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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Awaiting the New Body</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Now the one who has fashioned us for this very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For we live by faith, not by sight. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CO.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Ministry of Reconciliation</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If we are &#8220;out of our mind,&#8221; as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For Christ&#8217;s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.5.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Christ, that person is a new creation.</span></span></span><span class="content"> The old has gone, the new is here! </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CO.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people&#8217;s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CO.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">We are therefore Christ&#8217;s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ&#8217;s behalf: Be reconciled to God. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CO.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">God made him who had no sin to be sin</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">be a sin offering</span></span></span><span class="content"> for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">As God&#8217;s co-workers we urge you not to receive God&#8217;s grace in vain. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For he says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.6.2"><span class="content">&#8220;In the time of my favor I heard you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.6.2"><span class="content">and in the day of salvation I helped you.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:2 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 49:8</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.6.2"><span class="content">I tell you, now is the time of God&#8217;s favor, now is the day of salvation.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Hardships</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">We put no stumbling block in anyone&#8217;s path, so that our ministry will not be discredited. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CO.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians, and opened wide our hearts to you. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">We are not withholding our affection from you, but you are withholding yours from us. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">As a fair exchange&#8212;I speak as to my children&#8212;open wide your hearts also.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning Against Idolatry</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.6.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">What harmony is there between Christ and Belial</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:15 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">Beliar</span><span class="ft">, a variant of </span><span class="fq">Belial</span></span></span><span class="content">? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.6.16"><span class="content">&#8220;I will live with them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.6.16"><span class="content">and walk among them,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.6.16"><span class="content">and I will be their God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.6.16"><span class="content">and they will be my people.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:16 </span><span class="ft">Lev. 26:12; Jer. 32:38; Ezek. 37:27</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.6.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Therefore,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.6.17"><span class="content">&#8220;Come out from them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.6.17"><span class="content">and be separate,</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.6.17"><span class="content">says the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.6.17"><span class="content">Touch no unclean thing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.6.17"><span class="content">and I will receive you.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:17 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 52:11; Ezek. 20:34,41</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.6.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.6.18"><span class="content">&#8220;I will be a Father to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.6.18"><span class="content">and you will be my sons and daughters,</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.6.18"><span class="content">says the Lord Almighty.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:18 </span><span class="ft">2 Samuel 7:14; 7:8</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Joy Over the Church&#8217;s Repentance</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Make room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have exploited no one. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I do not say this to condemn you; I have said before that you have such a place in our hearts that we would live or die with you. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I have spoken to you with great frankness; I take great pride in you. I am greatly encouraged; in all our troubles my joy knows no bounds.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For when we came into Macedonia, we had no rest, but we were harassed at every turn&#8212;conflicts on the outside, fears within. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and not only by his coming but also by the comfort you had given him. He told us about your longing for me, your deep sorrow, your ardent concern for me, so that my joy was greater than ever.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CO.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Though I did regret it&#8212;I see that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done. At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So even though I wrote to you, it was neither on account of the one who did the wrong nor on account of the injured party, but rather that before God you could see for yourselves how devoted to us you are. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">By all this we are encouraged.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.7.13"><span class="content">In addition to our own encouragement, we were especially delighted to see how happy Titus was, because his spirit has been refreshed by all of you. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I had boasted to him about you, and you have not embarrassed me. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting about you to Titus has proved to be true as well. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And his affection for you is all the greater when he remembers that you were all obedient, receiving him with fear and trembling. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I am glad I can have complete confidence in you.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Collection for the Lord&#8217;s People</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">And now, brothers and sisters, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the Macedonian churches. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">In the midst of a very severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For I testify that they gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability. Entirely on their own, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the Lord&#8217;s people. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And they exceeded our expectations: They gave themselves first of all to the Lord, and then by the will of God also to us. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So we urged Titus, just as he had earlier made a beginning, to bring also to completion this act of grace on your part. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But since you excel in everything&#8212;in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in the love we have kindled in you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:7 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">and in your love for us</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;see that you also excel in this grace of giving.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CO.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And here is my judgment about what is best for you in this matter. Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. The goal is equality, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">as it is written: &#8220;The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:15 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 16:18</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Titus Sent to Receive the Collection</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.8.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same concern I have for you. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For Titus not only welcomed our appeal, but he is coming to you with much enthusiasm and on his own initiative. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And we are sending along with him the brother who is praised by all the churches for his service to the gospel. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CO.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">What is more, he was chosen by the churches to accompany us as we carry the offering, which we administer in order to honor the Lord himself and to show our eagerness to help. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CO.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">We want to avoid any criticism of the way we administer this liberal gift. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CO.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For we are taking pains to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord but also in the eyes of man.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CO.8.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CO.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">In addition, we are sending with them our brother who has often proved to us in many ways that he is zealous, and now even more so because of his great confidence in you. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CO.8.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">As for Titus, he is my partner and co-worker among you; as for our brothers, they are representatives of the churches and an honor to Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CO.8.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Therefore show these men the proof of your love and the reason for our pride in you, so that the churches can see it.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">108</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 108</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 108:1-13 is numbered 108:2-14.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A song. A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.108.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My heart, O God, is steadfast;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.108.1"><span class="content">I will sing and make music with all my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.108.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.108.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Awake, harp and lyre!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.108.2"><span class="content">I will awaken the dawn.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.108.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.108.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I will praise you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, among the nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.108.3"><span class="content">I will sing of you among the peoples.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.108.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.108.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For great is your love, higher than the heavens;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.108.4"><span class="content">your faithfulness reaches to the skies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.108.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.108.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.108.5"><span class="content">let your glory be over all the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.108.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.108.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Save us and help us with your right hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.108.6"><span class="content">that those you love may be delivered.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.108.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.108.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">God has spoken from his sanctuary:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.108.7"><span class="content">&#8220;In triumph I will parcel out Shechem</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.108.7"><span class="content">and measure off the Valley of Sukkoth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.108.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.108.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.108.8"><span class="content">Ephraim is my helmet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.108.8"><span class="content">Judah is my scepter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.108.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.108.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Moab is my washbasin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.108.9"><span class="content">on Edom I toss my sandal;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.108.9"><span class="content">over Philistia I shout in triumph.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.108.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.108.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Who will bring me to the fortified city?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.108.10"><span class="content">Who will lead me to Edom?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.108.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.108.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Is it not you, God, you who have rejected us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.108.11"><span class="content">and no longer go out with our armies?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.108.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.108.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Give us aid against the enemy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.108.12"><span class="content">for human help is worthless.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.108.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.108.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">With God we will gain the victory,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.108.13"><span class="content">and he will trample down our enemies.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">109</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 109</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.109.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My God, whom I praise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.109.1"><span class="content">do not remain silent,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.109.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.109.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">for people who are wicked and deceitful</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.109.2"><span class="content">have opened their mouths against me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.109.2"><span class="content">they have spoken against me with lying tongues.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.109.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.109.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">With words of hatred they surround me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.109.3"><span class="content">they attack me without cause.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.109.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.109.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In return for my friendship they accuse me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.109.4"><span class="content">but I am a man of prayer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.109.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.109.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They repay me evil for good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.109.5"><span class="content">and hatred for my friendship.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.109.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.109.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Appoint someone evil to oppose my enemy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.109.6"><span class="content">let an accuser stand at his right hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.109.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.109.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When he is tried, let him be found guilty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.109.7"><span class="content">and may his prayers condemn him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.109.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.109.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">May his days be few;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.109.8"><span class="content">may another take his place of leadership.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.109.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.109.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">May his children be fatherless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.109.9"><span class="content">and his wife a widow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.109.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.109.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">May his children be wandering beggars;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.109.10"><span class="content">may they be driven</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">109:10 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">sought</span></span></span><span class="content"> from their ruined homes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.109.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.109.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">May a creditor seize all he has;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.109.11"><span class="content">may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.109.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.109.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">May no one extend kindness to him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.109.12"><span class="content">or take pity on his fatherless children.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.109.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.109.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">May his descendants be cut off,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.109.13"><span class="content">their names blotted out from the next generation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.109.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.109.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.109.14"><span class="content">may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.109.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.109.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">May their sins always remain before the </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="PSA.109.15"><span class="content">that he may blot out their name from the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.109.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.109.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For he never thought of doing a kindness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.109.16"><span class="content">but hounded to death the poor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.109.16"><span class="content">and the needy and the brokenhearted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.109.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.109.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He loved to pronounce a curse&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.109.17"><span class="content">may it come back on him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.109.17"><span class="content">He found no pleasure in blessing&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.109.17"><span class="content">may it be far from him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.109.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.109.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He wore cursing as his garment;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.109.18"><span class="content">it entered into his body like water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.109.18"><span class="content">into his bones like oil.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.109.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.109.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">May it be like a cloak wrapped about him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.109.19"><span class="content">like a belt tied forever around him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.109.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.109.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">May this be the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s payment to my accusers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.109.20"><span class="content">to those who speak evil of me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.109.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.109.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But you, Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.109.21"><span class="content">help me for your name&#8217;s sake;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.109.21"><span class="content">out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.109.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.109.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For I am poor and needy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.109.22"><span class="content">and my heart is wounded within me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.109.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.109.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I fade away like an evening shadow;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.109.23"><span class="content">I am shaken off like a locust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.109.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.109.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">My knees give way from fasting;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.109.24"><span class="content">my body is thin and gaunt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.109.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.109.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I am an object of scorn to my accusers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.109.25"><span class="content">when they see me, they shake their heads.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.109.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.109.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Help me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.109.26"><span class="content">save me according to your unfailing love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.109.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.109.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Let them know that it is your hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.109.27"><span class="content">that you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, have done it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.109.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.109.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">While they curse, may you bless;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.109.28"><span class="content">may those who attack me be put to shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.109.28"><span class="content">but may your servant rejoice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.109.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.109.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">May my accusers be clothed with disgrace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.109.29"><span class="content">and wrapped in shame as in a cloak.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.109.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.109.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">With my mouth I will greatly extol the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.109.30"><span class="content">in the great throng of worshipers I will praise him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.109.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.109.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">For he stands at the right hand of the needy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.109.31"><span class="content">to save their lives from those who would condemn them.</span></span></div>
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