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            <div class="q1"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="PSA.78.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="PSA.78.40"><span class="content">and grieved him in the wasteland!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="PSA.78.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="PSA.78.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Again and again they put God to the test;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="PSA.78.41"><span class="content">they vexed the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="PSA.78.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="PSA.78.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">They did not remember his power&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="PSA.78.42"><span class="content">the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="PSA.78.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="PSA.78.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">the day he displayed his signs in Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="PSA.78.43"><span class="content">his wonders in the region of Zoan.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="PSA.78.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="PSA.78.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">He turned their river into blood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="PSA.78.44"><span class="content">they could not drink from their streams.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="PSA.78.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="PSA.78.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">He sent swarms of flies that devoured them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="PSA.78.45"><span class="content">and frogs that devastated them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="PSA.78.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="PSA.78.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">He gave their crops to the grasshopper,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="PSA.78.46"><span class="content">their produce to the locust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="PSA.78.46"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="PSA.78.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">He destroyed their vines with hail</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="PSA.78.47"><span class="content">and their sycamore-figs with sleet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="PSA.78.47"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="PSA.78.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">He gave over their cattle to the hail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="PSA.78.48"><span class="content">their livestock to bolts of lightning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="PSA.78.48"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="PSA.78.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">He unleashed against them his hot anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="PSA.78.49"><span class="content">his wrath, indignation and hostility&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="PSA.78.49"><span class="content">a band of destroying angels.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="PSA.78.49"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="PSA.78.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">He prepared a path for his anger;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="PSA.78.50"><span class="content">he did not spare them from death</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="PSA.78.50"><span class="content">but gave them over to the plague.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="PSA.78.50"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="PSA.78.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="PSA.78.51"><span class="content">the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="PSA.78.51"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="PSA.78.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">But he brought his people out like a flock;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="PSA.78.52"><span class="content">he led them like sheep through the wilderness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="PSA.78.52"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="PSA.78.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">He guided them safely, so they were unafraid;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="PSA.78.53"><span class="content">but the sea engulfed their enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="PSA.78.53"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="PSA.78.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">And so he brought them to the border of his holy land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="PSA.78.54"><span class="content">to the hill country his right hand had taken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="PSA.78.54"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="PSA.78.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">He drove out nations before them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="PSA.78.55"><span class="content">and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="PSA.78.55"><span class="content">he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="PSA.78.55"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="PSA.78.56"><span class="label">56</span><span class="content">But they put God to the test</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="PSA.78.56"><span class="content">and rebelled against the Most High;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="PSA.78.56"><span class="content">they did not keep his statutes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="PSA.78.56"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="PSA.78.57"><span class="label">57</span><span class="content">Like their ancestors they were disloyal and faithless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="PSA.78.57"><span class="content">as unreliable as a faulty bow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="PSA.78.57"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="PSA.78.58"><span class="label">58</span><span class="content">They angered him with their high places;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="PSA.78.58"><span class="content">they aroused his jealousy with their idols.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="PSA.78.58"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="PSA.78.59"><span class="label">59</span><span class="content">When God heard them, he was furious;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="PSA.78.59"><span class="content">he rejected Israel completely.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="PSA.78.59"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="PSA.78.60"><span class="label">60</span><span class="content">He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="PSA.78.60"><span class="content">the tent he had set up among humans.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="PSA.78.60"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v61" data-usfm="PSA.78.61"><span class="label">61</span><span class="content">He sent the ark of his might into captivity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v61" data-usfm="PSA.78.61"><span class="content">his splendor into the hands of the enemy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v61" data-usfm="PSA.78.61"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v62" data-usfm="PSA.78.62"><span class="label">62</span><span class="content">He gave his people over to the sword;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v62" data-usfm="PSA.78.62"><span class="content">he was furious with his inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v62" data-usfm="PSA.78.62"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v63" data-usfm="PSA.78.63"><span class="label">63</span><span class="content">Fire consumed their young men,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v63" data-usfm="PSA.78.63"><span class="content">and their young women had no wedding songs;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v63" data-usfm="PSA.78.63"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v64" data-usfm="PSA.78.64"><span class="label">64</span><span class="content">their priests were put to the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v64" data-usfm="PSA.78.64"><span class="content">and their widows could not weep.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v64" data-usfm="PSA.78.64"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v65" data-usfm="PSA.78.65"><span class="label">65</span><span class="content">Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v65" data-usfm="PSA.78.65"><span class="content">as a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v65" data-usfm="PSA.78.65"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v66" data-usfm="PSA.78.66"><span class="label">66</span><span class="content">He beat back his enemies;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v66" data-usfm="PSA.78.66"><span class="content">he put them to everlasting shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v66" data-usfm="PSA.78.66"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v67" data-usfm="PSA.78.67"><span class="label">67</span><span class="content">Then he rejected the tents of Joseph,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v67" data-usfm="PSA.78.67"><span class="content">he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v67" data-usfm="PSA.78.67"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v68" data-usfm="PSA.78.68"><span class="label">68</span><span class="content">but he chose the tribe of Judah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v68" data-usfm="PSA.78.68"><span class="content">Mount Zion, which he loved.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v68" data-usfm="PSA.78.68"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v69" data-usfm="PSA.78.69"><span class="label">69</span><span class="content">He built his sanctuary like the heights,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v69" data-usfm="PSA.78.69"><span class="content">like the earth that he established forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v69" data-usfm="PSA.78.69"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v70" data-usfm="PSA.78.70"><span class="label">70</span><span class="content">He chose David his servant</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v70" data-usfm="PSA.78.70"><span class="content">and took him from the sheep pens;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v70" data-usfm="PSA.78.70"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v71" data-usfm="PSA.78.71"><span class="label">71</span><span class="content">from tending the sheep he brought him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v71" data-usfm="PSA.78.71"><span class="content">to be the shepherd of his people Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v71" data-usfm="PSA.78.71"><span class="content">of Israel his inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v71" data-usfm="PSA.78.71"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v72" data-usfm="PSA.78.72"><span class="label">72</span><span class="content">And David shepherded them with integrity of heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v72" data-usfm="PSA.78.72"><span class="content">with skillful hands he led them.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.50.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When Joseph&#8217;s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, &#8220;What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.50.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So they sent word to Joseph, saying, &#8220;Your father left these instructions before he died: </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.50.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8216;This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.&#8217; Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father.&#8221; When their message came to him, Joseph wept.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.50.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.50.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him. &#8220;We are your slaves,&#8221; they said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.50.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.50.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But Joseph said to them, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid. Am I in the place of God? </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.50.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.50.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So then, don&#8217;t be afraid. I will provide for you and your children.&#8221; And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Death of Joseph</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.50.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.50.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Joseph stayed in Egypt, along with all his father&#8217;s family. He lived a hundred and ten years </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.50.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">and saw the third generation of Ephraim&#8217;s children. Also the children of Makir son of Manasseh were placed at birth on Joseph&#8217;s knees.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:23 </span><span class="ft">That is, were counted as his</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.50.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.50.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then Joseph said to his brothers, &#8220;I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.50.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And Joseph made the Israelites swear an oath and said, &#8220;God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.50.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.50.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">So Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. And after they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then Jesus went through the towns and villages, teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Someone asked him, &#8220;Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.13.23"><span class="content">He said to them, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, &#8216;Sir, open the door for us.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.13.25"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But he will answer, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know you or where you come from.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.13.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then you will say, &#8216;We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.13.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But he will reply, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.13.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.13.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.13.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.13.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus&#8217; Sorrow for Jerusalem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.13.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.13.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">At that time some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, &#8220;Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod wants to kill you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.13.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.13.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go tell that fox, &#8216;I will keep on driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach my goal.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.13.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">In any case, I must press on today and tomorrow and the next day&#8212;for surely no prophet can die outside Jerusalem!</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.13.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.13.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.13.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, &#8216;Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:35 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 118:26</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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