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        <div class="chapter ch34" data-usfm="GEN.34.18+GEN.34.19+GEN.34.20+GEN.34.21+GEN.34.22+GEN.34.23+GEN.34.24+GEN.34.25+GEN.34.26+GEN.34.27+GEN.34.28+GEN.34.29+GEN.34.30+GEN.34.31">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.34.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Their proposal seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.34.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The young man, who was the most honored of all his father&#8217;s family, lost no time in doing what they said, because he was delighted with Jacob&#8217;s daughter. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.34.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city to speak to the men of their city. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.34.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;These men are friendly toward us,&#8221; they said. &#8220;Let them live in our land and trade in it; the land has plenty of room for them. We can marry their daughters and they can marry ours. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.34.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But the men will agree to live with us as one people only on the condition that our males be circumcised, as they themselves are. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.34.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Won&#8217;t their livestock, their property and all their other animals become ours? So let us agree to their terms, and they will settle among us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.34.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.34.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">All the men who went out of the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male in the city was circumcised.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.34.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.34.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Three days later, while all of them were still in pain, two of Jacob&#8217;s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah&#8217;s brothers, took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting city, killing every male. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.34.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">They put Hamor and his son Shechem to the sword and took Dinah from Shechem&#8217;s house and left. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.34.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The sons of Jacob came upon the dead bodies and looted the city where</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">34:27 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">because</span></span></span><span class="content"> their sister had been defiled. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.34.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">They seized their flocks and herds and donkeys and everything else of theirs in the city and out in the fields. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.34.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">They carried off all their wealth and all their women and children, taking as plunder everything in the houses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.34.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.34.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, &#8220;You have brought trouble on me by making me obnoxious to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people living in this land. We are few in number, and if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.34.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.34.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">But they replied, &#8220;Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch20" data-usfm="JDG.20.1+JDG.20.2+JDG.20.3+JDG.20.4+JDG.20.5+JDG.20.6+JDG.20.7+JDG.20.8+JDG.20.9+JDG.20.10+JDG.20.11+JDG.20.12+JDG.20.13+JDG.20.14+JDG.20.15+JDG.20.16+JDG.20.17+JDG.20.18+JDG.20.19+JDG.20.20+JDG.20.21+JDG.20.22+JDG.20.23">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then all Israel from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came together as one and assembled before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in Mizpah. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The leaders of all the people of the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God&#8217;s people, four hundred thousand men armed with swords. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">(The Benjamites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.) Then the Israelites said, &#8220;Tell us how this awful thing happened.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.20.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, said, &#8220;I and my concubine came to Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">During the night the men of Gibeah came after me and surrounded the house, intending to kill me. They raped my concubine, and she died. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I took my concubine, cut her into pieces and sent one piece to each region of Israel&#8217;s inheritance, because they committed this lewd and outrageous act in Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now, all you Israelites, speak up and tell me what you have decided to do.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.20.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">All the men rose up together as one, saying, &#8220;None of us will go home. No, not one of us will return to his house. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But now this is what we&#8217;ll do to Gibeah: We&#8217;ll go up against it in the order decided by casting lots. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.20.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">We&#8217;ll take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred from a thousand, and a thousand from ten thousand, to get provisions for the army. Then, when the army arrives at Gibeah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:10 </span><span class="ft">One Hebrew manuscript; most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Geba, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Gibeah</span></span></span><span class="content"> in Benjamin, it can give them what they deserve for this outrageous act done in Israel.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.20.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So all the Israelites got together and united as one against the city.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.20.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The tribes of Israel sent messengers throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, &#8220;What about this awful crime that was committed among you? </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Now turn those wicked men of Gibeah over to us so that we may put them to death and purge the evil from Israel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.20.13"><span class="content">But the Benjamites would not listen to their fellow Israelites. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">From their towns they came together at Gibeah to fight against the Israelites. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">At once the Benjamites mobilized twenty-six thousand swordsmen from their towns, in addition to seven hundred able young men from those living in Gibeah. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Among all these soldiers there were seven hundred select troops who were left-handed, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.20.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Israel, apart from Benjamin, mustered four hundred thousand swordsmen, all of them fit for battle.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.20.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The Israelites went up to Bethel</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">to the house of God</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 26</span></span></span><span class="content"> and inquired of God. They said, &#8220;Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Benjamites?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.20.18"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> replied, &#8220;Judah shall go first.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.20.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.20.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The next morning the Israelites got up and pitched camp near Gibeah. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.20.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The Israelites went out to fight the Benjamites and took up battle positions against them at Gibeah. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.20.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down twenty-two thousand Israelites on the battlefield that day. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.20.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But the Israelites encouraged one another and again took up their positions where they had stationed themselves the first day. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.20.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The Israelites went up and wept before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> until evening, and they inquired of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. They said, &#8220;Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.20.23"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> answered, &#8220;Go up against them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.20.23"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch7" data-usfm="JOB.7.11+JOB.7.12+JOB.7.13+JOB.7.14+JOB.7.15+JOB.7.16+JOB.7.17+JOB.7.18+JOB.7.19+JOB.7.20+JOB.7.21">
            <div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore I will not keep silent;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="content">I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="content">I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.7.12"><span class="content">that you put me under guard?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When I think my bed will comfort me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.7.13"><span class="content">and my couch will ease my complaint,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">even then you frighten me with dreams</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.7.14"><span class="content">and terrify me with visions,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">so that I prefer strangling and death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.7.15"><span class="content">rather than this body of mine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I despise my life; I would not live forever.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.7.16"><span class="content">Let me alone; my days have no meaning.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;What is mankind that you make so much of them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.7.17"><span class="content">that you give them so much attention,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.7.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">that you examine them every morning</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.7.18"><span class="content">and test them every moment?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.7.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Will you never look away from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.7.19"><span class="content">or let me alone even for an instant?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.7.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">If I have sinned, what have I done to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">you who see everything we do?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">Why have you made me your target?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">Have I become a burden to you?</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:20 </span><span class="ft">A few manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition and Septuagint; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">I have become a burden to myself.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.7.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Why do you not pardon my offenses</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">and forgive my sins?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">For I will soon lie down in the dust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.7.21"><span class="content">you will search for me, but I will be no more.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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            <div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.44.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;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 v24" data-usfm="ISA.44.24"><span class="content">your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.44.24"><span class="content">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 v24" data-usfm="ISA.44.24"><span class="content">the Maker of all things,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.44.24"><span class="content">who stretches out the heavens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.44.24"><span class="content">who spreads out the earth by myself,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.44.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.44.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">who foils the signs of false prophets</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.44.25"><span class="content">and makes fools of diviners,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.44.25"><span class="content">who overthrows the learning of the wise</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.44.25"><span class="content">and turns it into nonsense,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.44.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.44.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">who carries out the words of his servants</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.44.26"><span class="content">and fulfills the predictions of his messengers,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.44.26"><span class="content">who says of Jerusalem, &#8216;It shall be inhabited,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.44.26"><span class="content">of the towns of Judah, &#8216;They shall be rebuilt,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.44.26"><span class="content">and of their ruins, &#8216;I will restore them,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.44.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.44.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">who says to the watery deep, &#8216;Be dry,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.44.27"><span class="content">and I will dry up your streams,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.44.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.44.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">who says of Cyrus, &#8216;He is my shepherd</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.44.28"><span class="content">and will accomplish all that I please;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.44.28"><span class="content">he will say of Jerusalem, &#8220;Let it be rebuilt,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.44.28"><span class="content">and of the temple, &#8220;Let its foundations be laid.&#8221;&#8198;&#8217;</span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkISA">
        <div class="chapter ch45" data-usfm="ISA.45.1+ISA.45.2+ISA.45.3+ISA.45.4+ISA.45.5+ISA.45.6+ISA.45.7+ISA.45.8+ISA.45.9+ISA.45.10">
            <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.45.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to his anointed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.45.1"><span class="content">to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.45.1"><span class="content">to subdue nations before him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.45.1"><span class="content">and to strip kings of their armor,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.45.1"><span class="content">to open doors before him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.45.1"><span class="content">so that gates will not be shut:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.45.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.45.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I will go before you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.45.2"><span class="content">and will level the mountains</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">45:2 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint; the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.45.2"><span class="content">I will break down gates of bronze</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.45.2"><span class="content">and cut through bars of iron.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.45.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.45.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I will give you hidden treasures,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.45.3"><span class="content">riches stored in secret places,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.45.3"><span class="content">so that you may know that 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 v3" data-usfm="ISA.45.3"><span class="content">the God of Israel, who summons you by name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.45.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.45.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For the sake of Jacob my servant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.45.4"><span class="content">of Israel my chosen,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.45.4"><span class="content">I summon you by name</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.45.4"><span class="content">and bestow on you a title of honor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.45.4"><span class="content">though you do not acknowledge me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.45.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.45.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and there is no other;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.45.5"><span class="content">apart from me there is no God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.45.5"><span class="content">I will strengthen you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.45.5"><span class="content">though you have not acknowledged me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.45.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.45.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">so that from the rising of the sun</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.45.6"><span class="content">to the place of its setting</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.45.6"><span class="content">people may know there is none besides me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.45.6"><span class="content">I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and there is no other.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.45.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.45.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I form the light and create darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.45.7"><span class="content">I bring prosperity and create disaster;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.45.7"><span class="content">I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do all these things.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.45.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.45.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;You heavens above, rain down my righteousness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.45.8"><span class="content">let the clouds shower it down.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.45.8"><span class="content">Let the earth open wide,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.45.8"><span class="content">let salvation spring up,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.45.8"><span class="content">let righteousness flourish with it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.45.8"><span class="content">I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, have created it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.45.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.45.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Woe to those who quarrel with their Maker,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.45.9"><span class="content">those who are nothing but potsherds</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.45.9"><span class="content">among the potsherds on the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.45.9"><span class="content">Does the clay say to the potter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.45.9"><span class="content">&#8216;What are you making?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.45.9"><span class="content">Does your work say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.45.9"><span class="content">&#8216;The potter has no hands&#8217;?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.45.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.45.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Woe to the one who says to a father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.45.10"><span class="content">&#8216;What have you begotten?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.45.10"><span class="content">or to a mother,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.45.10"><span class="content">&#8216;What have you brought to birth?&#8217;</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch21" data-usfm="MAT.21.12+MAT.21.13+MAT.21.14+MAT.21.15+MAT.21.16+MAT.21.17+MAT.21.18+MAT.21.19+MAT.21.20+MAT.21.21+MAT.21.22">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is written,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;My house will be called a house of prayer,&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:13 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 56:7</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">but you are making it &#8216;a den of robbers.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:13 </span><span class="ft">Jer. 7:11</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.21.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, &#8220;Hosanna to the Son of David,&#8221; they were indignant.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.21.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do you hear what these children are saying?&#8221; they asked him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.21.16"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> replied Jesus, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;have you never read,</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.21.16"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;From the lips of children and infants</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.21.16"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">you, Lord, have called forth your praise&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">21:16 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Psalm 8:2
         (see Septuagint)</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.21.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And he left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where he spent the night.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Curses a Fig Tree</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.21.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Early in the morning, as Jesus was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;May you never bear fruit again!&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Immediately the tree withered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.21.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">When the disciples saw this, they were amazed. &#8220;How did the fig tree wither so quickly?&#8221; they asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.21.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, &#8216;Go, throw yourself into the sea,&#8217; and it will be done.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch3" data-usfm="1CO.3.16+1CO.3.17+1CO.3.18+1CO.3.19+1CO.3.20+1CO.3.21+1CO.3.22+1CO.3.23">
            <div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Don&#8217;t you know that you yourselves are God&#8217;s temple and that God&#8217;s Spirit dwells in your midst? </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">If anyone destroys God&#8217;s temple, God will destroy that person; for God&#8217;s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CO.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become &#8220;fools&#8221; so that you may become wise. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God&#8217;s sight. As it is written: &#8220;He catches the wise in their craftiness&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:19 </span><span class="ft">Job 5:13</span></span></span><span class="content">; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CO.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">and again, &#8220;The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:20 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 94:11</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CO.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So then, no more boasting about human leaders! All things are yours, </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1CO.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:22 </span><span class="ft">That is, Peter</span></span></span><span class="content"> or the world or life or death or the present or the future&#8212;all are yours, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1CO.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.</span></span></div>
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