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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">been surely believed</span></span></span><span class="content"> among us, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Birth of John the Baptist Foretold</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah; his wife Elizabeth was also a descendant of Aaron. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, observing all the Lord&#8217;s commands and decrees blamelessly. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But they were childless because Elizabeth was not able to conceive, and they were both very old.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Once when Zechariah&#8217;s division was on duty and he was serving as priest before God, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to go into the temple of the Lord and burn incense. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And when the time for the burning of incense came, all the assembled worshipers were praying outside.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and was gripped with fear. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But the angel said to him: &#8220;Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice because of his birth, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He is never to take wine or other fermented drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even before he is born. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He will bring back many of the people of Israel to the Lord their God. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous&#8212;to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Zechariah asked the angel, &#8220;How can I be sure of this? I am an old man and my wife is well along in years.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.1.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The angel said to him, &#8220;I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their appointed time.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.1.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Meanwhile, the people were waiting for Zechariah and wondering why he stayed so long in the temple. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When he came out, he could not speak to them. They realized he had seen a vision in the temple, for he kept making signs to them but remained unable to speak.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.1.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When his time of service was completed, he returned home. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">After this his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in seclusion. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;The Lord has done this for me,&#8221; she said. &#8220;In these days he has shown his favor and taken away my disgrace among the people.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">33</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Renewal of Ezekiel&#8217;s Call as Watchman</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.33.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.33.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, speak to your people and say to them: &#8216;When I bring the sword against a land, and the people of the land choose one of their men and make him their watchman, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.33.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and he sees the sword coming against the land and blows the trumpet to warn the people, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.33.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">then if anyone hears the trumpet but does not heed the warning and the sword comes and takes their life, their blood will be on their own head. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.33.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Since they heard the sound of the trumpet but did not heed the warning, their blood will be on their own head. If they had heeded the warning, they would have saved themselves. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.33.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes someone&#8217;s life, that person&#8217;s life will be taken because of their sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for their blood.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.33.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.33.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the people of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.33.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When I say to the wicked, &#8216;You wicked person, you will surely die,&#8217; and you do not speak out to dissuade them from their ways, that wicked person will die for</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">33:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 9</span></span></span><span class="content"> their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.33.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But if you do warn the wicked person to turn from their ways and they do not do so, they will die for their sin, though you yourself will be saved.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.33.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.33.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, say to the Israelites, &#8216;This is what you are saying: &#8220;Our offenses and sins weigh us down, and we are wasting away because of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">33:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">away in</span></span></span><span class="content"> them. How then can we live?&#8221;&#8198;&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.33.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Say to them, &#8216;As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.33.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.33.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore, son of man, say to your people, &#8216;If someone who is righteous disobeys, that person&#8217;s former righteousness will count for nothing. And if someone who is wicked repents, that person&#8217;s former wickedness will not bring condemnation. The righteous person who sins will not be allowed to live even though they were formerly righteous.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.33.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If I tell a righteous person that they will surely live, but then they trust in their righteousness and do evil, none of the righteous things that person has done will be remembered; they will die for the evil they have done. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.33.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And if I say to a wicked person, &#8216;You will surely die,&#8217; but they then turn away from their sin and do what is just and right&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.33.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">if they give back what they took in pledge for a loan, return what they have stolen, follow the decrees that give life, and do no evil&#8212;that person will surely live; they will not die. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.33.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">None of the sins that person has committed will be remembered against them. They have done what is just and right; they will surely live.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.33.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.33.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yet your people say, &#8216;The way of the Lord is not just.&#8217; But it is their way that is not just. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.33.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">If a righteous person turns from their righteousness and does evil, they will die for it. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.33.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">And if a wicked person turns away from their wickedness and does what is just and right, they will live by doing so. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.33.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Yet you Israelites say, &#8216;The way of the Lord is not just.&#8217; But I will judge each of you according to your own ways.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jerusalem&#8217;s Fall Explained</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.33.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.33.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month on the fifth day, a man who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, &#8220;The city has fallen!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.33.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Now the evening before the man arrived, the hand of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was on me, and he opened my mouth before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer silent.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.33.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.33.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.33.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, the people living in those ruins in the land of Israel are saying, &#8216;Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as our possession.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.33.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Therefore say to them, &#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Since you eat meat with the blood still in it and look to your idols and shed blood, should you then possess the land? </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.33.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">You rely on your sword, you do detestable things, and each of you defiles his neighbor&#8217;s wife. Should you then possess the land?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.33.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.33.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say this to them: &#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: As surely as I live, those who are left in the ruins will fall by the sword, those out in the country I will give to the wild animals to be devoured, and those in strongholds and caves will die of a plague. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.33.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">I will make the land a desolate waste, and her proud strength will come to an end, and the mountains of Israel will become desolate so that no one will cross them. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.33.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Then they will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, when I have made the land a desolate waste because of all the detestable things they have done.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.33.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.33.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;As for you, son of man, your people are talking together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, saying to each other, &#8216;Come and hear the message that has come from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.33.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">My people come to you, as they usually do, and sit before you to hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. Their mouths speak of love, but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.33.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Indeed, to them you are nothing more than one who sings love songs with a beautiful voice and plays an instrument well, for they hear your words but do not put them into practice.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.33.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EZK.33.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">&#8220;When all this comes true&#8212;and it surely will&#8212;then they will know that a prophet has been among them.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">57</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The righteous perish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"><span class="content">and no one takes it to heart;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"><span class="content">the devout are taken away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"><span class="content">and no one understands</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"><span class="content">that the righteous are taken away</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"><span class="content">to be spared from evil.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.57.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Those who walk uprightly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.57.2"><span class="content">enter into peace;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.57.2"><span class="content">they find rest as they lie in death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.57.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.57.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;But you&#8212;come here, you children of a sorceress,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.57.3"><span class="content">you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.57.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.57.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Who are you mocking?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.57.4"><span class="content">At whom do you sneer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.57.4"><span class="content">and stick out your tongue?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.57.4"><span class="content">Are you not a brood of rebels,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.57.4"><span class="content">the offspring of liars?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.57.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.57.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You burn with lust among the oaks</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.57.5"><span class="content">and under every spreading tree;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.57.5"><span class="content">you sacrifice your children in the ravines</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.57.5"><span class="content">and under the overhanging crags.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.57.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.57.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The idols among the smooth stones of the ravines are your portion;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.57.6"><span class="content">indeed, they are your lot.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.57.6"><span class="content">Yes, to them you have poured out drink offerings</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.57.6"><span class="content">and offered grain offerings.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.57.6"><span class="content">In view of all this, should I relent?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.57.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.57.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You have made your bed on a high and lofty hill;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.57.7"><span class="content">there you went up to offer your sacrifices.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.57.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Behind your doors and your doorposts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="content">you have put your pagan symbols.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="content">Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="content">you climbed into it and opened it wide;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="content">you made a pact with those whose beds you love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="content">and you looked with lust on their naked bodies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.57.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You went to Molek</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">57:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">to the king</span></span></span><span class="content"> with olive oil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.57.9"><span class="content">and increased your perfumes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.57.9"><span class="content">You sent your ambassadors</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">57:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">idols</span></span></span><span class="content"> far away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.57.9"><span class="content">you descended to the very realm of the dead!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.57.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.57.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You wearied yourself by such going about,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.57.10"><span class="content">but you would not say, &#8216;It is hopeless.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.57.10"><span class="content">You found renewal of your strength,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.57.10"><span class="content">and so you did not faint.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.57.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Whom have you so dreaded and feared</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="content">that you have not been true to me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="content">and have neither remembered me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="content">nor taken this to heart?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="content">Is it not because I have long been silent</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="content">that you do not fear me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.57.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I will expose your righteousness and your works,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.57.12"><span class="content">and they will not benefit you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.57.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When you cry out for help,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">let your collection of idols save you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">The wind will carry all of them off,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">a mere breath will blow them away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">But whoever takes refuge in me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">will inherit the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">and possess my holy mountain.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Comfort for the Contrite</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.57.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And it will be said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.57.14"><span class="content">&#8220;Build up, build up, prepare the road!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.57.14"><span class="content">Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.57.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For this is what the high and exalted One says&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">he who lives forever, whose name is holy:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">&#8220;I live in a high and holy place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">to revive the spirit of the lowly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">and to revive the heart of the contrite.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I will not accuse them forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"><span class="content">nor will I always be angry,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"><span class="content">for then they would faint away because of me&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"><span class="content">the very people I have created.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.57.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I was enraged by their sinful greed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.57.17"><span class="content">I punished them, and hid my face in anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.57.17"><span class="content">yet they kept on in their willful ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.57.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.57.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I have seen their ways, but I will heal them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.57.18"><span class="content">I will guide them and restore comfort to Israel&#8217;s mourners,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.57.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.57.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">creating praise on their lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.57.19"><span class="content">Peace, peace, to those far and near,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.57.19"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. &#8220;And I will heal them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.57.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.57.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But the wicked are like the tossing sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.57.20"><span class="content">which cannot rest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.57.20"><span class="content">whose waves cast up mire and mud.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.57.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.57.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;There is no peace,&#8221; says my God, &#8220;for the wicked.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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