Daily Bible Reading Guide (Protestant)

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New City Catechism

Everywhere I Go: Learning to See Jesus

OVERCOMING JEALOUSY THROUGH the HOLY SPIRIT

The Grace to Stay: Holding on When Marriage Is Hard

Unexpected Riches: Finding the Rare Jewel of Contentment

Renewed in Every Season

Mary Magdalene's Journey: 'Grace Restores' (Part 4)

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

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         <div class="label">30</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 30</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 30:1-12 is numbered 30:2-13.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm. A song. For the dedication of the temple.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Or </span><span class="fqa">palace</span></span></span><span class="content"> Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.30.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I will exalt you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.30.1"><span class="content">for you lifted me out of the depths</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.30.1"><span class="content">and did not let my enemies gloat over me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.30.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.30.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God, I called to you for help,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.30.2"><span class="content">and you healed me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.30.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.30.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, brought me up from the realm of the dead;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.30.3"><span class="content">you spared me from going down to the pit.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.30.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.30.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Sing the praises of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you his faithful people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.30.4"><span class="content">praise his holy name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.30.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.30.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For his anger lasts only a moment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.30.5"><span class="content">but his favor lasts a lifetime;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.30.5"><span class="content">weeping may stay for the night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.30.5"><span class="content">but rejoicing comes in the morning.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.30.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.30.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When I felt secure, I said,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.30.6"><span class="content">&#8220;I will never be shaken.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.30.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.30.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, when you favored me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.30.7"><span class="content">you made my royal mountain</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:7 </span><span class="ft">That is, Mount Zion</span></span></span><span class="content"> stand firm;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.30.7"><span class="content">but when you hid your face,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.30.7"><span class="content">I was dismayed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.30.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.30.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">To you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I called;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.30.8"><span class="content">to the Lord I cried for mercy:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.30.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.30.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;What is gained if I am silenced,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.30.9"><span class="content">if I go down to the pit?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.30.9"><span class="content">Will the dust praise you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.30.9"><span class="content">Will it proclaim your faithfulness?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.30.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.30.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Hear, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and be merciful to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.30.10"><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, be my help.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.30.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.30.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You turned my wailing into dancing;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.30.11"><span class="content">you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.30.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.30.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">that my heart may sing your praises and not be silent.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.30.12"><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God, I will praise you forever.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">32</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 32</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">Of David. A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.32.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Blessed is the one</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.32.1"><span class="content">whose transgressions are forgiven,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.32.1"><span class="content">whose sins are covered.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.32.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.32.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Blessed is the one</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.32.2"><span class="content">whose sin the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> does not count against them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.32.2"><span class="content">and in whose spirit is no deceit.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.32.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.32.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When I kept silent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.32.3"><span class="content">my bones wasted away</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.32.3"><span class="content">through my groaning all day long.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.32.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.32.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For day and night</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.32.4"><span class="content">your hand was heavy on me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.32.4"><span class="content">my strength was sapped</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.32.4"><span class="content">as in the heat of summer.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:4 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 5 and 7.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.32.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.32.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then I acknowledged my sin to you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.32.5"><span class="content">and did not cover up my iniquity.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.32.5"><span class="content">I said, &#8220;I will confess</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.32.5"><span class="content">my transgressions to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.32.5"><span class="content">And you forgave</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.32.5"><span class="content">the guilt of my sin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.32.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.32.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Therefore let all the faithful pray to you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.32.6"><span class="content">while you may be found;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.32.6"><span class="content">surely the rising of the mighty waters</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.32.6"><span class="content">will not reach them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.32.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.32.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You are my hiding place;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.32.7"><span class="content">you will protect me from trouble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.32.7"><span class="content">and surround me with songs of deliverance.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.32.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.32.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.32.8"><span class="content">I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.32.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.32.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Do not be like the horse or the mule,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.32.9"><span class="content">which have no understanding</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.32.9"><span class="content">but must be controlled by bit and bridle</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.32.9"><span class="content">or they will not come to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.32.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.32.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Many are the woes of the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.32.10"><span class="content">but the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s unfailing love</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.32.10"><span class="content">surrounds the one who trusts in him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.32.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.32.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Rejoice in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and be glad, you righteous;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.32.11"><span class="content">sing, all you who are upright in heart!</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">42</div><div class="ms"><span class="heading">BOOK II</span></div><div class="mr"><span class="heading">  </span><span class="heading">Psalms 42&#8211;72</span></div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 42</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In many Hebrew manuscripts Psalms </span><span class="heading">42</span><span class="heading"> and </span><span class="heading">43</span><span class="heading"> constitute one psalm.</span></span></span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts </span><span class="heading">42:1-11</span><span class="heading"> is numbered 42:2-12.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of the Sons of Korah.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.42.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">As the deer pants for streams of water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.42.1"><span class="content">so my soul pants for you, my God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.42.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.42.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.42.2"><span class="content">When can I go and meet with God?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.42.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">My tears have been my food</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="content">day and night,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="content">while people say to me all day long,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is your God?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">These things I remember</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">as I pour out my soul:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">how I used to go to the house of God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">under the protection of the Mighty One</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">42:4 </span><span class="ft">See Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">with shouts of joy and praise</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">among the festive throng.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Why, my soul, are you downcast?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">Why so disturbed within me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">Put your hope in God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">for I will yet praise him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">my Savior and my God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">My soul is downcast within me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="content">therefore I will remember you</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="content">from the land of the Jordan,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="content">the heights of Hermon&#8212;from Mount Mizar.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Deep calls to deep</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="content">in the roar of your waterfalls;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="content">all your waves and breakers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="content">have swept over me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.42.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">By day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> directs his love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.42.8"><span class="content">at night his song is with me&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.42.8"><span class="content">a prayer to the God of my life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.42.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I say to God my Rock,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="content">&#8220;Why have you forgotten me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="content">Why must I go about mourning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="content">oppressed by the enemy?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My bones suffer mortal agony</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="content">as my foes taunt me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="content">saying to me all day long,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is your God?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Why, my soul, are you downcast?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="content">Why so disturbed within me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="content">Put your hope in God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="content">for I will yet praise him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="content">my Savior and my God.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">43</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 43</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In many Hebrew manuscripts Psalms </span><span class="heading">42</span><span class="heading"> and </span><span class="heading">43</span><span class="heading"> constitute one psalm.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.43.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Vindicate me, my God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.43.1"><span class="content">and plead my cause</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.43.1"><span class="content">against an unfaithful nation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.43.1"><span class="content">Rescue me from those who are</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.43.1"><span class="content">deceitful and wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.43.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.43.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You are God my stronghold.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.43.2"><span class="content">Why have you rejected me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.43.2"><span class="content">Why must I go about mourning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.43.2"><span class="content">oppressed by the enemy?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.43.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.43.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Send me your light and your faithful care,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.43.3"><span class="content">let them lead me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.43.3"><span class="content">let them bring me to your holy mountain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.43.3"><span class="content">to the place where you dwell.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.43.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.43.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then I will go to the altar of God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.43.4"><span class="content">to God, my joy and my delight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.43.4"><span class="content">I will praise you with the lyre,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.43.4"><span class="content">O God, my God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.43.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.43.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Why, my soul, are you downcast?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.43.5"><span class="content">Why so disturbed within me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.43.5"><span class="content">Put your hope in God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.43.5"><span class="content">for I will yet praise him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.43.5"><span class="content">my Savior and my God.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch8" data-usfm="ISA.8.1+ISA.8.2+ISA.8.3+ISA.8.4+ISA.8.5+ISA.8.6+ISA.8.7+ISA.8.8+ISA.8.9+ISA.8.10+ISA.8.11+ISA.8.12+ISA.8.13+ISA.8.14+ISA.8.15">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:1 </span><span class="fq">Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 3.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So I called in Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah as reliable witnesses for me. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then I made love to the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For before the boy knows how to say &#8216;My father&#8217; or &#8216;My mother,&#8217; the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke to me again:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Because this people has rejected</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.8.6"><span class="content">the gently flowing waters of Shiloah</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.8.6"><span class="content">and rejoices over Rezin</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.8.6"><span class="content">and the son of Remaliah,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">therefore the Lord is about to bring against them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.8.7"><span class="content">the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.8.7"><span class="content">the king of Assyria with all his pomp.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.8.7"><span class="content">It will overflow all its channels,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.8.7"><span class="content">run over all its banks</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.8.8"><span class="content">passing through it and reaching up to the neck.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.8.8"><span class="content">Its outspread wings will cover the breadth of your land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.8.8"><span class="content">Immanuel</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:8 </span><span class="fq">Immanuel </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">God with us.</span></span></span><span class="content">!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Raise the war cry,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Do your worst</span></span></span><span class="content"> you nations, and be shattered!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.8.9"><span class="content">Listen, all you distant lands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.8.9"><span class="content">Prepare for battle, and be shattered!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.8.9"><span class="content">Prepare for battle, and be shattered!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.8.10"><span class="content">propose your plan, but it will not stand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.8.10"><span class="content">for God is with us.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:10 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Immanuel</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.8.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way of this people:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not call conspiracy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.8.12"><span class="content">everything this people calls a conspiracy;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.8.12"><span class="content">do not fear what they fear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.8.12"><span class="content">and do not dread it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.8.13"><span class="content">he is the one you are to fear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.8.13"><span class="content">he is the one you are to dread.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He will be a holy place;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="content">for both Israel and Judah he will be</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="content">a stone that causes people to stumble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="content">and a rock that makes them fall.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="content">And for the people of Jerusalem he will be</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="content">a trap and a snare.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Many of them will stumble;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.8.15"><span class="content">they will fall and be broken,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.8.15"><span class="content">they will be snared and captured.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch3" data-usfm="2TH.3.6+2TH.3.7+2TH.3.8+2TH.3.9+2TH.3.10+2TH.3.11+2TH.3.12+2TH.3.13+2TH.3.14+2TH.3.15+2TH.3.16+2TH.3.17+2TH.3.18">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2TH.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers and sisters, to keep away from every believer who is idle and disruptive and does not live according to the teaching</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">tradition</span></span></span><span class="content"> you received from us. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2TH.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example. We were not idle when we were with you, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2TH.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">nor did we eat anyone&#8217;s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2TH.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">We did this, not because we do not have the right to such help, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you to imitate. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2TH.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: &#8220;The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2TH.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2TH.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2TH.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the food they eat. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2TH.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And as for you, brothers and sisters, never tire of doing what is good.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2TH.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2TH.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Take special note of anyone who does not obey our instruction in this letter. Do not associate with them, in order that they may feel ashamed. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2TH.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Yet do not regard them as an enemy, but warn them as you would a fellow believer.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Final Greetings</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2TH.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2TH.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2TH.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2TH.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I, Paul, write this greeting in my own hand, which is the distinguishing mark in all my letters. This is how I write.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2TH.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2TH.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch22" data-usfm="LUK.22.31+LUK.22.32+LUK.22.33+LUK.22.34+LUK.22.35+LUK.22.36+LUK.22.37+LUK.22.38">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.22.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.22.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.22.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.22.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">But he replied, &#8220;Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.22.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.22.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.22.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.22.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Then Jesus asked them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.22.35"><span class="content">&#8220;Nothing,&#8221; they answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.22.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.22.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">He said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don&#8217;t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.22.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It is written: &#8216;And he was numbered with the transgressors&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:37 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 53:12</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.22.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.22.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">The disciples said, &#8220;See, Lord, here are two swords.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.22.38"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;That&#8217;s enough!&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he replied.</span></span></div>
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