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            <div class="label">21</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 21</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 21:1-13 is numbered 21:2-14.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The king rejoices in your strength, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.21.1"><span class="content">How great is his joy in the victories you give!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.21.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You have granted him his heart&#8217;s desire</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.21.2"><span class="content">and have not withheld the request of his lips.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:2 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.21.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You came to greet him with rich blessings</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.21.3"><span class="content">and placed a crown of pure gold on his head.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.21.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He asked you for life, and you gave it to him&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.21.4"><span class="content">length of days, for ever and ever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.21.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Through the victories you gave, his glory is great;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.21.5"><span class="content">you have bestowed on him splendor and majesty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.21.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Surely you have granted him unending blessings</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.21.6"><span class="content">and made him glad with the joy of your presence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.21.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For the king trusts in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.21.7"><span class="content">through the unfailing love of the Most High</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.21.7"><span class="content">he will not be shaken.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Your hand will lay hold on all your enemies;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.21.8"><span class="content">your right hand will seize your foes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.21.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When you appear for battle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.21.9"><span class="content">you will burn them up as in a blazing furnace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.21.9"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will swallow them up in his wrath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.21.9"><span class="content">and his fire will consume them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.21.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You will destroy their descendants from the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.21.10"><span class="content">their posterity from mankind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.21.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Though they plot evil against you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.21.11"><span class="content">and devise wicked schemes, they cannot succeed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.21.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You will make them turn their backs</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.21.12"><span class="content">when you aim at them with drawn bow.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.21.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Be exalted in your strength, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.21.13"><span class="content">we will sing and praise your might.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">22</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 22</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 22:1-31 is numbered 22:2-32.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. To the tune of &#8220;The Doe of the Morning.&#8221; A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.22.1"><span class="content">Why are you so far from saving me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.22.1"><span class="content">so far from my cries of anguish?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.22.2"><span class="content">by night, but I find no rest.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">night, and am not silent</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.22.3"><span class="content">you are the one Israel praises.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Yet you are holy, / enthroned on the praises of Israel</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.22.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In you our ancestors put their trust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.22.4"><span class="content">they trusted and you delivered them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">To you they cried out and were saved;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.22.5"><span class="content">in you they trusted and were not put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But I am a worm and not a man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.22.6"><span class="content">scorned by everyone, despised by the people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.22.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All who see me mock me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.22.7"><span class="content">they hurl insults, shaking their heads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;He trusts in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,&#8221; they say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"><span class="content">&#8220;let the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> rescue him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"><span class="content">Let him deliver him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"><span class="content">since he delights in him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Yet you brought me out of the womb;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.22.9"><span class="content">you made me trust in you, even at my mother&#8217;s breast.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">From birth I was cast on you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.22.10"><span class="content">from my mother&#8217;s womb you have been my God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Do not be far from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.22.11"><span class="content">for trouble is near</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.22.11"><span class="content">and there is no one to help.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Many bulls surround me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.22.12"><span class="content">strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Roaring lions that tear their prey</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.22.13"><span class="content">open their mouths wide against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I am poured out like water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"><span class="content">and all my bones are out of joint.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"><span class="content">My heart has turned to wax;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"><span class="content">it has melted within me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My mouth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:15 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">strength</span></span></span><span class="content"> is dried up like a potsherd,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.22.15"><span class="content">and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.22.15"><span class="content">you lay me in the dust of death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.22.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Dogs surround me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.22.16"><span class="content">a pack of villains encircles me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.22.16"><span class="content">they pierce</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:16 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls and some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Septuagint and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">me, / like a lion</span></span></span><span class="content"> my hands and my feet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">All my bones are on display;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.22.17"><span class="content">people stare and gloat over me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They divide my clothes among them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.22.18"><span class="content">and cast lots for my garment.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do not be far from me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.22.19"><span class="content">You are my strength; come quickly to help me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Deliver me from the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.22.20"><span class="content">my precious life from the power of the dogs.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.22.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Rescue me from the mouth of the lions;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.22.21"><span class="content">save me from the horns of the wild oxen.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.22.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I will declare your name to my people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.22.22"><span class="content">in the assembly I will praise you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.22.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">You who fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, praise him!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.22.23"><span class="content">All you descendants of Jacob, honor him!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.22.23"><span class="content">Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.22.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For he has not despised or scorned</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.22.24"><span class="content">the suffering of the afflicted one;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.22.24"><span class="content">he has not hidden his face from him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.22.24"><span class="content">but has listened to his cry for help.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.22.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.22.25"><span class="content">before those who fear you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:25 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">him</span></span></span><span class="content"> I will fulfill my vows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.22.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The poor will eat and be satisfied;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.22.26"><span class="content">those who seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will praise him&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.22.26"><span class="content">may your hearts live forever!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.22.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">All the ends of the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.22.27"><span class="content">will remember and turn to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.22.27"><span class="content">and all the families of the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.22.27"><span class="content">will bow down before him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.22.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">for dominion belongs to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.22.28"><span class="content">and he rules over the nations.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.22.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">All the rich of the earth will feast and worship;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.22.29"><span class="content">all who go down to the dust will kneel before him&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.22.29"><span class="content">those who cannot keep themselves alive.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.22.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Posterity will serve him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.22.30"><span class="content">future generations will be told about the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.22.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.22.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">They will proclaim his righteousness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.22.31"><span class="content">declaring to a people yet unborn:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.22.31"><span class="content">He has done it!</span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkPSA">
        <div class="chapter ch23" data-usfm="PSA.23">
            <div class="label">23</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 23</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.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is my shepherd, I lack nothing.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.23.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He makes me lie down in green pastures,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.23.2"><span class="content">he leads me beside quiet waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">he refreshes my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.23.3"><span class="content">He guides me along the right paths</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.23.3"><span class="content">for his name&#8217;s sake.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Even though I walk</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">through the darkest valley,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the valley of the shadow of death</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">I will fear no evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">for you are with me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">your rod and your staff,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">they comfort me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You prepare a table before me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="content">in the presence of my enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="content">You anoint my head with oil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="content">my cup overflows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Surely your goodness and love will follow me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.23.6"><span class="content">all the days of my life,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.23.6"><span class="content">and I will dwell in the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.23.6"><span class="content">forever.</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 ch15" data-usfm="ROM.15">
            <div class="label">15</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Each of us should please our neighbors for their good, to build them up. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: &#8220;The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:3 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 69:9</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.15.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.15.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the Jews</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:8 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">circumcision</span></span></span><span class="content"> on behalf of God&#8217;s truth, so that the promises made to the patriarchs might be confirmed </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">and, moreover, that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.15.9"><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.15.9"><span class="content">I will sing the praises of your name.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:9 </span><span class="ft">2 Samuel 22:50; Psalm 18:49</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.15.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Again, it says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.15.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:10 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 32:43</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.15.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And again,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.15.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.15.11"><span class="content">let all the peoples extol him.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:11 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 117:1</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.15.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And again, Isaiah says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.15.12"><span class="content">&#8220;The Root of Jesse will spring up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.15.12"><span class="content">one who will arise to rule over the nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.15.12"><span class="content">in him the Gentiles will hope.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:12 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 11:10 (see Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.15.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul the Minister to the Gentiles</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.15.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with knowledge and competent to instruct one another. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Yet I have written you quite boldly on some points to remind you of them again, because of the grace God gave me </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.15.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. He gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.15.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.15.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Therefore I glory in Christ Jesus in my service to God. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.15.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.15.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.15.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else&#8217;s foundation. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.15.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Rather, as it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.15.21"><span class="content">&#8220;Those who were not told about him will see,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.15.21"><span class="content">and those who have not heard will understand.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:21 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 52:15 (see Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.15.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.15.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">This is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Plan to Visit Rome</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.15.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.15.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But now that there is no more place for me to work in these regions, and since I have been longing for many years to visit you, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.15.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">I plan to do so when I go to Spain. I hope to see you while passing through and to have you assist me on my journey there, after I have enjoyed your company for a while. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.15.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem in the service of the Lord&#8217;s people there. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.15.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the Lord&#8217;s people in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.15.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in the Jews&#8217; spiritual blessings, they owe it to the Jews to share with them their material blessings. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ROM.15.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">So after I have completed this task and have made sure that they have received this contribution, I will go to Spain and visit you on the way. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.15.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">I know that when I come to you, I will come in the full measure of the blessing of Christ.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.15.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ROM.15.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">I urge you, brothers and sisters, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ROM.15.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Pray that I may be kept safe from the unbelievers in Judea and that the contribution I take to Jerusalem may be favorably received by the Lord&#8217;s people there, </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ROM.15.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">so that I may come to you with joy, by God&#8217;s will, and in your company be refreshed. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.15.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">The God of peace be with you all. Amen.</span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkROM">
        <div class="chapter ch16" data-usfm="ROM.16">
            <div class="label">16</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Personal Greetings</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">servant</span></span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:1 </span><span class="ft">The word </span><span class="fq">deacon </span><span class="ft">refers here to a Christian designated to serve with the overseers/elders of the church in a variety of ways; similarly in Phil. 1:1 and 1 Tim. 3:8,12.</span></span></span><span class="content"> of the church in Cenchreae. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I ask you to receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of his people and to give her any help she may need from you, for she has been the benefactor of many people, including me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.16.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Greet Priscilla</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:3 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">Prisca</span><span class="ft">, a variant of </span><span class="fq">Priscilla</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Aquila, my co-workers in Christ Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.16.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Greet also the church that meets at their house.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.16.5"><span class="content">Greet my dear friend Epenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.16.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Greet Mary, who worked very hard for you.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.16.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">are esteemed by</span></span></span><span class="content"> the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.16.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Greet Ampliatus, my dear friend in the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.16.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Greet Urbanus, our co-worker in Christ, and my dear friend Stachys.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.16.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Greet Apelles, whose fidelity to Christ has stood the test.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.16.10"><span class="content">Greet those who belong to the household of Aristobulus.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.16.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Greet Herodion, my fellow Jew.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.16.11"><span class="content">Greet those in the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.16.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, those women who work hard in the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.16.12"><span class="content">Greet my dear friend Persis, another woman who has worked very hard in the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.16.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother, who has been a mother to me, too.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.16.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas and the other brothers and sisters with them.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.16.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas and all the Lord&#8217;s people who are with them.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.16.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Greet one another with a holy kiss.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.16.16"><span class="content">All the churches of Christ send greetings.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.16.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.16.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.16.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.16.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice because of you; but I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.16.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.16.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.16.20"><span class="content">The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.16.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.16.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Timothy, my co-worker, sends his greetings to you, as do Lucius, Jason and Sosipater, my fellow Jews.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.16.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.16.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I, Tertius, who wrote down this letter, greet you in the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.16.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.16.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Gaius, whose hospitality I and the whole church here enjoy, sends you his greetings.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.16.23"><span class="content">Erastus, who is the city&#8217;s director of public works, and our brother Quartus send you their greetings. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.16.24"><span class="label">[24]</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:24 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts include here </span><span class="fqa">May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with all of you. Amen.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.16.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.16.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Now to him who is able to establish you in accordance with my gospel, the message I proclaim about Jesus Christ, in keeping with the revelation of the mystery hidden for long ages past, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.16.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">but now revealed and made known through the prophetic writings by the command of the eternal God, so that all the Gentiles might come to the obedience that comes from</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">that is</span></span></span><span class="content"> faith&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.16.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">to the only wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ! Amen.</span></span></div>
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    </div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkGEN">
        <div class="chapter ch28" data-usfm="GEN.28">
            <div class="label">28</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.28.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him: &#8220;Do not marry a Canaanite woman. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.28.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Go at once to Paddan Aram,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:2 </span><span class="ft">That is, Northwest Mesopotamia; also in verses 5, 6 and 7</span></span></span><span class="content"> to the house of your mother&#8217;s father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother&#8217;s brother. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.28.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">May God Almighty</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:3 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">El-Shaddai</span></span></span><span class="content"> bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.28.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now reside as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.28.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.28.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.28.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, &#8220;Do not marry a Canaanite woman,&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.28.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.28.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.28.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob&#8217;s Dream at Bethel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.28.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.28.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.28.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.28.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.28.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">There above it</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">There beside him</span></span></span><span class="content"> stood the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and he said: &#8220;I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.28.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will use your name and the name of your offspring in blessings </span><span class="ft">(see 48:20)</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.28.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.28.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.28.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, &#8220;Surely the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is in this place, and I was not aware of it.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.28.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He was afraid and said, &#8220;How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.28.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.28.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.28.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He called that place Bethel,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:19 </span><span class="fq">Bethel </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">house of God.</span></span></span><span class="content"> though the city used to be called Luz.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.28.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.28.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then Jacob made a vow, saying, &#8220;If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.28.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">so that I return safely to my father&#8217;s household, then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:20,21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Since God&#8230; father&#8217;s household, the <span class="nd">Lord</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> will be my God </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.28.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">and</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:21,22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">household, and the <span class="nd">Lord</span> will be my God, </span><span class="fv">22 </span><span class="fqa">then</span></span></span><span class="content"> this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God&#8217;s house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">29</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob Arrives in Paddan Aram</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.29.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.29.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.29.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well&#8217;s mouth and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.29.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.29.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Jacob asked the shepherds, &#8220;My brothers, where are you from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.29.4"><span class="content">&#8220;We&#8217;re from Harran,&#8221; they replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.29.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.29.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He said to them, &#8220;Do you know Laban, Nahor&#8217;s grandson?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.29.5"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, we know him,&#8221; they answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.29.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.29.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then Jacob asked them, &#8220;Is he well?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.29.6"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, he is,&#8221; they said, &#8220;and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.29.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.29.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Look,&#8221; he said, &#8220;the sun is still high; it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.29.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.29.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;We can&#8217;t,&#8221; they replied, &#8220;until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.29.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.29.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father&#8217;s sheep, for she was a shepherd. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.29.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of his uncle Laban, and Laban&#8217;s sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle&#8217;s sheep. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.29.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep aloud. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.29.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He had told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and a son of Rebekah. So she ran and told her father.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.29.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.29.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister&#8217;s son, he hurried to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, and there Jacob told him all these things. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.29.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then Laban said to him, &#8220;You are my own flesh and blood.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.29.14"><span class="content">After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.29.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Laban said to him, &#8220;Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.29.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.29.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.29.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Leah had weak</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">delicate</span></span></span><span class="content"> eyes, but Rachel had a lovely figure and was beautiful. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.29.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, &#8220;I&#8217;ll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.29.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.29.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Laban said, &#8220;It&#8217;s better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.29.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.29.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.29.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then Jacob said to Laban, &#8220;Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to make love to her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.29.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.29.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">So Laban brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.29.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But when evening came, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and Jacob made love to her. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.29.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And Laban gave his servant Zilpah to his daughter as her attendant.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.29.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.29.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When morning came, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, &#8220;What is this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn&#8217;t I? Why have you deceived me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.29.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.29.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Laban replied, &#8220;It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.29.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Finish this daughter&#8217;s bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.29.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.29.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">And Jacob did so. He finished the week with Leah, and then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.29.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Laban gave his servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her attendant. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.29.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Jacob made love to Rachel also, and his love for Rachel was greater than his love for Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob&#8217;s Children</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.29.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.29.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> saw that Leah was not loved, he enabled her to conceive, but Rachel remained childless. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.29.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:32 </span><span class="fq">Reuben </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fqa">he </span><span class="fq">has seen my misery</span><span class="ft">; the name means </span><span class="fqa">see, a son.</span></span></span><span class="content"> for she said, &#8220;It is because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.29.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.29.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, &#8220;Because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> heard that I am not loved, he gave me this one too.&#8221; So she named him Simeon.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:33 </span><span class="fq">Simeon </span><span class="ft">probably means </span><span class="fqa">one who hears.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.29.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.29.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, &#8220;Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.&#8221; So he was named Levi.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:34 </span><span class="fq">Levi </span><span class="ft">sounds like and may be derived from the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">attached</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.29.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.29.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, &#8220;This time I will praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221; So she named him Judah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:35 </span><span class="fq">Judah </span><span class="ft">sounds like and may be derived from the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">praise</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> Then she stopped having children.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch30" data-usfm="GEN.30">
            <div class="label">30</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.30.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, &#8220;Give me children, or I&#8217;ll die!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.30.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.30.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Jacob became angry with her and said, &#8220;Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.30.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.30.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then she said, &#8220;Here is Bilhah, my servant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.30.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.30.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with her, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.30.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">and she became pregnant and bore him a son. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.30.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then Rachel said, &#8220;God has vindicated me; he has listened to my plea and given me a son.&#8221; Because of this she named him Dan.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:6 </span><span class="fq">Dan </span><span class="ft">here means </span><span class="fqa">he </span><span class="fq">has vindicated</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.30.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.30.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Rachel&#8217;s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.30.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then Rachel said, &#8220;I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won.&#8221; So she named him Naphtali.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:8 </span><span class="fq">Naphtali </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">my </span><span class="fq">struggle</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.30.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.30.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.30.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Leah&#8217;s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.30.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then Leah said, &#8220;What good fortune!&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">&#8220;A troop is coming!&#8221;</span></span></span><span class="content"> So she named him Gad.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:11 </span><span class="fq">Gad </span><span class="ft">can mean </span><span class="fq">good fortune </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">troop.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.30.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.30.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Leah&#8217;s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.30.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then Leah said, &#8220;How happy I am! The women will call me happy.&#8221; So she named him Asher.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:13 </span><span class="fq">Asher </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fq">happy</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.30.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.30.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">During wheat harvest, Reuben went out into the fields and found some mandrake plants, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, &#8220;Please give me some of your son&#8217;s mandrakes.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.30.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.30.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But she said to her, &#8220;Wasn&#8217;t it enough that you took away my husband? Will you take my son&#8217;s mandrakes too?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.30.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Very well,&#8221; Rachel said, &#8220;he can sleep with you tonight in return for your son&#8217;s mandrakes.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.30.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.30.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. &#8220;You must sleep with me,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I have hired you with my son&#8217;s mandrakes.&#8221; So he slept with her that night.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.30.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.30.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">God listened to Leah, and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a fifth son. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.30.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then Leah said, &#8220;God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband.&#8221; So she named him Issachar.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:18 </span><span class="fq">Issachar </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">reward</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.30.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.30.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.30.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then Leah said, &#8220;God has presented me with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne him six sons.&#8221; So she named him Zebulun.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:20 </span><span class="fq">Zebulun </span><span class="ft">probably means </span><span class="fq">honor</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.30.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.30.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Some time later she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.30.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.30.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.30.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">She became pregnant and gave birth to a son and said, &#8220;God has taken away my disgrace.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.30.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">She named him Joseph,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:24 </span><span class="fq">Joseph </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">may he add.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and said, &#8220;May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> add to me another son.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob&#8217;s Flocks Increase</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.30.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.30.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, &#8220;Send me on my way so I can go back to my own homeland. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.30.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you, and I will be on my way. You know how much work I&#8217;ve done for you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.30.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.30.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But Laban said to him, &#8220;If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has blessed me because of you.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.30.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">He added, &#8220;Name your wages, and I will pay them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.30.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.30.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Jacob said to him, &#8220;You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.30.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The little you had before I came has increased greatly, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has blessed you wherever I have been. But now, when may I do something for my own household?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.30.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.30.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;What shall I give you?&#8221; he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.30.31"><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t give me anything,&#8221; Jacob replied. &#8220;But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them: </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.30.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb and every spotted or speckled goat. They will be my wages. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.30.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">And my honesty will testify for me in the future, whenever you check on the wages you have paid me. Any goat in my possession that is not speckled or spotted, or any lamb that is not dark-colored, will be considered stolen.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.30.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.30.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">&#8220;Agreed,&#8221; said Laban. &#8220;Let it be as you have said.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.30.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">That same day he removed all the male goats that were streaked or spotted, and all the speckled or spotted female goats (all that had white on them) and all the dark-colored lambs, and he placed them in the care of his sons. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.30.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob continued to tend the rest of Laban&#8217;s flocks.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.30.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.30.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Jacob, however, took fresh-cut branches from poplar, almond and plane trees and made white stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.30.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Then he placed the peeled branches in all the watering troughs, so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat and came to drink, </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.30.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">they mated in front of the branches. And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.30.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Jacob set apart the young of the flock by themselves, but made the rest face the streaked and dark-colored animals that belonged to Laban. Thus he made separate flocks for himself and did not put them with Laban&#8217;s animals. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="GEN.30.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Whenever the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the animals so they would mate near the branches, </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="GEN.30.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">but if the animals were weak, he would not place them there. So the weak animals went to Laban and the strong ones to Jacob. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="GEN.30.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">In this way the man grew exceedingly prosperous and came to own large flocks, and female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">31</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob Flees From Laban</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.31.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jacob heard that Laban&#8217;s sons were saying, &#8220;Jacob has taken everything our father owned and has gained all this wealth from what belonged to our father.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.31.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And Jacob noticed that Laban&#8217;s attitude toward him was not what it had been.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.31.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.31.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Jacob, &#8220;Go back to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.31.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.31.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So Jacob sent word to Rachel and Leah to come out to the fields where his flocks were. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.31.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He said to them, &#8220;I see that your father&#8217;s attitude toward me is not what it was before, but the God of my father has been with me. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.31.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You know that I&#8217;ve worked for your father with all my strength, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.31.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">yet your father has cheated me by changing my wages ten times. However, God has not allowed him to harm me. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.31.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If he said, &#8216;The speckled ones will be your wages,&#8217; then all the flocks gave birth to speckled young; and if he said, &#8216;The streaked ones will be your wages,&#8217; then all the flocks bore streaked young. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.31.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So God has taken away your father&#8217;s livestock and has given them to me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.31.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.31.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;In breeding season I once had a dream in which I looked up and saw that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled or spotted. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.31.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The angel of God said to me in the dream, &#8216;Jacob.&#8217; I answered, &#8216;Here I am.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.31.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And he said, &#8216;Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled or spotted, for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.31.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to me. Now leave this land at once and go back to your native land.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.31.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.31.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then Rachel and Leah replied, &#8220;Do we still have any share in the inheritance of our father&#8217;s estate? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.31.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Does he not regard us as foreigners? Not only has he sold us, but he has used up what was paid for us. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.31.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.31.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.31.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Jacob put his children and his wives on camels, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.31.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">and he drove all his livestock ahead of him, along with all the goods he had accumulated in Paddan Aram,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">31:18 </span><span class="ft">That is, Northwest Mesopotamia</span></span></span><span class="content"> to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.31.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.31.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father&#8217;s household gods. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.31.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him he was running away. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.31.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So he fled with all he had, crossed the Euphrates River, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Laban Pursues Jacob</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.31.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.31.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">On the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.31.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Taking his relatives with him, he pursued Jacob for seven days and caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.31.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, &#8220;Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.31.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.31.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there too. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.31.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Then Laban said to Jacob, &#8220;What have you done? You&#8217;ve deceived me, and you&#8217;ve carried off my daughters like captives in war. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.31.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Why did you run off secretly and deceive me? Why didn&#8217;t you tell me, so I could send you away with joy and singing to the music of timbrels and harps? </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.31.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">You didn&#8217;t even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. You have done a foolish thing. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.31.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">I have the power to harm you; but last night the God of your father said to me, &#8216;Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.31.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father&#8217;s household. But why did you steal my gods?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.31.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.31.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Jacob answered Laban, &#8220;I was afraid, because I thought you would take your daughters away from me by force. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.31.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">But if you find anyone who has your gods, that person shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself whether there is anything of yours here with me; and if so, take it.&#8221; Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.31.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.31.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">So Laban went into Jacob&#8217;s tent and into Leah&#8217;s tent and into the tent of the two female servants, but he found nothing. After he came out of Leah&#8217;s tent, he entered Rachel&#8217;s tent. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.31.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them inside her camel&#8217;s saddle and was sitting on them. Laban searched through everything in the tent but found nothing.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.31.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.31.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Rachel said to her father, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence; I&#8217;m having my period.&#8221; So he searched but could not find the household gods.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.31.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.31.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Jacob was angry and took Laban to task. &#8220;What is my crime?&#8221; he asked Laban. &#8220;How have I wronged you that you hunt me down? </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.31.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Now that you have searched through all my goods, what have you found that belongs to your household? Put it here in front of your relatives and mine, and let them judge between the two of us.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.31.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.31.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.31.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for whatever was stolen by day or night. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.31.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="GEN.31.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">It was like this for the twenty years I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, and you changed my wages ten times. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="GEN.31.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="GEN.31.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="GEN.31.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Laban answered Jacob, &#8220;The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne? </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="GEN.31.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">Come now, let&#8217;s make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="GEN.31.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="GEN.31.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar. </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="GEN.31.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">He said to his relatives, &#8220;Gather some stones.&#8221; So they took stones and piled them in a heap, and they ate there by the heap. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="GEN.31.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">31:47 </span><span class="ft">The Aramaic </span><span class="fq">Jegar Sahadutha </span><span class="ft">and the Hebrew </span><span class="fq">Galeed </span><span class="ft">both mean </span><span class="fqa">witness heap.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="GEN.31.47"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="GEN.31.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">Laban said, &#8220;This heap is a witness between you and me today.&#8221; That is why it was called Galeed. </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="GEN.31.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">It was also called Mizpah,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">31:49 </span><span class="fq">Mizpah </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">watchtower.</span></span></span><span class="content"> because he said, &#8220;May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> keep watch between you and me when we are away from each other. </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="GEN.31.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">If you mistreat my daughters or if you take any wives besides my daughters, even though no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="GEN.31.50"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="GEN.31.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">Laban also said to Jacob, &#8220;Here is this heap, and here is this pillar I have set up between you and me. </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="GEN.31.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this heap to your side to harm you and that you will not go past this heap and pillar to my side to harm me. </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="GEN.31.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="GEN.31.53"><span class="content">So Jacob took an oath in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac. </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="GEN.31.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">He offered a sacrifice there in the hill country and invited his relatives to a meal. After they had eaten, they spent the night there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="GEN.31.54"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="GEN.31.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">Early the next morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then he left and returned home.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">31:55 </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts this verse (31:55) is numbered 32:1.</span></span></span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="JDG.12">
            <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jephthah and Ephraim</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The Ephraimite forces were called out, and they crossed over to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, &#8220;Why did you go to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We&#8217;re going to burn down your house over your head.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.12.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Jephthah answered, &#8220;I and my people were engaged in a great struggle with the Ammonites, and although I called, you didn&#8217;t save me out of their hands. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When I saw that you wouldn&#8217;t help, I took my life in my hands and crossed over to fight the Ammonites, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave me the victory over them. Now why have you come up today to fight me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.12.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Jephthah then called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, &#8220;You Gileadites are renegades from Ephraim and Manasseh.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said, &#8220;Let me cross over,&#8221; the men of Gilead asked him, &#8220;Are you an Ephraimite?&#8221; If he replied, &#8220;No,&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">they said, &#8220;All right, say &#8216;Shibboleth.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; If he said, &#8220;Sibboleth,&#8221; because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that time.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Jephthah led</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:7 </span><span class="ft">Traditionally </span><span class="fqa">judged</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 8-14</span></span></span><span class="content"> Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in a town in Gilead.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ibzan, Elon and Abdon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.12.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">After him, Ibzan of Bethlehem led Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He gave his daughters away in marriage to those outside his clan, and for his sons he brought in thirty young women as wives from outside his clan. Ibzan led Israel seven years. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then Ibzan died and was buried in Bethlehem.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.12.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">After him, Elon the Zebulunite led Israel ten years. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then Elon died and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.12.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">After him, Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, led Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. He led Israel eight years. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then Abdon son of Hillel died and was buried at Pirathon in Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Birth of Samson</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.13.1"><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">, so the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.13.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">A certain man of Zorah, named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, had a wife who was childless, unable to give birth. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to her and said, &#8220;You are barren and childless, but you are going to become pregnant and give birth to a son. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Now see to it that you drink no wine or other fermented drink and that you do not eat anything unclean. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You will become pregnant and have a son whose head is never to be touched by a razor because the boy is to be a Nazirite, dedicated to God from the womb. He will take the lead in delivering Israel from the hands of the Philistines.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then the woman went to her husband and told him, &#8220;A man of God came to me. He looked like an angel of God, very awesome. I didn&#8217;t ask him where he came from, and he didn&#8217;t tell me his name. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But he said to me, &#8216;You will become pregnant and have a son. Now then, drink no wine or other fermented drink and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite of God from the womb until the day of his death.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then Manoah prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: &#8220;Pardon your servant, Lord. I beg you to let the man of God you sent to us come again to teach us how to bring up the boy who is to be born.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.13.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">God heard Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman while she was out in the field; but her husband Manoah was not with her. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The woman hurried to tell her husband, &#8220;He&#8217;s here! The man who appeared to me the other day!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.13.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he said, &#8220;Are you the man who talked to my wife?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.13.11"><span class="content">&#8220;I am,&#8221; he said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.13.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So Manoah asked him, &#8220;When your words are fulfilled, what is to be the rule that governs the boy&#8217;s life and work?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.13.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> answered, &#8220;Your wife must do all that I have told her. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">She must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine, nor drink any wine or other fermented drink nor eat anything unclean. She must do everything I have commanded her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.13.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Manoah said to the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;We would like you to stay until we prepare a young goat for you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.13.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> replied, &#8220;Even though you detain me, I will not eat any of your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221; (Manoah did not realize that it was the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.13.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Manoah inquired of the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;What is your name, so that we may honor you when your word comes true?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.13.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He replied, &#8220;Why do you ask my name? It is beyond understanding.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">is wonderful</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then Manoah took a young goat, together with the grain offering, and sacrificed it on a rock to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> did an amazing thing while Manoah and his wife watched: </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">As the flame blazed up from the altar toward heaven, the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> ascended in the flame. Seeing this, Manoah and his wife fell with their faces to the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> did not show himself again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it was the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.13.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;We are doomed to die!&#8221; he said to his wife. &#8220;We have seen God!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.13.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But his wife answered, &#8220;If the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and grain offering from our hands, nor shown us all these things or now told us this.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.13.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The woman gave birth to a boy and named him Samson. He grew and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> blessed him, </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">and the Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> began to stir him while he was in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.</span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkJDG">
        <div class="chapter ch14" data-usfm="JDG.14">
            <div class="label">14</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Samson&#8217;s Marriage</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When he returned, he said to his father and mother, &#8220;I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.14.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">His father and mother replied, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t there an acceptable woman among your relatives or among all our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.14.3"><span class="content">But Samson said to his father, &#8220;Get her for me. She&#8217;s the right one for me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">(His parents did not know that this was from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who was seeking an occasion to confront the Philistines; for at that time they were ruling over Israel.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.14.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Samson went down to Timnah together with his father and mother. As they approached the vineyards of Timnah, suddenly a young lion came roaring toward him. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came powerfully upon him so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he told neither his father nor his mother what he had done. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then he went down and talked with the woman, and he liked her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.14.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion&#8217;s carcass, and in it he saw a swarm of bees and some honey. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He scooped out the honey with his hands and ate as he went along. When he rejoined his parents, he gave them some, and they too ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion&#8217;s carcass.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.14.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Now his father went down to see the woman. And there Samson held a feast, as was customary for young men. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When the people saw him, they chose thirty men to be his companions.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.14.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Let me tell you a riddle,&#8221; Samson said to them. &#8220;If you can give me the answer within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If you can&#8217;t tell me the answer, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.14.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Tell us your riddle,&#8221; they said. &#8220;Let&#8217;s hear it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.14.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He replied,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="content">&#8220;Out of the eater, something to eat;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="content">out of the strong, something sweet.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="content">For three days they could not give the answer.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">On the fourth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:15 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">seventh</span></span></span><span class="content"> day, they said to Samson&#8217;s wife, &#8220;Coax your husband into explaining the riddle for us, or we will burn you and your father&#8217;s household to death. Did you invite us here to steal our property?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.14.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then Samson&#8217;s wife threw herself on him, sobbing, &#8220;You hate me! You don&#8217;t really love me. You&#8217;ve given my people a riddle, but you haven&#8217;t told me the answer.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.14.16"><span class="content">&#8220;I haven&#8217;t even explained it to my father or mother,&#8221; he replied, &#8220;so why should I explain it to you?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">She cried the whole seven days of the feast. So on the seventh day he finally told her, because she continued to press him. She in turn explained the riddle to her people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.14.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Before sunset on the seventh day the men of the town said to him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">&#8220;What is sweeter than honey?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">What is stronger than a lion?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">Samson said to them,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">&#8220;If you had not plowed with my heifer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">you would not have solved my riddle.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then the Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came powerfully upon him. He went down to Ashkelon, struck down thirty of their men, stripped them of everything and gave their clothes to those who had explained the riddle. Burning with anger, he returned to his father&#8217;s home. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And Samson&#8217;s wife was given to one of his companions who had attended him at the feast.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">15</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Samson&#8217;s Vengeance on the Philistines</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Later on, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. He said, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to my wife&#8217;s room.&#8221; But her father would not let him go in.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.15.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;I was so sure you hated her,&#8221; he said, &#8220;that I gave her to your companion. Isn&#8217;t her younger sister more attractive? Take her instead.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.15.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Samson said to them, &#8220;This time I have a right to get even with the Philistines; I will really harm them.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So he went out and caught three hundred foxes and tied them tail to tail in pairs. He then fastened a torch to every pair of tails, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">lit the torches and let the foxes loose in the standing grain of the Philistines. He burned up the shocks and standing grain, together with the vineyards and olive groves.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.15.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When the Philistines asked, &#8220;Who did this?&#8221; they were told, &#8220;Samson, the Timnite&#8217;s son-in-law, because his wife was given to his companion.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.15.6"><span class="content">So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Samson said to them, &#8220;Since you&#8217;ve acted like this, I swear that I won&#8217;t stop until I get my revenge on you.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He attacked them viciously and slaughtered many of them. Then he went down and stayed in a cave in the rock of Etam.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.15.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The Philistines went up and camped in Judah, spreading out near Lehi. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The people of Judah asked, &#8220;Why have you come to fight us?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.15.10"><span class="content">&#8220;We have come to take Samson prisoner,&#8221; they answered, &#8220;to do to him as he did to us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.15.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then three thousand men from Judah went down to the cave in the rock of Etam and said to Samson, &#8220;Don&#8217;t you realize that the Philistines are rulers over us? What have you done to us?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.15.11"><span class="content">He answered, &#8220;I merely did to them what they did to me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.15.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They said to him, &#8220;We&#8217;ve come to tie you up and hand you over to the Philistines.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.15.12"><span class="content">Samson said, &#8220;Swear to me that you won&#8217;t kill me yourselves.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.15.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Agreed,&#8221; they answered. &#8220;We will only tie you up and hand you over to them. We will not kill you.&#8221; So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">As he approached Lehi, the Philistines came toward him shouting. The Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came powerfully upon him. The ropes on his arms became like charred flax, and the bindings dropped from his hands. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Finding a fresh jawbone of a donkey, he grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.15.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.15.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then Samson said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.15.16"><span class="content">&#8220;With a donkey&#8217;s jawbone</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.15.16"><span class="content">I have made donkeys of them.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">made a heap or two</span><span class="ft">; the Hebrew for </span><span class="fqa">donkey </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fqa">heap.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.15.16"><span class="content">With a donkey&#8217;s jawbone</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.15.16"><span class="content">I have killed a thousand men.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.15.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.15.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When he finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone; and the place was called Ramath Lehi.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:17 </span><span class="fq">Ramath Lehi </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fq">jawbone </span><span class="fqa">hill.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.15.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.15.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Because he was very thirsty, he cried out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;You have given your servant this great victory. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.15.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned and he revived. So the spring was called En Hakkore,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:19 </span><span class="fq">En Hakkore </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">caller&#8217;s </span><span class="fq">spring</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and it is still there in Lehi.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.15.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.15.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Samson led</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:20 </span><span class="ft">Traditionally </span><span class="fqa">judged</span></span></span><span class="content"> Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">16</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Samson and Delilah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute. He went in to spend the night with her. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The people of Gaza were told, &#8220;Samson is here!&#8221; So they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They made no move during the night, saying, &#8220;At dawn we&#8217;ll kill him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.16.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But Samson lay there only until the middle of the night. Then he got up and took hold of the doors of the city gate, together with the two posts, and tore them loose, bar and all. He lifted them to his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.16.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Some time later, he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The rulers of the Philistines went to her and said, &#8220;See if you can lure him into showing you the secret of his great strength and how we can overpower him so we may tie him up and subdue him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 28 pounds or about 13 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.16.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So Delilah said to Samson, &#8220;Tell me the secret of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.16.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Samson answered her, &#8220;If anyone ties me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I&#8217;ll become as weak as any other man.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.16.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him with them. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">With men hidden in the room, she called to him, &#8220;Samson, the Philistines are upon you!&#8221; But he snapped the bowstrings as easily as a piece of string snaps when it comes close to a flame. So the secret of his strength was not discovered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.16.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then Delilah said to Samson, &#8220;You have made a fool of me; you lied to me. Come now, tell me how you can be tied.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.16.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;If anyone ties me securely with new ropes that have never been used, I&#8217;ll become as weak as any other man.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.16.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them. Then, with men hidden in the room, she called to him, &#8220;Samson, the Philistines are upon you!&#8221; But he snapped the ropes off his arms as if they were threads.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.16.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Delilah then said to Samson, &#8220;All this time you have been making a fool of me and lying to me. Tell me how you can be tied.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.16.13"><span class="content">He replied, &#8220;If you weave the seven braids of my head into the fabric on the loom and tighten it with the pin, I&#8217;ll become as weak as any other man.&#8221; So while he was sleeping, Delilah took the seven braids of his head, wove them into the fabric </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:13,14 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint manuscripts; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">replied, &#8220;I can if you weave the seven braids of my head into the fabric on the loom.&#8221; </span><span class="fv">14 </span><span class="fqa">So she</span></span></span><span class="content"> tightened it with the pin.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.16.14"><span class="content">Again she called to him, &#8220;Samson, the Philistines are upon you!&#8221; He awoke from his sleep and pulled up the pin and the loom, with the fabric.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.16.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then she said to him, &#8220;How can you say, &#8216;I love you,&#8217; when you won&#8217;t confide in me? This is the third time you have made a fool of me and haven&#8217;t told me the secret of your great strength.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was sick to death of it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.16.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.16.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So he told her everything. &#8220;No razor has ever been used on my head,&#8221; he said, &#8220;because I have been a Nazirite dedicated to God from my mother&#8217;s womb. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.16.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.16.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When Delilah saw that he had told her everything, she sent word to the rulers of the Philistines, &#8220;Come back once more; he has told me everything.&#8221; So the rulers of the Philistines returned with the silver in their hands. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.16.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">After putting him to sleep on her lap, she called for someone to shave off the seven braids of his hair, and so began to subdue him.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:19 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">and he began to weaken</span></span></span><span class="content"> And his strength left him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.16.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.16.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then she called, &#8220;Samson, the Philistines are upon you!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.16.20"><span class="content">He awoke from his sleep and thought, &#8220;I&#8217;ll go out as before and shake myself free.&#8221; But he did not know that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had left him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.16.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.16.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain in the prison. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.16.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But the hair on his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Death of Samson</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.16.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.16.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Now the rulers of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate, saying, &#8220;Our god has delivered Samson, our enemy, into our hands.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.16.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.16.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When the people saw him, they praised their god, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.16.24"><span class="content">&#8220;Our god has delivered our enemy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.16.24"><span class="content">into our hands,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.16.24"><span class="content">the one who laid waste our land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.16.24"><span class="content">and multiplied our slain.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.16.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.16.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">While they were in high spirits, they shouted, &#8220;Bring out Samson to entertain us.&#8221; So they called Samson out of the prison, and he performed for them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.16.25"><span class="content">When they stood him among the pillars, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.16.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Samson said to the servant who held his hand, &#8220;Put me where I can feel the pillars that support the temple, so that I may lean against them.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.16.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Now the temple was crowded with men and women; all the rulers of the Philistines were there, and on the roof were about three thousand men and women watching Samson perform. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.16.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then Samson prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, remember me. Please, God, strengthen me just once more, and let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.16.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Then Samson reached toward the two central pillars on which the temple stood. Bracing himself against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other, </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.16.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Samson said, &#8220;Let me die with the Philistines!&#8221; Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.16.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.16.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Then his brothers and his father&#8217;s whole family went down to get him. They brought him back and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:31 </span><span class="ft">Traditionally </span><span class="fqa">judged</span></span></span><span class="content"> Israel twenty years.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">15</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Eliphaz</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.15.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Would a wise person answer with empty notions</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.15.2"><span class="content">or fill their belly with the hot east wind?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.15.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Would they argue with useless words,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.15.3"><span class="content">with speeches that have no value?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.15.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But you even undermine piety</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.15.4"><span class="content">and hinder devotion to God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.15.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Your sin prompts your mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.15.5"><span class="content">you adopt the tongue of the crafty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.15.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Your own mouth condemns you, not mine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.15.6"><span class="content">your own lips testify against you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.15.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Are you the first man ever born?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.15.7"><span class="content">Were you brought forth before the hills?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.15.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Do you listen in on God&#8217;s council?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.15.8"><span class="content">Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.15.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">What do you know that we do not know?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.15.9"><span class="content">What insights do you have that we do not have?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.15.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The gray-haired and the aged are on our side,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.15.10"><span class="content">men even older than your father.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.15.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Are God&#8217;s consolations not enough for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.15.11"><span class="content">words spoken gently to you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.15.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Why has your heart carried you away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.15.12"><span class="content">and why do your eyes flash,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.15.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">so that you vent your rage against God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.15.13"><span class="content">and pour out such words from your mouth?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.15.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;What are mortals, that they could be pure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.15.14"><span class="content">or those born of woman, that they could be righteous?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.15.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If God places no trust in his holy ones,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.15.15"><span class="content">if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.15.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.15.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.15.16"><span class="content">who drink up evil like water!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.15.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.15.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to me and I will explain to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.15.17"><span class="content">let me tell you what I have seen,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.15.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.15.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">what the wise have declared,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.15.18"><span class="content">hiding nothing received from their ancestors</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.15.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.15.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">(to whom alone the land was given</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.15.19"><span class="content">when no foreigners moved among them):</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.15.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.15.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">All his days the wicked man suffers torment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.15.20"><span class="content">the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.15.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.15.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Terrifying sounds fill his ears;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.15.21"><span class="content">when all seems well, marauders attack him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.15.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.15.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He despairs of escaping the realm of darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.15.22"><span class="content">he is marked for the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.15.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.15.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He wanders about for food like a vulture;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.15.23"><span class="content">he knows the day of darkness is at hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.15.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.15.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Distress and anguish fill him with terror;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.15.24"><span class="content">troubles overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.15.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.15.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">because he shakes his fist at God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.15.25"><span class="content">and vaunts himself against the Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.15.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.15.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">defiantly charging against him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.15.26"><span class="content">with a thick, strong shield.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.15.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.15.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;Though his face is covered with fat</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.15.27"><span class="content">and his waist bulges with flesh,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.15.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">he will inhabit ruined towns</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="content">and houses where no one lives,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="content">houses crumbling to rubble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.15.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.15.29"><span class="content">nor will his possessions spread over the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.15.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He will not escape the darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="content">a flame will wither his shoots,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="content">and the breath of God&#8217;s mouth will carry him away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.15.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Let him not deceive himself by trusting what is worthless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.15.31"><span class="content">for he will get nothing in return.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.15.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.15.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Before his time he will wither,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.15.32"><span class="content">and his branches will not flourish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.15.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.15.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.15.33"><span class="content">like an olive tree shedding its blossoms.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.15.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.15.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">For the company of the godless will be barren,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.15.34"><span class="content">and fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.15.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.15.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">They conceive trouble and give birth to evil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.15.35"><span class="content">their womb fashions deceit.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch16" data-usfm="JOB.16">
            <div class="label">16</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.16.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have heard many things like these;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.16.2"><span class="content">you are miserable comforters, all of you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.16.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Will your long-winded speeches never end?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.16.3"><span class="content">What ails you that you keep on arguing?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.16.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I also could speak like you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.16.4"><span class="content">if you were in my place;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.16.4"><span class="content">I could make fine speeches against you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.16.4"><span class="content">and shake my head at you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.16.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But my mouth would encourage you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.16.5"><span class="content">comfort from my lips would bring you relief.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.16.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.16.6"><span class="content">and if I refrain, it does not go away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.16.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Surely, God, you have worn me out;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.16.7"><span class="content">you have devastated my entire household.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.16.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You have shriveled me up&#8212;and it has become a witness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.16.8"><span class="content">my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.16.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">God assails me and tears me in his anger</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.16.9"><span class="content">and gnashes his teeth at me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.16.9"><span class="content">my opponent fastens on me his piercing eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.16.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">People open their mouths to jeer at me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.16.10"><span class="content">they strike my cheek in scorn</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.16.10"><span class="content">and unite together against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.16.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">God has turned me over to the ungodly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.16.11"><span class="content">and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.16.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">All was well with me, but he shattered me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.16.12"><span class="content">he seized me by the neck and crushed me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.16.12"><span class="content">He has made me his target;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.16.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">his archers surround me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.16.13"><span class="content">Without pity, he pierces my kidneys</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.16.13"><span class="content">and spills my gall on the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.16.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Again and again he bursts upon me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.16.14"><span class="content">he rushes at me like a warrior.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.16.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have sewed sackcloth over my skin</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.16.15"><span class="content">and buried my brow in the dust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.16.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">My face is red with weeping,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.16.16"><span class="content">dark shadows ring my eyes;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.16.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.16.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">yet my hands have been free of violence</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.16.17"><span class="content">and my prayer is pure.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.16.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.16.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Earth, do not cover my blood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.16.18"><span class="content">may my cry never be laid to rest!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.16.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.16.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Even now my witness is in heaven;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.16.19"><span class="content">my advocate is on high.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.16.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.16.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">My intercessor is my friend</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">My friends treat me with scorn</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.16.20"><span class="content">as my eyes pour out tears to God;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.16.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.16.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">on behalf of a man he pleads with God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.16.21"><span class="content">as one pleads for a friend.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.16.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.16.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Only a few years will pass</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.16.22"><span class="content">before I take the path of no return.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch41" data-usfm="ISA.41">
            <div class="label">41</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Helper of Israel</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.41.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Be silent before me, you islands!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.41.1"><span class="content">Let the nations renew their strength!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.41.1"><span class="content">Let them come forward and speak;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.41.1"><span class="content">let us meet together at the place of judgment.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.41.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.41.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Who has stirred up one from the east,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.41.2"><span class="content">calling him in righteousness to his service</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">41:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">east, / whom victory meets at every step</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.41.2"><span class="content">He hands nations over to him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.41.2"><span class="content">and subdues kings before him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.41.2"><span class="content">He turns them to dust with his sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.41.2"><span class="content">to windblown chaff with his bow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.41.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.41.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He pursues them and moves on unscathed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.41.3"><span class="content">by a path his feet have not traveled before.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.41.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.41.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Who has done this and carried it through,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.41.4"><span class="content">calling forth the generations from the beginning?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.41.4"><span class="content">I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;with the first of them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.41.4"><span class="content">and with the last&#8212;I am he.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.41.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.41.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The islands have seen it and fear;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.41.5"><span class="content">the ends of the earth tremble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.41.5"><span class="content">They approach and come forward;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.41.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.41.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">they help each other</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.41.6"><span class="content">and say to their companions, &#8220;Be strong!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.41.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.41.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The metalworker encourages the goldsmith,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.41.7"><span class="content">and the one who smooths with the hammer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.41.7"><span class="content">spurs on the one who strikes the anvil.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.41.7"><span class="content">One says of the welding, &#8220;It is good.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.41.7"><span class="content">The other nails down the idol so it will not topple.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.41.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.41.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;But you, Israel, my servant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.41.8"><span class="content">Jacob, whom I have chosen,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.41.8"><span class="content">you descendants of Abraham my friend,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.41.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.41.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I took you from the ends of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.41.9"><span class="content">from its farthest corners I called you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.41.9"><span class="content">I said, &#8216;You are my servant&#8217;;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.41.9"><span class="content">I have chosen you and have not rejected you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.41.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.41.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So do not fear, for I am with you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.41.10"><span class="content">do not be dismayed, for I am your God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.41.10"><span class="content">I will strengthen you and help you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.41.10"><span class="content">I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.41.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.41.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;All who rage against you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.41.11"><span class="content">will surely be ashamed and disgraced;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.41.11"><span class="content">those who oppose you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.41.11"><span class="content">will be as nothing and perish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.41.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.41.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Though you search for your enemies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.41.12"><span class="content">you will not find them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.41.12"><span class="content">Those who wage war against you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.41.12"><span class="content">will be as nothing at all.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.41.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.41.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.41.13"><span class="content">who takes hold of your right hand</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.41.13"><span class="content">and says to you, Do not fear;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.41.13"><span class="content">I will help you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.41.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.41.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Do not be afraid, you worm Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.41.14"><span class="content">little Israel, do not fear,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.41.14"><span class="content">for I myself will help you,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.41.14"><span class="content">your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.41.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.41.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, I will make you into a threshing sledge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.41.15"><span class="content">new and sharp, with many teeth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.41.15"><span class="content">You will thresh the mountains and crush them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.41.15"><span class="content">and reduce the hills to chaff.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.41.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.41.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">You will winnow them, the wind will pick them up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.41.16"><span class="content">and a gale will blow them away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.41.16"><span class="content">But you will rejoice in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.41.16"><span class="content">and glory in the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.41.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.41.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;The poor and needy search for water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.41.17"><span class="content">but there is none;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.41.17"><span class="content">their tongues are parched with thirst.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.41.17"><span class="content">But I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will answer them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.41.17"><span class="content">I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.41.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.41.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I will make rivers flow on barren heights,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.41.18"><span class="content">and springs within the valleys.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.41.18"><span class="content">I will turn the desert into pools of water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.41.18"><span class="content">and the parched ground into springs.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.41.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.41.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I will put in the desert</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.41.19"><span class="content">the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.41.19"><span class="content">I will set junipers in the wasteland,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.41.19"><span class="content">the fir and the cypress together,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.41.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.41.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">so that people may see and know,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.41.20"><span class="content">may consider and understand,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.41.20"><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="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.41.20"><span class="content">that the Holy One of Israel has created it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.41.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.41.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Present your case,&#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 v21" data-usfm="ISA.41.21"><span class="content">&#8220;Set forth your arguments,&#8221; says Jacob&#8217;s King.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.41.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.41.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Tell us, you idols,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.41.22"><span class="content">what is going to happen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.41.22"><span class="content">Tell us what the former things were,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.41.22"><span class="content">so that we may consider them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.41.22"><span class="content">and know their final outcome.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.41.22"><span class="content">Or declare to us the things to come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.41.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.41.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">tell us what the future holds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.41.23"><span class="content">so we may know that you are gods.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.41.23"><span class="content">Do something, whether good or bad,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.41.23"><span class="content">so that we will be dismayed and filled with fear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.41.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.41.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But you are less than nothing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.41.24"><span class="content">and your works are utterly worthless;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.41.24"><span class="content">whoever chooses you is detestable.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.41.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.41.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have stirred up one from the north, and he comes&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.41.25"><span class="content">one from the rising sun who calls on my name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.41.25"><span class="content">He treads on rulers as if they were mortar,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.41.25"><span class="content">as if he were a potter treading the clay.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.41.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.41.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Who told of this from the beginning, so we could know,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.41.26"><span class="content">or beforehand, so we could say, &#8216;He was right&#8217;?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.41.26"><span class="content">No one told of this,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.41.26"><span class="content">no one foretold it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.41.26"><span class="content">no one heard any words from you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.41.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.41.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">I was the first to tell Zion, &#8216;Look, here they are!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.41.27"><span class="content">I gave to Jerusalem a messenger of good news.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.41.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.41.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">I look but there is no one&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.41.28"><span class="content">no one among the gods to give counsel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.41.28"><span class="content">no one to give answer when I ask them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.41.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ISA.41.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">See, they are all false!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ISA.41.29"><span class="content">Their deeds amount to nothing;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ISA.41.29"><span class="content">their images are but wind and confusion.</span></span></div>
        </div>
    </div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkISA">
        <div class="chapter ch42" data-usfm="ISA.42">
            <div class="label">42</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.42.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Here is my servant, whom I uphold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.42.1"><span class="content">my chosen one in whom I delight;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.42.1"><span class="content">I will put my Spirit on him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.42.1"><span class="content">and he will bring justice to the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.42.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.42.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He will not shout or cry out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.42.2"><span class="content">or raise his voice in the streets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.42.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.42.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">A bruised reed he will not break,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.42.3"><span class="content">and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.42.3"><span class="content">In faithfulness he will bring forth justice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.42.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.42.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">he will not falter or be discouraged</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.42.4"><span class="content">till he establishes justice on earth.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.42.4"><span class="content">In his teaching the islands will put their hope.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.42.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.42.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">This is what God the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.42.5"><span class="content">the Creator of the heavens, who stretches them out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.42.5"><span class="content">who spreads out the earth with all that springs from it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.42.5"><span class="content">who gives breath to its people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.42.5"><span class="content">and life to those who walk on it:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.42.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.42.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, have called you in righteousness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.42.6"><span class="content">I will take hold of your hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.42.6"><span class="content">I will keep you and will make you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.42.6"><span class="content">to be a covenant for the people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.42.6"><span class="content">and a light for the Gentiles,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.42.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.42.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">to open eyes that are blind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.42.7"><span class="content">to free captives from prison</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.42.7"><span class="content">and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.42.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.42.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; that is my name!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.42.8"><span class="content">I will not yield my glory to another</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.42.8"><span class="content">or my praise to idols.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.42.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.42.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">See, the former things have taken place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.42.9"><span class="content">and new things I declare;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.42.9"><span class="content">before they spring into being</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.42.9"><span class="content">I announce them to you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Song of Praise to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.42.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.42.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Sing to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> a new song,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.42.10"><span class="content">his praise from the ends of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.42.10"><span class="content">you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.42.10"><span class="content">you islands, and all who live in them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.42.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.42.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Let the wilderness and its towns raise their voices;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.42.11"><span class="content">let the settlements where Kedar lives rejoice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.42.11"><span class="content">Let the people of Sela sing for joy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.42.11"><span class="content">let them shout from the mountaintops.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.42.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.42.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Let them give glory to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.42.12"><span class="content">and proclaim his praise in the islands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.42.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.42.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will march out like a champion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.42.13"><span class="content">like a warrior he will stir up his zeal;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.42.13"><span class="content">with a shout he will raise the battle cry</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.42.13"><span class="content">and will triumph over his enemies.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.42.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.42.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;For a long time I have kept silent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.42.14"><span class="content">I have been quiet and held myself back.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.42.14"><span class="content">But now, like a woman in childbirth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.42.14"><span class="content">I cry out, I gasp and pant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.42.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.42.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I will lay waste the mountains and hills</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.42.15"><span class="content">and dry up all their vegetation;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.42.15"><span class="content">I will turn rivers into islands</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.42.15"><span class="content">and dry up the pools.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.42.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.42.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I will lead the blind by ways they have not known,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.42.16"><span class="content">along unfamiliar paths I will guide them;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.42.16"><span class="content">I will turn the darkness into light before them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.42.16"><span class="content">and make the rough places smooth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.42.16"><span class="content">These are the things I will do;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.42.16"><span class="content">I will not forsake them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.42.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.42.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But those who trust in idols,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.42.17"><span class="content">who say to images, &#8216;You are our gods,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.42.17"><span class="content">will be turned back in utter shame.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel Blind and Deaf</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.42.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.42.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Hear, you deaf;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.42.18"><span class="content">look, you blind, and see!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.42.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.42.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Who is blind but my servant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.42.19"><span class="content">and deaf like the messenger I send?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.42.19"><span class="content">Who is blind like the one in covenant with me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.42.19"><span class="content">blind like the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.42.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.42.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You have seen many things, but you pay no attention;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.42.20"><span class="content">your ears are open, but you do not listen.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.42.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.42.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">It pleased the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.42.21"><span class="content">for the sake of his righteousness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.42.21"><span class="content">to make his law great and glorious.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.42.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.42.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But this is a people plundered and looted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.42.22"><span class="content">all of them trapped in pits</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.42.22"><span class="content">or hidden away in prisons.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.42.22"><span class="content">They have become plunder,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.42.22"><span class="content">with no one to rescue them;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.42.22"><span class="content">they have been made loot,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.42.22"><span class="content">with no one to say, &#8220;Send them back.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.42.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.42.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Which of you will listen to this</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.42.23"><span class="content">or pay close attention in time to come?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.42.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.42.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Who handed Jacob over to become loot,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.42.24"><span class="content">and Israel to the plunderers?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.42.24"><span class="content">Was it not the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.42.24"><span class="content">against whom we have sinned?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.42.24"><span class="content">For they would not follow his ways;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.42.24"><span class="content">they did not obey his law.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.42.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.42.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">So he poured out on them his burning anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.42.25"><span class="content">the violence of war.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.42.25"><span class="content">It enveloped them in flames, yet they did not understand;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.42.25"><span class="content">it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.</span></span></div>
        </div>
    </div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkISA">
        <div class="chapter ch43" data-usfm="ISA.43">
            <div class="label">43</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel&#8217;s Only Savior</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.43.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">But now, this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.43.1"><span class="content">he who created you, Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.43.1"><span class="content">he who formed you, Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.43.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.43.1"><span class="content">I have summoned you by name; you are mine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.43.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.43.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When you pass through the waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.43.2"><span class="content">I will be with you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.43.2"><span class="content">and when you pass through the rivers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.43.2"><span class="content">they will not sweep over you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.43.2"><span class="content">When you walk through the fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.43.2"><span class="content">you will not be burned;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.43.2"><span class="content">the flames will not set you ablaze.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.43.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.43.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.43.3"><span class="content">the Holy One of Israel, your Savior;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.43.3"><span class="content">I give Egypt for your ransom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.43.3"><span class="content">Cush</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">43:3 </span><span class="ft">That is, the upper Nile region</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Seba in your stead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.43.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.43.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Since you are precious and honored in my sight,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.43.4"><span class="content">and because I love you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.43.4"><span class="content">I will give people in exchange for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.43.4"><span class="content">nations in exchange for your life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.43.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.43.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Do not be afraid, for I am with you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.43.5"><span class="content">I will bring your children from the east</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.43.5"><span class="content">and gather you from the west.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.43.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.43.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I will say to the north, &#8216;Give them up!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.43.6"><span class="content">and to the south, &#8216;Do not hold them back.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.43.6"><span class="content">Bring my sons from afar</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.43.6"><span class="content">and my daughters from the ends of the earth&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.43.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.43.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">everyone who is called by my name,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.43.7"><span class="content">whom I created for my glory,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.43.7"><span class="content">whom I formed and made.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.43.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.43.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Lead out those who have eyes but are blind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.43.8"><span class="content">who have ears but are deaf.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.43.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.43.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">All the nations gather together</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.43.9"><span class="content">and the peoples assemble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.43.9"><span class="content">Which of their gods foretold this</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.43.9"><span class="content">and proclaimed to us the former things?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.43.9"><span class="content">Let them bring in their witnesses to prove they were right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.43.9"><span class="content">so that others may hear and say, &#8220;It is true.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.43.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.43.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;You are my witnesses,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.43.10"><span class="content">&#8220;and my servant whom I have chosen,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.43.10"><span class="content">so that you may know and believe me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.43.10"><span class="content">and understand that I am he.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.43.10"><span class="content">Before me no god was formed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.43.10"><span class="content">nor will there be one after me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.43.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.43.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I, even I, am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.43.11"><span class="content">and apart from me there is no savior.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.43.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.43.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I have revealed and saved and proclaimed&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.43.12"><span class="content">I, and not some foreign god among you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.43.12"><span class="content">You are my witnesses,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;that I am God.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.43.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.43.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Yes, and from ancient days I am he.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.43.13"><span class="content">No one can deliver out of my hand.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.43.13"><span class="content">When I act, who can reverse it?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Mercy and Israel&#8217;s Unfaithfulness</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.43.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.43.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.43.14"><span class="content">your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.43.14"><span class="content">&#8220;For your sake I will send to Babylon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.43.14"><span class="content">and bring down as fugitives all the Babylonians,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">43:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.43.14"><span class="content">in the ships in which they took pride.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.43.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.43.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, your Holy One,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.43.15"><span class="content">Israel&#8217;s Creator, your King.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.43.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.43.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.43.16"><span class="content">he who made a way through the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.43.16"><span class="content">a path through the mighty waters,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.43.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.43.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">who drew out the chariots and horses,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.43.17"><span class="content">the army and reinforcements together,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.43.17"><span class="content">and they lay there, never to rise again,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.43.17"><span class="content">extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.43.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.43.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Forget the former things;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.43.18"><span class="content">do not dwell on the past.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.43.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.43.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">See, I am doing a new thing!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.43.19"><span class="content">Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.43.19"><span class="content">I am making a way in the wilderness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.43.19"><span class="content">and streams in the wasteland.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.43.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.43.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The wild animals honor me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.43.20"><span class="content">the jackals and the owls,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.43.20"><span class="content">because I provide water in the wilderness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.43.20"><span class="content">and streams in the wasteland,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.43.20"><span class="content">to give drink to my people, my chosen,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.43.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.43.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">the people I formed for myself</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.43.21"><span class="content">that they may proclaim my praise.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.43.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.43.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yet you have not called on me, Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.43.22"><span class="content">you have not wearied yourselves for</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">43:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Jacob; / surely you have grown weary of</span></span></span><span class="content"> me, Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.43.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.43.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">You have not brought me sheep for burnt offerings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.43.23"><span class="content">nor honored me with your sacrifices.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.43.23"><span class="content">I have not burdened you with grain offerings</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.43.23"><span class="content">nor wearied you with demands for incense.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.43.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.43.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">You have not bought any fragrant calamus for me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.43.24"><span class="content">or lavished on me the fat of your sacrifices.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.43.24"><span class="content">But you have burdened me with your sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.43.24"><span class="content">and wearied me with your offenses.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.43.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.43.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;I, even I, am he who blots out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.43.25"><span class="content">your transgressions, for my own sake,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.43.25"><span class="content">and remembers your sins no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.43.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.43.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Review the past for me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.43.26"><span class="content">let us argue the matter together;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.43.26"><span class="content">state the case for your innocence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.43.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.43.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Your first father sinned;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.43.27"><span class="content">those I sent to teach you rebelled against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.43.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.43.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">So I disgraced the dignitaries of your temple;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.43.28"><span class="content">I consigned Jacob to destruction</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">43:28 </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></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.43.28"><span class="content">and Israel to scorn.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">15</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Before Pilate</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Very early in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders, the teachers of the law and the whole Sanhedrin, made their plans. So they bound Jesus, led him away and handed him over to Pilate.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.15.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Are you the king of the Jews?&#8221; asked Pilate.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.15.2"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You have said so,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.15.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The chief priests accused him of many things. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So again Pilate asked him, &#8220;Aren&#8217;t you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.15.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But Jesus still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.15.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now it was the custom at the festival to release a prisoner whom the people requested. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">A man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the uprising. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The crowd came up and asked Pilate to do for them what he usually did.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.15.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?&#8221; asked Pilate, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">knowing it was out of self-interest that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have Pilate release Barabbas instead.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.15.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Jews?&#8221; Pilate asked them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.15.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Crucify him!&#8221; they shouted.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.15.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why? What crime has he committed?&#8221; asked Pilate.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.15.14"><span class="content">But they shouted all the louder, &#8220;Crucify him!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.15.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Wanting to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Soldiers Mock Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.15.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.15.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called together the whole company of soldiers. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.15.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">They put a purple robe on him, then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.15.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And they began to call out to him, &#8220;Hail, king of the Jews!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.15.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid homage to him. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.15.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Crucifixion of Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.15.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.15.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.15.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means &#8220;the place of the skull&#8221;). </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.15.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.15.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And they crucified him. Dividing up his clothes, they cast lots to see what each would get.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.15.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.15.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">It was nine in the morning when they crucified him. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.15.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The written notice of the charge against him read: </span><span class="sc"><span class="content">the king of the jews</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.15.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.15.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">They crucified two rebels with him, one on his right and one on his left. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.15.28"><span class="label">[28]</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:28 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts include here words similar to Luke 22:37.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.15.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, &#8220;So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MRK.15.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">come down from the cross and save yourself!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.15.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the law mocked him among themselves. &#8220;He saved others,&#8221; they said, &#8220;but he can&#8217;t save himself! </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.15.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Let this Messiah, this king of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe.&#8221; Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Death of Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.15.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MRK.15.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.15.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, </span><span class="tl"><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?&#8221;</span></span></span><span class="content"> (which means </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">).</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:34 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 22:1</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.15.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MRK.15.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">When some of those standing near heard this, they said, &#8220;Listen, he&#8217;s calling Elijah.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MRK.15.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.15.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Someone ran, filled a sponge with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink. &#8220;Now leave him alone. Let&#8217;s see if Elijah comes to take him down,&#8221; he said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.15.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MRK.15.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MRK.15.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MRK.15.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="MRK.15.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, saw how he died,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:39 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">saw that he died with such a cry</span></span></span><span class="content"> he said, &#8220;Surely this man was the Son of God!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="MRK.15.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MRK.15.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Some women were watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joseph,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:40 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">Joses, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Joseph</span><span class="fqa">; </span><span class="ft">also in verse 47</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Salome. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="MRK.15.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">In Galilee these women had followed him and cared for his needs. Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were also there.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Burial of Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="MRK.15.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MRK.15.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">It was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath). So as evening approached, </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="MRK.15.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus&#8217; body. </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MRK.15.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">Pilate was surprised to hear that he was already dead. Summoning the centurion, he asked him if Jesus had already died. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="MRK.15.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">When he learned from the centurion that it was so, he gave the body to Joseph. </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="MRK.15.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">So Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="MRK.15.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joseph saw where he was laid.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">16</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Has Risen</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus&#8217; body. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and they asked each other, &#8220;Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.16.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.16.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t be alarmed,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But go, tell his disciples and Peter, &#8216;He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.16.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:8 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts have the following ending between verses 8 and 9, and one manuscript has it after verse 8 (omitting verses 9-20): </span><span class="fqa">Then they quickly reported all these instructions to those around Peter. After this, Jesus himself also sent out through them from east to west the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation. Amen.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="iex"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.16.8"><span class="content">[The earliest manuscripts and some other ancient witnesses do not have verses 9&#8211;20.]</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.16.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">When Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="it"><span class="content">She went and told those who had been with him and who were mourning and weeping.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="it"><span class="content">When they heard that Jesus was alive and that she had seen him, they did not believe it.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.16.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">Afterward Jesus appeared in a different form to two of them while they were walking in the country.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="it"><span class="content">These returned and reported it to the rest; but they did not believe them either.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.16.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">Later Jesus appeared to the Eleven as they were eating; he rebuked them for their lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those who had seen him after he had risen.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.16.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">He said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="it"><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.16.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="it"><span class="wj"><span class="content">And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.16.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="it"><span class="wj"><span class="content">they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.&#8221;</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.16.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.16.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.16.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="it"><span class="content">Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.</span></span></span></div>
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