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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">How is the gold become dim!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">How</span></span><span class="content"> is the most fine gold changed!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="content">The stones of the sanctuary are poured out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="content">In the top of every street.</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">The precious sons of Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="content">Comparable to fine gold,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="content">How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="content">The work of the hands of the potter!</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 the sea monsters draw out the breast,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="content">They give suck to their young ones:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="content">The daughter of my people </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is become</span></span><span class="content"> cruel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="content">Like the ostriches in the wilderness.</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">The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="content">To the roof of his mouth for thirst:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="content">The young children ask bread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> no man breaketh </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content"> unto 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">They that did feed delicately</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="content">Are desolate in the streets:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="content">They that were brought up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="content">In scarlet embrace dunghills.</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">For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="content">Than the punishment of the sin of Sodom,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="content">That was overthrown as in a moment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="content">And no hands stayed on 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">Her Nazarites were purer than snow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="content">They were whiter than milk,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="content">They were more ruddy in body than rubies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="content">Their polishing </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> of sapphire:</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">Their visage is blacker than a coal;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="content">They are not known in the streets:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="content">Their skin cleaveth to their bones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="content">It is withered, it is become like 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">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">They that be</span></span><span class="content"> slain with the sword</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="content">Are better than </span><span class="add"><span class="content">they that be</span></span><span class="content"> slain with hunger:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="content">For these pine away, stricken</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="content">Through for </span><span class="add"><span class="content">want of</span></span><span class="content"> the fruits of 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">The hands of the pitiful women</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="content">Have sodden their own children:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="content">They were their meat</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="content">In the destruction of the daughter of my people.</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"> hath accomplished his fury;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="content">He hath poured out his fierce anger,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="content">And hath kindled a fire in Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="content">And it hath devoured the foundations thereof.</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,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="content">And all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="content">That the adversary and the enemy should have entered</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="content">Into 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">For the sins of her prophets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> the iniquities of her priests,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="content">That have shed the blood</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="content">Of the just in the midst of her,</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">They have wandered </span><span class="add"><span class="content">as</span></span><span class="content"> blind </span><span class="add"><span class="content">men</span></span><span class="content"> in the streets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="content">They have polluted themselves with blood,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="content">So that men could not touch</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="content">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">They cried unto them, Depart ye; </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it is</span></span><span class="content"> unclean;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">Depart, depart, touch not:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">When they fled away and wandered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">They said among the heathen,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">They shall no more sojourn </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there</span></span><span class="content">.</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 anger of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> hath divided them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="content">He will no more regard them:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="content">They respected not the persons of the priests,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="content">They favoured not the elders.</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">As for us, our eyes as yet failed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="content">For our vain help:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="content">In our watching we have watched</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="content">For a nation </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> could not save </span><span class="add"><span class="content">us</span></span><span class="content">.</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">They hunt our steps,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="content">That we cannot go in our streets:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="content">Our end is near, our days are fulfilled;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="content">For our end is 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 persecutors are swifter</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="content">Than the eagles of the heaven:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="content">They pursued us upon the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="content">They laid wait for us in the wilderness.</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 breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="content">Was taken in their pits,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="content">Of whom we said, Under his shadow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="content">We shall live among the heathen.</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, O daughter of Edom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="content">That dwellest in the land of Uz;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="content">The cup also shall pass through unto thee:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="content">Thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself 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">The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"><span class="content">He will no more carry thee away into captivity:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"><span class="content">He will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"><span class="content">He will discover thy sins.</span></span></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, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, what is come upon us:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.5.1"><span class="content">Consider, and behold our reproach.</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 is turned to strangers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.5.2"><span class="content">Our houses to aliens.</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 are orphans and fatherless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.5.3"><span class="content">Our mothers </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> as 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 have drunken our water for money;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.5.4"><span class="content">Our wood is sold unto us.</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">Our necks </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> under persecution:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.5.5"><span class="content">We labour, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> have 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 have given the hand </span><span class="add"><span class="content">to</span></span><span class="content"> the Egyptians,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.5.6"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And to</span></span><span class="content"> the Assyrians, to be satisfied with 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 fathers have sinned, and </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> not;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.5.7"><span class="content">And we have borne their iniquities.</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">Servants have ruled over us:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.5.8"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">There is</span></span><span class="content"> none that doth deliver </span><span class="add"><span class="content">us</span></span><span class="content"> out of their hand.</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 gat our bread with </span><span class="add"><span class="content">the peril of</span></span><span class="content"> our lives</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.5.9"><span class="content">Because of the sword of the wilderness.</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 was black like an oven</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.5.10"><span class="content">Because of the terrible famine.</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">They ravished the women in Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.5.11"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> the maids in the cities 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 are hanged up by their hand:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.5.12"><span class="content">The faces of elders were not honoured.</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">They took the young men to grind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.5.13"><span class="content">And the children fell under the 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 have ceased from the gate,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.5.14"><span class="content">The young men from their musick.</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">The joy of our heart is ceased;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.5.15"><span class="content">Our dance is turned into 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 is fallen </span><span class="add"><span class="content">from</span></span><span class="content"> our head:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.5.16"><span class="content">Woe unto us, that 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">For this our heart is faint;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.5.17"><span class="content">For these </span><span class="add"><span class="content">things</span></span><span class="content"> our eyes are 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">Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.5.18"><span class="content">The foxes walk upon 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">Thou, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, remainest for ever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.5.19"><span class="content">Thy throne 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">Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.5.20"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> forsake us so long time?</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">Turn thou us unto thee, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, and we shall be turned;</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">But thou hast utterly rejected us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.5.22"><span class="content">Thou art very wroth against us.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">50</div><div class="d"><span class="content">A Psalm of Asaph.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The mighty God, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">even</span></span><span class="content"> the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, hath spoken,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="content">And called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.50.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.50.2"><span class="content">God hath shined.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.50.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">A fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.50.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He shall call to the heavens from above,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.50.4"><span class="content">And to the earth, that he may judge his people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.50.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.50.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Gather my saints together unto me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.50.5"><span class="content">Those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.50.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.50.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And the heavens shall declare his righteousness:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.50.6"><span class="content">For God </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> judge himself. </span><span class="qs"><span class="content">Selah.</span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.50.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Hear, O my people, and I will speak;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="content">O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> God, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">even</span></span><span class="content"> thy God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.50.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.50.8"><span class="content">Or thy burnt offerings, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">to have been</span></span><span class="content"> continually before me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.50.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.50.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I will take no bullock out of thy house,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.50.9"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Nor</span></span><span class="content"> he goats out of thy folds.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.50.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.50.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For every beast of the forest </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> mine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.50.10"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> the cattle upon a thousand hills.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.50.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.50.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I know all the fowls of the mountains:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.50.11"><span class="content">And the wild beasts of the field </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> mine.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.50.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.50.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If I were hungry, I would not tell thee:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.50.12"><span class="content">For the world </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> mine, and the fulness thereof.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.50.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.50.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Will I eat the flesh of bulls,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.50.13"><span class="content">Or drink the blood of goats?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.50.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.50.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Offer unto God thanksgiving;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.50.14"><span class="content">And pay thy vows unto the most High:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.50.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.50.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And call upon me in the day of trouble:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.50.15"><span class="content">I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.50.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But unto the wicked God saith,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="content">What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.50.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Seeing thou hatest instruction,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.50.17"><span class="content">And castest my words behind thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.50.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.50.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.50.18"><span class="content">And hast been partaker with adulterers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.50.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.50.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Thou givest thy mouth to evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.50.19"><span class="content">And thy tongue frameth deceit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.50.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.50.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Thou sittest </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> speakest against thy brother;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.50.20"><span class="content">Thou slanderest thine own mother's son.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.50.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">These </span><span class="add"><span class="content">things</span></span><span class="content"> hast thou done, and I kept silence;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">Thou thoughtest that I was altogether </span><span class="add"><span class="content">such an one</span></span><span class="content"> as thyself:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">But</span></span><span class="content"> I will reprove thee, and set </span><span class="add"><span class="content">them</span></span><span class="content"> in order before thine eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.50.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Now consider this, ye that forget God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.50.22"><span class="content">Lest I tear </span><span class="add"><span class="content">you</span></span><span class="content"> in pieces, and </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there be</span></span><span class="content"> none to deliver.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.50.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.50.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.50.23"><span class="content">And to him that ordereth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> conversation </span><span class="add"><span class="content">aright</span></span><span class="content"> will I shew the salvation of God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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