Daily Bible Reading Guide (Protestant)

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Everywhere I Go: Learning to See Jesus

Heal Girl Heal

Fear Not! A Guide to Living a Fearless Life

The Promise of Heaven by Dr. David Jeremiah

Diapers, Pacifiers, and Other Holy Things

Coming to Life: 30-Day Devotional

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

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         <div class="label">38</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 38</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 38:1-22 is numbered 38:2-23.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of David. A petition.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.38.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do not rebuke me in your anger</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.38.1"><span class="content">or discipline me in your wrath.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.38.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.38.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Your arrows have pierced me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.38.2"><span class="content">and your hand has come down on me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.38.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.38.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Because of your wrath there is no health in my body;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.38.3"><span class="content">there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.38.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.38.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">My guilt has overwhelmed me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.38.4"><span class="content">like a burden too heavy to bear.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.38.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.38.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My wounds fester and are loathsome</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.38.5"><span class="content">because of my sinful folly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.38.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.38.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I am bowed down and brought very low;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.38.6"><span class="content">all day long I go about mourning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.38.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.38.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">My back is filled with searing pain;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.38.7"><span class="content">there is no health in my body.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.38.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.38.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I am feeble and utterly crushed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.38.8"><span class="content">I groan in anguish of heart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.38.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.38.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">All my longings lie open before you, Lord;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.38.9"><span class="content">my sighing is not hidden from you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.38.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.38.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My heart pounds, my strength fails me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.38.10"><span class="content">even the light has gone from my eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.38.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.38.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.38.11"><span class="content">my neighbors stay far away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.38.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.38.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Those who want to kill me set their traps,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.38.12"><span class="content">those who would harm me talk of my ruin;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.38.12"><span class="content">all day long they scheme and lie.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.38.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.38.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I am like the deaf, who cannot hear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.38.13"><span class="content">like the mute, who cannot speak;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.38.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.38.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I have become like one who does not hear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.38.14"><span class="content">whose mouth can offer no reply.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.38.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.38.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I wait for you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.38.15"><span class="content">you will answer, Lord my God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.38.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.38.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For I said, &#8220;Do not let them gloat</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.38.16"><span class="content">or exalt themselves over me when my feet slip.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.38.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.38.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For I am about to fall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.38.17"><span class="content">and my pain is ever with me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.38.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.38.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I confess my iniquity;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.38.18"><span class="content">I am troubled by my sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.38.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.38.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Many have become my enemies without cause</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38:19 </span><span class="ft">One Dead Sea Scrolls manuscript; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">my vigorous enemies</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.38.19"><span class="content">those who hate me without reason are numerous.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.38.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.38.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Those who repay my good with evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.38.20"><span class="content">lodge accusations against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.38.20"><span class="content">though I seek only to do what is good.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.38.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.38.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do not forsake me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.38.21"><span class="content">do not be far from me, my God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.38.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.38.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Come quickly to help me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.38.22"><span class="content">my Lord and my Savior.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch119" data-usfm="PSA.119.25+PSA.119.26+PSA.119.27+PSA.119.28+PSA.119.29+PSA.119.30+PSA.119.31+PSA.119.32+PSA.119.33+PSA.119.34+PSA.119.35+PSA.119.36+PSA.119.37+PSA.119.38+PSA.119.39+PSA.119.40+PSA.119.41+PSA.119.42+PSA.119.43+PSA.119.44+PSA.119.45+PSA.119.46+PSA.119.47+PSA.119.48">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.119.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I am laid low in the dust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.119.25"><span class="content">preserve my life according to your word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.119.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.119.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I gave an account of my ways and you answered me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.119.26"><span class="content">teach me your decrees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.119.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.119.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Cause me to understand the way of your precepts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.119.27"><span class="content">that I may meditate on your wonderful deeds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.119.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.119.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">My soul is weary with sorrow;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.119.28"><span class="content">strengthen me according to your word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.119.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.119.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Keep me from deceitful ways;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.119.29"><span class="content">be gracious to me and teach me your law.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.119.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.119.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">I have chosen the way of faithfulness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.119.30"><span class="content">I have set my heart on your laws.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.119.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.119.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">I hold fast to your statutes, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.119.31"><span class="content">do not let me be put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.119.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.119.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">I run in the path of your commands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.119.32"><span class="content">for you have broadened my understanding.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1492; He</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.119.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.119.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Teach me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the way of your decrees,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.119.33"><span class="content">that I may follow it to the end.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">119:33 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">follow it for its reward</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.119.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.119.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Give me understanding, so that I may keep your law</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.119.34"><span class="content">and obey it with all my heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.119.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.119.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Direct me in the path of your commands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.119.35"><span class="content">for there I find delight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.119.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PSA.119.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Turn my heart toward your statutes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PSA.119.36"><span class="content">and not toward selfish gain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PSA.119.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="PSA.119.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Turn my eyes away from worthless things;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="PSA.119.37"><span class="content">preserve my life according to your word.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">119:37 </span><span class="ft">Two manuscripts of the Masoretic Text and Dead Sea Scrolls; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">life in your way</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="PSA.119.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="PSA.119.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Fulfill your promise to your servant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="PSA.119.38"><span class="content">so that you may be feared.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="PSA.119.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="PSA.119.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Take away the disgrace I dread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="PSA.119.39"><span class="content">for your laws are good.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="PSA.119.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="PSA.119.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">How I long for your precepts!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="PSA.119.40"><span class="content">In your righteousness preserve my life.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1493; Waw</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="PSA.119.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="PSA.119.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">May your unfailing love come to me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="PSA.119.41"><span class="content">your salvation, according to your promise;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="PSA.119.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="PSA.119.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">then I can answer anyone who taunts me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="PSA.119.42"><span class="content">for I trust in your word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="PSA.119.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="PSA.119.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Never take your word of truth from my mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="PSA.119.43"><span class="content">for I have put my hope in your laws.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="PSA.119.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="PSA.119.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">I will always obey your law,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="PSA.119.44"><span class="content">for ever and ever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="PSA.119.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="PSA.119.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">I will walk about in freedom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="PSA.119.45"><span class="content">for I have sought out your precepts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="PSA.119.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="PSA.119.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">I will speak of your statutes before kings</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="PSA.119.46"><span class="content">and will not be put to shame,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="PSA.119.46"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="PSA.119.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">for I delight in your commands</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="PSA.119.47"><span class="content">because I love them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="PSA.119.47"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="PSA.119.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">I reach out for your commands, which I love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="PSA.119.48"><span class="content">that I may meditate on your decrees.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="ISA.6.1+ISA.6.2+ISA.6.3+ISA.6.4+ISA.6.5+ISA.6.6+ISA.6.7+ISA.6.8+ISA.6.9+ISA.6.10+ISA.6.11+ISA.6.12+ISA.6.13">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And they were calling to one another:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.6.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Holy, holy, holy is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.6.3"><span class="content">the whole earth is full of his glory.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Woe to me!&#8221; I cried. &#8220;I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">With it he touched my mouth and said, &#8220;See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, &#8220;Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.6.8"><span class="content">And I said, &#8220;Here am I. Send me!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;Go and tell this people:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.6.9"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Be ever hearing, but never understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.6.9"><span class="content">be ever seeing, but never perceiving.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Make the heart of this people calloused;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">make their ears dull</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">and close their eyes.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:9,10 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">&#8216;You will be ever hearing, but never understanding; / you will be ever seeing, but never perceiving.&#8217; / </span><span class="fv">10 </span><span class="fqa">This people&#8217;s heart has become calloused; / they hardly hear with their ears, / and they have closed their eyes</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">Otherwise they might see with their eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">hear with their ears,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">understand with their hearts,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">and turn and be healed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then I said, &#8220;For how long, Lord?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">And he answered:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Until the cities lie ruined</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">and without inhabitant,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">until the houses are left deserted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">and the fields ruined and ravaged,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">until the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has sent everyone far away</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.6.12"><span class="content">and the land is utterly forsaken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And though a tenth remains in the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="content">it will again be laid waste.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="content">But as the terebinth and oak</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="content">leave stumps when they are cut down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="content">so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2TH.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Paul, Silas</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:1 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">Silvanus</span><span class="ft">, a variant of </span><span class="fq">Silas</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Timothy,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2TH.1.1"><span class="content">To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2TH.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2TH.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Grace and peace to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Thanksgiving and Prayer</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2TH.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2TH.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:3 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in 2:1, 13, 15; 3:1, 6, 13.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2TH.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Therefore, among God&#8217;s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2TH.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2TH.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">All this is evidence that God&#8217;s judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2TH.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2TH.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2TH.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2TH.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2TH.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2TH.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2TH.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2TH.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">We pray this so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">God and Lord, Jesus Christ</span></span></span></span></div>
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