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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">then your heart will become proud and you will forget the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. </span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Driving Out the Nations</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DEU.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations&#8212;the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and when the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:2 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, often by totally destroying them; also in verse 26.</span></span></span><span class="content"> Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah; here and elsewhere in Deuteronomy</span></span></span><span class="content"> and burn their idols in the fire. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For you are a people holy to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But it was because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Know therefore that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.7.10"><span class="content">those who hate him he will repay to their face by destruction;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.7.10"><span class="content">he will not be slow to repay to their face those who hate him.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Therefore, take care to follow the commands, decrees and laws I give you today.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land&#8212;your grain, new wine and olive oil&#8212;the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">You will be blessed more than any other people; none of your men or women will be childless, nor will any of your livestock be without young. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will keep you free from every disease. He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will inflict them on all who hate you. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">You must destroy all the peoples the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God gives over to you. Do not look on them with pity and do not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">You may say to yourselves, &#8220;These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But do not be afraid of them; remember well what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand and outstretched arm, with which the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God brought you out. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Moreover, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will send the hornet among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DEU.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Do not be terrified by them, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DEU.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DEU.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great confusion until they are destroyed. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DEU.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">He will give their kings into your hand, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand up against you; you will destroy them. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DEU.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The images of their gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DEU.7.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. Regard it as vile and utterly detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Do Not Forget the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DEU.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> promised on oath to your ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Remember how the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God disciplines you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Observe the commands of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, walking in obedience to him and revering him. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is bringing you into a good land&#8212;a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God for the good land he has given you. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Be careful that you do not forget the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">then your heart will become proud and you will forget the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">You may say to yourself, &#8220;My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But remember the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.8.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">If you ever forget the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Like the nations the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">35</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 35</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.35.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Contend, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, with those who contend with me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.35.1"><span class="content">fight against those who fight against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.35.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.35.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Take up shield and armor;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.35.2"><span class="content">arise and come to my aid.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.35.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.35.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Brandish spear and javelin</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and block the way</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.35.3"><span class="content">against those who pursue me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.35.3"><span class="content">Say to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.35.3"><span class="content">&#8220;I am your salvation.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.35.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.35.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">May those who seek my life</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.35.4"><span class="content">be disgraced and put to shame;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.35.4"><span class="content">may those who plot my ruin</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.35.4"><span class="content">be turned back in dismay.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.35.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.35.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">May they be like chaff before the wind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.35.5"><span class="content">with the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> driving them away;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.35.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.35.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">may their path be dark and slippery,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.35.6"><span class="content">with the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> pursuing them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.35.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.35.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Since they hid their net for me without cause</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.35.7"><span class="content">and without cause dug a pit for me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.35.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.35.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">may ruin overtake them by surprise&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.35.8"><span class="content">may the net they hid entangle them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.35.8"><span class="content">may they fall into the pit, to their ruin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.35.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.35.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then my soul will rejoice in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.35.9"><span class="content">and delight in his salvation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.35.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.35.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My whole being will exclaim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.35.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Who is like you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.35.10"><span class="content">You rescue the poor from those too strong for them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.35.10"><span class="content">the poor and needy from those who rob them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.35.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.35.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Ruthless witnesses come forward;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.35.11"><span class="content">they question me on things I know nothing about.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.35.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.35.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They repay me evil for good</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.35.12"><span class="content">and leave me like one bereaved.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.35.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.35.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.35.13"><span class="content">and humbled myself with fasting.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.35.13"><span class="content">When my prayers returned to me unanswered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.35.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.35.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I went about mourning</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.35.14"><span class="content">as though for my friend or brother.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.35.14"><span class="content">I bowed my head in grief</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.35.14"><span class="content">as though weeping for my mother.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.35.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.35.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But when I stumbled, they gathered in glee;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.35.15"><span class="content">assailants gathered against me without my knowledge.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.35.15"><span class="content">They slandered me without ceasing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.35.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.35.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Like the ungodly they maliciously mocked;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:16 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew may mean </span><span class="fqa">Like an ungodly circle of mockers,</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.35.16"><span class="content">they gnashed their teeth at me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.35.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.35.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">How long, Lord, will you look on?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.35.17"><span class="content">Rescue me from their ravages,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.35.17"><span class="content">my precious life from these lions.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.35.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.35.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I will give you thanks in the great assembly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.35.18"><span class="content">among the throngs I will praise you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.35.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.35.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Do not let those gloat over me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.35.19"><span class="content">who are my enemies without cause;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.35.19"><span class="content">do not let those who hate me without reason</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.35.19"><span class="content">maliciously wink the eye.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.35.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.35.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They do not speak peaceably,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.35.20"><span class="content">but devise false accusations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.35.20"><span class="content">against those who live quietly in the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.35.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.35.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They sneer at me and say, &#8220;Aha! Aha!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.35.21"><span class="content">With our own eyes we have seen it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.35.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.35.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you have seen this; do not be silent.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.35.22"><span class="content">Do not be far from me, Lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.35.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.35.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Awake, and rise to my defense!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.35.23"><span class="content">Contend for me, my God and Lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.35.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.35.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Vindicate me in your righteousness, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.35.24"><span class="content">do not let them gloat over me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.35.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.35.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Do not let them think, &#8220;Aha, just what we wanted!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.35.25"><span class="content">or say, &#8220;We have swallowed him up.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.35.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.35.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">May all who gloat over my distress</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.35.26"><span class="content">be put to shame and confusion;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.35.26"><span class="content">may all who exalt themselves over me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.35.26"><span class="content">be clothed with shame and disgrace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.35.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.35.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">May those who delight in my vindication</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.35.27"><span class="content">shout for joy and gladness;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.35.27"><span class="content">may they always say, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> be exalted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.35.27"><span class="content">who delights in the well-being of his servant.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.35.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.35.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">My tongue will proclaim your righteousness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.35.28"><span class="content">your praises all day long.</span></span></div>
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