><span class="ft">Hosea 2:23</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.9.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">and,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.9.26"><span class="content">&#8220;In the very place where it was said to them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.9.26"><span class="content">&#8216;You are not my people,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.9.26"><span class="content">there they will be called &#8216;children of the living God.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:26 </span><span class="ft">Hosea 1:10</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.9.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.9.27"><span class="content">&#8220;Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.9.27"><span class="content">only the remnant will be saved.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.9.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ROM.9.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">For the Lord will carry out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ROM.9.28"><span class="content">his sentence on earth with speed and finality.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:28 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 10:22,23 (see Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ROM.9.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.9.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">It is just as Isaiah said previously:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.9.29"><span class="content">&#8220;Unless the Lord Almighty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.9.29"><span class="content">had left us descendants,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.9.29"><span class="content">we would have become like Sodom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.9.29"><span class="content">we would have been like Gomorrah.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:29 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 1:9</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel&#8217;s Unbelief</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.9.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ROM.9.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ROM.9.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ROM.9.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.9.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">As it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.9.33"><span class="content">&#8220;See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.9.33"><span class="content">and a rock that makes them fall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.9.33"><span class="content">and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:33 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 8:14; 28:16</span></span></span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkROM">
        <div class="chapter ch10" data-usfm="ROM.10">
            <div class="label">10</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Brothers and sisters, my heart&#8217;s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God&#8217;s righteousness. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.10.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: &#8220;The person who does these things will live by them.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:5 </span><span class="ft">Lev. 18:5</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But the righteousness that is by faith says: &#8220;Do not say in your heart, &#8216;Who will ascend into heaven?&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:6 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 30:12</span></span></span><span class="content"> (that is, to bring Christ down) </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;or &#8216;Who will descend into the deep?&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:7 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 30:13</span></span></span><span class="content"> (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But what does it say? &#8220;The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:8 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 30:14</span></span></span><span class="content"> that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If you declare with your mouth, &#8220;Jesus is Lord,&#8221; and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">As Scripture says, &#8220;Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:11 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 28:16 (see Septuagint)</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile&#8212;the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">for, &#8220;Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:13 </span><span class="ft">Joel 2:32</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.10.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: &#8220;How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:15 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 52:7</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.10.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, &#8220;Lord, who has believed our message?&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:16 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 53:1</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But I ask: Did they not hear? Of course they did:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.10.18"><span class="content">&#8220;Their voice has gone out into all the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.10.18"><span class="content">their words to the ends of the world.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:18 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 19:4</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.10.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Again I ask: Did Israel not understand? First, Moses says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.10.19"><span class="content">&#8220;I will make you envious by those who are not a nation;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.10.19"><span class="content">I will make you angry by a nation that has no understanding.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:19 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 32:21</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.10.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.10.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And Isaiah boldly says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.10.20"><span class="content">&#8220;I was found by those who did not seek me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.10.20"><span class="content">I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:20 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 65:1</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.10.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.10.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But concerning Israel he says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.10.21"><span class="content">&#8220;All day long I have held out my hands</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.10.21"><span class="content">to a disobedient and obstinate people.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:21 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 65:2</span></span></span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkGEN">
        <div class="chapter ch16" data-usfm="GEN.16">
            <div class="label">16</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hagar and Ishmael</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now Sarai, Abram&#8217;s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">so she said to Abram, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.16.2"><span class="content">Abram agreed to what Sarai said. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian slave Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He slept with Hagar, and she conceived.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.16.4"><span class="content">When she knew she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then Sarai said to Abram, &#8220;You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> judge between you and me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.16.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Your slave is in your hands,&#8221; Abram said. &#8220;Do with her whatever you think best.&#8221; Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.16.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And he said, &#8220;Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.16.8"><span class="content">&#8220;I&#8217;m running away from my mistress Sarai,&#8221; she answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.16.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> told her, &#8220;Go back to your mistress and submit to her.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The angel added, &#8220;I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.16.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> also said to her:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.16.11"><span class="content">&#8220;You are now pregnant</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.16.11"><span class="content">and you will give birth to a son.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.16.11"><span class="content">You shall name him Ishmael,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:11 </span><span class="fq">Ishmael </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">God hears.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.16.11"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has heard of your misery.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.16.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He will be a wild donkey of a man;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.16.12"><span class="content">his hand will be against everyone</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.16.12"><span class="content">and everyone&#8217;s hand against him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.16.12"><span class="content">and he will live in hostility</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.16.12"><span class="content">toward</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">live to the east / of</span></span></span><span class="content"> all his brothers.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.16.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">She gave this name to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> who spoke to her: &#8220;You are the God who sees me,&#8221; for she said, &#8220;I have now seen</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seen the back of</span></span></span><span class="content"> the One who sees me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:14 </span><span class="fq">Beer Lahai Roi </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">well of the Living One who sees me.</span></span></span><span class="content">; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.16.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="GEN.17">
            <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Covenant of Circumcision</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to him and said, &#8220;I am God Almighty</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">El-Shaddai</span></span></span><span class="content">; walk before me faithfully and be blameless. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Abram fell facedown, and God said to him, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">No longer will you be called Abram</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:5 </span><span class="fq">Abram </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">exalted father.</span></span></span><span class="content">; your name will be Abraham,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:5 </span><span class="fq">Abraham </span><span class="ft">probably means </span><span class="fq">father of many</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> for I have made you a father of many nations. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then God said to Abraham, &#8220;As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner&#8212;those who are not your offspring. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">God also said to Abraham, &#8220;As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.17.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, &#8220;Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And Abraham said to God, &#8220;If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.17.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then God said, &#8220;Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:19 </span><span class="fq">Isaac </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">he laughs.</span></span></span><span class="content"> I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.17.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.17.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.17.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When he had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.17.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.17.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised, </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">and his son Ishmael was thirteen; </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised on that very day. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And every male in Abraham&#8217;s household, including those born in his household or bought from a foreigner, was circumcised with him.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch18" data-usfm="GEN.18">
            <div class="label">18</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Three Visitors</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.18.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;If I have found favor in your eyes, my lord,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">eyes, Lord</span></span></span><span class="content"> do not pass your servant by. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Let a little water be brought, and then you may all wash your feet and rest under this tree. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Let me get you something to eat, so you can be refreshed and then go on your way&#8212;now that you have come to your servant.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.18.5"><span class="content">&#8220;Very well,&#8221; they answered, &#8220;do as you say.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.18.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. &#8220;Quick,&#8221; he said, &#8220;get three seahs</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:6 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of the finest flour and knead it and bake some bread.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.18.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then he ran to the herd and selected a choice, tender calf and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He then brought some curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and set these before them. While they ate, he stood near them under a tree.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.18.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Where is your wife Sarah?&#8221; they asked him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.18.9"><span class="content">&#8220;There, in the tent,&#8221; he said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.18.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then one of them said, &#8220;I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.18.10"><span class="content">Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, &#8220;After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.18.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Abraham, &#8220;Why did Sarah laugh and say, &#8216;Will I really have a child, now that I am old?&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Is anything too hard for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">? I will return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.18.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Sarah was afraid, so she lied and said, &#8220;I did not laugh.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.18.15"><span class="content">But he said, &#8220;Yes, you did laugh.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Abraham Pleads for Sodom</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.18.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When the men got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.18.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will use his name in blessings </span><span class="ft">(see 48:20)</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.18.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> by doing what is right and just, so that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.18.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.18.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.18.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.18.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:22 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition </span><span class="fqa">but the <span class="nd">Lord</span> remained standing before Abraham</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.18.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then Abraham approached him and said: &#8220;Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked? </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.18.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away and not spare</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:24 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">forgive</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 26</span></span></span><span class="content"> the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people in it? </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.18.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Far be it from you to do such a thing&#8212;to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.18.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.18.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.18.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.18.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Then Abraham spoke up again: &#8220;Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes, </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.18.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.18.28"><span class="content">&#8220;If I find forty-five there,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I will not destroy it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.18.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.18.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Once again he spoke to him, &#8220;What if only forty are found there?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.18.29"><span class="content">He said, &#8220;For the sake of forty, I will not do it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.18.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.18.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Then he said, &#8220;May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.18.30"><span class="content">He answered, &#8220;I will not do it if I find thirty there.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.18.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.18.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Abraham said, &#8220;Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.18.31"><span class="content">He said, &#8220;For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.18.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.18.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Then he said, &#8220;May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.18.32"><span class="content">He answered, &#8220;For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.18.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.18.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had finished speaking with Abraham, he left, and Abraham returned home.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch19" data-usfm="GEN.19">
            <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;My lords,&#8221; he said, &#8220;please turn aside to your servant&#8217;s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.19.2"><span class="content">&#8220;No,&#8221; they answered, &#8220;we will spend the night in the square.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.19.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom&#8212;both young and old&#8212;surrounded the house. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They called to Lot, &#8220;Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.19.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and said, &#8220;No, my friends. Don&#8217;t do this wicked thing. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don&#8217;t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Get out of our way,&#8221; they replied. &#8220;This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We&#8217;ll treat you worse than them.&#8221; They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.19.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.19.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The two men said to Lot, &#8220;Do you have anyone else here&#8212;sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">were married to</span></span></span><span class="content"> his daughters. He said, &#8220;Hurry and get out of this place, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is about to destroy the city!&#8221; But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.19.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, &#8220;Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was merciful to them. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, &#8220;Flee for your lives! Don&#8217;t look back, and don&#8217;t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.19.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But Lot said to them, &#8220;No, my lords,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">No, Lord</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">No, my lord</span></span></span><span class="content"> please! </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Your</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:19 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is singular.</span></span></span><span class="content"> servant has found favor in your</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:19 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is singular.</span></span></span><span class="content"> eyes, and you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:19 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is singular.</span></span></span><span class="content"> have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can&#8217;t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I&#8217;ll die. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it&#8212;it is very small, isn&#8217;t it? Then my life will be spared.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.19.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He said to him, &#8220;Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.&#8221; (That is why the town was called Zoar.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:22 </span><span class="fq">Zoar </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">small.</span></span></span><span class="content">)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah&#8212;from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> out of the heavens. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities&#8212;and also the vegetation in the land. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">But Lot&#8217;s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.19.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.19.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Lot and His Daughters</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.19.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.19.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.19.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">One day the older daughter said to the younger, &#8220;Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children&#8212;as is the custom all over the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.19.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Let&#8217;s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.19.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.19.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.19.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.19.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">The next day the older daughter said to the younger, &#8220;Last night I slept with my father. Let&#8217;s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.19.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.19.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.19.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">So both of Lot&#8217;s daughters became pregnant by their father. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.19.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:37 </span><span class="fq">Moab </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fqa">from father.</span></span></span><span class="content">; he is the father of the Moabites of today. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.19.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:38 </span><span class="fq">Ben-Ammi </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">son of my father&#8217;s people.</span></span></span><span class="content">; he is the father of the Ammonites</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:38 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Bene-Ammon</span></span></span><span class="content"> of today.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Towns for the Levites</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now the family heads of the Levites approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the other tribal families of Israel </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">at Shiloh in Canaan and said to them, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded through Moses that you give us towns to live in, with pasturelands for our livestock.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded, the Israelites gave the Levites the following towns and pasturelands out of their own inheritance:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.21.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The first lot came out for the Kohathites, according to their clans. The Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest were allotted thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon and Benjamin. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The rest of Kohath&#8217;s descendants were allotted ten towns from the clans of the tribes of Ephraim, Dan and half of Manasseh.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.21.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The descendants of Gershon were allotted thirteen towns from the clans of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali and the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.21.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The descendants of Merari, according to their clans, received twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben, Gad and Zebulun.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So the Israelites allotted to the Levites these towns and their pasturelands, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded through Moses.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.21.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">From the tribes of Judah and Simeon they allotted the following towns by name </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">(these towns were assigned to the descendants of Aaron who were from the Kohathite clans of the Levites, because the first lot fell to them):</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.21.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They gave them Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), with its surrounding pastureland, in the hill country of Judah. (Arba was the forefather of Anak.) </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But the fields and villages around the city they had given to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.21.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron (a city of refuge for one accused of murder), Libnah, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Jattir, Eshtemoa, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Holon, Debir, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Ain, Juttah and Beth Shemesh, together with their pasturelands&#8212;nine towns from these two tribes.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.21.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave them: Gibeon, Geba, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Anathoth and Almon, together with their pasturelands&#8212;four towns.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.21.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The total number of towns for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, came to thirteen, together with their pasturelands.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.21.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The rest of the Kohathite clans of the Levites were allotted towns from the tribe of Ephraim:</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.21.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">In the hill country of Ephraim they were given Shechem (a city of refuge for one accused of murder) and Gezer, </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Kibzaim and Beth Horon, together with their pasturelands&#8212;four towns.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.21.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Also from the tribe of Dan they received: Eltekeh, Gibbethon, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.21.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Aijalon and Gath Rimmon, together with their pasturelands&#8212;four towns.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.21.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOS.21.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">From half the tribe of Manasseh they received: Taanach and Gath Rimmon, together with their pasturelands&#8212;two towns.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOS.21.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOS.21.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">All these ten towns and their pasturelands were given to the rest of the Kohathite clans.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOS.21.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.21.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The Levite clans of the Gershonites were given:</span></span></div><div class="li4"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.21.27"><span class="content">from the half-tribe of Manasseh,</span></span></div><div class="li4"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.21.27"><span class="content">Golan in Bashan (a city of refuge for one accused of murder) and Be Eshterah, together with their pasturelands&#8212;two towns;</span></span></div><div class="li4"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.21.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOS.21.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Issachar,</span></span></div><div class="li4"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOS.21.28"><span class="content">Kishion, Daberath, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOS.21.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Jarmuth and En Gannim, together with their pasturelands&#8212;four towns;</span></span></div><div class="li4"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOS.21.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOS.21.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Asher,</span></span></div><div class="li4"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOS.21.30"><span class="content">Mishal, Abdon, </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOS.21.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Helkath and Rehob, together with their pasturelands&#8212;four towns;</span></span></div><div class="li4"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOS.21.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOS.21.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Naphtali,</span></span></div><div class="li4"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOS.21.32"><span class="content">Kedesh in Galilee (a city of refuge for one accused of murder), Hammoth Dor and Kartan, together with their pasturelands&#8212;three towns.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOS.21.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOS.21.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">The total number of towns of the Gershonite clans came to thirteen, together with their pasturelands.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOS.21.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOS.21.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">The Merarite clans (the rest of the Levites) were given:</span></span></div><div class="li4"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOS.21.34"><span class="content">from the tribe of Zebulun,</span></span></div><div class="li4"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOS.21.34"><span class="content">Jokneam, Kartah, </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOS.21.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Dimnah and Nahalal, together with their pasturelands&#8212;four towns;</span></span></div><div class="li4"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOS.21.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JOS.21.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Reuben,</span></span></div><div class="li4"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JOS.21.36"><span class="content">Bezer, Jahaz, </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JOS.21.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Kedemoth and Mephaath, together with their pasturelands&#8212;four towns;</span></span></div><div class="li4"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JOS.21.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JOS.21.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Gad,</span></span></div><div class="li4"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JOS.21.38"><span class="content">Ramoth in Gilead (a city of refuge for one accused of murder), Mahanaim, </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JOS.21.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Heshbon and Jazer, together with their pasturelands&#8212;four towns in all.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JOS.21.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JOS.21.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">The total number of towns allotted to the Merarite clans, who were the rest of the Levites, came to twelve.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JOS.21.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JOS.21.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">The towns of the Levites in the territory held by the Israelites were forty-eight in all, together with their pasturelands. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JOS.21.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Each of these towns had pasturelands surrounding it; this was true for all these towns.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JOS.21.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="JOS.21.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave Israel all the land he had sworn to give their ancestors, and they took possession of it and settled there. </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="JOS.21.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave them rest on every side, just as he had sworn to their ancestors. Not one of their enemies withstood them; the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave all their enemies into their hands. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JOS.21.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">Not one of all the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s good promises to Israel failed; every one was fulfilled.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch22" data-usfm="JOS.22">
            <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Eastern Tribes Return Home</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and said to them, &#8220;You have done all that Moses the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded, and you have obeyed me in everything I commanded. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For a long time now&#8212;to this very day&#8212;you have not deserted your fellow Israelites but have carried out the mission the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God gave you. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Now that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has given them rest as he promised, return to your homes in the land that Moses the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave you on the other side of the Jordan. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But be very careful to keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave you: to love the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, to walk in obedience to him, to keep his commands, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their homes. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">(To the half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given land in Bashan, and to the other half of the tribe Joshua gave land on the west side of the Jordan along with their fellow Israelites.) When Joshua sent them home, he blessed them, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">saying, &#8220;Return to your homes with your great wealth&#8212;with large herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze and iron, and a great quantity of clothing&#8212;and divide the plunder from your enemies with your fellow Israelites.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in Canaan to return to Gilead, their own land, which they had acquired in accordance with the command of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> through Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When they came to Geliloth near the Jordan in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an imposing altar there by the Jordan. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And when the Israelites heard that they had built the altar on the border of Canaan at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">the whole assembly of Israel gathered at Shiloh to go to war against them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So the Israelites sent Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, to the land of Gilead&#8212;to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">With him they sent ten of the chief men, one from each of the tribes of Israel, each the head of a family division among the Israelite clans.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When they went to Gilead&#8212;to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh&#8212;they said to them: </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;The whole assembly of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;How could you break faith with the God of Israel like this? How could you turn away from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and build yourselves an altar in rebellion against him now? </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Was not the sin of Peor enough for us? Up to this very day we have not cleansed ourselves from that sin, even though a plague fell on the community of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">! </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And are you now turning away from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.22.18"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If you rebel against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> today, tomorrow he will be angry with the whole community of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">If the land you possess is defiled, come over to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s land, where the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s tabernacle stands, and share the land with us. But do not rebel against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> or against us by building an altar for yourselves, other than the altar of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">When Achan son of Zerah was unfaithful in regard to the devoted things,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:20 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, often by totally destroying them.</span></span></span><span class="content"> did not wrath come on the whole community of Israel? He was not the only one who died for his sin.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.22.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh replied to the heads of the clans of Israel: </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;The Mighty One, God, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">! The Mighty One, God, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">! He knows! And let Israel know! If this has been in rebellion or disobedience to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do not spare us this day. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">If we have built our own altar to turn away from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and to offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, or to sacrifice fellowship offerings on it, may the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> himself call us to account.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.22.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;No! We did it for fear that some day your descendants might say to ours, &#8216;What do you have to do with the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel? </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOS.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you&#8212;you Reubenites and Gadites! You have no share in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217; So your descendants might cause ours to stop fearing the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOS.22.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOS.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;That is why we said, &#8216;Let us get ready and build an altar&#8212;but not for burnt offerings or sacrifices.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">On the contrary, it is to be a witness between us and you and the generations that follow, that we will worship the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> at his sanctuary with our burnt offerings, sacrifices and fellowship offerings. Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to ours, &#8216;You have no share in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.22.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOS.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;And we said, &#8216;If they ever say this to us, or to our descendants, we will answer: Look at the replica of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s altar, which our ancestors built, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices, but as a witness between us and you.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOS.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOS.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;Far be it from us to rebel against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and turn away from him today by building an altar for burnt offerings, grain offerings and sacrifices, other than the altar of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God that stands before his tabernacle.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOS.22.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOS.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">When Phinehas the priest and the leaders of the community&#8212;the heads of the clans of the Israelites&#8212;heard what Reuben, Gad and Manasseh had to say, they were pleased. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOS.22.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">And Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, said to Reuben, Gad and Manasseh, &#8220;Today we know that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is with us, because you have not been unfaithful to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in this matter. Now you have rescued the Israelites from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s hand.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOS.22.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOS.22.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Then Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, and the leaders returned to Canaan from their meeting with the Reubenites and Gadites in Gilead and reported to the Israelites. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOS.22.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">They were glad to hear the report and praised God. And they talked no more about going to war against them to devastate the country where the Reubenites and the Gadites lived.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOS.22.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOS.22.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">And the Reubenites and the Gadites gave the altar this name: A Witness Between Us&#8212;that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is God.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch23" data-usfm="JOS.23">
            <div class="label">23</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Joshua&#8217;s Farewell to the Leaders</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After a long time had passed and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had given Israel rest from all their enemies around them, Joshua, by then a very old man, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">summoned all Israel&#8212;their elders, leaders, judges and officials&#8212;and said to them: &#8220;I am very old. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You yourselves have seen everything the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has done to all these nations for your sake; it was the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God who fought for you. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Remember how I have allotted as an inheritance for your tribes all the land of the nations that remain&#8212;the nations I conquered&#8212;between the Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea in the west. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God himself will push them out for your sake. He will drive them out before you, and you will take possession of their land, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God promised you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Be very strong; be careful to obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, without turning aside to the right or to the left. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Do not associate with these nations that remain among you; do not invoke the names of their gods or swear by them. You must not serve them or bow down to them. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But you are to hold fast to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, as you have until now.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.23.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has driven out before you great and powerful nations; to this day no one has been able to withstand you. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">One of you routs a thousand, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God fights for you, just as he promised. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So be very careful to love the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.23.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;But if you turn away and ally yourselves with the survivors of these nations that remain among you and if you intermarry with them and associate with them, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">then you may be sure that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become snares and traps for you, whips on your backs and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land, which the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has given you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.23.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But just as all the good things the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has promised you have come to you, so he will bring on you all the evil things he has threatened, until the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has destroyed you from this good land he has given you. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">If you violate the covenant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anger will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from the good land he has given you.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch24" data-usfm="JOS.24">
            <div class="label">24</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Covenant Renewed at Shechem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.24.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges and officials of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.24.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.24.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Joshua said to all the people, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: &#8216;Long ago your ancestors, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates River and worshiped other gods. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.24.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But I took your father Abraham from the land beyond the Euphrates and led him throughout Canaan and gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.24.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I assigned the hill country of Seir to Esau, but Jacob and his family went down to Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.24.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.24.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I afflicted the Egyptians by what I did there, and I brought you out. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.24.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When I brought your people out of Egypt, you came to the sea, and the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and horsemen</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">charioteers</span></span></span><span class="content"> as far as the Red Sea.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the Sea of Reeds</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.24.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But they cried to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> for help, and he put darkness between you and the Egyptians; he brought the sea over them and covered them. You saw with your own eyes what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.24.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.24.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought against you, but I gave them into your hands. I destroyed them from before you, and you took possession of their land. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.24.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When Balak son of Zippor, the king of Moab, prepared to fight against Israel, he sent for Balaam son of Beor to put a curse on you. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.24.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But I would not listen to Balaam, so he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you out of his hand.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.24.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.24.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Then you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The citizens of Jericho fought against you, as did also the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites and Jebusites, but I gave them into your hands. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.24.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I sent the hornet ahead of you, which drove them out before you&#8212;also the two Amorite kings. You did not do it with your own sword and bow. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.24.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities you did not build; and you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.24.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.24.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.24.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But if serving the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.24.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.24.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then the people answered, &#8220;Far be it from us to forsake the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to serve other gods! </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.24.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">It was the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God himself who brought us and our parents up out of Egypt, from that land of slavery, and performed those great signs before our eyes. He protected us on our entire journey and among all the nations through which we traveled. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.24.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> drove out before us all the nations, including the Amorites, who lived in the land. We too will serve the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, because he is our God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.24.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.24.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Joshua said to the people, &#8220;You are not able to serve the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. He is a holy God; he is a jealous God. He will not forgive your rebellion and your sins. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.24.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">If you forsake the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and serve foreign gods, he will turn and bring disaster on you and make an end of you, after he has been good to you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.24.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.24.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But the people said to Joshua, &#8220;No! We will serve the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.24.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.24.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then Joshua said, &#8220;You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.24.22"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, we are witnesses,&#8221; they replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.24.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.24.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now then,&#8221; said Joshua, &#8220;throw away the foreign gods that are among you and yield your hearts to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.24.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.24.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And the people said to Joshua, &#8220;We will serve the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God and obey him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.24.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOS.24.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he reaffirmed for them decrees and laws. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOS.24.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">And Joshua recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak near the holy place of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOS.24.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.24.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;See!&#8221; he said to all the people. &#8220;This stone will be a witness against us. It has heard all the words the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has said to us. It will be a witness against you if you are untrue to your God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.24.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOS.24.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then Joshua dismissed the people, each to their own inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Buried in the Promised Land</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOS.24.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOS.24.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">After these things, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, died at the age of a hundred and ten. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOS.24.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath Serah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:30 </span><span class="ft">Also known as </span><span class="fqa">Timnath Heres </span><span class="ft">(see Judges 2:9)</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOS.24.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOS.24.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Israel served the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had experienced everything the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had done for Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOS.24.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOS.24.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">And Joseph&#8217;s bones, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the tract of land that Jacob bought for a hundred pieces of silver</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:32 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">hundred kesitahs</span><span class="ft">; a kesitah was a unit of money of unknown weight and value.</span></span></span><span class="content"> from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem. This became the inheritance of Joseph&#8217;s descendants.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOS.24.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOS.24.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">And Eleazar son of Aaron died and was buried at Gibeah, which had been allotted to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.9.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Indeed, I know that this is true.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.9.2"><span class="content">But how can mere mortals prove their innocence before God?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Though they wished to dispute with him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.9.3"><span class="content">they could not answer him one time out of a thousand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.9.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">His wisdom is profound, his power is vast.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.9.4"><span class="content">Who has resisted him and come out unscathed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He moves mountains without their knowing it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.9.5"><span class="content">and overturns them in his anger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He shakes the earth from its place</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.9.6"><span class="content">and makes its pillars tremble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He speaks to the sun and it does not shine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.9.7"><span class="content">he seals off the light of the stars.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He alone stretches out the heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.9.8"><span class="content">and treads on the waves of the sea.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He is the Maker of the Bear</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">of Leo</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Orion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.9.9"><span class="content">the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.9.10"><span class="content">miracles that cannot be counted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When he passes me, I cannot see him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.9.11"><span class="content">when he goes by, I cannot perceive him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If he snatches away, who can stop him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.9.12"><span class="content">Who can say to him, &#8216;What are you doing?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">God does not restrain his anger;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.9.13"><span class="content">even the cohorts of Rahab cowered at his feet.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.9.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;How then can I dispute with him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.9.14"><span class="content">How can I find words to argue with him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.9.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Though I were innocent, I could not answer him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.9.15"><span class="content">I could only plead with my Judge for mercy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.9.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Even if I summoned him and he responded,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.9.16"><span class="content">I do not believe he would give me a hearing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He would crush me with a storm</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.9.17"><span class="content">and multiply my wounds for no reason.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.9.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He would not let me catch my breath</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.9.18"><span class="content">but would overwhelm me with misery.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.9.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">If it is a matter of strength, he is mighty!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.9.19"><span class="content">And if it is a matter of justice, who can challenge him</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:19 </span><span class="ft">See Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">me.</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.9.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Even if I were innocent, my mouth would condemn me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.9.20"><span class="content">if I were blameless, it would pronounce me guilty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.9.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Although I am blameless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.9.21"><span class="content">I have no concern for myself;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.9.21"><span class="content">I despise my own life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.9.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">It is all the same; that is why I say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.9.22"><span class="content">&#8216;He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.9.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When a scourge brings sudden death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.9.23"><span class="content">he mocks the despair of the innocent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.9.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When a land falls into the hands of the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.9.24"><span class="content">he blindfolds its judges.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.9.24"><span class="content">If it is not he, then who is it?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.9.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;My days are swifter than a runner;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.9.25"><span class="content">they fly away without a glimpse of joy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.9.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">They skim past like boats of papyrus,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.9.26"><span class="content">like eagles swooping down on their prey.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.9.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">If I say, &#8216;I will forget my complaint,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.9.27"><span class="content">I will change my expression, and smile,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.9.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.9.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">I still dread all my sufferings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.9.28"><span class="content">for I know you will not hold me innocent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.9.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.9.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Since I am already found guilty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.9.29"><span class="content">why should I struggle in vain?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.9.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.9.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Even if I washed myself with soap</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.9.30"><span class="content">and my hands with cleansing powder,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.9.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.9.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">you would plunge me into a slime pit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.9.31"><span class="content">so that even my clothes would detest me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.9.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.9.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;He is not a mere mortal like me that I might answer him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.9.32"><span class="content">that we might confront each other in court.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.9.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.9.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">If only there were someone to mediate between us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.9.33"><span class="content">someone to bring us together,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.9.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.9.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">someone to remove God&#8217;s rod from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.9.34"><span class="content">so that his terror would frighten me no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.9.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.9.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Then I would speak up without fear of him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.9.35"><span class="content">but as it now stands with me, I cannot.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch10" data-usfm="JOB.10">
            <div class="label">10</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;I loathe my very life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.10.1"><span class="content">therefore I will give free rein to my complaint</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.10.1"><span class="content">and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.10.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I say to God: Do not declare me guilty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.10.2"><span class="content">but tell me what charges you have against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.10.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Does it please you to oppress me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.10.3"><span class="content">to spurn the work of your hands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.10.3"><span class="content">while you smile on the plans of the wicked?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.10.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Do you have eyes of flesh?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.10.4"><span class="content">Do you see as a mortal sees?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.10.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Are your days like those of a mortal</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.10.5"><span class="content">or your years like those of a strong man,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">that you must search out my faults</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.10.6"><span class="content">and probe after my sin&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">though you know that I am not guilty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.10.7"><span class="content">and that no one can rescue me from your hand?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.10.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Your hands shaped me and made me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.10.8"><span class="content">Will you now turn and destroy me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.10.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Remember that you molded me like clay.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.10.9"><span class="content">Will you now turn me to dust again?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.10.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Did you not pour me out like milk</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.10.10"><span class="content">and curdle me like cheese,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.10.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">clothe me with skin and flesh</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.10.11"><span class="content">and knit me together with bones and sinews?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.10.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You gave me life and showed me kindness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.10.12"><span class="content">and in your providence watched over my spirit.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.10.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;But this is what you concealed in your heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.10.13"><span class="content">and I know that this was in your mind:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.10.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">If I sinned, you would be watching me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.10.14"><span class="content">and would not let my offense go unpunished.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.10.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If I am guilty&#8212;woe to me!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.10.15"><span class="content">Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.10.15"><span class="content">for I am full of shame</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.10.15"><span class="content">and drowned in</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and aware of</span></span></span><span class="content"> my affliction.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.10.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.10.16"><span class="content">and again display your awesome power against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.10.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">You bring new witnesses against me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.10.17"><span class="content">and increase your anger toward me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.10.17"><span class="content">your forces come against me wave upon wave.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.10.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why then did you bring me out of the womb?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.10.18"><span class="content">I wish I had died before any eye saw me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.10.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">If only I had never come into being,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.10.19"><span class="content">or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.10.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.10.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Are not my few days almost over?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.10.20"><span class="content">Turn away from me so I can have a moment&#8217;s joy</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.10.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.10.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">before I go to the place of no return,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.10.21"><span class="content">to the land of gloom and utter darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.10.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.10.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">to the land of deepest night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.10.22"><span class="content">of utter darkness and disorder,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.10.22"><span class="content">where even the light is like darkness.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch23" data-usfm="ISA.23">
            <div class="label">23</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Tyre</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prophecy against Tyre:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.23.1"><span class="content">Wail, you ships of Tarshish!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.23.1"><span class="content">For Tyre is destroyed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.23.1"><span class="content">and left without house or harbor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.23.1"><span class="content">From the land of Cyprus</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.23.1"><span class="content">word has come to them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.23.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Be silent, you people of the island</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.23.2"><span class="content">and you merchants of Sidon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.23.2"><span class="content">whom the seafarers have enriched.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">On the great waters</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.23.3"><span class="content">came the grain of the Shihor;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.23.3"><span class="content">the harvest of the Nile</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:2,3 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls </span><span class="fqa">Sidon, / who cross over the sea; / your envoys </span><span class="fv">3 </span><span class="fqa">are on the great waters. / The grain of the Shihor, / the harvest of the Nile,</span></span></span><span class="content"> was the revenue of Tyre,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.23.3"><span class="content">and she became the marketplace of the nations.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Be ashamed, Sidon, and you fortress of the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.23.4"><span class="content">for the sea has spoken:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.23.4"><span class="content">&#8220;I have neither been in labor nor given birth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.23.4"><span class="content">I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When word comes to Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.23.5"><span class="content">they will be in anguish at the report from Tyre.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Cross over to Tarshish;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.23.6"><span class="content">wail, you people of the island.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.23.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Is this your city of revelry,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.23.7"><span class="content">the old, old city,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.23.7"><span class="content">whose feet have taken her</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.23.7"><span class="content">to settle in far-off lands?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.23.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Who planned this against Tyre,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.23.8"><span class="content">the bestower of crowns,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.23.8"><span class="content">whose merchants are princes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.23.8"><span class="content">whose traders are renowned in the earth?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.23.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty planned it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.23.9"><span class="content">to bring down her pride in all her splendor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.23.9"><span class="content">and to humble all who are renowned on the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.23.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Till</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:10 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">Go through</span></span></span><span class="content"> your land as they do along the Nile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.23.10"><span class="content">Daughter Tarshish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.23.10"><span class="content">for you no longer have a harbor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.23.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has stretched out his hand over the sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.23.11"><span class="content">and made its kingdoms tremble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.23.11"><span class="content">He has given an order concerning Phoenicia</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.23.11"><span class="content">that her fortresses be destroyed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.23.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;No more of your reveling,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.23.12"><span class="content">Virgin Daughter Sidon, now crushed!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.23.12"><span class="content">&#8220;Up, cross over to Cyprus;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.23.12"><span class="content">even there you will find no rest.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.23.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Look at the land of the Babylonians,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.23.13"><span class="content">this people that is now of no account!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.23.13"><span class="content">The Assyrians have made it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.23.13"><span class="content">a place for desert creatures;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.23.13"><span class="content">they raised up their siege towers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.23.13"><span class="content">they stripped its fortresses bare</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.23.13"><span class="content">and turned it into a ruin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.23.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Wail, you ships of Tarshish;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.23.14"><span class="content">your fortress is destroyed!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.23.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king&#8217;s life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.23.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Take up a harp, walk through the city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.23.16"><span class="content">you forgotten prostitute;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.23.16"><span class="content">play the harp well, sing many a song,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.23.16"><span class="content">so that you will be remembered.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.23.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">At the end of seventy years, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will deal with Tyre. She will return to her lucrative prostitution and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, for abundant food and fine clothes.</span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkISA">
        <div class="chapter ch24" data-usfm="ISA.24">
            <div class="label">24</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Devastation of the Earth</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.24.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">See, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is going to lay waste the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.24.1"><span class="content">and devastate it;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.24.1"><span class="content">he will ruin its face</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.24.1"><span class="content">and scatter its inhabitants&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.24.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.24.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">it will be the same</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.24.2"><span class="content">for priest as for people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.24.2"><span class="content">for the master as for his servant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.24.2"><span class="content">for the mistress as for her servant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.24.2"><span class="content">for seller as for buyer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.24.2"><span class="content">for borrower as for lender,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.24.2"><span class="content">for debtor as for creditor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.24.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.24.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The earth will be completely laid waste</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.24.3"><span class="content">and totally plundered.</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.24.3"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken this word.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.24.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.24.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The earth dries up and withers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.24.4"><span class="content">the world languishes and withers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.24.4"><span class="content">the heavens languish with the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.24.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.24.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The earth is defiled by its people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.24.5"><span class="content">they have disobeyed the laws,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.24.5"><span class="content">violated the statutes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.24.5"><span class="content">and broken the everlasting covenant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.24.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.24.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Therefore a curse consumes the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.24.6"><span class="content">its people must bear their guilt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.24.6"><span class="content">Therefore earth&#8217;s inhabitants are burned up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.24.6"><span class="content">and very few are left.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.24.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.24.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The new wine dries up and the vine withers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.24.7"><span class="content">all the merrymakers groan.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.24.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.24.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The joyful timbrels are stilled,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.24.8"><span class="content">the noise of the revelers has stopped,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.24.8"><span class="content">the joyful harp is silent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.24.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.24.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">No longer do they drink wine with a song;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.24.9"><span class="content">the beer is bitter to its drinkers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.24.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.24.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The ruined city lies desolate;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.24.10"><span class="content">the entrance to every house is barred.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.24.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.24.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">In the streets they cry out for wine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.24.11"><span class="content">all joy turns to gloom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.24.11"><span class="content">all joyful sounds are banished from the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.24.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.24.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The city is left in ruins,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.24.12"><span class="content">its gate is battered to pieces.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.24.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.24.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So will it be on the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.24.13"><span class="content">and among the nations,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.24.13"><span class="content">as when an olive tree is beaten,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.24.13"><span class="content">or as when gleanings are left after the grape harvest.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.24.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.24.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They raise their voices, they shout for joy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.24.14"><span class="content">from the west they acclaim the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s majesty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.24.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.24.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Therefore in the east give glory to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.24.15"><span class="content">exalt the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.24.15"><span class="content">in the islands of the sea.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.24.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.24.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">From the ends of the earth we hear singing:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.24.16"><span class="content">&#8220;Glory to the Righteous One.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.24.16"><span class="content">But I said, &#8220;I waste away, I waste away!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.24.16"><span class="content">Woe to me!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.24.16"><span class="content">The treacherous betray!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.24.16"><span class="content">With treachery the treacherous betray!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.24.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.24.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Terror and pit and snare await you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.24.17"><span class="content">people of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.24.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.24.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Whoever flees at the sound of terror</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.24.18"><span class="content">will fall into a pit;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.24.18"><span class="content">whoever climbs out of the pit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.24.18"><span class="content">will be caught in a snare.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.24.18"><span class="content">The floodgates of the heavens are opened,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.24.18"><span class="content">the foundations of the earth shake.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.24.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.24.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The earth is broken up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.24.19"><span class="content">the earth is split asunder,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.24.19"><span class="content">the earth is violently shaken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.24.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.24.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The earth reels like a drunkard,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.24.20"><span class="content">it sways like a hut in the wind;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.24.20"><span class="content">so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.24.20"><span class="content">that it falls&#8212;never to rise again.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.24.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.24.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">In that day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will punish</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.24.21"><span class="content">the powers in the heavens above</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.24.21"><span class="content">and the kings on the earth below.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.24.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.24.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">They will be herded together</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.24.22"><span class="content">like prisoners bound in a dungeon;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.24.22"><span class="content">they will be shut up in prison</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.24.22"><span class="content">and be punished</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">released</span></span></span><span class="content"> after many days.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.24.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.24.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The moon will be dismayed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.24.23"><span class="content">the sun ashamed;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.24.23"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty will reign</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.24.23"><span class="content">on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.24.23"><span class="content">and before its elders&#8212;with great glory.</span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkISA">
        <div class="chapter ch25" data-usfm="ISA.25">
            <div class="label">25</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Praise to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.25.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you are my God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.25.1"><span class="content">I will exalt you and praise your name,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.25.1"><span class="content">for in perfect faithfulness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.25.1"><span class="content">you have done wonderful things,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.25.1"><span class="content">things planned long ago.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.25.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.25.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You have made the city a heap of rubble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.25.2"><span class="content">the fortified town a ruin,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.25.2"><span class="content">the foreigners&#8217; stronghold a city no more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.25.2"><span class="content">it will never be rebuilt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.25.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.25.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Therefore strong peoples will honor you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.25.3"><span class="content">cities of ruthless nations will revere you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.25.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.25.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You have been a refuge for the poor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.25.4"><span class="content">a refuge for the needy in their distress,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.25.4"><span class="content">a shelter from the storm</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.25.4"><span class="content">and a shade from the heat.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.25.4"><span class="content">For the breath of the ruthless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.25.4"><span class="content">is like a storm driving against a wall</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.25.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.25.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">and like the heat of the desert.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.25.5"><span class="content">You silence the uproar of foreigners;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.25.5"><span class="content">as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.25.5"><span class="content">so the song of the ruthless is stilled.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.25.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.25.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">On this mountain the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty will prepare</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.25.6"><span class="content">a feast of rich food for all peoples,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.25.6"><span class="content">a banquet of aged wine&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.25.6"><span class="content">the best of meats and the finest of wines.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.25.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.25.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">On this mountain he will destroy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.25.7"><span class="content">the shroud that enfolds all peoples,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.25.7"><span class="content">the sheet that covers all nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.25.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.25.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">he will swallow up death forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.25.8"><span class="content">The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will wipe away the tears</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.25.8"><span class="content">from all faces;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.25.8"><span class="content">he will remove his people&#8217;s disgrace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.25.8"><span class="content">from all the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.25.8"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.25.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.25.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">In that day they will say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.25.9"><span class="content">&#8220;Surely this is our God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.25.9"><span class="content">we trusted in him, and he saved us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.25.9"><span class="content">This is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, we trusted in him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.25.9"><span class="content">let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.25.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.25.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The hand of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will rest on this mountain;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.25.10"><span class="content">but Moab will be trampled in their land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.25.10"><span class="content">as straw is trampled down in the manure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.25.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.25.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They will stretch out their hands in it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.25.11"><span class="content">as swimmers stretch out their hands to swim.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.25.11"><span class="content">God will bring down their pride</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.25.11"><span class="content">despite the cleverness</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:11 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> of their hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.25.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.25.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He will bring down your high fortified walls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.25.12"><span class="content">and lay them low;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.25.12"><span class="content">he will bring them down to the ground,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.25.12"><span class="content">to the very dust.</span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkISA">
        <div class="chapter ch26" data-usfm="ISA.26">
            <div class="label">26</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Song of Praise</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.26.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.26.1"><span class="content">We have a strong city;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.26.1"><span class="content">God makes salvation</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.26.1"><span class="content">its walls and ramparts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.26.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.26.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Open the gates</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.26.2"><span class="content">that the righteous nation may enter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.26.2"><span class="content">the nation that keeps faith.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.26.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.26.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You will keep in perfect peace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.26.3"><span class="content">those whose minds are steadfast,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.26.3"><span class="content">because they trust in you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.26.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.26.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Trust in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.26.4"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> himself, is the Rock eternal.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.26.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.26.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He humbles those who dwell on high,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.26.5"><span class="content">he lays the lofty city low;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.26.5"><span class="content">he levels it to the ground</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.26.5"><span class="content">and casts it down to the dust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.26.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.26.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Feet trample it down&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.26.6"><span class="content">the feet of the oppressed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.26.6"><span class="content">the footsteps of the poor.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.26.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.26.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The path of the righteous is level;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.26.7"><span class="content">you, the Upright One, make the way of the righteous smooth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.26.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.26.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Yes, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, walking in the way of your laws,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">judgments</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.26.8"><span class="content">we wait for you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.26.8"><span class="content">your name and renown</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.26.8"><span class="content">are the desire of our hearts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.26.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.26.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">My soul yearns for you in the night;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.26.9"><span class="content">in the morning my spirit longs for you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.26.9"><span class="content">When your judgments come upon the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.26.9"><span class="content">the people of the world learn righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.26.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.26.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But when grace is shown to the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.26.10"><span class="content">they do not learn righteousness;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.26.10"><span class="content">even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.26.10"><span class="content">and do not regard the majesty of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.26.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.26.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, your hand is lifted high,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.26.11"><span class="content">but they do not see it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.26.11"><span class="content">Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.26.11"><span class="content">let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.26.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.26.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you establish peace for us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.26.12"><span class="content">all that we have accomplished you have done for us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.26.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.26.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.26.13"><span class="content">but your name alone do we honor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.26.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.26.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They are now dead, they live no more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.26.14"><span class="content">their spirits do not rise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.26.14"><span class="content">You punished them and brought them to ruin;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.26.14"><span class="content">you wiped out all memory of them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.26.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.26.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You have enlarged the nation, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.26.15"><span class="content">you have enlarged the nation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.26.15"><span class="content">You have gained glory for yourself;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.26.15"><span class="content">you have extended all the borders of the land.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.26.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.26.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, they came to you in their distress;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.26.16"><span class="content">when you disciplined them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.26.16"><span class="content">they could barely whisper a prayer.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:16 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.26.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.26.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">As a pregnant woman about to give birth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.26.17"><span class="content">writhes and cries out in her pain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.26.17"><span class="content">so were we in your presence, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.26.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.26.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">We were with child, we writhed in labor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.26.18"><span class="content">but we gave birth to wind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.26.18"><span class="content">We have not brought salvation to the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.26.18"><span class="content">and the people of the world have not come to life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.26.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.26.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But your dead will live, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.26.19"><span class="content">their bodies will rise&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.26.19"><span class="content">let those who dwell in the dust</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.26.19"><span class="content">wake up and shout for joy&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.26.19"><span class="content">your dew is like the dew of the morning;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.26.19"><span class="content">the earth will give birth to her dead.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.26.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.26.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Go, my people, enter your rooms</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.26.20"><span class="content">and shut the doors behind you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.26.20"><span class="content">hide yourselves for a little while</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.26.20"><span class="content">until his wrath has passed by.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.26.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.26.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">See, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is coming out of his dwelling</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.26.21"><span class="content">to punish the people of the earth for their sins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.26.21"><span class="content">The earth will disclose the blood shed on it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.26.21"><span class="content">the earth will conceal its slain no longer.</span></span></div>
        </div>
    </div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkISA">
        <div class="chapter ch27" data-usfm="ISA.27">
            <div class="label">27</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Deliverance of Israel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In that day,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.27.1"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will punish with his sword&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.27.1"><span class="content">his fierce, great and powerful sword&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.27.1"><span class="content">Leviathan the gliding serpent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.27.1"><span class="content">Leviathan the coiling serpent;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.27.1"><span class="content">he will slay the monster of the sea.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.27.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">In that day&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.27.2"><span class="content">&#8220;Sing about a fruitful vineyard:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.27.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, watch over it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.27.3"><span class="content">I water it continually.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.27.3"><span class="content">I guard it day and night</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.27.3"><span class="content">so that no one may harm it.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.27.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I am not angry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.27.4"><span class="content">If only there were briers and thorns confronting me!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.27.4"><span class="content">I would march against them in battle;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.27.4"><span class="content">I would set them all on fire.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.27.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Or else let them come to me for refuge;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.27.5"><span class="content">let them make peace with me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.27.5"><span class="content">yes, let them make peace with me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.27.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">In days to come Jacob will take root,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.27.6"><span class="content">Israel will bud and blossom</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.27.6"><span class="content">and fill all the world with fruit.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.27.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Has the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> struck her</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.27.7"><span class="content">as he struck down those who struck her?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.27.7"><span class="content">Has she been killed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.27.7"><span class="content">as those were killed who killed her?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.27.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">By warfare</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:8 </span><span class="ft">See Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and exile you contend with her&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.27.8"><span class="content">with his fierce blast he drives her out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.27.8"><span class="content">as on a day the east wind blows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.27.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">By this, then, will Jacob&#8217;s guilt be atoned for,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.27.9"><span class="content">and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.27.9"><span class="content">When he makes all the altar stones</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.27.9"><span class="content">to be like limestone crushed to pieces,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.27.9"><span class="content">no Asherah poles</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:9 </span><span class="ft">That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah</span></span></span><span class="content"> or incense altars</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.27.9"><span class="content">will be left standing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.27.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.27.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The fortified city stands desolate,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.27.10"><span class="content">an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the wilderness;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.27.10"><span class="content">there the calves graze,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.27.10"><span class="content">there they lie down;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.27.10"><span class="content">they strip its branches bare.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.27.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.27.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When its twigs are dry, they are broken off</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.27.11"><span class="content">and women come and make fires with them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.27.11"><span class="content">For this is a people without understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.27.11"><span class="content">so their Maker has no compassion on them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.27.11"><span class="content">and their Creator shows them no favor.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.27.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.27.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">In that day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.27.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And in that day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.</span></span></div>
        </div>
    </div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkMRK">
        <div class="chapter ch9" data-usfm="MRK.9">
            <div class="label">9</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">And he said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Transfiguration</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.9.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">After six days Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigured before them. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And there appeared before them Elijah and Moses, who were talking with Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Peter said to Jesus, &#8220;Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters&#8212;one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">(He did not know what to say, they were so frightened.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then a cloud appeared and covered them, and a voice came from the cloud: &#8220;This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Suddenly, when they looked around, they no longer saw anyone with them except Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus gave them orders not to tell anyone what they had seen until the Son of Man had risen from the dead. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They kept the matter to themselves, discussing what &#8220;rising from the dead&#8221; meant.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And they asked him, &#8220;Why do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;To be sure, Elijah does come first, and restores all things. Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But I tell you, Elijah has come, and they have done to him everything they wished, just as it is written about him.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Heals a Boy Possessed by an Impure Spirit</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.9.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When they came to the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and the teachers of the law arguing with them. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">As soon as all the people saw Jesus, they were overwhelmed with wonder and ran to greet him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.9.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What are you arguing with them about?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">A man in the crowd answered, &#8220;Teacher, I brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit that has robbed him of speech. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the ground. He foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to drive out the spirit, but they could not.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.9.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You unbelieving generation,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy to me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.9.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So they brought him. When the spirit saw Jesus, it immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell to the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.9.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Jesus asked the boy&#8217;s father, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;How long has he been like this?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.9.21"><span class="content">&#8220;From childhood,&#8221; he answered. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;It has often thrown him into fire or water to kill him. But if you can do anything, take pity on us and help us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.9.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If you can&#8217;?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> said Jesus. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Everything is possible for one who believes.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.9.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Immediately the boy&#8217;s father exclaimed, &#8220;I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.9.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked the impure spirit. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You deaf and mute spirit,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.9.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The spirit shrieked, convulsed him violently and came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said, &#8220;He&#8217;s dead.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him to his feet, and he stood up.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.9.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.9.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">After Jesus had gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately, &#8220;Why couldn&#8217;t we drive it out?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.9.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.9.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;This kind can come out only by prayer.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:29 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">prayer and fasting</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Predicts His Death a Second Time</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.9.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MRK.9.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">They left that place and passed through Galilee. Jesus did not want anyone to know where they were, </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.9.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">because he was teaching his disciples. He said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after three days he will rise.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.9.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">But they did not understand what he meant and were afraid to ask him about it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.9.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MRK.9.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">They came to Capernaum. When he was in the house, he asked them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What were you arguing about on the road?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.9.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">But they kept quiet because on the way they had argued about who was the greatest.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.9.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MRK.9.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MRK.9.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.9.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">He took a little child whom he placed among them. Taking the child in his arms, he said to them, </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MRK.9.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Whoever Is Not Against Us Is for Us</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MRK.9.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MRK.9.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">&#8220;Teacher,&#8221; said John, &#8220;we saw someone driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MRK.9.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="MRK.9.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not stop him,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus said. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;For no one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MRK.9.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">for whoever is not against us is for us.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="MRK.9.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Truly I tell you, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to the Messiah will certainly not lose their reward.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Causing to Stumble</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="MRK.9.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MRK.9.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If anyone causes one of these little ones&#8212;those who believe in me&#8212;to stumble, it would be better for them if a large millstone were hung around their neck and they were thrown into the sea.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="MRK.9.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MRK.9.44"><span class="label">[44]</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:44 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts include here the words of verse 48.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="MRK.9.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="MRK.9.46"><span class="label">[46]</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:46 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts include here the words of verse 48.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="MRK.9.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="MRK.9.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">where</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="MRK.9.48"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;the worms that eat them do not die,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="MRK.9.48"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and the fire is not quenched.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">9:48 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Isaiah 66:24
          </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="MRK.9.48"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="MRK.9.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Everyone will be salted with fire.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="MRK.9.49"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="MRK.9.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace with each other.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Divorce</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jesus then left that place and went into the region of Judea and across the Jordan. Again crowds of people came to him, and as was his custom, he taught them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.10.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, &#8220;Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.10.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What did Moses command you?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.10.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They said, &#8220;Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.10.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus replied. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But at the beginning of creation God &#8216;made them male and female.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:6 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 1:27</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:7 </span><span class="ft">Some early manuscripts do not have </span><span class="fqa">and be united to his wife.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and the two will become one flesh.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:8 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 2:24</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So they are no longer two, but one flesh.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.10.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When they were in the house again, the disciples asked Jesus about this. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Little Children and Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.10.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples rebuked them. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Rich and the Kingdom of God</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.10.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. &#8220;Good teacher,&#8221; he asked, &#8220;what must I do to inherit eternal life?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.10.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why do you call me good?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus answered. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;No one is good&#8212;except God alone.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You know the commandments: &#8216;You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, you shall not defraud, honor your father and mother.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:19 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 20:12-16; Deut. 5:16-20</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.10.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.10.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Teacher,&#8221; he declared, &#8220;all these I have kept since I was a boy.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.10.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.10.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Jesus looked at him and loved him. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;One thing you lack,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he said. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.10.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.10.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">At this the man&#8217;s face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.10.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.10.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.10.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.10.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Children, how hard it is</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:24 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">is for those who trust in riches</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">to enter the kingdom of God!</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.10.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.10.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.10.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The disciples were even more amazed, and said to each other, &#8220;Who then can be saved?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.10.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.10.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Jesus looked at them and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.10.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.10.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then Peter spoke up, &#8220;We have left everything to follow you!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.10.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.10.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MRK.10.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields&#8212;along with persecutions&#8212;and in the age to come eternal life.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.10.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But many who are first will be last, and the last first.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Predicts His Death a Third Time</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.10.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.10.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">They were on their way up to Jerusalem, with Jesus leading the way, and the disciples were astonished, while those who followed were afraid. Again he took the Twelve aside and told them what was going to happen to him. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MRK.10.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;We are going up to Jerusalem,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.10.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">who will mock him and spit on him, flog him and kill him. Three days later he will rise.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Request of James and John</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.10.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MRK.10.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him. &#8220;Teacher,&#8221; they said, &#8220;we want you to do for us whatever we ask.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MRK.10.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.10.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What do you want me to do for you?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.10.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MRK.10.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">They replied, &#8220;Let one of us sit at your right and the other at your left in your glory.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MRK.10.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MRK.10.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You don&#8217;t know what you are asking,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus said. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MRK.10.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="MRK.10.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">&#8220;We can,&#8221; they answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="MRK.10.39"><span class="content">Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You will drink the cup I drink and be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MRK.10.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MRK.10.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="MRK.10.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">When the ten heard about this, they became indignant with James and John. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MRK.10.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Jesus called them together and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="MRK.10.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MRK.10.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="MRK.10.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Blind Bartimaeus Receives His Sight</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="MRK.10.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="MRK.10.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">Then they came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples, together with a large crowd, were leaving the city, a blind man, Bartimaeus (which means &#8220;son of Timaeus&#8221;), was sitting by the roadside begging. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="MRK.10.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, &#8220;Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="MRK.10.47"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="MRK.10.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">Many rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, &#8220;Son of David, have mercy on me!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="MRK.10.48"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="MRK.10.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">Jesus stopped and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Call him.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="MRK.10.49"><span class="content">So they called to the blind man, &#8220;Cheer up! On your feet! He&#8217;s calling you.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="MRK.10.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">Throwing his cloak aside, he jumped to his feet and came to Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="MRK.10.50"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="MRK.10.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What do you want me to do for you?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus asked him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="MRK.10.51"><span class="content">The blind man said, &#8220;Rabbi, I want to see.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="MRK.10.51"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="MRK.10.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> said Jesus, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;your faith has healed you.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.</span></span></div>
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