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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Sin, Faith, Duty</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jesus said to his disciples: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So watch yourselves.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.17.3"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If your brother or sister</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">17:3 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fq">brother or sister </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphos</span>) refers here to a fellow disciple, whether man or woman.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying &#8216;I repent,&#8217; you must forgive them.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The apostles said to the Lord, &#8220;Increase our faith!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, &#8216;Be uprooted and planted in the sea,&#8217; and it will obey you.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Suppose one of you has a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Will he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, &#8216;Come along now and sit down to eat&#8217;?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Won&#8217;t he rather say, &#8216;Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink&#8217;?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Will he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, &#8216;We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Heals Ten Men With Leprosy</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:12 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word traditionally translated </span><span class="fq">leprosy </span><span class="ft">was used for various diseases affecting the skin.</span></span></span><span class="content"> met him. They stood at a distance </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and called out in a loud voice, &#8220;Jesus, Master, have pity on us!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When he saw them, he said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go, show yourselves to the priests.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> And as they went, they were cleansed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He threw himself at Jesus&#8217; feet and thanked him&#8212;and he was a Samaritan.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.17.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Jesus asked, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then he said to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Rise and go; your faith has made you well.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Coming of the Kingdom of God</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.17.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.17.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Once, on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.17.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">nor will people say, &#8216;Here it is,&#8217; or &#8216;There it is,&#8217; because the kingdom of God is in your midst.&#8221;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">is within you</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.17.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.17.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then he said to his disciples, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The time is coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.17.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">People will tell you, &#8216;There he is!&#8217; or &#8216;Here he is!&#8217; Do not go running off after them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For the Son of Man in his day</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:24 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts do not have </span><span class="fqa">in his day.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.17.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.17.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.17.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.17.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.17.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.17.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.17.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">On that day no one who is on the housetop, with possessions inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.17.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Remember Lot&#8217;s wife!</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.17.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.17.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.17.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.17.36"><span class="label">[36]</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:36 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts include here words similar to Matt. 24:40.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.17.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.17.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">&#8220;Where, Lord?&#8221; they asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.17.37"><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><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>
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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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