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BEMA Liturgy I — Part D

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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.30.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Four things on earth are small,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.30.24"><span class="content">yet they are extremely wise:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.30.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.30.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Ants are creatures of little strength,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.30.25"><span class="content">yet they store up their food in the summer;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.30.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.30.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">hyraxes are creatures of little power,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.30.26"><span class="content">yet they make their home in the crags;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.30.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.30.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">locusts have no king,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.30.27"><span class="content">yet they advance together in ranks;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.30.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.30.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">a lizard can be caught with the hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.30.28"><span class="content">yet it is found in kings&#8217; palaces.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.30.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.30.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;There are three things that are stately in their stride,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.30.29"><span class="content">four that move with stately bearing:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.30.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.30.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">a lion, mighty among beasts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.30.30"><span class="content">who retreats before nothing;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.30.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.30.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">a strutting rooster, a he-goat,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.30.31"><span class="content">and a king secure against revolt.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:31 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.30.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.30.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you play the fool and exalt yourself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.30.32"><span class="content">or if you plan evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.30.32"><span class="content">clap your hand over your mouth!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PRO.30.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.30.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">For as churning cream produces butter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.30.33"><span class="content">and as twisting the nose produces blood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PRO.30.33"><span class="content">so stirring up anger produces strife.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, &#8220;Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="REV.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="REV.9.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="REV.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood&#8212;idols that cannot see or hear or walk. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="REV.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Angel and the Little Scroll</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his legs were like fiery pillars. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He was holding a little scroll, which lay open in his hand. He planted his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and he gave a loud shout like the roar of a lion. When he shouted, the voices of the seven thunders spoke. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven say, &#8220;Seal up what the seven thunders have said and do not write it down.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.10.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And he swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created the heavens and all that is in them, the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it, and said, &#8220;There will be no more delay! </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.10.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me once more: &#8220;Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.10.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, &#8220;Take it and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, but &#8216;in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:9 </span><span class="ft">Ezek. 3:3</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I took the little scroll from the angel&#8217;s hand and ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then I was told, &#8220;You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages and kings.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v68" data-usfm="EZR.2.68"><span class="label">68</span><span class="content">When they arrived at the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in Jerusalem, some of the heads of the families gave freewill offerings toward the rebuilding of the house of God on its site. </span></span><span class="verse v69" data-usfm="EZR.2.69"><span class="label">69</span><span class="content">According to their ability they gave to the treasury for this work 61,000 darics</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:69 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 1,100 pounds or about 500 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of gold, 5,000 minas</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:69 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 3 tons or about 2.8 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver and 100 priestly garments.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v69" data-usfm="EZR.2.69"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v70" data-usfm="EZR.2.70"><span class="label">70</span><span class="content">The priests, the Levites, the musicians, the gatekeepers and the temple servants settled in their own towns, along with some of the other people, and the rest of the Israelites settled in their towns.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Rebuilding the Altar</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZR.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns, the people assembled together as one in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZR.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then Joshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings on it, in accordance with what is written in the Law of Moses the man of God. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZR.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Despite their fear of the peoples around them, they built the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, both the morning and evening sacrifices. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZR.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then in accordance with what is written, they celebrated the Festival of Tabernacles with the required number of burnt offerings prescribed for each day. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZR.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">After that, they presented the regular burnt offerings, the New Moon sacrifices and the sacrifices for all the appointed sacred festivals of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, as well as those brought as freewill offerings to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZR.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">On the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, though the foundation of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s temple had not yet been laid.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Rebuilding the Temple</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZR.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZR.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then they gave money to the masons and carpenters, and gave food and drink and olive oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, so that they would bring cedar logs by sea from Lebanon to Joppa, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZR.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZR.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In the second month of the second year after their arrival at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak and the rest of the people (the priests and the Levites and all who had returned from the captivity to Jerusalem) began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years old and older to supervise the building of the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZR.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Joshua and his sons and brothers and Kadmiel and his sons (descendants of Hodaviah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:9 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Yehudah, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Hodaviah</span></span></span><span class="content">) and the sons of Henadad and their sons and brothers&#8212;all Levites&#8212;joined together in supervising those working on the house of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZR.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZR.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the priests in their vestments and with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their places to praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, as prescribed by David king of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZR.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">With praise and thanksgiving they sang to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZR.3.11"><span class="content">&#8220;He is good;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZR.3.11"><span class="content">his love toward Israel endures forever.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZR.3.11"><span class="content">And all the people gave a great shout of praise to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, because the foundation of the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was laid. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZR.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But many of the older priests and Levites and family heads, who had seen the former temple, wept aloud when they saw the foundation of this temple being laid, while many others shouted for joy. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZR.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">No one could distinguish the sound of the shouts of joy from the sound of weeping, because the people made so much noise. And the sound was heard far away.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZR.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZR.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">they came to Zerubbabel and to the heads of the families and said, &#8220;Let us help you build because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to him since the time of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us here.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZR.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZR.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But Zerubbabel, Joshua and the rest of the heads of the families of Israel answered, &#8220;You have no part with us in building a temple to our God. We alone will build it for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, commanded us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZR.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZR.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then the peoples around them set out to discourage the people of Judah and make them afraid to go on building.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and troubled them as they built</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZR.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They bribed officials to work against them and frustrate their plans during the entire reign of Cyrus king of Persia and down to the reign of Darius king of Persia.</span></span></div>
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