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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">How the gold has lost its luster,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="content">the fine gold become dull!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="content">The sacred gems are scattered</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="content">at every street corner.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">How the precious children of Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="content">once worth their weight in gold,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="content">are now considered as pots of clay,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="content">the work of a potter&#8217;s hands!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Even jackals offer their breasts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="content">to nurse their young,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="content">but my people have become heartless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="content">like ostriches in the desert.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Because of thirst the infant&#8217;s tongue</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="content">sticks to the roof of its mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="content">the children beg for bread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="content">but no one gives it to them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Those who once ate delicacies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="content">are destitute in the streets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="content">Those brought up in royal purple</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="content">now lie on ash heaps.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The punishment of my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="content">is greater than that of Sodom,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="content">which was overthrown in a moment</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="content">without a hand turned to help her.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Their princes were brighter than snow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="content">and whiter than milk,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="content">their bodies more ruddy than rubies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="content">their appearance like lapis lazuli.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But now they are blacker than soot;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="content">they are not recognized in the streets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="content">Their skin has shriveled on their bones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="content">it has become as dry as a stick.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Those killed by the sword are better off</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="content">than those who die of famine;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="content">racked with hunger, they waste away</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="content">for lack of food from the field.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">With their own hands compassionate women</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="content">have cooked their own children,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="content">who became their food</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="content">when my people were destroyed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given full vent to his wrath;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="content">he has poured out his fierce anger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="content">He kindled a fire in Zion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="content">that consumed her foundations.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The kings of the earth did not believe,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="content">nor did any of the peoples of the world,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="content">that enemies and foes could enter</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="content">the gates of Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But it happened because of the sins of her prophets</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="content">and the iniquities of her priests,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="content">who shed within her</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="content">the blood of the righteous.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Now they grope through the streets</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="content">as if they were blind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="content">They are so defiled with blood</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="content">that no one dares to touch their garments.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go away! You are unclean!&#8221; people cry to them.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Away! Away! Don&#8217;t touch us!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">When they flee and wander about,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">people among the nations say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">&#8220;They can stay here no longer.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> himself has scattered them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="content">he no longer watches over them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="content">The priests are shown no honor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="content">the elders no favor.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Moreover, our eyes failed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="content">looking in vain for help;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="content">from our towers we watched</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="content">for a nation that could not save us.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">People stalked us at every step,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="content">so we could not walk in our streets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="content">Our end was near, our days were numbered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="content">for our end had come.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Our pursuers were swifter</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="content">than eagles in the sky;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="content">they chased us over the mountains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="content">and lay in wait for us in the desert.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anointed, our very life breath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="content">was caught in their traps.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="content">We thought that under his shadow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="content">we would live among the nations.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Rejoice and be glad, Daughter Edom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="content">you who live in the land of Uz.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="content">But to you also the cup will be passed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="content">you will be drunk and stripped naked.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Your punishment will end, Daughter Zion;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"><span class="content">he will not prolong your exile.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"><span class="content">But he will punish your sin, Daughter Edom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"><span class="content">and expose your wickedness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Remember, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, what has happened to us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.5.1"><span class="content">look, and see our disgrace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.5.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.5.2"><span class="content">our homes to foreigners.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">We have become fatherless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.5.3"><span class="content">our mothers are widows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">We must buy the water we drink;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.5.4"><span class="content">our wood can be had only at a price.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.5.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Those who pursue us are at our heels;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.5.5"><span class="content">we are weary and find no rest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">We submitted to Egypt and Assyria</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.5.6"><span class="content">to get enough bread.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Our ancestors sinned and are no more,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.5.7"><span class="content">and we bear their punishment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.5.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Slaves rule over us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.5.8"><span class="content">and there is no one to free us from their hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">We get our bread at the risk of our lives</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.5.9"><span class="content">because of the sword in the desert.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Our skin is hot as an oven,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.5.10"><span class="content">feverish from hunger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Women have been violated in Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.5.11"><span class="content">and virgins in the towns of Judah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Princes have been hung up by their hands;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.5.12"><span class="content">elders are shown no respect.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Young men toil at the millstones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.5.13"><span class="content">boys stagger under loads of wood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.5.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The elders are gone from the city gate;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.5.14"><span class="content">the young men have stopped their music.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Joy is gone from our hearts;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.5.15"><span class="content">our dancing has turned to mourning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.5.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The crown has fallen from our head.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.5.16"><span class="content">Woe to us, for we have sinned!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.5.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Because of this our hearts are faint,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.5.17"><span class="content">because of these things our eyes grow dim</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.5.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">for Mount Zion, which lies desolate,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.5.18"><span class="content">with jackals prowling over it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.5.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, reign forever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.5.19"><span class="content">your throne endures from generation to generation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.5.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Why do you always forget us?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.5.20"><span class="content">Why do you forsake us so long?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.5.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Restore us to yourself, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, that we may return;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.5.21"><span class="content">renew our days as of old</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.5.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">unless you have utterly rejected us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.5.22"><span class="content">and are angry with us beyond measure.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch1" data-usfm="OBA.1">
         <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Obadiah&#8217;s Vision</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The vision of Obadiah.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"><span class="content">This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says about Edom&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"><span class="content">We have heard a message from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"><span class="content">An envoy was sent to the nations to say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Rise, let us go against her for battle&#8221;&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="OBA.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, I will make you small among the nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="OBA.1.2"><span class="content">you will be utterly despised.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="OBA.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The pride of your heart has deceived you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="content">you who live in the clefts of the rocks</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">of Sela</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="content">and make your home on the heights,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="content">you who say to yourself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="content">&#8216;Who can bring me down to the ground?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Though you soar like the eagle</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"><span class="content">and make your nest among the stars,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"><span class="content">from there I will bring you down,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;If thieves came to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">if robbers in the night&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">oh, what a disaster awaits you!&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">would they not steal only as much as they wanted?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">If grape pickers came to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">would they not leave a few grapes?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="OBA.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But how Esau will be ransacked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="OBA.1.6"><span class="content">his hidden treasures pillaged!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="OBA.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All your allies will force you to the border;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"><span class="content">your friends will deceive and overpower you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"><span class="content">those who eat your bread will set a trap for you,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:7 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"><span class="content">but you will not detect it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="OBA.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="OBA.1.8"><span class="content">&#8220;will I not destroy the wise men of Edom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="OBA.1.8"><span class="content">those of understanding in the mountains of Esau?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="OBA.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="OBA.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Your warriors, Teman, will be terrified,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="OBA.1.9"><span class="content">and everyone in Esau&#8217;s mountains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="OBA.1.9"><span class="content">will be cut down in the slaughter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="OBA.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="OBA.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Because of the violence against your brother Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="OBA.1.10"><span class="content">you will be covered with shame;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="OBA.1.10"><span class="content">you will be destroyed forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="OBA.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="OBA.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">On the day you stood aloof</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="OBA.1.11"><span class="content">while strangers carried off his wealth</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="OBA.1.11"><span class="content">and foreigners entered his gates</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="OBA.1.11"><span class="content">and cast lots for Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="OBA.1.11"><span class="content">you were like one of them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="OBA.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You should not gloat over your brother</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="content">in the day of his misfortune,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="content">nor rejoice over the people of Judah</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="content">in the day of their destruction,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="content">nor boast so much</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="content">in the day of their trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You should not march through the gates of my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="content">in the day of their disaster,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="content">nor gloat over them in their calamity</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="content">in the day of their disaster,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="content">nor seize their wealth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="content">in the day of their disaster.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="OBA.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">You should not wait at the crossroads</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="OBA.1.14"><span class="content">to cut down their fugitives,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="OBA.1.14"><span class="content">nor hand over their survivors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="OBA.1.14"><span class="content">in the day of their trouble.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="OBA.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="OBA.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;The day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is near</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="OBA.1.15"><span class="content">for all nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="OBA.1.15"><span class="content">As you have done, it will be done to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="OBA.1.15"><span class="content">your deeds will return upon your own head.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="OBA.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="OBA.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Just as you drank on my holy hill,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="OBA.1.16"><span class="content">so all the nations will drink continually;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="OBA.1.16"><span class="content">they will drink and drink</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="OBA.1.16"><span class="content">and be as if they had never been.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="OBA.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="OBA.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But on Mount Zion will be deliverance;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="OBA.1.17"><span class="content">it will be holy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="OBA.1.17"><span class="content">and Jacob will possess his inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="OBA.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Jacob will be a fire</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">and Joseph a flame;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">Esau will be stubble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">and they will set him on fire and destroy him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">There will be no survivors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">from Esau.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">People from the Negev will occupy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="content">the mountains of Esau,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="content">and people from the foothills will possess</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="content">the land of the Philistines.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="content">They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="content">and Benjamin will possess Gilead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="OBA.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="OBA.1.20"><span class="content">will possess the land as far as Zarephath;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="OBA.1.20"><span class="content">the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="OBA.1.20"><span class="content">will possess the towns of the Negev.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="OBA.1.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="OBA.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Deliverers will go up on</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">from</span></span></span><span class="content"> Mount Zion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="OBA.1.21"><span class="content">to govern the mountains of Esau.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="OBA.1.21"><span class="content">And the kingdom will be the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkPHP">
      <div class="chapter ch3" data-usfm="PHP.3">
         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">No Confidence in the Flesh</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PHP.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Further, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PHP.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PHP.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PHP.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">though I myself have reasons for such confidence.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PHP.3.4"><span class="content">If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PHP.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PHP.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PHP.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PHP.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PHP.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PHP.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">through the faithfulness of</span></span></span><span class="content"> Christ&#8212;the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PHP.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I want to know Christ&#8212;yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PHP.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PHP.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PHP.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PHP.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PHP.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Following Paul&#8217;s Example</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PHP.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PHP.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">All of us, then, who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PHP.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Only let us live up to what we have already attained.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PHP.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PHP.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PHP.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PHP.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PHP.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PHP.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.</span></span></div>
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