Yom Kippur - the Perfect Atonement: The Messiah's Sacrifice

21 Days of Selfess Living

OVERCOMING JEALOUSY THROUGH the HOLY SPIRIT

When Anger Strikes

Mary Magdalene's Journey: 'Grace Restores' (Part 4)

Renewed in Every Season

Faith Over Fear

Unexpected Riches: Finding the Rare Jewel of Contentment

Devotions on F.I.R.E. Year Two

The Grace to Stay: Holding on When Marriage Is Hard

New International Version

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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="LAM.3.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">My eyes will flow unceasingly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="LAM.3.49"><span class="content">without relief,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="LAM.3.49"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="LAM.3.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">until the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> looks down</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="LAM.3.50"><span class="content">from heaven and sees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="LAM.3.50"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="LAM.3.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">What I see brings grief to my soul</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="LAM.3.51"><span class="content">because of all the women of my city.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="LAM.3.51"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="LAM.3.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">Those who were my enemies without cause</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="LAM.3.52"><span class="content">hunted me like a bird.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="LAM.3.52"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="LAM.3.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">They tried to end my life in a pit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="LAM.3.53"><span class="content">and threw stones at me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="LAM.3.53"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="LAM.3.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">the waters closed over my head,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="LAM.3.54"><span class="content">and I thought I was about to perish.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="LAM.3.54"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="LAM.3.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">I called on your name, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="LAM.3.55"><span class="content">from the depths of the pit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="LAM.3.55"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="LAM.3.56"><span class="label">56</span><span class="content">You heard my plea: &#8220;Do not close your ears</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="LAM.3.56"><span class="content">to my cry for relief.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="LAM.3.56"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="LAM.3.57"><span class="label">57</span><span class="content">You came near when I called you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="LAM.3.57"><span class="content">and you said, &#8220;Do not fear.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="LAM.3.57"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="LAM.3.58"><span class="label">58</span><span class="content">You, Lord, took up my case;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="LAM.3.58"><span class="content">you redeemed my life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v58" data-usfm="LAM.3.58"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="LAM.3.59"><span class="label">59</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you have seen the wrong done to me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="LAM.3.59"><span class="content">Uphold my cause!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v59" data-usfm="LAM.3.59"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="LAM.3.60"><span class="label">60</span><span class="content">You have seen the depth of their vengeance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="LAM.3.60"><span class="content">all their plots against me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v60" data-usfm="LAM.3.60"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v61" data-usfm="LAM.3.61"><span class="label">61</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you have heard their insults,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v61" data-usfm="LAM.3.61"><span class="content">all their plots against me&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v61" data-usfm="LAM.3.61"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v62" data-usfm="LAM.3.62"><span class="label">62</span><span class="content">what my enemies whisper and mutter</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v62" data-usfm="LAM.3.62"><span class="content">against me all day long.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v62" data-usfm="LAM.3.62"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v63" data-usfm="LAM.3.63"><span class="label">63</span><span class="content">Look at them! Sitting or standing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v63" data-usfm="LAM.3.63"><span class="content">they mock me in their songs.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v63" data-usfm="LAM.3.63"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v64" data-usfm="LAM.3.64"><span class="label">64</span><span class="content">Pay them back what they deserve, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v64" data-usfm="LAM.3.64"><span class="content">for what their hands have done.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v64" data-usfm="LAM.3.64"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v65" data-usfm="LAM.3.65"><span class="label">65</span><span class="content">Put a veil over their hearts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v65" data-usfm="LAM.3.65"><span class="content">and may your curse be on them!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v65" data-usfm="LAM.3.65"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v66" data-usfm="LAM.3.66"><span class="label">66</span><span class="content">Pursue them in anger and destroy them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v66" data-usfm="LAM.3.66"><span class="content">from under the heavens of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">How the gold has lost its luster,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="content">the fine gold become dull!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="content">The sacred gems are scattered</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="content">at every street corner.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">How the precious children of Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="content">once worth their weight in gold,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="content">are now considered as pots of clay,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="content">the work of a potter&#8217;s hands!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Even jackals offer their breasts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="content">to nurse their young,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="content">but my people have become heartless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="content">like ostriches in the desert.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Because of thirst the infant&#8217;s tongue</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="content">sticks to the roof of its mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="content">the children beg for bread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="content">but no one gives it to them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Those who once ate delicacies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="content">are destitute in the streets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="content">Those brought up in royal purple</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="content">now lie on ash heaps.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The punishment of my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="content">is greater than that of Sodom,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="content">which was overthrown in a moment</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="content">without a hand turned to help her.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Their princes were brighter than snow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="content">and whiter than milk,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="content">their bodies more ruddy than rubies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="content">their appearance like lapis lazuli.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But now they are blacker than soot;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="content">they are not recognized in the streets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="content">Their skin has shriveled on their bones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="content">it has become as dry as a stick.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Those killed by the sword are better off</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="content">than those who die of famine;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="content">racked with hunger, they waste away</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="content">for lack of food from the field.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">With their own hands compassionate women</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="content">have cooked their own children,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="content">who became their food</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="content">when my people were destroyed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given full vent to his wrath;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="content">he has poured out his fierce anger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="content">He kindled a fire in Zion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="content">that consumed her foundations.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The kings of the earth did not believe,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="content">nor did any of the peoples of the world,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="content">that enemies and foes could enter</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="content">the gates of Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But it happened because of the sins of her prophets</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="content">and the iniquities of her priests,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="content">who shed within her</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="content">the blood of the righteous.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Now they grope through the streets</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="content">as if they were blind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="content">They are so defiled with blood</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="content">that no one dares to touch their garments.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go away! You are unclean!&#8221; people cry to them.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Away! Away! Don&#8217;t touch us!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">When they flee and wander about,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">people among the nations say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">&#8220;They can stay here no longer.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> himself has scattered them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="content">he no longer watches over them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="content">The priests are shown no honor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="content">the elders no favor.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Moreover, our eyes failed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="content">looking in vain for help;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="content">from our towers we watched</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="content">for a nation that could not save us.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">People stalked us at every step,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="content">so we could not walk in our streets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="content">Our end was near, our days were numbered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="content">for our end had come.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Our pursuers were swifter</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="content">than eagles in the sky;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="content">they chased us over the mountains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="content">and lay in wait for us in the desert.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anointed, our very life breath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="content">was caught in their traps.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="content">We thought that under his shadow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="content">we would live among the nations.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Rejoice and be glad, Daughter Edom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="content">you who live in the land of Uz.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="content">But to you also the cup will be passed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="content">you will be drunk and stripped naked.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Your punishment will end, Daughter Zion;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"><span class="content">he will not prolong your exile.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"><span class="content">But he will punish your sin, Daughter Edom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"><span class="content">and expose your wickedness.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch5" data-usfm="LAM.5.1+LAM.5.2+LAM.5.3+LAM.5.4+LAM.5.5+LAM.5.6+LAM.5.7+LAM.5.8+LAM.5.9+LAM.5.10+LAM.5.11+LAM.5.12+LAM.5.13+LAM.5.14+LAM.5.15+LAM.5.16+LAM.5.17+LAM.5.18+LAM.5.19+LAM.5.20+LAM.5.21+LAM.5.22">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Remember, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, what has happened to us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.5.1"><span class="content">look, and see our disgrace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.5.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.5.2"><span class="content">our homes to foreigners.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">We have become fatherless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.5.3"><span class="content">our mothers are widows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">We must buy the water we drink;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.5.4"><span class="content">our wood can be had only at a price.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.5.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Those who pursue us are at our heels;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.5.5"><span class="content">we are weary and find no rest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">We submitted to Egypt and Assyria</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.5.6"><span class="content">to get enough bread.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Our ancestors sinned and are no more,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.5.7"><span class="content">and we bear their punishment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.5.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Slaves rule over us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.5.8"><span class="content">and there is no one to free us from their hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">We get our bread at the risk of our lives</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.5.9"><span class="content">because of the sword in the desert.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Our skin is hot as an oven,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.5.10"><span class="content">feverish from hunger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Women have been violated in Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.5.11"><span class="content">and virgins in the towns of Judah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Princes have been hung up by their hands;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.5.12"><span class="content">elders are shown no respect.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Young men toil at the millstones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.5.13"><span class="content">boys stagger under loads of wood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.5.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The elders are gone from the city gate;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.5.14"><span class="content">the young men have stopped their music.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Joy is gone from our hearts;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.5.15"><span class="content">our dancing has turned to mourning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.5.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The crown has fallen from our head.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.5.16"><span class="content">Woe to us, for we have sinned!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.5.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Because of this our hearts are faint,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.5.17"><span class="content">because of these things our eyes grow dim</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.5.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">for Mount Zion, which lies desolate,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.5.18"><span class="content">with jackals prowling over it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.5.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, reign forever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.5.19"><span class="content">your throne endures from generation to generation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.5.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Why do you always forget us?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.5.20"><span class="content">Why do you forsake us so long?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.5.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Restore us to yourself, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, that we may return;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.5.21"><span class="content">renew our days as of old</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.5.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">unless you have utterly rejected us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.5.22"><span class="content">and are angry with us beyond measure.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch120" data-usfm="PSA.120.1+PSA.120.2+PSA.120.3+PSA.120.4+PSA.120.5+PSA.120.6+PSA.120.7">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.120.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I call on the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in my distress,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.120.1"><span class="content">and he answers me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.120.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.120.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Save me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.120.2"><span class="content">from lying lips</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.120.2"><span class="content">and from deceitful tongues.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.120.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.120.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">What will he do to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.120.3"><span class="content">and what more besides,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.120.3"><span class="content">you deceitful tongue?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.120.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.120.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He will punish you with a warrior&#8217;s sharp arrows,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.120.4"><span class="content">with burning coals of the broom bush.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.120.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.120.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Woe to me that I dwell in Meshek,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.120.5"><span class="content">that I live among the tents of Kedar!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.120.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.120.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Too long have I lived</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.120.6"><span class="content">among those who hate peace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.120.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.120.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I am for peace;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.120.7"><span class="content">but when I speak, they are for war.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.28.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">A discerning son heeds instruction,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.28.7"><span class="content">but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.28.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.28.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Whoever increases wealth by taking interest or profit from the poor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.28.8"><span class="content">amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.28.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.28.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If anyone turns a deaf ear to my instruction,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.28.9"><span class="content">even their prayers are detestable.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bk1TH">
      <div class="chapter ch3" data-usfm="1TH.3.6+1TH.3.7+1TH.3.8+1TH.3.9+1TH.3.10+1TH.3.11+1TH.3.12+1TH.3.13">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1TH.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But Timothy has just now come to us from you and has brought good news about your faith and love. He has told us that you always have pleasant memories of us and that you long to see us, just as we also long to see you. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1TH.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Therefore, brothers and sisters, in all our distress and persecution we were encouraged about you because of your faith. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1TH.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For now we really live, since you are standing firm in the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1TH.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">How can we thank God enough for you in return for all the joy we have in the presence of our God because of you? </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1TH.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you again and supply what is lacking in your faith.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1TH.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1TH.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus clear the way for us to come to you. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1TH.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1TH.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch4" data-usfm="1TH.4.1+1TH.4.2+1TH.4.3+1TH.4.4+1TH.4.5+1TH.4.6+1TH.4.7+1TH.4.8+1TH.4.9+1TH.4.10+1TH.4.11+1TH.4.12+1TH.4.13+1TH.4.14+1TH.4.15+1TH.4.16+1TH.4.17+1TH.4.18">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1TH.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">As for other matters, brothers and sisters, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1TH.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1TH.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1TH.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">It is God&#8217;s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1TH.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">that each of you should learn to control your own body</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">learn to live with your own wife</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">learn to acquire a wife</span></span></span><span class="content"> in a way that is holy and honorable, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1TH.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1TH.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:6 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brother or sister </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphos</span>) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God&#8217;s family.</span></span></span><span class="content"> The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1TH.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1TH.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God, the very God who gives you his Holy Spirit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1TH.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1TH.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1TH.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And in fact, you do love all of God&#8217;s family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1TH.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1TH.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Believers Who Have Died</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1TH.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1TH.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1TH.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1TH.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">According to the Lord&#8217;s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1TH.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1TH.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1TH.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Therefore encourage one another with these words.</span></span></div>
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