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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2TI.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, in keeping with the promise of life that is in Christ Jesus,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2TI.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2TI.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">To Timothy, my dear son:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2TI.1.2"><span class="content">Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Thanksgiving</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2TI.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2TI.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I thank God, whom I serve, as my ancestors did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2TI.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Recalling your tears, I long to see you, so that I may be filled with joy. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2TI.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Appeal for Loyalty to Paul and the Gospel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2TI.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2TI.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2TI.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2TI.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner. Rather, join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2TI.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He has saved us and called us to a holy life&#8212;not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2TI.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2TI.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And of this gospel I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2TI.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2TI.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2TI.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of sound teaching, with faith and love in Christ Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2TI.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you&#8212;guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Examples of Disloyalty and Loyalty</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2TI.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2TI.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You know that everyone in the province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2TI.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2TI.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2TI.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">On the contrary, when he was in Rome, he searched hard for me until he found me. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2TI.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">May the Lord grant that he will find mercy from the Lord on that day! You know very well in how many ways he helped me in Ephesus.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Appeal Renewed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2TI.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2TI.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2TI.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Join with me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2TI.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in civilian affairs, but rather tries to please his commanding officer. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2TI.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Similarly, anyone who competes as an athlete does not receive the victor&#8217;s crown except by competing according to the rules. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2TI.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The hardworking farmer should be the first to receive a share of the crops. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2TI.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Reflect on what I am saying, for the Lord will give you insight into all this.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2TI.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2TI.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David. This is my gospel, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2TI.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">for which I am suffering even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But God&#8217;s word is not chained. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2TI.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2TI.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2TI.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Here is a trustworthy saying:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2TI.2.11"><span class="content">If we died with him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2TI.2.11"><span class="content">we will also live with him;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2TI.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2TI.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">if we endure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2TI.2.12"><span class="content">we will also reign with him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2TI.2.12"><span class="content">If we disown him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2TI.2.12"><span class="content">he will also disown us;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2TI.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2TI.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">if we are faithless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2TI.2.13"><span class="content">he remains faithful,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2TI.2.13"><span class="content">for he cannot disown himself.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Dealing With False Teachers</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2TI.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2TI.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Keep reminding God&#8217;s people of these things. Warn them before God against quarreling about words; it is of no value, and only ruins those who listen. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2TI.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2TI.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2TI.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2TI.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">who have departed from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and they destroy the faith of some. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2TI.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Nevertheless, God&#8217;s solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: &#8220;The Lord knows those who are his,&#8221; and, &#8220;Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2TI.2.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2TI.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay; some are for special purposes and some for common use. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2TI.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Those who cleanse themselves from the latter will be instruments for special purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2TI.2.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2TI.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2TI.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Don&#8217;t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2TI.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And the Lord&#8217;s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2TI.2.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2TI.2.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2TI.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2TI.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2TI.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2TI.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2TI.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2TI.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2TI.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2TI.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2TI.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2TI.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Final Charge to Timothy</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2TI.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2TI.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2TI.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">persecutions, sufferings&#8212;what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2TI.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2TI.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2TI.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2TI.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2TI.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2TI.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">so that the servant of God</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">that you, a man of God,</span></span></span><span class="content"> may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2TI.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2TI.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage&#8212;with great patience and careful instruction. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2TI.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2TI.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2TI.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2TI.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2TI.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time for my departure is near. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2TI.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2TI.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day&#8212;and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Personal Remarks</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2TI.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2TI.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Do your best to come to me quickly, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2TI.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">for Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2TI.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is helpful to me in my ministry. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2TI.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I sent Tychicus to Ephesus. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2TI.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, and my scrolls, especially the parchments.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2TI.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2TI.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Alexander the metalworker did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him for what he has done. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2TI.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You too should be on your guard against him, because he strongly opposed our message.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2TI.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2TI.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2TI.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was delivered from the lion&#8217;s mouth. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2TI.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever. Amen.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Final Greetings</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2TI.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2TI.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Greet Priscilla</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:19 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">Prisca</span><span class="ft">, a variant of </span><span class="fq">Priscilla</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Aquila and the household of Onesiphorus. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2TI.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Erastus stayed in Corinth, and I left Trophimus sick in Miletus. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2TI.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Do your best to get here before winter. Eubulus greets you, and so do Pudens, Linus, Claudia and all the brothers and sisters.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:21 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2TI.4.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2TI.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you all.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">113</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 113</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.113.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">113:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Hallelu Yah</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 9</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.113.1"><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you his servants;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.113.1"><span class="content">praise the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.113.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.113.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Let the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> be praised,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.113.2"><span class="content">both now and forevermore.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.113.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.113.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.113.3"><span class="content">the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is to be praised.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.113.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.113.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is exalted over all the nations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.113.4"><span class="content">his glory above the heavens.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.113.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.113.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Who is like the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.113.5"><span class="content">the One who sits enthroned on high,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.113.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.113.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">who stoops down to look</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.113.6"><span class="content">on the heavens and the earth?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.113.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.113.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He raises the poor from the dust</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.113.7"><span class="content">and lifts the needy from the ash heap;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.113.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.113.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">he seats them with princes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.113.8"><span class="content">with the princes of his people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.113.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.113.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He settles the childless woman in her home</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.113.9"><span class="content">as a happy mother of children.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.113.9"><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">114</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 114</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.114.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Israel came out of Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.114.1"><span class="content">Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.114.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.114.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Judah became God&#8217;s sanctuary,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.114.2"><span class="content">Israel his dominion.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.114.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.114.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The sea looked and fled,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.114.3"><span class="content">the Jordan turned back;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.114.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.114.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">the mountains leaped like rams,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.114.4"><span class="content">the hills like lambs.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.114.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.114.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Why was it, sea, that you fled?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.114.5"><span class="content">Why, Jordan, did you turn back?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.114.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.114.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Why, mountains, did you leap like rams,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.114.6"><span class="content">you hills, like lambs?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.114.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.114.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.114.7"><span class="content">at the presence of the God of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.114.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.114.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">who turned the rock into a pool,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.114.8"><span class="content">the hard rock into springs of water.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">115</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 115</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.115.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Not to us, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, not to us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.115.1"><span class="content">but to your name be the glory,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.115.1"><span class="content">because of your love and faithfulness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.115.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.115.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Why do the nations say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.115.2"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is their God?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.115.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.115.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Our God is in heaven;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.115.3"><span class="content">he does whatever pleases him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.115.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.115.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But their idols are silver and gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.115.4"><span class="content">made by human hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.115.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.115.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They have mouths, but cannot speak,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.115.5"><span class="content">eyes, but cannot see.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.115.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.115.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They have ears, but cannot hear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.115.6"><span class="content">noses, but cannot smell.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.115.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.115.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They have hands, but cannot feel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.115.7"><span class="content">feet, but cannot walk,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.115.7"><span class="content">nor can they utter a sound with their throats.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.115.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.115.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Those who make them will be like them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.115.8"><span class="content">and so will all who trust in them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.115.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.115.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">All you Israelites, trust in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.115.9"><span class="content">he is their help and shield.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.115.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.115.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">House of Aaron, trust in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.115.10"><span class="content">he is their help and shield.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.115.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.115.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You who fear him, trust in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.115.11"><span class="content">he is their help and shield.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.115.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.115.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> remembers us and will bless us:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.115.12"><span class="content">He will bless his people Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.115.12"><span class="content">he will bless the house of Aaron,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.115.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.115.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">he will bless those who fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.115.13"><span class="content">small and great alike.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.115.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.115.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> cause you to flourish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.115.14"><span class="content">both you and your children.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.115.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.115.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">May you be blessed by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.115.15"><span class="content">the Maker of heaven and earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.115.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.115.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The highest heavens belong to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.115.16"><span class="content">but the earth he has given to mankind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.115.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.115.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">It is not the dead who praise 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="PSA.115.17"><span class="content">those who go down to the place of silence;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.115.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.115.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">it is we who extol the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.115.18"><span class="content">both now and forevermore.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.115.18"><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">115:18 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Hallelu Yah</span></span></span></span></div>
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