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    <div class="book bkISA">
        <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="ISA.15">
            <div class="label">15</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Moab</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prophecy against Moab:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.15.1"><span class="content">Ar in Moab is ruined,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.15.1"><span class="content">destroyed in a night!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.15.1"><span class="content">Kir in Moab is ruined,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.15.1"><span class="content">destroyed in a night!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.15.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Dibon goes up to its temple,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.15.2"><span class="content">to its high places to weep;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.15.2"><span class="content">Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.15.2"><span class="content">Every head is shaved</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.15.2"><span class="content">and every beard cut off.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.15.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">In the streets they wear sackcloth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.15.3"><span class="content">on the roofs and in the public squares</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.15.3"><span class="content">they all wail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.15.3"><span class="content">prostrate with weeping.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.15.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Heshbon and Elealeh cry out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.15.4"><span class="content">their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.15.4"><span class="content">Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.15.4"><span class="content">and their hearts are faint.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.15.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My heart cries out over Moab;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.15.5"><span class="content">her fugitives flee as far as Zoar,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.15.5"><span class="content">as far as Eglath Shelishiyah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.15.5"><span class="content">They go up the hill to Luhith,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.15.5"><span class="content">weeping as they go;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.15.5"><span class="content">on the road to Horonaim</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.15.5"><span class="content">they lament their destruction.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.15.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The waters of Nimrim are dried up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.15.6"><span class="content">and the grass is withered;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.15.6"><span class="content">the vegetation is gone</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.15.6"><span class="content">and nothing green is left.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.15.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So the wealth they have acquired and stored up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.15.7"><span class="content">they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.15.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.15.8"><span class="content">their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.15.8"><span class="content">their lamentation as far as Beer Elim.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.15.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The waters of Dimon</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:9 </span><span class="fq">Dimon</span><span class="ft">, a wordplay on </span><span class="fq">Dibon </span><span class="ft">(see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">blood</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> are full of blood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.15.9"><span class="content">but I will bring still more upon Dimon</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:9 </span><span class="fq">Dimon</span><span class="ft">, a wordplay on </span><span class="fq">Dibon </span><span class="ft">(see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">blood</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.15.9"><span class="content">a lion upon the fugitives of Moab</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.15.9"><span class="content">and upon those who remain in the land.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div>
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    <div class="book bkISA">
        <div class="chapter ch16" data-usfm="ISA.16">
            <div class="label">16</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Send lambs as tribute</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.16.1"><span class="content">to the ruler of the land,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.16.1"><span class="content">from Sela, across the desert,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.16.1"><span class="content">to the mount of Daughter Zion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.16.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Like fluttering birds</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.16.2"><span class="content">pushed from the nest,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.16.2"><span class="content">so are the women of Moab</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.16.2"><span class="content">at the fords of the Arnon.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.16.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Make up your mind,&#8221; Moab says.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Render a decision.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="content">Make your shadow like night&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="content">at high noon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="content">Hide the fugitives,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="content">do not betray the refugees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"><span class="content">be their shelter from the destroyer.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"><span class="content">The oppressor will come to an end,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"><span class="content">and destruction will cease;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"><span class="content">the aggressor will vanish from the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">In love a throne will be established;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"><span class="content">in faithfulness a man will sit on it&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"><span class="content">one from the house</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:5 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">tent</span></span></span><span class="content"> of David&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"><span class="content">one who in judging seeks justice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"><span class="content">and speeds the cause of righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">We have heard of Moab&#8217;s pride&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"><span class="content">how great is her arrogance!&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"><span class="content">of her conceit, her pride and her insolence;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"><span class="content">but her boasts are empty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Therefore the Moabites wail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"><span class="content">they wail together for Moab.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"><span class="content">Lament and grieve</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"><span class="content">for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The fields of Heshbon wither,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">the vines of Sibmah also.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">The rulers of the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">have trampled down the choicest vines,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">which once reached Jazer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">and spread toward the desert.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">Their shoots spread out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">and went as far as the sea.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:8 </span><span class="ft">Probably the Dead Sea</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So I weep, as Jazer weeps,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">for the vines of Sibmah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">Heshbon and Elealeh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">I drench you with tears!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">The shouts of joy over your ripened fruit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">and over your harvests have been stilled.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"><span class="content">no one sings or shouts in the vineyards;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"><span class="content">no one treads out wine at the presses,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"><span class="content">for I have put an end to the shouting.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My heart laments for Moab like a harp,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.16.11"><span class="content">my inmost being for Kir Hareseth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.16.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When Moab appears at her high place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"><span class="content">she only wears herself out;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"><span class="content">when she goes to her shrine to pray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"><span class="content">it is to no avail.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">This is the word the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has already spoken concerning Moab. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8220;Within three years, as a servant bound by contract would count them, Moab&#8217;s splendor and all her many people will be despised, and her survivors will be very few and feeble.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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    </div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkISA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="ISA.17">
            <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Damascus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prophecy against Damascus:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.17.1"><span class="content">&#8220;See, Damascus will no longer be a city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.17.1"><span class="content">but will become a heap of ruins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.17.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The cities of Aroer will be deserted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.17.2"><span class="content">and left to flocks, which will lie down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.17.2"><span class="content">with no one to make them afraid.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">and royal power from Damascus;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">the remnant of Aram will be</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">like the glory of the Israelites,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day the glory of Jacob will fade;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.17.4"><span class="content">the fat of his body will waste away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="content">gathering the grain in their arms&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="content">as when someone gleans heads of grain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="content">in the Valley of Rephaim.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Yet some gleanings will remain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">as when an olive tree is beaten,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">four or five on the fruitful boughs,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In that day people will look to their Maker</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.17.7"><span class="content">and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.17.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They will not look to the altars,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="content">the work of their hands,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="content">and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:8 </span><span class="ft">That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="content">and the incense altars their fingers have made.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all will be desolation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You have forgotten God your Savior;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="content">you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="content">Therefore, though you set out the finest plants</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="content">and plant imported vines,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="content">and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="content">yet the harvest will be as nothing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="content">in the day of disease and incurable pain.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Woe to the many nations that rage&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="content">they rage like the raging sea!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="content">Woe to the peoples who roar&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="content">they roar like the roaring of great waters!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="content">when he rebukes them they flee far away,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="content">driven before the wind like chaff on the hills,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="content">like tumbleweed before a gale.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">In the evening, sudden terror!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.17.14"><span class="content">Before the morning, they are gone!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.17.14"><span class="content">This is the portion of those who loot us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.17.14"><span class="content">the lot of those who plunder us.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch18" data-usfm="ISA.18">
            <div class="label">18</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Cush</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Woe to the land of whirring wings</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">of locusts</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.18.1"><span class="content">along the rivers of Cush,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:1 </span><span class="ft">That is, the upper Nile region</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.18.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">which sends envoys by sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">in papyrus boats over the water.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">Go, swift messengers,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">to a people tall and smooth-skinned,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">to a people feared far and wide,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">an aggressive nation of strange speech,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">whose land is divided by rivers.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">All you people of the world,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">you who live on the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">when a banner is raised on the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">you will see it,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">and when a trumpet sounds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">you will hear it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="content">&#8220;I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="content">like shimmering heat in the sunshine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="content">like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="content">and the flower becomes a ripening grape,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="content">he will cut off the shoots with pruning knives,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="content">and cut down and take away the spreading branches.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="content">and to the wild animals;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="content">the birds will feed on them all summer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="content">the wild animals all winter.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">At that time gifts will be brought to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">from a people tall and smooth-skinned,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">from a people feared far and wide,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">an aggressive nation of strange speech,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">whose land is divided by rivers&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Christ&#8217;s Sacrifice Once for All</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HEB.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming&#8212;not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HEB.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.10.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.10.5"><span class="content">&#8220;Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.10.5"><span class="content">but a body you prepared for me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">with burnt offerings and sin offerings</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.10.6"><span class="content">you were not pleased.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then I said, &#8216;Here I am&#8212;it is written about me in the scroll&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.10.7"><span class="content">I have come to do your will, my God.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:7 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" data-usfm="PSA.40.6+PSA.40.7+PSA.40.8">Psalm 40:6-8</span> (see Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.10.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">First he said, &#8220;Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them&#8221;&#8212;though they were offered in accordance with the law. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then he said, &#8220;Here I am, I have come to do your will.&#8221; He sets aside the first to establish the second. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.10.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HEB.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HEB.10.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.10.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HEB.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is the covenant I will make with them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HEB.10.16"><span class="content">after that time, says the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HEB.10.16"><span class="content">I will put my laws in their hearts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HEB.10.16"><span class="content">and I will write them on their minds.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:16 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" data-usfm="JER.31.33">Jer. 31:33</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HEB.10.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HEB.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then he adds:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HEB.10.17"><span class="content">&#8220;Their sins and lawless acts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HEB.10.17"><span class="content">I will remember no more.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:17 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" data-usfm="JER.31.34">Jer. 31:34</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HEB.10.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HEB.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And where these have been forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Call to Persevere in Faith</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HEB.10.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HEB.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="HEB.10.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="HEB.10.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">and since we have a great priest over the house of God, </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="HEB.10.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="HEB.10.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="HEB.10.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="HEB.10.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another&#8212;and all the more as you see the Day approaching.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="HEB.10.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="HEB.10.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="HEB.10.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="HEB.10.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="HEB.10.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="HEB.10.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">For we know him who said, &#8220;It is mine to avenge; I will repay,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:30 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" data-usfm="DEU.32.35">Deut. 32:35</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> and again, &#8220;The Lord will judge his people.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:30 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" data-usfm="DEU.32.36">Deut. 32:36</span>; <span class="ref" data-usfm="PSA.135.14">Psalm 135:14</span></span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="HEB.10.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="HEB.10.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="HEB.10.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="HEB.10.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="HEB.10.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">You suffered along with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="HEB.10.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="HEB.10.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="HEB.10.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="HEB.10.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">For,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="HEB.10.37"><span class="content">&#8220;In just a little while,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="HEB.10.37"><span class="content">he who is coming will come</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="HEB.10.37"><span class="content">and will not delay.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:37 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" data-usfm="ISA.26.20">Isaiah 26:20</span>; <span class="ref" data-usfm="HAB.2.3">Hab. 2:3</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="HEB.10.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="HEB.10.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">And,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="HEB.10.38"><span class="content">&#8220;But my righteous</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:38 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">But the righteous</span></span></span><span class="content"> one will live by faith.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="HEB.10.38"><span class="content">And I take no pleasure</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="HEB.10.38"><span class="content">in the one who shrinks back.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:38 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" data-usfm="HAB.2.4">Hab. 2:4</span> (see Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="HEB.10.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="HEB.10.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.</span></span></div>
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