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         <div class="label">76</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 76</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 76:1-12 is numbered 76:2-13.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph. A song.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.76.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">God is renowned in Judah;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.76.1"><span class="content">in Israel his name is great.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.76.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.76.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">His tent is in Salem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.76.2"><span class="content">his dwelling place in Zion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.76.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.76.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">There he broke the flashing arrows,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.76.3"><span class="content">the shields and the swords, the weapons of war.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">76:3 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 9.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.76.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.76.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You are radiant with light,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.76.4"><span class="content">more majestic than mountains rich with game.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.76.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.76.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The valiant lie plundered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.76.5"><span class="content">they sleep their last sleep;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.76.5"><span class="content">not one of the warriors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.76.5"><span class="content">can lift his hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.76.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.76.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">At your rebuke, God of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.76.6"><span class="content">both horse and chariot lie still.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.76.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.76.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">It is you alone who are to be feared.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.76.7"><span class="content">Who can stand before you when you are angry?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.76.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.76.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">From heaven you pronounced judgment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.76.8"><span class="content">and the land feared and was quiet&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.76.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.76.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">when you, God, rose up to judge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.76.9"><span class="content">to save all the afflicted of the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.76.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.76.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Surely your wrath against mankind brings you praise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.76.10"><span class="content">and the survivors of your wrath are restrained.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">76:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Surely the wrath of mankind brings you praise, / and with the remainder of wrath you arm yourself</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.76.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.76.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Make vows to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God and fulfill them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.76.11"><span class="content">let all the neighboring lands</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.76.11"><span class="content">bring gifts to the One to be feared.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.76.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.76.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He breaks the spirit of rulers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.76.12"><span class="content">he is feared by the kings of the earth.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Invitations of Wisdom and Folly</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Wisdom has built her house;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.9.1"><span class="content">she has set up</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:1 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">has hewn out</span></span></span><span class="content"> its seven pillars.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.9.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.9.2"><span class="content">she has also set her table.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">She has sent out her servants, and she calls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.9.3"><span class="content">from the highest point of the city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.9.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Let all who are simple come to my house!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.9.4"><span class="content">To those who have no sense she says,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come, eat my food</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.9.5"><span class="content">and drink the wine I have mixed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Leave your simple ways and you will live;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.9.6"><span class="content">walk in the way of insight.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Whoever corrects a mocker invites insults;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.9.7"><span class="content">whoever rebukes the wicked incurs abuse.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.9.8"><span class="content">rebuke the wise and they will love you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Instruct the wise and they will be wiser still;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.9.9"><span class="content">teach the righteous and they will add to their learning.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is the beginning of wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.9.10"><span class="content">and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For through wisdom</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:11 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">me</span></span></span><span class="content"> your days will be many,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.9.11"><span class="content">and years will be added to your life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.9.12"><span class="content">if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Folly is an unruly woman;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.9.13"><span class="content">she is simple and knows nothing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.9.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">She sits at the door of her house,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.9.14"><span class="content">on a seat at the highest point of the city,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.9.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">calling out to those who pass by,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.9.15"><span class="content">who go straight on their way,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.9.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Let all who are simple come to my house!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.9.16"><span class="content">To those who have no sense she says,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Stolen water is sweet;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.9.17"><span class="content">food eaten in secret is delicious!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.9.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But little do they know that the dead are there,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.9.18"><span class="content">that her guests are deep in the realm of the dead.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">where for forty days he was tempted</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:2 </span><span class="ft">The Greek for </span><span class="fq">tempted </span><span class="ft">can also mean </span><span class="fqa">tested.</span></span></span><span class="content"> by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The devil said to him, &#8220;If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is written: &#8216;Man shall not live on bread alone.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 8:3</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And he said to him, &#8220;I will give you all their authority and splendor; it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">If you worship me, it will all be yours.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is written: &#8216;Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:8 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 6:13</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. &#8220;If you are the Son of God,&#8221; he said, &#8220;throw yourself down from here. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.4.10"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;He will command his angels concerning you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.4.10"><span class="content">to guard you carefully;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">they will lift you up in their hands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.4.11"><span class="content">so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:11 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 91:11,12</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is said: &#8216;Do not put the Lord your God to the test.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:12 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 6:16</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When the devil had finished all this tempting, he left him until an opportune time.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Rejected at Nazareth</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He was teaching in their synagogues, and everyone praised him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The Spirit of the Lord is on me,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.4.18"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">because he has anointed me</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.4.18"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">to proclaim good news to the poor.</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.4.18"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.4.18"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and recovery of sight for the blind,</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.4.18"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">to set the oppressed free,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">to proclaim the year of the Lord&#8217;s favor.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">4:19 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Isaiah 61:1,2 (see Septuagint); Isaiah 58:6</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.4.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He began by saying to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.4.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. &#8220;Isn&#8217;t this Joseph&#8217;s son?&#8221; they asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.4.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Surely you will quote this proverb to me: &#8216;Physician, heal yourself!&#8217; And you will tell me, &#8216;Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.4.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he continued, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;no prophet is accepted in his hometown.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah&#8217;s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.4.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And there were many in Israel with leprosy</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:27 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word traditionally translated </span><span class="fq">leprosy </span><span class="ft">was used for various diseases affecting the skin.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed&#8212;only Naaman the Syrian.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.4.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.4.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.4.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.4.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Drives Out an Impure Spirit</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.4.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.4.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Then he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he taught the people. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.4.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">They were amazed at his teaching, because his words had authority.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.4.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.4.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">In the synagogue there was a man possessed by a demon, an impure spirit. He cried out at the top of his voice, </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.4.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go away! What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are&#8212;the Holy One of God!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.4.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.4.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Be quiet!&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus said sternly. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Come out of him!&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Then the demon threw the man down before them all and came out without injuring him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.4.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.4.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">All the people were amazed and said to each other, &#8220;What words these are! With authority and power he gives orders to impure spirits and they come out!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.4.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">And the news about him spread throughout the surrounding area.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Heals Many</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.4.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.4.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Jesus left the synagogue and went to the home of Simon. Now Simon&#8217;s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked Jesus to help her. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.4.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">So he bent over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up at once and began to wait on them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.4.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LUK.4.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">At sunset, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying his hands on each one, he healed them. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LUK.4.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Moreover, demons came out of many people, shouting, &#8220;You are the Son of God!&#8221; But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew he was the Messiah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LUK.4.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LUK.4.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">At daybreak, Jesus went out to a solitary place. The people were looking for him and when they came to where he was, they tried to keep him from leaving them. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.4.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">But he said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="LUK.4.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">And he kept on preaching in the synagogues of Judea.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch4" data-usfm="GAL.4">
         <div class="label">4</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GAL.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">What I am saying is that as long as an heir is underage, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GAL.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The heir is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GAL.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">under the basic principles</span></span></span><span class="content"> of the world. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GAL.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GAL.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:5 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">adoption to sonship </span><span class="ft">is a legal term referring to the full legal standing of an adopted male heir in Roman culture.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GAL.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, &#8220;</span><span class="tl"><span class="content">Abba,</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:6 </span><span class="ft">Aramaic for </span><span class="fqa">Father</span></span></span><span class="content"> Father.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GAL.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So you are no longer a slave, but God&#8217;s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Concern for the Galatians</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GAL.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GAL.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GAL.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But now that you know God&#8212;or rather are known by God&#8212;how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable forces</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">principles</span></span></span><span class="content">? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again? </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GAL.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You are observing special days and months and seasons and years! </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GAL.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I fear for you, that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GAL.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GAL.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I plead with you, brothers and sisters, become like me, for I became like you. You did me no wrong. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GAL.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">As you know, it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GAL.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and even though my illness was a trial to you, you did not treat me with contempt or scorn. Instead, you welcomed me as if I were an angel of God, as if I were Christ Jesus himself. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GAL.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Where, then, is your blessing of me now? I can testify that, if you could have done so, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GAL.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GAL.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GAL.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Those people are zealous to win you over, but for no good. What they want is to alienate you from us, so that you may have zeal for them. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GAL.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always, not just when I am with you. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GAL.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GAL.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">how I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, because I am perplexed about you!</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hagar and Sarah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GAL.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GAL.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says? </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GAL.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GAL.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GAL.4.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GAL.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GAL.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GAL.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GAL.4.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">For it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GAL.4.27"><span class="content">&#8220;Be glad, barren woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GAL.4.27"><span class="content">you who never bore a child;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GAL.4.27"><span class="content">shout for joy and cry aloud,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GAL.4.27"><span class="content">you who were never in labor;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GAL.4.27"><span class="content">because more are the children of the desolate woman</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GAL.4.27"><span class="content">than of her who has a husband.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:27 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 54:1</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GAL.4.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GAL.4.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GAL.4.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">At that time the son born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GAL.4.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">But what does Scripture say? &#8220;Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman&#8217;s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman&#8217;s son.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:30 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 21:10</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GAL.4.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkJOB">
      <div class="chapter ch3" data-usfm="JOB.3">
         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job Speaks</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;May the day of my birth perish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="content">and the night that said, &#8216;A boy is conceived!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">That day&#8212;may it turn to darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">may God above not care about it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">may no light shine on it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">May gloom and utter darkness claim it once more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">may a cloud settle over it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">may blackness overwhelm it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">That night&#8212;may thick darkness seize it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">may it not be included among the days of the year</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">nor be entered in any of the months.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">May that night be barren;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="content">may no shout of joy be heard in it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">May those who curse days</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">curse the sea</span></span></span><span class="content"> curse that day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="content">those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">May its morning stars become dark;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">may it wait for daylight in vain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">and not see the first rays of dawn,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="content">to hide trouble from my eyes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why did I not perish at birth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="content">and die as I came from the womb?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Why were there knees to receive me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="content">and breasts that I might be nursed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For now I would be lying down in peace;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="content">I would be asleep and at rest</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">with kings and rulers of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="content">who built for themselves places now lying in ruins,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">with princes who had gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="content">who filled their houses with silver.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="content">like an infant who never saw the light of day?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">There the wicked cease from turmoil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="content">and there the weary are at rest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Captives also enjoy their ease;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="content">they no longer hear the slave driver&#8217;s shout.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The small and the great are there,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="content">and the slaves are freed from their owners.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why is light given to those in misery,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="content">and life to the bitter of soul,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">to those who long for death that does not come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="content">who search for it more than for hidden treasure,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.3.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">who are filled with gladness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="content">and rejoice when they reach the grave?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.3.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Why is life given to a man</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="content">whose way is hidden,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="content">whom God has hedged in?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.3.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For sighing has become my daily food;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="content">my groans pour out like water.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.3.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">What I feared has come upon me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="content">what I dreaded has happened to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.3.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.3.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I have no peace, no quietness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.3.26"><span class="content">I have no rest, but only turmoil.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch4" data-usfm="JOB.4">
         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Eliphaz</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.4.2"><span class="content">But who can keep from speaking?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Think how you have instructed many,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.4.3"><span class="content">how you have strengthened feeble hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Your words have supported those who stumbled;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.4.4"><span class="content">you have strengthened faltering knees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.4.5"><span class="content">it strikes you, and you are dismayed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Should not your piety be your confidence</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.4.6"><span class="content">and your blameless ways your hope?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.4.7"><span class="content">Where were the upright ever destroyed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">As I have observed, those who plow evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.4.8"><span class="content">and those who sow trouble reap it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">At the breath of God they perish;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.4.9"><span class="content">at the blast of his anger they are no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The lions may roar and growl,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.4.10"><span class="content">yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The lion perishes for lack of prey,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.4.11"><span class="content">and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;A word was secretly brought to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.4.12"><span class="content">my ears caught a whisper of it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Amid disquieting dreams in the night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.4.13"><span class="content">when deep sleep falls on people,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">fear and trembling seized me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.4.14"><span class="content">and made all my bones shake.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">A spirit glided past my face,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.4.15"><span class="content">and the hair on my body stood on end.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">It stopped,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="content">but I could not tell what it was.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="content">A form stood before my eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="content">and I heard a hushed voice:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8216;Can a mortal be more righteous than God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.4.17"><span class="content">Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">If God places no trust in his servants,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.4.18"><span class="content">if he charges his angels with error,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">how much more those who live in houses of clay,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.4.19"><span class="content">whose foundations are in the dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.4.19"><span class="content">who are crushed more readily than a moth!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.4.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.4.20"><span class="content">unnoticed, they perish forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Are not the cords of their tent pulled up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.4.21"><span class="content">so that they die without wisdom?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Seals</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, &#8220;Come!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, &#8220;Come!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, &#8220;Come!&#8221; I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, &#8220;Two pounds</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:6 </span><span class="ft">Or about 1 kilogram</span></span></span><span class="content"> of wheat for a day&#8217;s wages,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:6 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">a denarius</span></span></span><span class="content"> and six pounds</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:6 </span><span class="ft">Or about 3 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of barley for a day&#8217;s wages,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:6 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">a denarius</span></span></span><span class="content"> and do not damage the oil and the wine!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, &#8220;Come!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They called out in a loud voice, &#8220;How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:11 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in 12:10; 19:10.</span></span></span><span class="content"> were killed just as they had been.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.6.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They called to the mountains and the rocks, &#8220;Fall on us and hide us</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:16 </span><span class="ft">See Hosea 10:8.</span></span></span><span class="content"> from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For the great day of their</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:17 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">his</span></span></span><span class="content"> wrath has come, and who can withstand it?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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