Am I Really a Christian?

Positive and Encouraging Thoughts for Women: A 5-Day Devotional From K-LOVE

Gospel-Based Conversations to Have With Your Preteen

Reimagine Influence Through the Life of Lydia

Overcoming the Trap of Self-Pity

16 Characteristics of the God-Kind of Love - 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

The Holy Spirit: God Among Us

Sharing Your Faith in the Workplace

Who Am I, Really? Discovering the You God Had in Mind

Living Like Jesus in a Broken World

The Listener’s Bible®: NIV Edition

New International Version™  (Anglicised), Audio Edition

Holy Bible, New International Version™ (Anglicised), South Asian Audio Edition

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         <div class="label">27</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Do not boast about tomorrow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.27.1"><span class="content">for you do not know what a day may bring.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.27.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.27.2"><span class="content">an outsider, and not your own lips.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.27.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Stone is heavy and sand a burden,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.27.3"><span class="content">but a fool&#8217;s provocation is heavier than both.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.27.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.27.4"><span class="content">but who can stand before jealousy?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.27.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Better is open rebuke</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.27.5"><span class="content">than hidden love.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.27.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Wounds from a friend can be trusted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.27.6"><span class="content">but an enemy multiplies kisses.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.27.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">One who is full loathes honey from the comb,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.27.7"><span class="content">but to the hungry even what is bitter tastes sweet.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.27.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Like a bird that flees its nest</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.27.8"><span class="content">is anyone who flees from home.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.27.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.27.9"><span class="content">and the pleasantness of a friend</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.27.9"><span class="content">springs from their heartfelt advice.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.27.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.27.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.27.10"><span class="content">and do not go to your relative&#8217;s house when disaster strikes you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.27.10"><span class="content">better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.27.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.27.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Be wise, my son, and bring joy to my heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.27.11"><span class="content">then I can answer anyone who treats me with contempt.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.27.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.27.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The prudent see danger and take refuge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.27.12"><span class="content">but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.27.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.27.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.27.13"><span class="content">hold it in pledge if it is done for an outsider.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.27.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.27.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">If anyone loudly blesses their neighbor early in the morning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.27.14"><span class="content">it will be taken as a curse.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.27.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.27.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">A quarrelsome wife is like the dripping</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.27.15"><span class="content">of a leaky roof in a rainstorm;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.27.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.27.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">restraining her is like restraining the wind</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.27.16"><span class="content">or grasping oil with the hand.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.27.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.27.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">As iron sharpens iron,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.27.17"><span class="content">so one person sharpens another.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.27.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.27.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The one who guards a fig tree will eat its fruit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.27.18"><span class="content">and whoever protects their master will be honored.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.27.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.27.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">As water reflects the face,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.27.19"><span class="content">so one&#8217;s life reflects the heart.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">so others reflect your heart back to you</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.27.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.27.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Death and Destruction</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:20 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Abaddon</span></span></span><span class="content"> are never satisfied,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.27.20"><span class="content">and neither are human eyes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.27.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.27.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.27.21"><span class="content">but people are tested by their praise.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.27.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.27.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Though you grind a fool in a mortar,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.27.22"><span class="content">grinding them like grain with a pestle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.27.22"><span class="content">you will not remove their folly from them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.27.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.27.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Be sure you know the condition of your flocks,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.27.23"><span class="content">give careful attention to your herds;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.27.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.27.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">for riches do not endure forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.27.24"><span class="content">and a crown is not secure for all generations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.27.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.27.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When the hay is removed and new growth appears</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.27.25"><span class="content">and the grass from the hills is gathered in,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.27.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.27.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">the lambs will provide you with clothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.27.26"><span class="content">and the goats with the price of a field.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.27.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.27.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">You will have plenty of goats&#8217; milk to feed your family</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.27.27"><span class="content">and to nourish your female servants.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">91</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 91</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.91.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.91.1"><span class="content">will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">91:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Shaddai</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.91.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.91.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I will say of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;He is my refuge and my fortress,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.91.2"><span class="content">my God, in whom I trust.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.91.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.91.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Surely he will save you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.91.3"><span class="content">from the fowler&#8217;s snare</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.91.3"><span class="content">and from the deadly pestilence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.91.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.91.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He will cover you with his feathers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.91.4"><span class="content">and under his wings you will find refuge;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.91.4"><span class="content">his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.91.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.91.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You will not fear the terror of night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.91.5"><span class="content">nor the arrow that flies by day,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.91.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.91.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.91.6"><span class="content">nor the plague that destroys at midday.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.91.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.91.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">A thousand may fall at your side,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.91.7"><span class="content">ten thousand at your right hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.91.7"><span class="content">but it will not come near you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.91.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.91.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You will only observe with your eyes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.91.8"><span class="content">and see the punishment of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.91.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.91.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If you say, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is my refuge,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.91.9"><span class="content">and you make the Most High your dwelling,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.91.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.91.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">no harm will overtake you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.91.10"><span class="content">no disaster will come near your tent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.91.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.91.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For he will command his angels concerning you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.91.11"><span class="content">to guard you in all your ways;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.91.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.91.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">they will lift you up in their hands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.91.12"><span class="content">so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.91.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.91.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You will tread on the lion and the cobra;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.91.13"><span class="content">you will trample the great lion and the serpent.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.91.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.91.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Because he</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">91:14 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably the king</span></span></span><span class="content"> loves me,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;I will rescue him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.91.14"><span class="content">I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.91.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.91.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He will call on me, and I will answer him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.91.15"><span class="content">I will be with him in trouble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.91.15"><span class="content">I will deliver him and honor him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.91.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.91.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">With long life I will satisfy him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.91.16"><span class="content">and show him my salvation.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch11" data-usfm="REV.11">
         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Two Witnesses</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, &#8220;Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, with its worshipers. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles. They will trample on the holy city for 42 months. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They are &#8220;the two olive trees&#8221; and the two lampstands, and &#8220;they stand before the Lord of the earth.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:4 </span><span class="ft">See Zech. 4:3,11,14.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They have power to shut up the heavens so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city&#8212;which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt&#8212;where also their Lord was crucified. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.11.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But after the three and a half days the breath</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Spirit </span><span class="ft">(see Ezek. 37:5,14)</span></span></span><span class="content"> of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, &#8220;Come up here.&#8221; And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.11.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">At that very hour there was a severe earthquake and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.11.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The second woe has passed; the third woe is coming soon.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Seventh Trumpet</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.11.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.11.15"><span class="content">&#8220;The kingdom of the world has become</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.11.15"><span class="content">the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.11.15"><span class="content">and he will reign for ever and ever.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.11.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">saying:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.11.17"><span class="content">&#8220;We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.11.17"><span class="content">the One who is and who was,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.11.17"><span class="content">because you have taken your great power</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.11.17"><span class="content">and have begun to reign.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.11.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The nations were angry,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.11.18"><span class="content">and your wrath has come.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.11.18"><span class="content">The time has come for judging the dead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.11.18"><span class="content">and for rewarding your servants the prophets</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.11.18"><span class="content">and your people who revere your name,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.11.18"><span class="content">both great and small&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.11.18"><span class="content">and for destroying those who destroy the earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.11.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="REV.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then God&#8217;s temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">26</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Song of Praise</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.26.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.26.1"><span class="content">We have a strong city;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.26.1"><span class="content">God makes salvation</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.26.1"><span class="content">its walls and ramparts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.26.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.26.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Open the gates</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.26.2"><span class="content">that the righteous nation may enter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.26.2"><span class="content">the nation that keeps faith.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.26.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.26.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You will keep in perfect peace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.26.3"><span class="content">those whose minds are steadfast,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.26.3"><span class="content">because they trust in you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.26.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.26.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Trust in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.26.4"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> himself, is the Rock eternal.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.26.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.26.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He humbles those who dwell on high,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.26.5"><span class="content">he lays the lofty city low;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.26.5"><span class="content">he levels it to the ground</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.26.5"><span class="content">and casts it down to the dust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.26.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.26.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Feet trample it down&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.26.6"><span class="content">the feet of the oppressed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.26.6"><span class="content">the footsteps of the poor.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.26.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.26.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The path of the righteous is level;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.26.7"><span class="content">you, the Upright One, make the way of the righteous smooth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.26.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.26.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Yes, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, walking in the way of your laws,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">judgments</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.26.8"><span class="content">we wait for you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.26.8"><span class="content">your name and renown</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.26.8"><span class="content">are the desire of our hearts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.26.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.26.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">My soul yearns for you in the night;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.26.9"><span class="content">in the morning my spirit longs for you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.26.9"><span class="content">When your judgments come upon the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.26.9"><span class="content">the people of the world learn righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.26.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.26.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But when grace is shown to the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.26.10"><span class="content">they do not learn righteousness;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.26.10"><span class="content">even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.26.10"><span class="content">and do not regard the majesty of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.26.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.26.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, your hand is lifted high,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.26.11"><span class="content">but they do not see it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.26.11"><span class="content">Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.26.11"><span class="content">let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.26.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.26.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you establish peace for us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.26.12"><span class="content">all that we have accomplished you have done for us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.26.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.26.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.26.13"><span class="content">but your name alone do we honor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.26.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.26.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They are now dead, they live no more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.26.14"><span class="content">their spirits do not rise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.26.14"><span class="content">You punished them and brought them to ruin;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.26.14"><span class="content">you wiped out all memory of them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.26.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.26.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You have enlarged the nation, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.26.15"><span class="content">you have enlarged the nation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.26.15"><span class="content">You have gained glory for yourself;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.26.15"><span class="content">you have extended all the borders of the land.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.26.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.26.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, they came to you in their distress;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.26.16"><span class="content">when you disciplined them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.26.16"><span class="content">they could barely whisper a prayer.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:16 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.26.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.26.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">As a pregnant woman about to give birth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.26.17"><span class="content">writhes and cries out in her pain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.26.17"><span class="content">so were we in your presence, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.26.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.26.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">We were with child, we writhed in labor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.26.18"><span class="content">but we gave birth to wind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.26.18"><span class="content">We have not brought salvation to the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.26.18"><span class="content">and the people of the world have not come to life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.26.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.26.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But your dead will live, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.26.19"><span class="content">their bodies will rise&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.26.19"><span class="content">let those who dwell in the dust</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.26.19"><span class="content">wake up and shout for joy&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.26.19"><span class="content">your dew is like the dew of the morning;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.26.19"><span class="content">the earth will give birth to her dead.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.26.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.26.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Go, my people, enter your rooms</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.26.20"><span class="content">and shut the doors behind you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.26.20"><span class="content">hide yourselves for a little while</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.26.20"><span class="content">until his wrath has passed by.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.26.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.26.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">See, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is coming out of his dwelling</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.26.21"><span class="content">to punish the people of the earth for their sins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.26.21"><span class="content">The earth will disclose the blood shed on it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.26.21"><span class="content">the earth will conceal its slain no longer.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">27</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Deliverance of Israel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In that day,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.27.1"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will punish with his sword&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.27.1"><span class="content">his fierce, great and powerful sword&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.27.1"><span class="content">Leviathan the gliding serpent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.27.1"><span class="content">Leviathan the coiling serpent;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.27.1"><span class="content">he will slay the monster of the sea.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.27.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">In that day&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.27.2"><span class="content">&#8220;Sing about a fruitful vineyard:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.27.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, watch over it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.27.3"><span class="content">I water it continually.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.27.3"><span class="content">I guard it day and night</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.27.3"><span class="content">so that no one may harm it.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.27.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I am not angry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.27.4"><span class="content">If only there were briers and thorns confronting me!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.27.4"><span class="content">I would march against them in battle;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.27.4"><span class="content">I would set them all on fire.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.27.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Or else let them come to me for refuge;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.27.5"><span class="content">let them make peace with me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.27.5"><span class="content">yes, let them make peace with me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.27.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">In days to come Jacob will take root,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.27.6"><span class="content">Israel will bud and blossom</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.27.6"><span class="content">and fill all the world with fruit.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.27.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Has the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> struck her</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.27.7"><span class="content">as he struck down those who struck her?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.27.7"><span class="content">Has she been killed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.27.7"><span class="content">as those were killed who killed her?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.27.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">By warfare</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:8 </span><span class="ft">See Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and exile you contend with her&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.27.8"><span class="content">with his fierce blast he drives her out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.27.8"><span class="content">as on a day the east wind blows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.27.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">By this, then, will Jacob&#8217;s guilt be atoned for,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.27.9"><span class="content">and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.27.9"><span class="content">When he makes all the altar stones</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.27.9"><span class="content">to be like limestone crushed to pieces,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.27.9"><span class="content">no Asherah poles</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:9 </span><span class="ft">That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah</span></span></span><span class="content"> or incense altars</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.27.9"><span class="content">will be left standing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.27.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.27.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The fortified city stands desolate,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.27.10"><span class="content">an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the wilderness;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.27.10"><span class="content">there the calves graze,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.27.10"><span class="content">there they lie down;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.27.10"><span class="content">they strip its branches bare.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.27.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.27.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When its twigs are dry, they are broken off</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.27.11"><span class="content">and women come and make fires with them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.27.11"><span class="content">For this is a people without understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.27.11"><span class="content">so their Maker has no compassion on them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.27.11"><span class="content">and their Creator shows them no favor.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.27.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.27.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">In that day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.27.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And in that day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">29</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Woe to David&#8217;s City</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.29.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Woe to you, Ariel, Ariel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.29.1"><span class="content">the city where David settled!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.29.1"><span class="content">Add year to year</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.29.1"><span class="content">and let your cycle of festivals go on.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.29.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.29.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Yet I will besiege Ariel;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.29.2"><span class="content">she will mourn and lament,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.29.2"><span class="content">she will be to me like an altar hearth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:2 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">altar hearth </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">Ariel</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.29.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.29.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I will encamp against you on all sides;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.29.3"><span class="content">I will encircle you with towers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.29.3"><span class="content">and set up my siege works against you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.29.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.29.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Brought low, you will speak from the ground;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.29.4"><span class="content">your speech will mumble out of the dust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.29.4"><span class="content">Your voice will come ghostlike from the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.29.4"><span class="content">out of the dust your speech will whisper.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.29.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.29.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But your many enemies will become like fine dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.29.5"><span class="content">the ruthless hordes like blown chaff.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.29.5"><span class="content">Suddenly, in an instant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.29.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.29.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty will come</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.29.6"><span class="content">with thunder and earthquake and great noise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.29.6"><span class="content">with windstorm and tempest and flames of a devouring fire.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.29.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.29.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then the hordes of all the nations that fight against Ariel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.29.7"><span class="content">that attack her and her fortress and besiege her,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.29.7"><span class="content">will be as it is with a dream,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.29.7"><span class="content">with a vision in the night&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.29.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">as when a hungry person dreams of eating,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="content">but awakens hungry still;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="content">as when a thirsty person dreams of drinking,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="content">but awakens faint and thirsty still.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="content">So will it be with the hordes of all the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="content">that fight against Mount Zion.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.29.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.29.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Be stunned and amazed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.29.9"><span class="content">blind yourselves and be sightless;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.29.9"><span class="content">be drunk, but not from wine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.29.9"><span class="content">stagger, but not from beer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.29.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.29.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has brought over you a deep sleep:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.29.10"><span class="content">He has sealed your eyes (the prophets);</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.29.10"><span class="content">he has covered your heads (the seers).</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.29.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.29.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For you this whole vision is nothing but words sealed in a scroll. And if you give the scroll to someone who can read, and say, &#8220;Read this, please,&#8221; they will answer, &#8220;I can&#8217;t; it is sealed.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.29.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Or if you give the scroll to someone who cannot read, and say, &#8220;Read this, please,&#8221; they will answer, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how to read.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.29.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The Lord says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="content">&#8220;These people come near to me with their mouth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="content">and honor me with their lips,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="content">but their hearts are far from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="content">Their worship of me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="content">is based on merely human rules they have been taught.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:13 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">They worship me in vain; / their teachings are merely human rules</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.29.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.29.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Therefore once more I will astound these people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.29.14"><span class="content">with wonder upon wonder;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.29.14"><span class="content">the wisdom of the wise will perish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.29.14"><span class="content">the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.29.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.29.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Woe to those who go to great depths</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.29.15"><span class="content">to hide their plans from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.29.15"><span class="content">who do their work in darkness and think,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.29.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Who sees us? Who will know?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.29.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">You turn things upside down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="content">as if the potter were thought to be like the clay!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="content">Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="content">&#8220;You did not make me&#8221;?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="content">Can the pot say to the potter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="content">&#8220;You know nothing&#8221;?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.29.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.29.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">In a very short time, will not Lebanon be turned into a fertile field</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.29.17"><span class="content">and the fertile field seem like a forest?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.29.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.29.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.29.18"><span class="content">and out of gloom and darkness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.29.18"><span class="content">the eyes of the blind will see.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.29.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.29.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Once more the humble will rejoice in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.29.19"><span class="content">the needy will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.29.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.29.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The ruthless will vanish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.29.20"><span class="content">the mockers will disappear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.29.20"><span class="content">and all who have an eye for evil will be cut down&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.29.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.29.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">those who with a word make someone out to be guilty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.29.21"><span class="content">who ensnare the defender in court</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.29.21"><span class="content">and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.29.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.29.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who redeemed Abraham, says to the descendants of Jacob:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.29.22"><span class="content">&#8220;No longer will Jacob be ashamed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.29.22"><span class="content">no longer will their faces grow pale.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.29.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.29.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When they see among them their children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.29.23"><span class="content">the work of my hands,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.29.23"><span class="content">they will keep my name holy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.29.23"><span class="content">they will acknowledge the holiness of the Holy One of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.29.23"><span class="content">and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.29.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.29.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Those who are wayward in spirit will gain understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.29.24"><span class="content">those who complain will accept instruction.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">31</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Woe to Those Who Rely on Egypt</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">who rely on horses,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">who trust in the multitude of their chariots</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">and in the great strength of their horsemen,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">but do not look to the Holy One of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">or seek help from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.31.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Yet he too is wise and can bring disaster;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="content">he does not take back his words.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="content">He will rise up against that wicked nation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="content">against those who help evildoers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.31.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But the Egyptians are mere mortals and not God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">their horses are flesh and not spirit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> stretches out his hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">those who help will stumble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">those who are helped will fall;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">all will perish together.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.31.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><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="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">&#8220;As a lion growls,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">a great lion over its prey&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">and though a whole band of shepherds</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">is called together against it,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">it is not frightened by their shouts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">or disturbed by their clamor&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">so the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty will come down</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.31.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Like birds hovering overhead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty will shield Jerusalem;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="content">he will shield it and deliver it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="content">he will &#8216;pass over&#8217; it and will rescue it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.31.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.31.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Return, you Israelites, to the One you have so greatly revolted against. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.31.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For in that day every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold your sinful hands have made.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.31.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Assyria will fall by no human sword;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="content">a sword, not of mortals, will devour them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="content">They will flee before the sword</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="content">and their young men will be put to forced labor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.31.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Their stronghold will fall because of terror;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="content">at the sight of the battle standard their commanders will panic,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="content">whose fire is in Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.31.9"><span class="content">whose furnace is in Jerusalem.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">32</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Kingdom of Righteousness</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.32.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">See, a king will reign in righteousness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.32.1"><span class="content">and rulers will rule with justice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.32.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.32.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Each one will be like a shelter from the wind</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.32.2"><span class="content">and a refuge from the storm,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.32.2"><span class="content">like streams of water in the desert</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.32.2"><span class="content">and the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.32.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.32.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.32.3"><span class="content">and the ears of those who hear will listen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.32.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.32.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The fearful heart will know and understand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.32.4"><span class="content">and the stammering tongue will be fluent and clear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.32.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.32.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">No longer will the fool be called noble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.32.5"><span class="content">nor the scoundrel be highly respected.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.32.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.32.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For fools speak folly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.32.6"><span class="content">their hearts are bent on evil:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.32.6"><span class="content">They practice ungodliness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.32.6"><span class="content">and spread error concerning the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.32.6"><span class="content">the hungry they leave empty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.32.6"><span class="content">and from the thirsty they withhold water.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.32.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.32.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Scoundrels use wicked methods,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.32.7"><span class="content">they make up evil schemes</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.32.7"><span class="content">to destroy the poor with lies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.32.7"><span class="content">even when the plea of the needy is just.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.32.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.32.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But the noble make noble plans,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.32.8"><span class="content">and by noble deeds they stand.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Women of Jerusalem</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.32.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.32.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You women who are so complacent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.32.9"><span class="content">rise up and listen to me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.32.9"><span class="content">you daughters who feel secure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.32.9"><span class="content">hear what I have to say!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.32.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.32.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">In little more than a year</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.32.10"><span class="content">you who feel secure will tremble;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.32.10"><span class="content">the grape harvest will fail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.32.10"><span class="content">and the harvest of fruit will not come.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.32.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.32.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Tremble, you complacent women;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.32.11"><span class="content">shudder, you daughters who feel secure!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.32.11"><span class="content">Strip off your fine clothes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.32.11"><span class="content">and wrap yourselves in rags.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.32.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.32.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.32.12"><span class="content">for the fruitful vines</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.32.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.32.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and for the land of my people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.32.13"><span class="content">a land overgrown with thorns and briers&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.32.13"><span class="content">yes, mourn for all houses of merriment</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.32.13"><span class="content">and for this city of revelry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.32.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.32.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The fortress will be abandoned,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.32.14"><span class="content">the noisy city deserted;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.32.14"><span class="content">citadel and watchtower will become a wasteland forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.32.14"><span class="content">the delight of donkeys, a pasture for flocks,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.32.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.32.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">till the Spirit is poured on us from on high,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.32.15"><span class="content">and the desert becomes a fertile field,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.32.15"><span class="content">and the fertile field seems like a forest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.32.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.32.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s justice will dwell in the desert,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.32.16"><span class="content">his righteousness live in the fertile field.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.32.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.32.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The fruit of that righteousness will be peace;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.32.17"><span class="content">its effect will be quietness and confidence forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.32.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.32.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">My people will live in peaceful dwelling places,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.32.18"><span class="content">in secure homes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.32.18"><span class="content">in undisturbed places of rest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.32.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.32.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Though hail flattens the forest</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.32.19"><span class="content">and the city is leveled completely,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.32.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.32.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">how blessed you will be,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.32.20"><span class="content">sowing your seed by every stream,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.32.20"><span class="content">and letting your cattle and donkeys range free.</span></span></div>
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