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            <div class="label">32</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jeremiah Buys a Field</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.32.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.32.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The army of the king of Babylon was then besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the courtyard of the guard in the royal palace of Judah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.32.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.32.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him there, saying, &#8220;Why do you prophesy as you do? You say, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.32.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape the Babylonians</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 5, 24, 25, 28, 29 and 43</span></span></span><span class="content"> but will certainly be given into the hands of the king of Babylon, and will speak with him face to face and see him with his own eyes. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.32.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will remain until I deal with him, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. If you fight against the Babylonians, you will not succeed.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.32.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.32.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Jeremiah said, &#8220;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 v7" data-usfm="JER.32.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Hanamel son of Shallum your uncle is going to come to you and say, &#8216;Buy my field at Anathoth, because as nearest relative it is your right and duty to buy it.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.32.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.32.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then, just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and said, &#8216;Buy my field at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. Since it is your right to redeem it and possess it, buy it for yourself.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.32.8"><span class="content">&#8220;I knew that this was the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.32.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">so I bought the field at Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel and weighed out for him seventeen shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:9 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 7 ounces or about 200 grams</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.32.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I signed and sealed the deed, had it witnessed, and weighed out the silver on the scales. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.32.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I took the deed of purchase&#8212;the sealed copy containing the terms and conditions, as well as the unsealed copy&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.32.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of my cousin Hanamel and of the witnesses who had signed the deed and of all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.32.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.32.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;In their presence I gave Baruch these instructions: </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.32.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Take these documents, both the sealed and unsealed copies of the deed of purchase, and put them in a clay jar so they will last a long time. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.32.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields and vineyards will again be bought in this land.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.32.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.32.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, I prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="pmo"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.32.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.32.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Ah, Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.32.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">You show love to thousands but bring the punishment for the parents&#8217; sins into the laps of their children after them. Great and mighty God, whose name is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.32.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">great are your purposes and mighty are your deeds. Your eyes are open to the ways of all mankind; you reward each person according to their conduct and as their deeds deserve. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.32.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You performed signs and wonders in Egypt and have continued them to this day, in Israel and among all mankind, and have gained the renown that is still yours. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.32.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">You brought your people Israel out of Egypt with signs and wonders, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.32.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">You gave them this land you had sworn to give their ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.32.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">They came in and took possession of it, but they did not obey you or follow your law; they did not do what you commanded them to do. So you brought all this disaster on them.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.32.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.32.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;See how the siege ramps are built up to take the city. Because of the sword, famine and plague, the city will be given into the hands of the Babylonians who are attacking it. What you said has happened, as you now see. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.32.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And though the city will be given into the hands of the Babylonians, you, Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, say to me, &#8216;Buy the field with silver and have the transaction witnessed.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.32.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.32.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to Jeremiah: </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.32.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me? </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.32.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the Babylonians and to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will capture it. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JER.32.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">The Babylonians who are attacking this city will come in and set it on fire; they will burn it down, along with the houses where the people aroused my anger by burning incense on the roofs to Baal and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JER.32.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.32.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;The people of Israel and Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight from their youth; indeed, the people of Israel have done nothing but arouse my anger with what their hands have made, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JER.32.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">From the day it was built until now, this city has so aroused my anger and wrath that I must remove it from my sight. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JER.32.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The people of Israel and Judah have provoked me by all the evil they have done&#8212;they, their kings and officials, their priests and prophets, the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JER.32.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">They turned their backs to me and not their faces; though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JER.32.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">They set up their vile images in the house that bears my Name and defiled it. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JER.32.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molek, though I never commanded&#8212;nor did it enter my mind&#8212;that they should do such a detestable thing and so make Judah sin.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JER.32.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JER.32.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">&#8220;You are saying about this city, &#8216;By the sword, famine and plague it will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon&#8217;; but this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JER.32.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">I will surely gather them from all the lands where I banish them in my furious anger and great wrath; I will bring them back to this place and let them live in safety. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JER.32.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">They will be my people, and I will be their God. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JER.32.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">I will give them singleness of heart and action, so that they will always fear me and that all will then go well for them and for their children after them. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JER.32.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JER.32.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">I will rejoice in doing them good and will assuredly plant them in this land with all my heart and soul.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JER.32.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JER.32.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: As I have brought all this great calamity on this people, so I will give them all the prosperity I have promised them. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="JER.32.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Once more fields will be bought in this land of which you say, &#8216;It is a desolate waste, without people or animals, for it has been given into the hands of the Babylonians.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="JER.32.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">Fields will be bought for silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed and witnessed in the territory of Benjamin, in the villages around Jerusalem, in the towns of Judah and in the towns of the hill country, of the western foothills and of the Negev, because I will restore their fortunes,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:44 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will bring them back from captivity</span></span></span><span class="content"> declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">19</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Better the poor whose walk is blameless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.19.1"><span class="content">than a fool whose lips are perverse.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.19.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Desire without knowledge is not good&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.19.2"><span class="content">how much more will hasty feet miss the way!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.19.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">A person&#8217;s own folly leads to their ruin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.19.3"><span class="content">yet their heart rages against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.19.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Wealth attracts many friends,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.19.4"><span class="content">but even the closest friend of the poor person deserts them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.19.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">A false witness will not go unpunished,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.19.5"><span class="content">and whoever pours out lies will not go free.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.19.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Many curry favor with a ruler,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.19.6"><span class="content">and everyone is the friend of one who gives gifts.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.19.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The poor are shunned by all their relatives&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.19.7"><span class="content">how much more do their friends avoid them!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.19.7"><span class="content">Though the poor pursue them with pleading,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.19.7"><span class="content">they are nowhere to be found.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:7 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.19.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The one who gets wisdom loves life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.19.8"><span class="content">the one who cherishes understanding will soon prosper.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">A false witness will not go unpunished,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.19.9"><span class="content">and whoever pours out lies will perish.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.19.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.19.10"><span class="content">how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.19.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">A person&#8217;s wisdom yields patience;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.19.11"><span class="content">it is to one&#8217;s glory to overlook an offense.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.19.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">A king&#8217;s rage is like the roar of a lion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.19.12"><span class="content">but his favor is like dew on the grass.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.19.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">A foolish child is a father&#8217;s ruin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.19.13"><span class="content">and a quarrelsome wife is like</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.19.13"><span class="content">the constant dripping of a leaky roof.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Houses and wealth are inherited from parents,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.19.14"><span class="content">but a prudent wife is from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.19.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Laziness brings on deep sleep,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.19.15"><span class="content">and the shiftless go hungry.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Whoever keeps commandments keeps their life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.19.16"><span class="content">but whoever shows contempt for their ways will die.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.19.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.19.17"><span class="content">and he will reward them for what they have done.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.19.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Discipline your children, for in that there is hope;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.19.18"><span class="content">do not be a willing party to their death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.19.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">A hot-tempered person must pay the penalty;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.19.19"><span class="content">rescue them, and you will have to do it again.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.19.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Listen to advice and accept discipline,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.19.20"><span class="content">and at the end you will be counted among the wise.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.19.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Many are the plans in a person&#8217;s heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.19.21"><span class="content">but it is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s purpose that prevails.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.19.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">What a person desires is unfailing love</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Greed is a person&#8217;s shame</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.19.22"><span class="content">better to be poor than a liar.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> leads to life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.19.23"><span class="content">then one rests content, untouched by trouble.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.19.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">A sluggard buries his hand in the dish;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.19.24"><span class="content">he will not even bring it back to his mouth!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.19.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Flog a mocker, and the simple will learn prudence;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.19.25"><span class="content">rebuke the discerning, and they will gain knowledge.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.19.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Whoever robs their father and drives out their mother</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.19.26"><span class="content">is a child who brings shame and disgrace.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.19.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Stop listening to instruction, my son,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.19.27"><span class="content">and you will stray from the words of knowledge.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.19.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">A corrupt witness mocks at justice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.19.28"><span class="content">and the mouth of the wicked gulps down evil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.19.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Penalties are prepared for mockers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.19.29"><span class="content">and beatings for the backs of fools.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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            <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Threefold Hallelujah Over Babylon&#8217;s Fall</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven shouting:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.19.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Hallelujah!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.19.1"><span class="content">Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.19.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">for true and just are his judgments.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.19.2"><span class="content">He has condemned the great prostitute</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.19.2"><span class="content">who corrupted the earth by her adulteries.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.19.2"><span class="content">He has avenged on her the blood of his servants.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.19.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And again they shouted:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.19.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Hallelujah!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.19.3"><span class="content">The smoke from her goes up for ever and ever.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.19.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God, who was seated on the throne. And they cried:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.19.4"><span class="content">&#8220;Amen, Hallelujah!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.19.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then a voice came from the throne, saying:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.19.5"><span class="content">&#8220;Praise our God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.19.5"><span class="content">all you his servants,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.19.5"><span class="content">you who fear him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.19.5"><span class="content">both great and small!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.19.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.19.6"><span class="content">&#8220;Hallelujah!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.19.6"><span class="content">For our Lord God Almighty reigns.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.19.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Let us rejoice and be glad</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.19.7"><span class="content">and give him glory!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.19.7"><span class="content">For the wedding of the Lamb has come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.19.7"><span class="content">and his bride has made herself ready.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.19.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Fine linen, bright and clean,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.19.8"><span class="content">was given her to wear.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="qm"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.19.8"><span class="content">(Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of God&#8217;s holy people.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then the angel said to me, &#8220;Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!&#8221; And he added, &#8220;These are the true words of God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.19.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">At this I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, &#8220;Don&#8217;t do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers and sisters who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For it is the Spirit of prophecy who bears testimony to Jesus.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Heavenly Warrior Defeats the Beast</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.19.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. &#8220;He will rule them with an iron scepter.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:15 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 2:9</span></span></span><span class="content"> He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:</span></span></div><div class="pc"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.19.16"><span class="content">king of kings and lord of lords.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.19.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, &#8220;Come, gather together for the great supper of God, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and the mighty, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, great and small.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.19.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="REV.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="REV.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="REV.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The rest were killed with the sword coming out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.</span></span></div>
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