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            <div class="label">15</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 15</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who may dwell in your sacred tent?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.15.1"><span class="content">Who may live on your holy mountain?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.15.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The one whose walk is blameless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.15.2"><span class="content">who does what is righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.15.2"><span class="content">who speaks the truth from their heart;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.15.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">whose tongue utters no slander,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.15.3"><span class="content">who does no wrong to a neighbor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.15.3"><span class="content">and casts no slur on others;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.15.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">who despises a vile person</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.15.4"><span class="content">but honors those who fear 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.15.4"><span class="content">who keeps an oath even when it hurts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.15.4"><span class="content">and does not change their mind;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.15.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">who lends money to the poor without interest;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.15.5"><span class="content">who does not accept a bribe against the innocent.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.15.5"><span class="content">Whoever does these things</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.15.5"><span class="content">will never be shaken.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">16</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 16</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">miktam</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Keep me safe, my God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.16.1"><span class="content">for in you I take refuge.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.16.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I say to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;You are my Lord;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.16.2"><span class="content">apart from you I have no good thing.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.16.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I say of the holy people who are in the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.16.3"><span class="content">&#8220;They are the noble ones in whom is all my delight.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.16.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Those who run after other gods will suffer more and more.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.16.4"><span class="content">I will not pour out libations of blood to such gods</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.16.4"><span class="content">or take up their names on my lips.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.16.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you alone are my portion and my cup;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.16.5"><span class="content">you make my lot secure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.16.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.16.6"><span class="content">surely I have a delightful inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.16.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who counsels me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.16.7"><span class="content">even at night my heart instructs me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.16.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I keep my eyes always on the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.16.8"><span class="content">With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.16.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.16.9"><span class="content">my body also will rest secure,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.16.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.16.10"><span class="content">nor will you let your faithful</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">holy</span></span></span><span class="content"> one see decay.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.16.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You make known to me the path of life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.16.11"><span class="content">you will fill me with joy in your presence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.16.11"><span class="content">with eternal pleasures at your right hand.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">17</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 17</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A prayer of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my plea is just;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">listen to my cry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">Hear my prayer&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">it does not rise from deceitful lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Let my vindication come from you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.17.2"><span class="content">may your eyes see what is right.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Though you probe my heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">though you examine me at night and test me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">you will find that I have planned no evil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">my mouth has not transgressed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Though people tried to bribe me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="content">I have kept myself from the ways of the violent</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="content">through what your lips have commanded.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My steps have held to your paths;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.17.5"><span class="content">my feet have not stumbled.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I call on you, my God, for you will answer me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.17.6"><span class="content">turn your ear to me and hear my prayer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Show me the wonders of your great love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.17.7"><span class="content">you who save by your right hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.17.7"><span class="content">those who take refuge in you from their foes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.17.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Keep me as the apple of your eye;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.17.8"><span class="content">hide me in the shadow of your wings</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">from the wicked who are out to destroy me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.17.9"><span class="content">from my mortal enemies who surround me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They close up their callous hearts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.17.10"><span class="content">and their mouths speak with arrogance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They have tracked me down, they now surround me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.17.11"><span class="content">with eyes alert, to throw me to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They are like a lion hungry for prey,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.17.12"><span class="content">like a fierce lion crouching in cover.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.17.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Rise up, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, confront them, bring them down;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.17.13"><span class="content">with your sword rescue me from the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">By your hand save me from such people, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">from those of this world whose reward is in this life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">May what you have stored up for the wicked fill their bellies;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">may their children gorge themselves on it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">and may there be leftovers for their little ones.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">As for me, I will be vindicated and will see your face;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.17.15"><span class="content">when I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Remnant of Israel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don&#8217;t you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah&#8212;how he appealed to God against Israel: </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:3 </span><span class="ft">1 Kings 19:10,14</span></span></span><span class="content">? </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And what was God&#8217;s answer to him? &#8220;I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:4 </span><span class="ft">1 Kings 19:18</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">What then? What the people of Israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain. The elect among them did, but the others were hardened, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">as it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.11.8"><span class="content">&#8220;God gave them a spirit of stupor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.11.8"><span class="content">eyes that could not see</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.11.8"><span class="content">and ears that could not hear,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.11.8"><span class="content">to this very day.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:8 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 29:4; Isaiah 29:10</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.11.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And David says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.11.9"><span class="content">&#8220;May their table become a snare and a trap,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.11.9"><span class="content">a stumbling block and a retribution for them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.11.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.11.10"><span class="content">and their backs be bent forever.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:10 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 69:22,23</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ingrafted Branches</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.11.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their full inclusion bring!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.11.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.11.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You will say then, &#8220;Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.11.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.11.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">All Israel Will Be Saved</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.11.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.11.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.11.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">and in this way</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and so</span></span></span><span class="content"> all Israel will be saved. As it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.11.26"><span class="content">&#8220;The deliverer will come from Zion;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.11.26"><span class="content">he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.11.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.11.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And this is</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:27 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will be</span></span></span><span class="content"> my covenant with them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.11.27"><span class="content">when I take away their sins.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:27 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 59:20,21; 27:9 (see Septuagint); Jer. 31:33,34</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.11.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ROM.11.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.11.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">for God&#8217;s gifts and his call are irrevocable. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ROM.11.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ROM.11.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:31 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts do not have </span><span class="fqa">now.</span></span></span><span class="content"> receive mercy as a result of God&#8217;s mercy to you. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ROM.11.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Doxology</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ROM.11.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.11.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:33 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">riches and the wisdom and the</span></span></span><span class="content"> knowledge of God!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.11.33"><span class="content">How unsearchable his judgments,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.11.33"><span class="content">and his paths beyond tracing out!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.11.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ROM.11.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">&#8220;Who has known the mind of the Lord?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ROM.11.34"><span class="content">Or who has been his counselor?&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:34 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 40:13</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ROM.11.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ROM.11.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">&#8220;Who has ever given to God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ROM.11.35"><span class="content">that God should repay them?&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:35 </span><span class="ft">Job 41:11</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ROM.11.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ROM.11.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">For from him and through him and for him are all things.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ROM.11.36"><span class="content">To him be the glory forever! Amen.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkROM">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="ROM.12">
            <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Living Sacrifice</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God&#8217;s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God&#8212;this is your true and proper worship. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God&#8217;s will is&#8212;his good, pleasing and perfect will.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Humble Service in the Body of Christ</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.12.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the</span></span></span><span class="content"> faith; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">to provide for others</span></span></span><span class="content"> do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Love in Action</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.12.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Share with the Lord&#8217;s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.12.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">willing to do menial work</span></span></span><span class="content"> Do not be conceited.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.12.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.12.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.12.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God&#8217;s wrath, for it is written: &#8220;It is mine to avenge; I will repay,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:19 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 32:35</span></span></span><span class="content"> says the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.12.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">On the contrary:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.12.20"><span class="content">&#8220;If your enemy is hungry, feed him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.12.20"><span class="content">if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.12.20"><span class="content">In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:20 </span><span class="ft">Prov. 25:21,22</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.12.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.12.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkGEN">
        <div class="chapter ch20" data-usfm="GEN.20">
            <div class="label">20</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Abraham and Abimelek</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and there Abraham said of his wife Sarah, &#8220;She is my sister.&#8221; Then Abimelek king of Gerar sent for Sarah and took her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.20.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But God came to Abimelek in a dream one night and said to him, &#8220;You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.20.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Now Abimelek had not gone near her, so he said, &#8220;Lord, will you destroy an innocent nation? </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Did he not say to me, &#8216;She is my sister,&#8217; and didn&#8217;t she also say, &#8216;He is my brother&#8217;? I have done this with a clear conscience and clean hands.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.20.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then God said to him in the dream, &#8220;Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against me. That is why I did not let you touch her. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now return the man&#8217;s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, you may be sure that you and all who belong to you will die.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.20.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Early the next morning Abimelek summoned all his officials, and when he told them all that had happened, they were very much afraid. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then Abimelek called Abraham in and said, &#8220;What have you done to us? How have I wronged you that you have brought such great guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should never be done.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.20.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And Abimelek asked Abraham, &#8220;What was your reason for doing this?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.20.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.20.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Abraham replied, &#8220;I said to myself, &#8216;There is surely no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not of my mother; and she became my wife. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And when God had me wander from my father&#8217;s household, I said to her, &#8216;This is how you can show your love to me: Everywhere we go, say of me, &#8220;He is my brother.&#8221;&#8198;&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.20.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then Abimelek brought sheep and cattle and male and female slaves and gave them to Abraham, and he returned Sarah his wife to him. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And Abimelek said, &#8220;My land is before you; live wherever you like.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.20.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">To Sarah he said, &#8220;I am giving your brother a thousand shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:16 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver. This is to cover the offense against you before all who are with you; you are completely vindicated.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.20.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelek, his wife and his female slaves so they could have children again, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had kept all the women in Abimelek&#8217;s household from conceiving because of Abraham&#8217;s wife Sarah.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkGEN">
        <div class="chapter ch21" data-usfm="GEN.21">
            <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Birth of Isaac</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> did for Sarah what he had promised. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Abraham gave the name Isaac</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:3 </span><span class="fq">Isaac </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">he laughs.</span></span></span><span class="content"> to the son Sarah bore him. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.21.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Sarah said, &#8220;God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And she added, &#8220;Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The child grew and was weaned, and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and she said to Abraham, &#8220;Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that woman&#8217;s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.21.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But God said to him, &#8220;Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seed</span></span></span><span class="content"> will be reckoned. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I will make the son of the slave into a nation also, because he is your offspring.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.21.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.21.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, &#8220;I cannot watch the boy die.&#8221; And as she sat there, she</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:16 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">the child</span></span></span><span class="content"> began to sob.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.21.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, &#8220;What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.21.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.21.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Treaty at Beersheba</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.21.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">At that time Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces said to Abraham, &#8220;God is with you in everything you do. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants. Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown to you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.21.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.21.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Abraham said, &#8220;I swear it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.21.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.21.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Then Abraham complained to Abimelek about a well of water that Abimelek&#8217;s servants had seized. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.21.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">But Abimelek said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know who has done this. You did not tell me, and I heard about it only today.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.21.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.21.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelek, and the two men made a treaty. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.21.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs from the flock, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.21.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">and Abimelek asked Abraham, &#8220;What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs you have set apart by themselves?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.21.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.21.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He replied, &#8220;Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.21.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.21.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">So that place was called Beersheba,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:31 </span><span class="fq">Beersheba </span><span class="ft">can mean </span><span class="fqa">well of seven </span><span class="ft">and </span><span class="fqa">well of the oath.</span></span></span><span class="content"> because the two men swore an oath there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.21.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.21.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">After the treaty had been made at Beersheba, Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces returned to the land of the Philistines. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.21.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the Eternal God. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.21.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for a long time.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkGEN">
        <div class="chapter ch22" data-usfm="GEN.22">
            <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Abraham Tested</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, &#8220;Abraham!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.22.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Here I am,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then God said, &#8220;Take your son, your only son, whom you love&#8212;Isaac&#8212;and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He said to his servants, &#8220;Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, &#8220;Father?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.22.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, my son?&#8221; Abraham replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.22.7"><span class="content">&#8220;The fire and wood are here,&#8221; Isaac said, &#8220;but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Abraham answered, &#8220;God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.&#8221; And the two of them went on together.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> called out to him from heaven, &#8220;Abraham! Abraham!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.22.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Here I am,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not lay a hand on the boy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:13 </span><span class="ft">Many manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">a ram behind him</span></span></span><span class="content"> caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So Abraham called that place The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Will Provide. And to this day it is said, &#8220;On the mountain of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> it will be provided.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> called to Abraham from heaven a second time </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">and said, &#8220;I swear by myself, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">and through your offspring</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seed</span></span></span><span class="content"> all nations on earth will be blessed,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and all nations on earth will use the name of your offspring in blessings </span><span class="ft">(see 48:20)</span></span></span><span class="content"> because you have obeyed me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Nahor&#8217;s Sons</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Some time later Abraham was told, &#8220;Milkah is also a mother; she has borne sons to your brother Nahor: </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Uz the firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel (the father of Aram), </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph and Bethuel.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milkah bore these eight sons to Abraham&#8217;s brother Nahor. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also had sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maakah.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkGEN">
        <div class="chapter ch23" data-usfm="GEN.23">
            <div class="label">23</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Death of Sarah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Sarah lived to be a hundred and twenty-seven years old. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">She died at Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep over her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then Abraham rose from beside his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the descendants of Heth</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 5, 7, 10, 16, 18 and 20</span></span></span><span class="content"> He said, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;I am a foreigner and stranger among you. Sell me some property for a burial site here so I can bury my dead.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Hittites replied to Abraham, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Sir, listen to us. You are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb for burying your dead.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.23.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He said to them, &#8220;If you are willing to let me bury my dead, then listen to me and intercede with Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">so he will sell me the cave of Machpelah, which belongs to him and is at the end of his field. Ask him to sell it to me for the full price as a burial site among you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.23.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Ephron the Hittite was sitting among his people and he replied to Abraham in the hearing of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;No, my lord,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Listen to me; I give</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">sell</span></span></span><span class="content"> you the field, and I give</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">sell</span></span></span><span class="content"> you the cave that is in it. I give</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">sell</span></span></span><span class="content"> it to you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.23.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Again Abraham bowed down before the people of the land </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and he said to Ephron in their hearing, &#8220;Listen to me, if you will. I will pay the price of the field. Accept it from me so I can bury my dead there.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.23.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Ephron answered Abraham, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to me, my lord; the land is worth four hundred shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:15 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 10 pounds or about 4.6 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver, but what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.23.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Abraham agreed to Ephron&#8217;s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weight current among the merchants.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.23.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So Ephron&#8217;s field in Machpelah near Mamre&#8212;both the field and the cave in it, and all the trees within the borders of the field&#8212;was deeded </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">to Abraham as his property in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of the city. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.23.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Afterward Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre (which is at Hebron) in the land of Canaan. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.23.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So the field and the cave in it were deeded to Abraham by the Hittites as a burial site.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkJDG">
        <div class="chapter ch1" data-usfm="JDG.1">
            <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel Fights the Remaining Canaanites</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After the death of Joshua, the Israelites asked the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Canaanites?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> answered, &#8220;Judah shall go up; I have given the land into their hands.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The men of Judah then said to the Simeonites their fellow Israelites, &#8220;Come up with us into the territory allotted to us, to fight against the Canaanites. We in turn will go with you into yours.&#8221; So the Simeonites went with them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When Judah attacked, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down ten thousand men at Bezek. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It was there that they found Adoni-Bezek and fought against him, putting to rout the Canaanites and Perizzites. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Adoni-Bezek fled, but they chased him and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then Adoni-Bezek said, &#8220;Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have picked up scraps under my table. Now God has paid me back for what I did to them.&#8221; They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem also and took it. They put the city to the sword and set it on fire.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">After that, Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites living in the hill country, the Negev and the western foothills. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They advanced against the Canaanites living in Hebron (formerly called Kiriath Arba) and defeated Sheshai, Ahiman and Talmai. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">From there they advanced against the people living in Debir (formerly called Kiriath Sepher).</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And Caleb said, &#8220;I will give my daughter Aksah in marriage to the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb&#8217;s younger brother, took it; so Caleb gave his daughter Aksah to him in marriage.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">One day when she came to Othniel, she urged him</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:14 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint and Vulgate </span><span class="fqa">Othniel, he urged her</span></span></span><span class="content"> to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, &#8220;What can I do for you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">She replied, &#8220;Do me a special favor. Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me also springs of water.&#8221; So Caleb gave her the upper and lower springs.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The descendants of Moses&#8217; father-in-law, the Kenite, went up from the City of Palms</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:16 </span><span class="ft">That is, Jericho</span></span></span><span class="content"> with the people of Judah to live among the inhabitants of the Desert of Judah in the Negev near Arad.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then the men of Judah went with the Simeonites their fellow Israelites and attacked the Canaanites living in Zephath, and they totally destroyed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:17 </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"> the city. Therefore it was called Hormah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:17 </span><span class="fq">Hormah </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">destruction.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Judah also took</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:18 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">Judah did not take</span></span></span><span class="content"> Gaza, Ashkelon and Ekron&#8212;each city with its territory.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.1.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was with the men of Judah. They took possession of the hill country, but they were unable to drive the people from the plains, because they had chariots fitted with iron. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">As Moses had promised, Hebron was given to Caleb, who drove from it the three sons of Anak. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The Benjamites, however, did not drive out the Jebusites, who were living in Jerusalem; to this day the Jebusites live there with the Benjamites.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.1.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Now the tribes of Joseph attacked Bethel, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was with them. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When they sent men to spy out Bethel (formerly called Luz), </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">the spies saw a man coming out of the city and they said to him, &#8220;Show us how to get into the city and we will see that you are treated well.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">So he showed them, and they put the city to the sword but spared the man and his whole family. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.1.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">He then went to the land of the Hittites, where he built a city and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.1.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.1.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But Manasseh did not drive out the people of Beth Shan or Taanach or Dor or Ibleam or Megiddo and their surrounding settlements, for the Canaanites were determined to live in that land. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.1.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">When Israel became strong, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor but never drove them out completely. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.1.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Nor did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer, but the Canaanites continued to live there among them. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.1.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Neither did Zebulun drive out the Canaanites living in Kitron or Nahalol, so these Canaanites lived among them, but Zebulun did subject them to forced labor. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.1.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Nor did Asher drive out those living in Akko or Sidon or Ahlab or Akzib or Helbah or Aphek or Rehob. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JDG.1.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The Asherites lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land because they did not drive them out. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JDG.1.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Neither did Naphtali drive out those living in Beth Shemesh or Beth Anath; but the Naphtalites too lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, and those living in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath became forced laborers for them. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JDG.1.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">The Amorites confined the Danites to the hill country, not allowing them to come down into the plain. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JDG.1.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">And the Amorites were determined also to hold out in Mount Heres, Aijalon and Shaalbim, but when the power of the tribes of Joseph increased, they too were pressed into forced labor. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JDG.1.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">The boundary of the Amorites was from Scorpion Pass to Sela and beyond.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading"> at Bokim</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, &#8220;I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land I swore to give to your ancestors. I said, &#8216;I will never break my covenant with you, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and you shall not make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall break down their altars.&#8217; Yet you have disobeyed me. Why have you done this? </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And I have also said, &#8216;I will not drive them out before you; they will become traps for you, and their gods will become snares to you.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had spoken these things to all the Israelites, the people wept aloud, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">and they called that place Bokim.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:5 </span><span class="fq">Bokim </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">weepers.</span></span></span><span class="content"> There they offered sacrifices to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Disobedience and Defeat</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">After Joshua had dismissed the Israelites, they went to take possession of the land, each to their own inheritance. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The people 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 seen all the great things 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 v7" data-usfm="JDG.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">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 v9" data-usfm="JDG.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath Heres</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:9 </span><span class="ft">Also known as </span><span class="fqa">Timnath Serah </span><span class="ft">(see Joshua 19:50 and 24:30)</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 v9" data-usfm="JDG.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> nor what he had done for Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and served the Baals. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They forsook the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed and worshiped various gods of the peoples around them. They aroused the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anger </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">because they forsook him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">In his anger against Israel the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Whenever Israel went out to fight, the hand of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was against them to defeat them, just as he had sworn to them. They were in great distress.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.2.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> raised up judges,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">leaders</span><span class="ft">; similarly in verses 17-19</span></span></span><span class="content"> who saved them out of the hands of these raiders. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Yet they would not listen to their judges but prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. They quickly turned from the ways of their ancestors, who had been obedient to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s commands. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Whenever the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> raised up a judge for them, he was with the judge and saved them out of the hands of their enemies as long as the judge lived; for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> relented because of their groaning under those who oppressed and afflicted them. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But when the judge died, the people returned to ways even more corrupt than those of their ancestors, following other gods and serving and worshiping them. They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.2.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Therefore the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was very angry with Israel and said, &#8220;Because this nation has violated the covenant I ordained for their ancestors and has not listened to me, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I will use them to test Israel and see whether they will keep the way of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and walk in it as their ancestors did.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had allowed those nations to remain; he did not drive them out at once by giving them into the hands of Joshua.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">3</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">These are the nations the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> left to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">(he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience): </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living in the Lebanon mountains from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo Hamath. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They were left to test the Israelites to see whether they would obey the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s commands, which he had given their ancestors through Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They took their daughters in marriage and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Othniel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; they forgot the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The anger of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> burned against Israel so that he sold them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:8 </span><span class="ft">That is, Northwest Mesopotamia</span></span></span><span class="content"> to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But when they cried out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, he raised up for them a deliverer, Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb&#8217;s younger brother, who saved them. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came on him, so that he became Israel&#8217;s judge</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">leader</span></span></span><span class="content"> and went to war. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram into the hands of Othniel, who overpowered him. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So the land had peace for forty years, until Othniel son of Kenaz died.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ehud</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and because they did this evil the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave Eglon king of Moab power over Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Getting the Ammonites and Amalekites to join him, Eglon came and attacked Israel, and they took possession of the City of Palms.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:13 </span><span class="ft">That is, Jericho</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The Israelites were subject to Eglon king of Moab for eighteen years.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Again the Israelites cried out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and he gave them a deliverer&#8212;Ehud, a left-handed man, the son of Gera the Benjamite. The Israelites sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Now Ehud had made a double-edged sword about a cubit</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:16 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 18 inches or about 45 centimeters</span></span></span><span class="content"> long, which he strapped to his right thigh under his clothing. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab, who was a very fat man. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">After Ehud had presented the tribute, he sent on their way those who had carried it. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But on reaching the stone images near Gilgal he himself went back to Eglon and said, &#8220;Your Majesty, I have a secret message for you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.3.19"><span class="content">The king said to his attendants, &#8220;Leave us!&#8221; And they all left.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Ehud then approached him while he was sitting alone in the upper room of his palace</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:20 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain; also in verse 24.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and said, &#8220;I have a message from God for you.&#8221; As the king rose from his seat, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Ehud reached with his left hand, drew the sword from his right thigh and plunged it into the king&#8217;s belly. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Even the handle sank in after the blade, and his bowels discharged. Ehud did not pull the sword out, and the fat closed in over it. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then Ehud went out to the porch</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:23 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content">; he shut the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.3.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">After he had gone, the servants came and found the doors of the upper room locked. They said, &#8220;He must be relieving himself in the inner room of the palace.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">They waited to the point of embarrassment, but when he did not open the doors of the room, they took a key and unlocked them. There they saw their lord fallen to the floor, dead.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.3.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.3.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">While they waited, Ehud got away. He passed by the stone images and escaped to Seirah. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.3.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">When he arrived there, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went down with him from the hills, with him leading them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.3.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.3.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;Follow me,&#8221; he ordered, &#8220;for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given Moab, your enemy, into your hands.&#8221; So they followed him down and took possession of the fords of the Jordan that led to Moab; they allowed no one to cross over. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.3.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">At that time they struck down about ten thousand Moabites, all vigorous and strong; not one escaped. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.3.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">That day Moab was made subject to Israel, and the land had peace for eighty years.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Shamgar</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.3.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.3.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath, who struck down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad. He too saved Israel.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch4" data-usfm="JDG.4">
            <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Deborah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, now that Ehud was dead. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sold them into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. Sisera, the commander of his army, was based in Harosheth Haggoyim. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Because he had nine hundred chariots fitted with iron and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, they cried to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> for help.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Traditionally </span><span class="fqa">judging</span></span></span><span class="content"> Israel at that time. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her to have their disputes decided. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, commands you: &#8216;Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead them up to Mount Tabor. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will lead Sisera, the commander of Jabin&#8217;s army, with his chariots and his troops to the Kishon River and give him into your hands.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Barak said to her, &#8220;If you go with me, I will go; but if you don&#8217;t go with me, I won&#8217;t go.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Certainly I will go with you,&#8221; said Deborah. &#8220;But because of the course you are taking, the honor will not be yours, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman.&#8221; So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">There Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali, and ten thousand men went up under his command. Deborah also went up with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now Heber the Kenite had left the other Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, Moses&#8217; brother-in-law,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">father-in-law</span></span></span><span class="content"> and pitched his tent by the great tree in Zaanannim near Kedesh.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When they told Sisera that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Sisera summoned from Harosheth Haggoyim to the Kishon River all his men and his nine hundred chariots fitted with iron.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then Deborah said to Barak, &#8220;Go! This is the day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given Sisera into your hands. Has not the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gone ahead of you?&#8221; So Barak went down Mount Tabor, with ten thousand men following him. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">At Barak&#8217;s advance, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> routed Sisera and all his chariots and army by the sword, and Sisera got down from his chariot and fled on foot.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as Harosheth Haggoyim, and all Sisera&#8217;s troops fell by the sword; not a man was left. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Sisera, meanwhile, fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was an alliance between Jabin king of Hazor and the family of Heber the Kenite.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, &#8220;Come, my lord, come right in. Don&#8217;t be afraid.&#8221; So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;I&#8217;m thirsty,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Please give me some water.&#8221; She opened a skin of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him up.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.4.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Stand in the doorway of the tent,&#8221; he told her. &#8220;If someone comes by and asks you, &#8216;Is anyone in there?&#8217; say &#8216;No.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But Jael, Heber&#8217;s wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.4.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Just then Barak came by in pursuit of Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him. &#8220;Come,&#8221; she said, &#8220;I will show you the man you&#8217;re looking for.&#8221; So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera with the tent peg through his temple&#8212;dead.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.4.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And the hand of the Israelites pressed harder and harder against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="JDG.6">
            <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Gideon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves and strongholds. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples invaded the country. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They camped on the land and ruined the crops all the way to Gaza and did not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count them or their camels; they invaded the land to ravage it. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> for help.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When the Israelites cried out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> because of Midian, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">he sent them a prophet, who said, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians. And I delivered you from the hand of all your oppressors; I drove them out before you and gave you their land. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I said to you, &#8216;I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God; do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live.&#8217; But you have not listened to me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.6.11"><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"> came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to Gideon, he said, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is with you, mighty warrior.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Pardon me, my lord,&#8221; Gideon replied, &#8220;but if the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, &#8216;Did not the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> bring us up out of Egypt?&#8217; But now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.6.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> turned to him and said, &#8220;Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian&#8217;s hand. Am I not sending you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.6.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Pardon me, my lord,&#8221; Gideon replied, &#8220;but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.6.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> answered, &#8220;I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.6.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Gideon replied, &#8220;If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to me. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.6.18"><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;I will wait until you return.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.6.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Gideon went inside, prepared a young goat, and from an ephah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:19 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of flour he made bread without yeast. Putting the meat in a basket and its broth in a pot, he brought them out and offered them to him under the oak.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.6.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The angel of God said to him, &#8220;Take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock, and pour out the broth.&#8221; And Gideon did so. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of the staff that was in his hand. Fire flared from the rock, consuming the meat and the bread. And the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> disappeared. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, he exclaimed, &#8220;Alas, Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">! I have seen the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> face to face!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.6.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.6.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to him, &#8220;Peace! Do not be afraid. You are not going to die.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.6.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.6.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">So Gideon built an altar to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> there and called it The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.6.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.6.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">That same night the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to him, &#8220;Take the second bull from your father&#8217;s herd, the one seven years old.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Take a full-grown, mature bull from your father&#8217;s herd</span></span></span><span class="content"> Tear down your father&#8217;s altar to Baal and cut down the Asherah pole</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:25 </span><span class="ft">That is, a wooden symbol of the goddess Asherah; also in verses 26, 28 and 30</span></span></span><span class="content"> beside it. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.6.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Then build a proper kind of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">build with layers of stone an</span></span></span><span class="content"> altar to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God on the top of this height. Using the wood of the Asherah pole that you cut down, offer the second</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">full-grown</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 28</span></span></span><span class="content"> bull as a burnt offering.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.6.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.6.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> told him. But because he was afraid of his family and the townspeople, he did it at night rather than in the daytime.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.6.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.6.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">In the morning when the people of the town got up, there was Baal&#8217;s altar, demolished, with the Asherah pole beside it cut down and the second bull sacrificed on the newly built altar!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.6.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.6.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">They asked each other, &#8220;Who did this?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.6.29"><span class="content">When they carefully investigated, they were told, &#8220;Gideon son of Joash did it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.6.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.6.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The people of the town demanded of Joash, &#8220;Bring out your son. He must die, because he has broken down Baal&#8217;s altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.6.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.6.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">But Joash replied to the hostile crowd around him, &#8220;Are you going to plead Baal&#8217;s cause? Are you trying to save him? Whoever fights for him shall be put to death by morning! If Baal really is a god, he can defend himself when someone breaks down his altar.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JDG.6.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">So because Gideon broke down Baal&#8217;s altar, they gave him the name Jerub-Baal</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:32 </span><span class="fq">Jerub-Baal </span><span class="ft">probably means </span><span class="fq">let Baal contend</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> that day, saying, &#8220;Let Baal contend with him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JDG.6.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JDG.6.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Now all the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples joined forces and crossed over the Jordan and camped in the Valley of Jezreel. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JDG.6.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Then the Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came on Gideon, and he blew a trumpet, summoning the Abiezrites to follow him. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JDG.6.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">He sent messengers throughout Manasseh, calling them to arms, and also into Asher, Zebulun and Naphtali, so that they too went up to meet them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JDG.6.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JDG.6.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Gideon said to God, &#8220;If you will save Israel by my hand as you have promised&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JDG.6.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">look, I will place a wool fleece on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you said.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JDG.6.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">And that is what happened. Gideon rose early the next day; he squeezed the fleece and wrung out the dew&#8212;a bowlful of water.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JDG.6.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JDG.6.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Then Gideon said to God, &#8220;Do not be angry with me. Let me make just one more request. Allow me one more test with the fleece, but this time make the fleece dry and let the ground be covered with dew.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JDG.6.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">That night God did so. Only the fleece was dry; all the ground was covered with dew.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch11" data-usfm="JOB.11">
            <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Zophar</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.11.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Are all these words to go unanswered?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.11.2"><span class="content">Is this talker to be vindicated?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.11.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Will your idle talk reduce others to silence?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.11.3"><span class="content">Will no one rebuke you when you mock?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.11.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You say to God, &#8216;My beliefs are flawless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.11.4"><span class="content">and I am pure in your sight.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.11.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Oh, how I wish that God would speak,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.11.5"><span class="content">that he would open his lips against you</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.11.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="content">for true wisdom has two sides.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="content">Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Can you fathom the mysteries of God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.11.7"><span class="content">Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.11.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They are higher than the heavens above&#8212;what can you do?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.11.8"><span class="content">They are deeper than the depths below&#8212;what can you know?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.11.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Their measure is longer than the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.11.9"><span class="content">and wider than the sea.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.11.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;If he comes along and confines you in prison</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.11.10"><span class="content">and convenes a court, who can oppose him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.11.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Surely he recognizes deceivers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.11.11"><span class="content">and when he sees evil, does he not take note?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.11.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But the witless can no more become wise</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.11.12"><span class="content">than a wild donkey&#8217;s colt can be born human.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">wild donkey can be born tame</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.11.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yet if you devote your heart to him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.11.13"><span class="content">and stretch out your hands to him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.11.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">if you put away the sin that is in your hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.11.14"><span class="content">and allow no evil to dwell in your tent,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.11.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">then, free of fault, you will lift up your face;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.11.15"><span class="content">you will stand firm and without fear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.11.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">You will surely forget your trouble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.11.16"><span class="content">recalling it only as waters gone by.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.11.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Life will be brighter than noonday,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.11.17"><span class="content">and darkness will become like morning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.11.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">You will be secure, because there is hope;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.11.18"><span class="content">you will look about you and take your rest in safety.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.11.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You will lie down, with no one to make you afraid,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.11.19"><span class="content">and many will court your favor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.11.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But the eyes of the wicked will fail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.11.20"><span class="content">and escape will elude them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.11.20"><span class="content">their hope will become a dying gasp.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
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        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="JOB.12">
            <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.12.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Doubtless you are the only people who matter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.12.2"><span class="content">and wisdom will die with you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.12.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But I have a mind as well as you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.12.3"><span class="content">I am not inferior to you.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.12.3"><span class="content">Who does not know all these things?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.12.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have become a laughingstock to my friends,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.12.4"><span class="content">though I called on God and he answered&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.12.4"><span class="content">a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.12.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Those who are at ease have contempt for misfortune</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.12.5"><span class="content">as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.12.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The tents of marauders are undisturbed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.12.6"><span class="content">and those who provoke God are secure&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.12.6"><span class="content">those God has in his hand.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">those whose god is in their own hand</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;But ask the animals, and they will teach you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.12.7"><span class="content">or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.12.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">or speak to the earth, and it will teach you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.12.8"><span class="content">or let the fish in the sea inform you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.12.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Which of all these does not know</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.12.9"><span class="content">that the hand of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has done this?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.12.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">In his hand is the life of every creature</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.12.10"><span class="content">and the breath of all mankind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.12.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Does not the ear test words</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.12.11"><span class="content">as the tongue tastes food?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.12.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Is not wisdom found among the aged?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.12.12"><span class="content">Does not long life bring understanding?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.12.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;To God belong wisdom and power;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.12.13"><span class="content">counsel and understanding are his.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.12.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">What he tears down cannot be rebuilt;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.12.14"><span class="content">those he imprisons cannot be released.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.12.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If he holds back the waters, there is drought;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.12.15"><span class="content">if he lets them loose, they devastate the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.12.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">To him belong strength and insight;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.12.16"><span class="content">both deceived and deceiver are his.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.12.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He leads rulers away stripped</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.12.17"><span class="content">and makes fools of judges.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.12.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.12.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He takes off the shackles put on by kings</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.12.18"><span class="content">and ties a loincloth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">shackles of kings / and ties a belt</span></span></span><span class="content"> around their waist.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.12.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.12.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He leads priests away stripped</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.12.19"><span class="content">and overthrows officials long established.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.12.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.12.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He silences the lips of trusted advisers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.12.20"><span class="content">and takes away the discernment of elders.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.12.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.12.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He pours contempt on nobles</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.12.21"><span class="content">and disarms the mighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.12.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.12.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He reveals the deep things of darkness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.12.22"><span class="content">and brings utter darkness into the light.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.12.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.12.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He makes nations great, and destroys them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.12.23"><span class="content">he enlarges nations, and disperses them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.12.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.12.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">He deprives the leaders of the earth of their reason;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.12.24"><span class="content">he makes them wander in a trackless waste.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.12.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.12.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">They grope in darkness with no light;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.12.25"><span class="content">he makes them stagger like drunkards.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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            <div class="label">29</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Woe to David&#8217;s City</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.29.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Woe to you, Ariel, Ariel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.29.1"><span class="content">the city where David settled!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.29.1"><span class="content">Add year to year</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.29.1"><span class="content">and let your cycle of festivals go on.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.29.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.29.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Yet I will besiege Ariel;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.29.2"><span class="content">she will mourn and lament,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.29.2"><span class="content">she will be to me like an altar hearth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:2 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">altar hearth </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">Ariel</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.29.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.29.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I will encamp against you on all sides;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.29.3"><span class="content">I will encircle you with towers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.29.3"><span class="content">and set up my siege works against you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.29.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.29.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Brought low, you will speak from the ground;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.29.4"><span class="content">your speech will mumble out of the dust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.29.4"><span class="content">Your voice will come ghostlike from the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.29.4"><span class="content">out of the dust your speech will whisper.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.29.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.29.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But your many enemies will become like fine dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.29.5"><span class="content">the ruthless hordes like blown chaff.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.29.5"><span class="content">Suddenly, in an instant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.29.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.29.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty will come</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.29.6"><span class="content">with thunder and earthquake and great noise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.29.6"><span class="content">with windstorm and tempest and flames of a devouring fire.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.29.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.29.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then the hordes of all the nations that fight against Ariel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.29.7"><span class="content">that attack her and her fortress and besiege her,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.29.7"><span class="content">will be as it is with a dream,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.29.7"><span class="content">with a vision in the night&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.29.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">as when a hungry person dreams of eating,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="content">but awakens hungry still;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="content">as when a thirsty person dreams of drinking,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="content">but awakens faint and thirsty still.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="content">So will it be with the hordes of all the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="content">that fight against Mount Zion.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.29.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Be stunned and amazed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.29.9"><span class="content">blind yourselves and be sightless;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.29.9"><span class="content">be drunk, but not from wine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.29.9"><span class="content">stagger, but not from beer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.29.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.29.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has brought over you a deep sleep:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.29.10"><span class="content">He has sealed your eyes (the prophets);</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.29.10"><span class="content">he has covered your heads (the seers).</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.29.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.29.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For you this whole vision is nothing but words sealed in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say, &#8220;Read this, please,&#8221; they will answer, &#8220;I can&#8217;t; it is sealed.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.29.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, &#8220;Read this, please,&#8221; they will answer, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how to read.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.29.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The Lord says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="content">&#8220;These people come near to me with their mouth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="content">and honor me with their lips,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="content">but their hearts are far from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="content">Their worship of me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="content">is based on merely human rules they have been taught.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:13 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">They worship me in vain; / their teachings are merely human rules</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.29.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Therefore once more I will astound these people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.29.14"><span class="content">with wonder upon wonder;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.29.14"><span class="content">the wisdom of the wise will perish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.29.14"><span class="content">the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.29.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.29.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Woe to those who go to great depths</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.29.15"><span class="content">to hide their plans from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.29.15"><span class="content">who do their work in darkness and think,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.29.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Who sees us? Who will know?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.29.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">You turn things upside down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="content">as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="content">Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="content">&#8220;You did not make me&#8221;?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="content">Can the pot say to the potter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="content">&#8220;You know nothing&#8221;?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.29.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">In a very short time, will not Lebanon be turned into a fertile field</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.29.17"><span class="content">and the fertile field seem like a forest?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.29.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.29.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.29.18"><span class="content">and out of gloom and darkness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.29.18"><span class="content">the eyes of the blind will see.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.29.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.29.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Once more the humble will rejoice in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.29.19"><span class="content">the needy will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.29.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.29.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The ruthless will vanish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.29.20"><span class="content">the mockers will disappear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.29.20"><span class="content">and all who have an eye for evil will be cut down&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.29.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.29.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">those who with a word make someone out to be guilty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.29.21"><span class="content">who ensnare the defender in court</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.29.21"><span class="content">and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.29.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.29.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who redeemed Abraham, says to the descendants of Jacob:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.29.22"><span class="content">&#8220;No longer will Jacob be ashamed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.29.22"><span class="content">no longer will their faces grow pale.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.29.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.29.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When they see among them their children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.29.23"><span class="content">the work of my hands,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.29.23"><span class="content">they will keep my name holy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.29.23"><span class="content">they will acknowledge the holiness of the Holy One of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.29.23"><span class="content">and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.29.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.29.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Those who are wayward in spirit will gain understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.29.24"><span class="content">those who complain will accept instruction.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkISA">
        <div class="chapter ch31" data-usfm="ISA.31">
            <div class="label">31</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Woe to Those Who Rely on Egypt</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">who rely on horses,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">who trust in the multitude of their chariots</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">and in the great strength of their horsemen,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">but do not look to the Holy One of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">or seek help from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Yet he too is wise and can bring disaster;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="content">he does not take back his words.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="content">He will rise up against that wicked nation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="content">against those who help evildoers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But the Egyptians are mere mortals and not God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">their horses are flesh and not spirit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> stretches out his hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">those who help will stumble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">those who are helped will fall;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">all will perish together.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to me:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">&#8220;As a lion growls,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">a great lion over its prey&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">and though a whole band of shepherds</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">is called together against it,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">it is not frightened by their shouts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">or disturbed by their clamor&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">so the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty will come down</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Like birds hovering overhead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty will shield Jerusalem;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="content">he will shield it and deliver it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="content">he will &#8216;pass over&#8217; it and will rescue it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.31.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Return, you Israelites, to the One you have so greatly revolted against. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.31.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For in that day every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold your sinful hands have made.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.31.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Assyria will fall by no human sword;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="content">a sword, not of mortals, will devour them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="content">They will flee before the sword</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="content">and their young men will be put to forced labor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Their stronghold will fall because of terror;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="content">at the sight of the battle standard their commanders will panic,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="content">whose fire is in Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="content">whose furnace is in Jerusalem.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch32" data-usfm="ISA.32">
            <div class="label">32</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Kingdom of Righteousness</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.32.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">See, a king will reign in righteousness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.32.1"><span class="content">and rulers will rule with justice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.32.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.32.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Each one will be like a shelter from the wind</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.32.2"><span class="content">and a refuge from the storm,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.32.2"><span class="content">like streams of water in the desert</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.32.2"><span class="content">and the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.32.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.32.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.32.3"><span class="content">and the ears of those who hear will listen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.32.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.32.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The fearful heart will know and understand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.32.4"><span class="content">and the stammering tongue will be fluent and clear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.32.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.32.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">No longer will the fool be called noble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.32.5"><span class="content">nor the scoundrel be highly respected.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.32.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.32.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For fools speak folly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.32.6"><span class="content">their hearts are bent on evil:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.32.6"><span class="content">They practice ungodliness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.32.6"><span class="content">and spread error concerning the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.32.6"><span class="content">the hungry they leave empty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.32.6"><span class="content">and from the thirsty they withhold water.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.32.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.32.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Scoundrels use wicked methods,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.32.7"><span class="content">they make up evil schemes</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.32.7"><span class="content">to destroy the poor with lies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.32.7"><span class="content">even when the plea of the needy is just.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.32.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.32.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But the noble make noble plans,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.32.8"><span class="content">and by noble deeds they stand.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Women of Jerusalem</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.32.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.32.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You women who are so complacent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.32.9"><span class="content">rise up and listen to me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.32.9"><span class="content">you daughters who feel secure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.32.9"><span class="content">hear what I have to say!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.32.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.32.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">In little more than a year</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.32.10"><span class="content">you who feel secure will tremble;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.32.10"><span class="content">the grape harvest will fail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.32.10"><span class="content">and the harvest of fruit will not come.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.32.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.32.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Tremble, you complacent women;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.32.11"><span class="content">shudder, you daughters who feel secure!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.32.11"><span class="content">Strip off your fine clothes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.32.11"><span class="content">and wrap yourselves in rags.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.32.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.32.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.32.12"><span class="content">for the fruitful vines</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.32.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.32.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and for the land of my people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.32.13"><span class="content">a land overgrown with thorns and briers&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.32.13"><span class="content">yes, mourn for all houses of merriment</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.32.13"><span class="content">and for this city of revelry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.32.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.32.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The fortress will be abandoned,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.32.14"><span class="content">the noisy city deserted;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.32.14"><span class="content">citadel and watchtower will become a wasteland forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.32.14"><span class="content">the delight of donkeys, a pasture for flocks,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.32.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.32.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">till the Spirit is poured on us from on high,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.32.15"><span class="content">and the desert becomes a fertile field,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.32.15"><span class="content">and the fertile field seems like a forest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.32.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.32.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s justice will dwell in the desert,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.32.16"><span class="content">his righteousness live in the fertile field.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.32.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.32.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The fruit of that righteousness will be peace;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.32.17"><span class="content">its effect will be quietness and confidence forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.32.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.32.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">My people will live in peaceful dwelling places,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.32.18"><span class="content">in secure homes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.32.18"><span class="content">in undisturbed places of rest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.32.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.32.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Though hail flattens the forest</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.32.19"><span class="content">and the city is leveled completely,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.32.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.32.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">how blessed you will be,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.32.20"><span class="content">sowing your seed by every stream,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.32.20"><span class="content">and letting your cattle and donkeys range free.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch33" data-usfm="ISA.33">
            <div class="label">33</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Distress and Help</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.33.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Woe to you, destroyer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.33.1"><span class="content">you who have not been destroyed!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.33.1"><span class="content">Woe to you, betrayer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.33.1"><span class="content">you who have not been betrayed!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.33.1"><span class="content">When you stop destroying,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.33.1"><span class="content">you will be destroyed;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.33.1"><span class="content">when you stop betraying,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.33.1"><span class="content">you will be betrayed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.33.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.33.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, be gracious to us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.33.2"><span class="content">we long for you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.33.2"><span class="content">Be our strength every morning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.33.2"><span class="content">our salvation in time of distress.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.33.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.33.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">At the uproar of your army, the peoples flee;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.33.3"><span class="content">when you rise up, the nations scatter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.33.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.33.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Your plunder, O nations, is harvested as by young locusts;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.33.4"><span class="content">like a swarm of locusts people pounce on it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.33.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.33.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is exalted, for he dwells on high;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.33.5"><span class="content">he will fill Zion with his justice and righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.33.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.33.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He will be the sure foundation for your times,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.33.6"><span class="content">a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.33.6"><span class="content">the fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is the key to this treasure.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">33:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">is a treasure from him</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.33.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.33.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Look, their brave men cry aloud in the streets;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.33.7"><span class="content">the envoys of peace weep bitterly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.33.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.33.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The highways are deserted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.33.8"><span class="content">no travelers are on the roads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.33.8"><span class="content">The treaty is broken,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.33.8"><span class="content">its witnesses</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">33:8 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">/ the cities</span></span></span><span class="content"> are despised,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.33.8"><span class="content">no one is respected.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.33.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.33.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The land dries up and wastes away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.33.9"><span class="content">Lebanon is ashamed and withers;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.33.9"><span class="content">Sharon is like the Arabah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.33.9"><span class="content">and Bashan and Carmel drop their leaves.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.33.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.33.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now will I 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 v10" data-usfm="ISA.33.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Now will I be exalted;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.33.10"><span class="content">now will I be lifted up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.33.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.33.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You conceive chaff,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.33.11"><span class="content">you give birth to straw;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.33.11"><span class="content">your breath is a fire that consumes you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.33.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.33.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The peoples will be burned to ashes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.33.12"><span class="content">like cut thornbushes they will be set ablaze.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.33.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.33.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You who are far away, hear what I have done;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.33.13"><span class="content">you who are near, acknowledge my power!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.33.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.33.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The sinners in Zion are terrified;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.33.14"><span class="content">trembling grips the godless:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.33.14"><span class="content">&#8220;Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.33.14"><span class="content">Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.33.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.33.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Those who walk righteously</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.33.15"><span class="content">and speak what is right,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.33.15"><span class="content">who reject gain from extortion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.33.15"><span class="content">and keep their hands from accepting bribes,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.33.15"><span class="content">who stop their ears against plots of murder</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.33.15"><span class="content">and shut their eyes against contemplating evil&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.33.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.33.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">they are the ones who will dwell on the heights,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.33.16"><span class="content">whose refuge will be the mountain fortress.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.33.16"><span class="content">Their bread will be supplied,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.33.16"><span class="content">and water will not fail them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.33.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.33.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Your eyes will see the king in his beauty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.33.17"><span class="content">and view a land that stretches afar.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.33.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.33.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">In your thoughts you will ponder the former terror:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.33.18"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is that chief officer?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.33.18"><span class="content">Where is the one who took the revenue?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.33.18"><span class="content">Where is the officer in charge of the towers?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.33.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.33.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You will see those arrogant people no more,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.33.19"><span class="content">people whose speech is obscure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.33.19"><span class="content">whose language is strange and incomprehensible.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.33.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.33.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Look on Zion, the city of our festivals;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.33.20"><span class="content">your eyes will see Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.33.20"><span class="content">a peaceful abode, a tent that will not be moved;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.33.20"><span class="content">its stakes will never be pulled up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.33.20"><span class="content">nor any of its ropes broken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.33.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.33.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">There the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will be our Mighty One.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.33.21"><span class="content">It will be like a place of broad rivers and streams.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.33.21"><span class="content">No galley with oars will ride them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.33.21"><span class="content">no mighty ship will sail them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.33.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.33.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is our judge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.33.22"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is our lawgiver,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.33.22"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is our king;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.33.22"><span class="content">it is he who will save us.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.33.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.33.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Your rigging hangs loose:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.33.23"><span class="content">The mast is not held secure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.33.23"><span class="content">the sail is not spread.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.33.23"><span class="content">Then an abundance of spoils will be divided</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.33.23"><span class="content">and even the lame will carry off plunder.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.33.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.33.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">No one living in Zion will say, &#8220;I am ill&#8221;;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.33.24"><span class="content">and the sins of those who dwell there will be forgiven.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">saying to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If anyone asks you, &#8216;Why are you doing this?&#8217; say, &#8216;The Lord needs it and will send it back here shortly.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.11.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They went and found a colt outside in the street, tied at a doorway. As they untied it, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">some people standing there asked, &#8220;What are you doing, untying that colt?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They answered as Jesus had told them to, and the people let them go. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, he sat on it. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they had cut in the fields. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Those who went ahead and those who followed shouted,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.11.9"><span class="content">&#8220;Hosanna!</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:9 </span><span class="ft">A Hebrew expression meaning &#8220;Save!&#8221; which became an exclamation of praise; also in verse 10</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.11.9"><span class="content">&#8220;Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:9 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 118:25,26</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.11.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.11.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Hosanna in the highest heaven!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.11.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Jesus entered Jerusalem and went into the temple courts. He looked around at everything, but since it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the Twelve.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Curses a Fig Tree and Clears the Temple Courts</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.11.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then he said to the tree, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;May no one ever eat fruit from you again.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> And his disciples heard him say it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.11.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And as he taught them, he said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Is it not written: &#8216;My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:17 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 56:7</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">? But you have made it &#8216;a den of robbers.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:17 </span><span class="ft">Jer. 7:11</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.11.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The chief priests and the teachers of the law heard this and began looking for a way to kill him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.11.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When evening came, Jesus and his disciples</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:19 </span><span class="ft">Some early manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">came, Jesus</span></span></span><span class="content"> went out of the city.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.11.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">In the morning, as they went along, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Peter remembered and said to Jesus, &#8220;Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.11.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Have faith in God,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus answered. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:22,23 </span><span class="ft">Some early manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">&#8220;If you have faith in God,&#8221; Jesus answered, </span><span class="fv">23 </span><span class="fqa">&#8220;truly</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, &#8216;Go, throw yourself into the sea,&#8217; and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.11.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.11.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.11.26"><span class="label">[26]</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:26 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts include here words similar to Matt. 6:15.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Authority of Jesus Questioned</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.11.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.11.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">They arrived again in Jerusalem, and while Jesus was walking in the temple courts, the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders came to him. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.11.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;By what authority are you doing these things?&#8221; they asked. &#8220;And who gave you authority to do this?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.11.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.11.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MRK.11.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">John&#8217;s baptism&#8212;was it from heaven, or of human origin? Tell me!&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MRK.11.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.11.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">They discussed it among themselves and said, &#8220;If we say, &#8216;From heaven,&#8217; he will ask, &#8216;Then why didn&#8217;t you believe him?&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.11.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">But if we say, &#8216;Of human origin&#8217;&#8198;&#8230;&#8221; (They feared the people, for everyone held that John really was a prophet.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.11.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MRK.11.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">So they answered Jesus, &#8220;We don&#8217;t know.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MRK.11.33"><span class="content">Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Parable of the Tenants</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jesus then began to speak to them in parables: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a pit for the winepress and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But they seized him, beat him and sent him away empty-handed.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Then he sent another servant to them; they struck this man on the head and treated him shamefully.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He sent still another, and that one they killed. He sent many others; some of them they beat, others they killed.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.12.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;He had one left to send, a son, whom he loved. He sent him last of all, saying, &#8216;They will respect my son.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But the tenants said to one another, &#8216;This is the heir. Come, let&#8217;s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So they took him and killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.12.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Haven&#8217;t you read this passage of Scripture:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.12.10"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The stone the builders rejected</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.12.10"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">has become the cornerstone;</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.12.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">the Lord has done this,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.12.11"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and it is marvelous in our eyes&#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">12:11 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Psalm 118:22,23  </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.12.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders looked for a way to arrest him because they knew he had spoken the parable against them. But they were afraid of the crowd; so they left him and went away.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paying the Imperial Tax to Caesar</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.12.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They came to him and said, &#8220;Teacher, we know that you are a man of integrity. You aren&#8217;t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay the imperial tax</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:14 </span><span class="ft">A special tax levied on subject peoples, not on Roman citizens</span></span></span><span class="content"> to Caesar or not? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Should we pay or shouldn&#8217;t we?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.12.15"><span class="content">But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why are you trying to trap me?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They brought the coin, and he asked them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Whose image is this? And whose inscription?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.12.16"><span class="content">&#8220;Caesar&#8217;s,&#8221; they replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.12.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Give back to Caesar what is Caesar&#8217;s and to God what is God&#8217;s.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.12.17"><span class="content">And they were amazed at him.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Marriage at the Resurrection</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.12.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.12.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.12.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Teacher,&#8221; they said, &#8220;Moses wrote for us that if a man&#8217;s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.12.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died without leaving any children. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.12.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The second one married the widow, but he also died, leaving no child. It was the same with the third. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.12.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">In fact, none of the seven left any children. Last of all, the woman died too. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.12.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">At the resurrection</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:23 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">resurrection, when people rise from the dead,</span></span></span><span class="content"> whose wife will she be, since the seven were married to her?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.12.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.12.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Are you not in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.12.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.12.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Now about the dead rising&#8212;have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the account of the burning bush, how God said to him, &#8216;I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:26 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 3:6</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.12.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are badly mistaken!&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Greatest Commandment</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.12.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.12.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, &#8220;Of all the commandments, which is the most important?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.12.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.12.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The most important one,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> answered Jesus, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;is this: &#8216;Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:29 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">The Lord our God is one Lord</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MRK.12.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:30 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 6:4,5</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.12.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The second is this: &#8216;Love your neighbor as yourself.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:31 </span><span class="ft">Lev. 19:18</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">There is no commandment greater than these.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.12.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.12.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;Well said, teacher,&#8221; the man replied. &#8220;You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MRK.12.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MRK.12.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.12.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You are not far from the kingdom of God.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> And from then on no one dared ask him any more questions.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Whose Son Is the Messiah?</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.12.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MRK.12.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">While Jesus was teaching in the temple courts, he asked, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why do the teachers of the law say that the Messiah is the son of David?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.12.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">David himself, speaking by the Holy Spirit, declared:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.12.36"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The Lord said to my Lord:</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.12.36"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Sit at my right hand</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.12.36"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">until I put your enemies</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.12.36"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">under your feet.&#8221;&#8198;&#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">12:36 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Psalm 110:1
          </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.12.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MRK.12.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">David himself calls him &#8216;Lord.&#8217; How then can he be his son?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MRK.12.37"><span class="content">The large crowd listened to him with delight.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning Against the Teachers of the Law</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MRK.12.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MRK.12.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">As he taught, Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Watch out for the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and be greeted with respect in the marketplaces,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="MRK.12.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MRK.12.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They devour widows&#8217; houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Widow&#8217;s Offering</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MRK.12.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="MRK.12.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MRK.12.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MRK.12.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="MRK.12.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MRK.12.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything&#8212;all she had to live on.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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