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         <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Babylon as God&#8217;s Sword of Judgment</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 21:1-32 is numbered 21:6-37.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, set your face against Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuary. Prophesy against the land of Israel </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and say to her: &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: I am against you. I will draw my sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Because I am going to cut off the righteous and the wicked, my sword will be unsheathed against everyone from south to north. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then all people will know that I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> have drawn my sword from its sheath; it will not return again.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.21.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore groan, son of man! Groan before them with broken heart and bitter grief. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And when they ask you, &#8216;Why are you groaning?&#8217; you shall say, &#8216;Because of the news that is coming. Every heart will melt with fear and every hand go limp; every spirit will become faint and every leg will be wet with urine.&#8217; It is coming! It will surely take place, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, prophesy and say, &#8216;This is what the Lord says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.21.9"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;A sword, a sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.21.9"><span class="content">sharpened and polished&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.21.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">sharpened for the slaughter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.21.10"><span class="content">polished to flash like lightning!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.21.10"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Shall we rejoice in the scepter of my royal son? The sword despises every such stick.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.21.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The sword is appointed to be polished,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.21.11"><span class="content">to be grasped with the hand;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.21.11"><span class="content">it is sharpened and polished,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.21.11"><span class="content">made ready for the hand of the slayer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.21.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Cry out and wail, son of man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.21.12"><span class="content">for it is against my people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.21.12"><span class="content">it is against all the princes of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.21.12"><span class="content">They are thrown to the sword</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.21.12"><span class="content">along with my people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.21.12"><span class="content">Therefore beat your breast.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.21.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Testing will surely come. And what if even the scepter, which the sword despises, does not continue? declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.21.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;So then, son of man, prophesy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.21.14"><span class="content">and strike your hands together.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.21.14"><span class="content">Let the sword strike twice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.21.14"><span class="content">even three times.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.21.14"><span class="content">It is a sword for slaughter&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.21.14"><span class="content">a sword for great slaughter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.21.14"><span class="content">closing in on them from every side.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.21.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So that hearts may melt with fear</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.21.15"><span class="content">and the fallen be many,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.21.15"><span class="content">I have stationed the sword for slaughter</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:15 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.21.15"><span class="content">at all their gates.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.21.15"><span class="content">Look! It is forged to strike like lightning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.21.15"><span class="content">it is grasped for slaughter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.21.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Slash to the right, you sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.21.16"><span class="content">then to the left,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.21.16"><span class="content">wherever your blade is turned.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.21.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I too will strike my hands together,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.21.17"><span class="content">and my wrath will subside.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.21.17"><span class="content">I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> have spoken.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.21.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, mark out two roads for the sword of the king of Babylon to take, both starting from the same country. Make a signpost where the road branches off to the city. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Mark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites and another against Judah and fortified Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For the king of Babylon will stop at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He will cast lots with arrows, he will consult his idols, he will examine the liver. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Into his right hand will come the lot for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to give the command to slaughter, to sound the battle cry, to set battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp and to erect siege works. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">It will seem like a false omen to those who have sworn allegiance to him, but he will remind them of their guilt and take them captive.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.21.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.21.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;Because you people have brought to mind your guilt by your open rebellion, revealing your sins in all that you do&#8212;because you have done this, you will be taken captive.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.21.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.21.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;You profane and wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, whose time of punishment has reached its climax, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.21.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Take off the turban, remove the crown. It will not be as it was: The lowly will be exalted and the exalted will be brought low. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.21.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">A ruin! A ruin! I will make it a ruin! The crown will not be restored until he to whom it rightfully belongs shall come; to him I will give it.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.21.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.21.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;And you, son of man, prophesy and say, &#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says about the Ammonites and their insults:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.21.28"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;A sword, a sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.21.28"><span class="content">drawn for the slaughter,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.21.28"><span class="content">polished to consume</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.21.28"><span class="content">and to flash like lightning!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.21.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.21.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Despite false visions concerning you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.21.29"><span class="content">and lying divinations about you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.21.29"><span class="content">it will be laid on the necks</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.21.29"><span class="content">of the wicked who are to be slain,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.21.29"><span class="content">whose day has come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.21.29"><span class="content">whose time of punishment has reached its climax.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.21.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.21.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Let the sword return to its sheath.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.21.30"><span class="content">In the place where you were created,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.21.30"><span class="content">in the land of your ancestry,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.21.30"><span class="content">I will judge you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.21.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.21.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">I will pour out my wrath on you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.21.31"><span class="content">and breathe out my fiery anger against you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.21.31"><span class="content">I will deliver you into the hands of brutal men,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.21.31"><span class="content">men skilled in destruction.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.21.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.21.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">You will be fuel for the fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.21.32"><span class="content">your blood will be shed in your land,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.21.32"><span class="content">you will be remembered no more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EZK.21.32"><span class="content">for I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> have spoken.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judgment on Jerusalem&#8217;s Sins</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, will you judge her? Will you judge this city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her detestable practices </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and say: &#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: You city that brings on herself doom by shedding blood in her midst and defiles herself by making idols, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">you have become guilty because of the blood you have shed and have become defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close, and the end of your years has come. Therefore I will make you an object of scorn to the nations and a laughingstock to all the countries. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Those who are near and those who are far away will mock you, you infamous city, full of turmoil.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;See how each of the princes of Israel who are in you uses his power to shed blood. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the foreigner and mistreated the fatherless and the widow. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">In you are slanderers who are bent on shedding blood; in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines and commit lewd acts. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">In you are those who dishonor their father&#8217;s bed; in you are those who violate women during their period, when they are ceremonially unclean. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor&#8217;s wife, another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law, and another violates his sister, his own father&#8217;s daughter. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">In you are people who accept bribes to shed blood; you take interest and make a profit from the poor. You extort unjust gain from your neighbors. And you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I will surely strike my hands together at the unjust gain you have made and at the blood you have shed in your midst. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> have spoken, and I will do it. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you through the countries; and I will put an end to your uncleanness. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When you have been defiled</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">When I have allotted you your inheritance</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the eyes of the nations, you will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, the people of Israel have become dross to me; all of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead left inside a furnace. They are but the dross of silver. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;Because you have all become dross, I will gather you into Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">As silver, copper, iron, lead and tin are gathered into a furnace to be melted with a fiery blast, so will I gather you in my anger and my wrath and put you inside the city and melt you. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">I will gather you and I will blow on you with my fiery wrath, and you will be melted inside her. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted inside her, and you will know that I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> have poured out my wrath on you.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.22.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Again the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, say to the land, &#8216;You are a land that has not been cleansed or rained on in the day of wrath.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">There is a conspiracy of her princes</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:25 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">prophets</span></span></span><span class="content"> within her like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they devour people, take treasures and precious things and make many widows within her. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean; and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people to make unjust gain. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Her prophets whitewash these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations. They say, &#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says&#8217;&#8212;when the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has not spoken. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EZK.22.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EZK.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EZK.22.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger, bringing down on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HEB.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming&#8212;not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HEB.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.10.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.10.5"><span class="content">&#8220;Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.10.5"><span class="content">but a body you prepared for me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">with burnt offerings and sin offerings</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.10.6"><span class="content">you were not pleased.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then I said, &#8216;Here I am&#8212;it is written about me in the scroll&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.10.7"><span class="content">I have come to do your will, my God.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:7 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 40:6-8 (see Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.10.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">First he said, &#8220;Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them&#8221;&#8212;though they were offered in accordance with the law. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then he said, &#8220;Here I am, I have come to do your will.&#8221; He sets aside the first to establish the second. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.10.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HEB.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HEB.10.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.10.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HEB.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is the covenant I will make with them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HEB.10.16"><span class="content">after that time, says the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HEB.10.16"><span class="content">I will put my laws in their hearts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HEB.10.16"><span class="content">and I will write them on their minds.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:16 </span><span class="ft">Jer. 31:33</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HEB.10.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HEB.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then he adds:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HEB.10.17"><span class="content">&#8220;Their sins and lawless acts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HEB.10.17"><span class="content">I will remember no more.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:17 </span><span class="ft">Jer. 31:34</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HEB.10.17"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">108</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 108</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 108:1-13 is numbered 108:2-14.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A song. A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.108.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My heart, O God, is steadfast;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.108.1"><span class="content">I will sing and make music with all my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.108.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.108.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Awake, harp and lyre!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.108.2"><span class="content">I will awaken the dawn.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.108.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.108.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I will praise you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, among the nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.108.3"><span class="content">I will sing of you among the peoples.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.108.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.108.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For great is your love, higher than the heavens;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.108.4"><span class="content">your faithfulness reaches to the skies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.108.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.108.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.108.5"><span class="content">let your glory be over all the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.108.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.108.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Save us and help us with your right hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.108.6"><span class="content">that those you love may be delivered.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.108.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.108.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">God has spoken from his sanctuary:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.108.7"><span class="content">&#8220;In triumph I will parcel out Shechem</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.108.7"><span class="content">and measure off the Valley of Sukkoth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.108.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.108.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.108.8"><span class="content">Ephraim is my helmet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.108.8"><span class="content">Judah is my scepter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.108.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.108.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Moab is my washbasin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.108.9"><span class="content">on Edom I toss my sandal;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.108.9"><span class="content">over Philistia I shout in triumph.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.108.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.108.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Who will bring me to the fortified city?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.108.10"><span class="content">Who will lead me to Edom?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.108.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.108.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Is it not you, God, you who have rejected us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.108.11"><span class="content">and no longer go out with our armies?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.108.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.108.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Give us aid against the enemy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.108.12"><span class="content">for human help is worthless.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.108.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.108.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">With God we will gain the victory,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.108.13"><span class="content">and he will trample down our enemies.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.27.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The prudent see danger and take refuge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.27.12"><span class="content">but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.27.12"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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