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 <div class="label">58</div><div class="cl">Psalm 58#In Hebrew texts 58:1-11 is numbered 58:2-12.</div><div class="d">For the director of music. To the tune of &#8220;Do Not Destroy.&#8221; Of David. A miktam.#Title: Probably a literary or musical term</div><div class="q1"> 1Do you rulers indeed speak justly?</div><div class="q2">Do you judge people with equity?</div><div class="q1"> 2No, in your heart you devise injustice,</div><div class="q2">and your hands mete out violence on the earth.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 3Even from birth the wicked go astray;</div><div class="q2">from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.</div><div class="q1"> 4Their venom is like the venom of a snake,</div><div class="q2">like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,</div><div class="q1"> 5that will not heed the tune of the charmer,</div><div class="q2">however skillful the enchanter may be.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 6Break the teeth in their mouths, O God;</div><div class="q2"> Lord, tear out the fangs of those lions!</div><div class="q1"> 7Let them vanish like water that flows away;</div><div class="q2">when they draw the bow, let their arrows fall short.</div><div class="q1"> 8May they be like a slug that melts away as it moves along,</div><div class="q2">like a stillborn child that never sees the sun.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns&#8212;</div><div class="q2">whether they be green or dry&#8212;the wicked will be swept away.#58:9 The meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.</div><div class="q1"> 10The righteous will be glad when they are avenged,</div><div class="q2">when they dip their feet in the blood of the wicked.</div><div class="q1"> 11Then people will say,</div><div class="q2">&#8220;Surely the righteous still are rewarded;</div><div class="q2">surely there is a God who judges the earth.&#8221;</div>
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 <div class="label">15</div><div class="s1">Allotment for Judah</div><div class="p"> 1The allotment for the tribe of Judah, according to its clans, extended down to the territory of Edom, to the Desert of Zin in the extreme south.</div><div class="pi1"> 2Their southern boundary started from the bay at the southern end of the Dead Sea, 3crossed south of Scorpion Pass, continued on to Zin and went over to the south of Kadesh Barnea. Then it ran past Hezron up to Addar and curved around to Karka. 4It then passed along to Azmon and joined the Wadi of Egypt, ending at the Mediterranean Sea. This is their#15:4 Septuagint; Hebrew your southern boundary.</div><div class="pi1"> 5The eastern boundary is the Dead Sea as far as the mouth of the Jordan.</div><div class="pi1">The northern boundary started from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan, 6went up to Beth Hoglah and continued north of Beth Arabah to the Stone of Bohan son of Reuben. 7The boundary then went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor and turned north to Gilgal, which faces the Pass of Adummim south of the gorge. It continued along to the waters of En Shemesh and came out at En Rogel. 8Then it ran up the Valley of Ben Hinnom along the southern slope of the Jebusite city (that is, Jerusalem). From there it climbed to the top of the hill west of the Hinnom Valley at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim. 9From the hilltop the boundary headed toward the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, came out at the towns of Mount Ephron and went down toward Baalah (that is, Kiriath Jearim). 10Then it curved westward from Baalah to Mount Seir, ran along the northern slope of Mount Jearim (that is, Kesalon), continued down to Beth Shemesh and crossed to Timnah. 11It went to the northern slope of Ekron, turned toward Shikkeron, passed along to Mount Baalah and reached Jabneel. The boundary ended at the sea.</div><div class="pi1"> 12The western boundary is the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="p">These are the boundaries around the people of Judah by their clans.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"> 13In accordance with the Lord&#8217;s command to him, Joshua gave to Caleb son of Jephunneh a portion in Judah&#8212;Kiriath Arba, that is, Hebron. (Arba was the forefather of Anak.) 14From Hebron Caleb drove out the three Anakites&#8212;Sheshai, Ahiman and Talmai, the sons of Anak. 15From there he marched against the people living in Debir (formerly called Kiriath Sepher). 16And Caleb said, &#8220;I will give my daughter Aksah in marriage to the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher.&#8221; 17Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb&#8217;s brother, took it; so Caleb gave his daughter Aksah to him in marriage.</div><div class="p"> 18One day when she came to Othniel, she urged him#15:18 Hebrew and some Septuagint manuscripts; other Septuagint manuscripts (see also note at Judges 1:14) Othniel, he urged her to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, &#8220;What can I do for you?&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 19She replied, &#8220;Do me a special favor. Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me also springs of water.&#8221; So Caleb gave her the upper and lower springs.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"> 20This is the inheritance of the tribe of Judah, according to its clans:</div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"> 21The southernmost towns of the tribe of Judah in the Negev toward the boundary of Edom were:</div><div class="pi1">Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur, 22Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah, 23Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan, 24Ziph, Telem, Bealoth, 25Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth Hezron (that is, Hazor), 26Amam, Shema, Moladah, 27Hazar Gaddah, Heshmon, Beth Pelet, 28Hazar Shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah, 29Baalah, Iyim, Ezem, 30Eltolad, Kesil, Hormah, 31Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah, 32Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain and Rimmon&#8212;a total of twenty-nine towns and their villages.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"> 33In the western foothills:</div><div class="pi1">Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah, 34Zanoah, En Gannim, Tappuah, Enam, 35Jarmuth, Adullam, Sokoh, Azekah, 36Shaaraim, Adithaim and Gederah (or Gederothaim)#15:36 Or Gederah and Gederothaim&#8212;fourteen towns and their villages.</div><div class="pi1"> 37Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal Gad, 38Dilean, Mizpah, Joktheel, 39Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon, 40Kabbon, Lahmas, Kitlish, 41Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah and Makkedah&#8212;sixteen towns and their villages.</div><div class="pi1"> 42Libnah, Ether, Ashan, 43Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib, 44Keilah, Akzib and Mareshah&#8212;nine towns and their villages.</div><div class="pi1"> 45Ekron, with its surrounding settlements and villages; 46west of Ekron, all that were in the vicinity of Ashdod, together with their villages; 47Ashdod, its surrounding settlements and villages; and Gaza, its settlements and villages, as far as the Wadi of Egypt and the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"> 48In the hill country:</div><div class="pi1">Shamir, Jattir, Sokoh, 49Dannah, Kiriath Sannah (that is, Debir), 50Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim, 51Goshen, Holon and Giloh&#8212;eleven towns and their villages.</div><div class="pi1"> 52Arab, Dumah, Eshan, 53Janim, Beth Tappuah, Aphekah, 54Humtah, Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) and Zior&#8212;nine towns and their villages.</div><div class="pi1"> 55Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah, 56Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah, 57Kain, Gibeah and Timnah&#8212;ten towns and their villages.</div><div class="pi1"> 58Halhul, Beth Zur, Gedor, 59Maarath, Beth Anoth and Eltekon&#8212;six towns and their villages.#15:59 The Septuagint adds another district of eleven towns, including Tekoa and Ephrathah (Bethlehem).</div><div class="pi1"> 60Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim) and Rabbah&#8212;two towns and their villages.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"> 61In the wilderness:</div><div class="pi1">Beth Arabah, Middin, Sekakah, 62Nibshan, the City of Salt and En Gedi&#8212;six towns and their villages.</div><div class="p"> 63Judah could not dislodge the Jebusites, who were living in Jerusalem; to this day the Jebusites live there with the people of Judah.</div>
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 <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1">Submit Yourselves to God</div><div class="p"> 1What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don&#8217;t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.</div><div class="p"> 4You adulterous people,#4:4 An allusion to covenant unfaithfulness; see Hosea 3:1. don&#8217;t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 5Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us#4:5 Or that the spirit he caused to dwell in us envies intensely; or that the Spirit he caused to dwell in us longs jealously? 6But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:</div><div class="q1">&#8220;God opposes the proud</div><div class="q2">but shows favor to the humble.&#8221;#4:6 Prov. 3:34</div><div class="p"> 7Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.</div><div class="p"> 11Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister#4:11 The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God&#8217;s family. or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. 12There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you&#8212;who are you to judge your neighbor?</div><div class="s1">Boasting About Tomorrow</div><div class="p"> 13Now listen, you who say, &#8220;Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.&#8221; 14Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15Instead, you ought to say, &#8220;If it is the Lord&#8217;s will, we will live and do this or that.&#8221; 16As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. 17If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn&#8217;t do it, it is sin for them.</div>
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