All the Praise Belongs: A Devotional on Living a Life of Praise

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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2PE.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2PE.1.1"><span class="content">To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2PE.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2PE.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Confirming One&#8217;s Calling and Election</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2PE.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2PE.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2PE.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2PE.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2PE.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2PE.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2PE.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2PE.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2PE.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2PE.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2PE.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Therefore, my brothers and sisters,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:10 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family.</span></span></span><span class="content"> make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2PE.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Prophecy of Scripture</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2PE.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2PE.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are firmly established in the truth you now have. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2PE.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of this body, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2PE.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">because I know that I will soon put it aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2PE.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And I will make every effort to see that after my departure you will always be able to remember these things.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2PE.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2PE.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For we did not follow cleverly devised stories when we told you about the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in power, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2PE.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, saying, &#8220;This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:17 </span><span class="ft">Matt. 17:5; Mark 9:7; Luke 9:35</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2PE.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">We ourselves heard this voice that came from heaven when we were with him on the sacred mountain.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2PE.1.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2PE.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">We also have the prophetic message as something completely reliable, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2PE.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet&#8217;s own interpretation of things. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2PE.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">False Teachers and Their Destruction</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2PE.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them&#8212;bringing swift destruction on themselves. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2PE.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2PE.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2PE.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2PE.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:4 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">Tartarus</span></span></span><span class="content"> putting them in chains of darkness</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:4 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">in gloomy dungeons</span></span></span><span class="content"> to be held for judgment; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2PE.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2PE.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2PE.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2PE.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2PE.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2PE.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the flesh</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:10 </span><span class="ft">In contexts like this, the Greek word for </span><span class="fq">flesh </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">sarx</span>) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verse 18.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and despise authority.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2PE.2.10"><span class="content">Bold and arrogant, they are not afraid to heap abuse on celestial beings; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2PE.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not heap abuse on such beings when bringing judgment on them from</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:11 </span><span class="ft">Many manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">beings in the presence of</span></span></span><span class="content"> the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2PE.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But these people blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like animals they too will perish.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2PE.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2PE.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:13 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">in their love feasts</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2PE.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed&#8212;an accursed brood! </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2PE.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Bezer,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:15 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">Bosor</span></span></span><span class="content"> who loved the wages of wickedness. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2PE.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey&#8212;an animal without speech&#8212;who spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet&#8217;s madness.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2PE.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2PE.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">These people are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2PE.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2PE.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity&#8212;for &#8220;people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2PE.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2PE.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2PE.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Of them the proverbs are true: &#8220;A dog returns to its vomit,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:22 </span><span class="ft">Prov. 26:11</span></span></span><span class="content"> and, &#8220;A sow that is washed returns to her wallowing in the mud.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Day of the Lord</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2PE.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2PE.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2PE.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2PE.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2PE.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They will say, &#8220;Where is this &#8216;coming&#8217; he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2PE.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But they deliberately forget that long ago by God&#8217;s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2PE.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2PE.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2PE.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2PE.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2PE.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2PE.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2PE.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:10 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">be burned up</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2PE.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2PE.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2PE.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">as you wait eagerly for the day of God to come</span></span></span><span class="content"> That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2PE.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2PE.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2PE.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2PE.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Bear in mind that our Lord&#8217;s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2PE.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2PE.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2PE.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2PE.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">81</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 81</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 81:1-16 is numbered 81:2-17.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. According to </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">gittith.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> Of Asaph.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.81.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Sing for joy to God our strength;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.81.1"><span class="content">shout aloud to the God of Jacob!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.81.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.81.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Begin the music, strike the timbrel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.81.2"><span class="content">play the melodious harp and lyre.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.81.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.81.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Sound the ram&#8217;s horn at the New Moon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.81.3"><span class="content">and when the moon is full, on the day of our festival;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.81.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.81.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">this is a decree for Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.81.4"><span class="content">an ordinance of the God of Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.81.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.81.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When God went out against Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.81.5"><span class="content">he established it as a statute for Joseph.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.81.5"><span class="content">I heard an unknown voice say:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.81.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.81.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;I removed the burden from their shoulders;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.81.6"><span class="content">their hands were set free from the basket.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.81.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.81.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In your distress you called and I rescued you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.81.7"><span class="content">I answered you out of a thundercloud;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.81.7"><span class="content">I tested you at the waters of Meribah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">81:7 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.81.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.81.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Hear me, my people, and I will warn you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.81.8"><span class="content">if you would only listen to me, Israel!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.81.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.81.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You shall have no foreign god among you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.81.9"><span class="content">you shall not worship any god other than me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.81.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.81.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.81.10"><span class="content">who brought you up out of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.81.10"><span class="content">Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.81.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.81.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;But my people would not listen to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.81.11"><span class="content">Israel would not submit to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.81.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.81.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.81.12"><span class="content">to follow their own devices.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.81.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.81.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;If my people would only listen to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.81.13"><span class="content">if Israel would only follow my ways,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.81.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.81.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">how quickly I would subdue their enemies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.81.14"><span class="content">and turn my hand against their foes!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.81.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.81.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Those who hate the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> would cringe before him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.81.15"><span class="content">and their punishment would last forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.81.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.81.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But you would be fed with the finest of wheat;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.81.16"><span class="content">with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">82</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 82</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of Asaph.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.82.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">God presides in the great assembly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.82.1"><span class="content">he renders judgment among the &#8220;gods&#8221;:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.82.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.82.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;How long will you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">82:2 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is plural.</span></span></span><span class="content"> defend the unjust</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.82.2"><span class="content">and show partiality to the wicked?</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">82:2 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.82.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.82.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Defend the weak and the fatherless;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.82.3"><span class="content">uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.82.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.82.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Rescue the weak and the needy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.82.4"><span class="content">deliver them from the hand of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.82.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.82.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;The &#8216;gods&#8217; know nothing, they understand nothing.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.82.5"><span class="content">They walk about in darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.82.5"><span class="content">all the foundations of the earth are shaken.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.82.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.82.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;I said, &#8216;You are &#8220;gods&#8221;;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.82.6"><span class="content">you are all sons of the Most High.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.82.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.82.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But you will die like mere mortals;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.82.7"><span class="content">you will fall like every other ruler.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.82.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.82.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Rise up, O God, judge the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.82.8"><span class="content">for all the nations are your inheritance.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">83</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 83</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 83:1-18 is numbered 83:2-19.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A song. A psalm of Asaph.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.83.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">O God, do not remain silent;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.83.1"><span class="content">do not turn a deaf ear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.83.1"><span class="content">do not stand aloof, O God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.83.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.83.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">See how your enemies growl,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.83.2"><span class="content">how your foes rear their heads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.83.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.83.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">With cunning they conspire against your people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.83.3"><span class="content">they plot against those you cherish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.83.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.83.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come,&#8221; they say, &#8220;let us destroy them as a nation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.83.4"><span class="content">so that Israel&#8217;s name is remembered no more.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.83.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.83.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">With one mind they plot together;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.83.5"><span class="content">they form an alliance against you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.83.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.83.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.83.6"><span class="content">of Moab and the Hagrites,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.83.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.83.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Byblos, Ammon and Amalek,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.83.7"><span class="content">Philistia, with the people of Tyre.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.83.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.83.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Even Assyria has joined them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.83.8"><span class="content">to reinforce Lot&#8217;s descendants.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">83:8 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.83.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.83.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Do to them as you did to Midian,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.83.9"><span class="content">as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.83.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.83.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">who perished at Endor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.83.10"><span class="content">and became like dung on the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.83.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.83.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.83.11"><span class="content">all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.83.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.83.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">who said, &#8220;Let us take possession</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.83.12"><span class="content">of the pasturelands of God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.83.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.83.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Make them like tumbleweed, my God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.83.13"><span class="content">like chaff before the wind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.83.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.83.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">As fire consumes the forest</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.83.14"><span class="content">or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.83.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.83.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">so pursue them with your tempest</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.83.15"><span class="content">and terrify them with your storm.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.83.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.83.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Cover their faces with shame, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.83.16"><span class="content">so that they will seek your name.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.83.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.83.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">May they ever be ashamed and dismayed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.83.17"><span class="content">may they perish in disgrace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.83.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.83.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Let them know that you, whose name is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.83.18"><span class="content">that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.</span></span></div>
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