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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Case Against Israel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Listen to what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.6.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Stand up, plead my case before the mountains;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.6.1"><span class="content">let the hills hear what you have to say.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.6.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Hear, you mountains, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s accusation;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.6.2"><span class="content">listen, you everlasting foundations of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.6.2"><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has a case against his people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.6.2"><span class="content">he is lodging a charge against Israel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;My people, what have I done to you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.6.3"><span class="content">How have I burdened you? Answer me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I brought you up out of Egypt</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.6.4"><span class="content">and redeemed you from the land of slavery.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.6.4"><span class="content">I sent Moses to lead you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.6.4"><span class="content">also Aaron and Miriam.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My people, remember</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.6.5"><span class="content">what Balak king of Moab plotted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.6.5"><span class="content">and what Balaam son of Beor answered.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.6.5"><span class="content">Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.6.5"><span class="content">that you may know the righteous acts of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">With what shall I come before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.6.6"><span class="content">and bow down before the exalted God?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.6.6"><span class="content">Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.6.6"><span class="content">with calves a year old?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Will the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> be pleased with thousands of rams,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.6.7"><span class="content">with ten thousand rivers of olive oil?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.6.7"><span class="content">Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.6.7"><span class="content">the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.6.8"><span class="content">And what does the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> require of you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.6.8"><span class="content">To act justly and to love mercy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.6.8"><span class="content">and to walk humbly</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">prudently</span></span></span><span class="content"> with your God.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel&#8217;s Guilt and Punishment</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Listen! The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is calling to the city&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.6.9"><span class="content">and to fear your name is wisdom&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.6.9"><span class="content">&#8220;Heed the rod and the One who appointed it.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:9 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Am I still to forget your ill-gotten treasures, you wicked house,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.6.10"><span class="content">and the short ephah,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:10 </span><span class="ft">An ephah was a dry measure.</span></span></span><span class="content"> which is accursed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Shall I acquit someone with dishonest scales,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.6.11"><span class="content">with a bag of false weights?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Your rich people are violent;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.6.12"><span class="content">your inhabitants are liars</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.6.12"><span class="content">and their tongues speak deceitfully.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Therefore, I have begun to destroy you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.6.13"><span class="content">to ruin</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Therefore, I will make you ill and destroy you; / I will ruin</span></span></span><span class="content"> you because of your sins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.6.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">You will eat but not be satisfied;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.6.14"><span class="content">your stomach will still be empty.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:14 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.6.14"><span class="content">You will store up but save nothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.6.14"><span class="content">because what you save</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">You will press toward birth but not give birth, / and what you bring to birth</span></span></span><span class="content"> I will give to the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.6.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You will plant but not harvest;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.6.15"><span class="content">you will press olives but not use the oil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.6.15"><span class="content">you will crush grapes but not drink the wine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.6.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">You have observed the statutes of Omri</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.6.16"><span class="content">and all the practices of Ahab&#8217;s house;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.6.16"><span class="content">you have followed their traditions.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.6.16"><span class="content">Therefore I will give you over to ruin</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.6.16"><span class="content">and your people to derision;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.6.16"><span class="content">you will bear the scorn of the nations.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:16 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">scorn due my people</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel&#8217;s Misery</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">What misery is mine!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.7.1"><span class="content">I am like one who gathers summer fruit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.7.1"><span class="content">at the gleaning of the vineyard;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.7.1"><span class="content">there is no cluster of grapes to eat,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.7.1"><span class="content">none of the early figs that I crave.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The faithful have been swept from the land;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.7.2"><span class="content">not one upright person remains.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.7.2"><span class="content">Everyone lies in wait to shed blood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.7.2"><span class="content">they hunt each other with nets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Both hands are skilled in doing evil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.7.3"><span class="content">the ruler demands gifts,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.7.3"><span class="content">the judge accepts bribes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.7.3"><span class="content">the powerful dictate what they desire&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.7.3"><span class="content">they all conspire together.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The best of them is like a brier,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.7.4"><span class="content">the most upright worse than a thorn hedge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.7.4"><span class="content">The day God visits you has come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.7.4"><span class="content">the day your watchmen sound the alarm.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.7.4"><span class="content">Now is the time of your confusion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Do not trust a neighbor;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.7.5"><span class="content">put no confidence in a friend.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.7.5"><span class="content">Even with the woman who lies in your embrace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.7.5"><span class="content">guard the words of your lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For a son dishonors his father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.7.6"><span class="content">a daughter rises up against her mother,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.7.6"><span class="content">a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.7.6"><span class="content">a man&#8217;s enemies are the members of his own household.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But as for me, I watch in hope for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.7.7"><span class="content">I wait for God my Savior;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.7.7"><span class="content">my God will hear me.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel Will Rise</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Do not gloat over me, my enemy!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.7.8"><span class="content">Though I have fallen, I will rise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.7.8"><span class="content">Though I sit in darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.7.8"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will be my light.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Because I have sinned against him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="content">I will bear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s wrath,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="content">until he pleads my case</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="content">and upholds my cause.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="content">He will bring me out into the light;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="content">I will see his righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then my enemy will see it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">and will be covered with shame,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">she who said to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">My eyes will see her downfall;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">even now she will be trampled underfoot</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">like mire in the streets.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The day for building your walls will come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.7.11"><span class="content">the day for extending your boundaries.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">In that day people will come to you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.7.12"><span class="content">from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.7.12"><span class="content">even from Egypt to the Euphrates</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.7.12"><span class="content">and from sea to sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.7.12"><span class="content">and from mountain to mountain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.7.13"><span class="content">as the result of their deeds.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Prayer and Praise</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Shepherd your people with your staff,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="content">the flock of your inheritance,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="content">which lives by itself in a forest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="content">in fertile pasturelands.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in the middle of Carmel</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="content">Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="content">as in days long ago.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;As in the days when you came out of Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.7.15"><span class="content">I will show them my wonders.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Nations will see and be ashamed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.7.16"><span class="content">deprived of all their power.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.7.16"><span class="content">They will put their hands over their mouths</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.7.16"><span class="content">and their ears will become deaf.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MIC.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">They will lick dust like a snake,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MIC.7.17"><span class="content">like creatures that crawl on the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MIC.7.17"><span class="content">They will come trembling out of their dens;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MIC.7.17"><span class="content">they will turn in fear to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MIC.7.17"><span class="content">and will be afraid of you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MIC.7.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MIC.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Who is a God like you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MIC.7.18"><span class="content">who pardons sin and forgives the transgression</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MIC.7.18"><span class="content">of the remnant of his inheritance?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MIC.7.18"><span class="content">You do not stay angry forever</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MIC.7.18"><span class="content">but delight to show mercy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MIC.7.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MIC.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You will again have compassion on us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MIC.7.19"><span class="content">you will tread our sins underfoot</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MIC.7.19"><span class="content">and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MIC.7.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MIC.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You will be faithful to Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MIC.7.20"><span class="content">and show love to Abraham,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MIC.7.20"><span class="content">as you pledged on oath to our ancestors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MIC.7.20"><span class="content">in days long ago.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Woman and the Dragon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">She gave birth to a son, a male child, who &#8220;will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:5 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 2:9</span></span></span><span class="content"> And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The great dragon was hurled down&#8212;that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.12.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Now have come the salvation and the power</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">and the kingdom of our God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">and the authority of his Messiah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">For the accuser of our brothers and sisters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">who accuses them before our God day and night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">has been hurled down.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They triumphed over him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.12.11"><span class="content">by the blood of the Lamb</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.12.11"><span class="content">and by the word of their testimony;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.12.11"><span class="content">they did not love their lives so much</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.12.11"><span class="content">as to shrink from death.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.12.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Therefore rejoice, you heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="content">and you who dwell in them!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="content">But woe to the earth and the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="content">because the devil has gone down to you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="content">He is filled with fury,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="content">because he knows that his time is short.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent&#8217;s reach. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring&#8212;those who keep God&#8217;s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.</span></span></div>
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