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         <div class="label">15</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Moab</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prophecy against Moab:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.15.1"><span class="content">Ar in Moab is ruined,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.15.1"><span class="content">destroyed in a night!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.15.1"><span class="content">Kir in Moab is ruined,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.15.1"><span class="content">destroyed in a night!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.15.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Dibon goes up to its temple,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.15.2"><span class="content">to its high places to weep;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.15.2"><span class="content">Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.15.2"><span class="content">Every head is shaved</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.15.2"><span class="content">and every beard cut off.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.15.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">In the streets they wear sackcloth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.15.3"><span class="content">on the roofs and in the public squares</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.15.3"><span class="content">they all wail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.15.3"><span class="content">prostrate with weeping.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.15.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Heshbon and Elealeh cry out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.15.4"><span class="content">their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.15.4"><span class="content">Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.15.4"><span class="content">and their hearts are faint.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.15.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My heart cries out over Moab;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.15.5"><span class="content">her fugitives flee as far as Zoar,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.15.5"><span class="content">as far as Eglath Shelishiyah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.15.5"><span class="content">They go up the hill to Luhith,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.15.5"><span class="content">weeping as they go;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.15.5"><span class="content">on the road to Horonaim</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.15.5"><span class="content">they lament their destruction.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.15.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The waters of Nimrim are dried up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.15.6"><span class="content">and the grass is withered;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.15.6"><span class="content">the vegetation is gone</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.15.6"><span class="content">and nothing green is left.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.15.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So the wealth they have acquired and stored up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.15.7"><span class="content">they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.15.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.15.8"><span class="content">their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.15.8"><span class="content">their lamentation as far as Beer Elim.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.15.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The waters of Dimon</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:9 </span><span class="fq">Dimon</span><span class="ft">, a wordplay on </span><span class="fq">Dibon </span><span class="ft">(see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">blood</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> are full of blood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.15.9"><span class="content">but I will bring still more upon Dimon</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:9 </span><span class="fq">Dimon</span><span class="ft">, a wordplay on </span><span class="fq">Dibon </span><span class="ft">(see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">blood</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.15.9"><span class="content">a lion upon the fugitives of Moab</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.15.9"><span class="content">and upon those who remain in the land.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">16</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Send lambs as tribute</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.16.1"><span class="content">to the ruler of the land,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.16.1"><span class="content">from Sela, across the desert,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.16.1"><span class="content">to the mount of Daughter Zion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.16.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Like fluttering birds</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.16.2"><span class="content">pushed from the nest,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.16.2"><span class="content">so are the women of Moab</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.16.2"><span class="content">at the fords of the Arnon.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.16.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Make up your mind,&#8221; Moab says.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Render a decision.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="content">Make your shadow like night&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="content">at high noon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="content">Hide the fugitives,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="content">do not betray the refugees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"><span class="content">be their shelter from the destroyer.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"><span class="content">The oppressor will come to an end,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"><span class="content">and destruction will cease;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"><span class="content">the aggressor will vanish from the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">In love a throne will be established;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"><span class="content">in faithfulness a man will sit on it&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"><span class="content">one from the house</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:5 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">tent</span></span></span><span class="content"> of David&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"><span class="content">one who in judging seeks justice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"><span class="content">and speeds the cause of righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">We have heard of Moab&#8217;s pride&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"><span class="content">how great is her arrogance!&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"><span class="content">of her conceit, her pride and her insolence;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"><span class="content">but her boasts are empty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Therefore the Moabites wail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"><span class="content">they wail together for Moab.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"><span class="content">Lament and grieve</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"><span class="content">for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The fields of Heshbon wither,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">the vines of Sibmah also.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">The rulers of the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">have trampled down the choicest vines,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">which once reached Jazer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">and spread toward the desert.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">Their shoots spread out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">and went as far as the sea.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:8 </span><span class="ft">Probably the Dead Sea</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So I weep, as Jazer weeps,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">for the vines of Sibmah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">Heshbon and Elealeh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">I drench you with tears!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">The shouts of joy over your ripened fruit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">and over your harvests have been stilled.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"><span class="content">no one sings or shouts in the vineyards;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"><span class="content">no one treads out wine at the presses,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"><span class="content">for I have put an end to the shouting.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My heart laments for Moab like a harp,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.16.11"><span class="content">my inmost being for Kir Hareseth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.16.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When Moab appears at her high place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"><span class="content">she only wears herself out;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"><span class="content">when she goes to her shrine to pray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"><span class="content">it is to no avail.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">This is the word the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has already spoken concerning Moab. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8220;Within three years, as a servant bound by contract would count them, Moab&#8217;s splendor and all her many people will be despised, and her survivors will be very few and feeble.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Damascus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prophecy against Damascus:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.17.1"><span class="content">&#8220;See, Damascus will no longer be a city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.17.1"><span class="content">but will become a heap of ruins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.17.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The cities of Aroer will be deserted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.17.2"><span class="content">and left to flocks, which will lie down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.17.2"><span class="content">with no one to make them afraid.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">and royal power from Damascus;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">the remnant of Aram will be</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">like the glory of the Israelites,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day the glory of Jacob will fade;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.17.4"><span class="content">the fat of his body will waste away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="content">gathering the grain in their arms&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="content">as when someone gleans heads of grain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="content">in the Valley of Rephaim.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Yet some gleanings will remain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">as when an olive tree is beaten,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">four or five on the fruitful boughs,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In that day people will look to their Maker</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.17.7"><span class="content">and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.17.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They will not look to the altars,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="content">the work of their hands,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="content">and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:8 </span><span class="ft">That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="content">and the incense altars their fingers have made.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all will be desolation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You have forgotten God your Savior;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="content">you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="content">Therefore, though you set out the finest plants</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="content">and plant imported vines,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="content">and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="content">yet the harvest will be as nothing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="content">in the day of disease and incurable pain.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Woe to the many nations that rage&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="content">they rage like the raging sea!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="content">Woe to the peoples who roar&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="content">they roar like the roaring of great waters!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="content">when he rebukes them they flee far away,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="content">driven before the wind like chaff on the hills,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="content">like tumbleweed before a gale.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">In the evening, sudden terror!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.17.14"><span class="content">Before the morning, they are gone!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.17.14"><span class="content">This is the portion of those who loot us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.17.14"><span class="content">the lot of those who plunder us.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">18</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Cush</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Woe to the land of whirring wings</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">of locusts</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.18.1"><span class="content">along the rivers of Cush,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:1 </span><span class="ft">That is, the upper Nile region</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.18.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">which sends envoys by sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">in papyrus boats over the water.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">Go, swift messengers,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">to a people tall and smooth-skinned,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">to a people feared far and wide,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">an aggressive nation of strange speech,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">whose land is divided by rivers.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.18.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">All you people of the world,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">you who live on the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">when a banner is raised on the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">you will see it,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">and when a trumpet sounds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">you will hear it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.18.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="content">&#8220;I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="content">like shimmering heat in the sunshine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="content">like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.18.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For, before the harvest, when the blossom is gone</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="content">and the flower becomes a ripening grape,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="content">he will cut off the shoots with pruning knives,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="content">and cut down and take away the spreading branches.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.18.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="content">and to the wild animals;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="content">the birds will feed on them all summer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="content">the wild animals all winter.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.18.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">At that time gifts will be brought to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">from a people tall and smooth-skinned,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">from a people feared far and wide,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">an aggressive nation of strange speech,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">whose land is divided by rivers&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.18.7"><span class="content">the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Egypt</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prophecy against Egypt:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.19.1"><span class="content">See, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> rides on a swift cloud</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.19.1"><span class="content">and is coming to Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.19.1"><span class="content">The idols of Egypt tremble before him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.19.1"><span class="content">and the hearts of the Egyptians melt with fear.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.19.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.19.2"><span class="content">brother will fight against brother,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.19.2"><span class="content">neighbor against neighbor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.19.2"><span class="content">city against city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.19.2"><span class="content">kingdom against kingdom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.19.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The Egyptians will lose heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.19.3"><span class="content">and I will bring their plans to nothing;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.19.3"><span class="content">they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.19.3"><span class="content">the mediums and the spiritists.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.19.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I will hand the Egyptians over</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.19.4"><span class="content">to the power of a cruel master,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.19.4"><span class="content">and a fierce king will rule over them,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.19.4"><span class="content">declares the Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.19.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The waters of the river will dry up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.19.5"><span class="content">and the riverbed will be parched and dry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.19.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The canals will stink;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.19.6"><span class="content">the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.19.6"><span class="content">The reeds and rushes will wither,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.19.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">also the plants along the Nile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.19.7"><span class="content">at the mouth of the river.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.19.7"><span class="content">Every sown field along the Nile</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.19.7"><span class="content">will become parched, will blow away and be no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.19.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The fishermen will groan and lament,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.19.8"><span class="content">all who cast hooks into the Nile;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.19.8"><span class="content">those who throw nets on the water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.19.8"><span class="content">will pine away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Those who work with combed flax will despair,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.19.9"><span class="content">the weavers of fine linen will lose hope.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.19.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The workers in cloth will be dejected,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.19.10"><span class="content">and all the wage earners will be sick at heart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.19.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.19.11"><span class="content">the wise counselors of Pharaoh give senseless advice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.19.11"><span class="content">How can you say to Pharaoh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.19.11"><span class="content">&#8220;I am one of the wise men,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.19.11"><span class="content">a disciple of the ancient kings&#8221;?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.19.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Where are your wise men now?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.19.12"><span class="content">Let them show you and make known</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.19.12"><span class="content">what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.19.12"><span class="content">has planned against Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.19.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The officials of Zoan have become fools,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.19.13"><span class="content">the leaders of Memphis are deceived;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.19.13"><span class="content">the cornerstones of her peoples</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.19.13"><span class="content">have led Egypt astray.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has poured into them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.19.14"><span class="content">a spirit of dizziness;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.19.14"><span class="content">they make Egypt stagger in all that she does,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.19.14"><span class="content">as a drunkard staggers around in his vomit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.19.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">There is nothing Egypt can do&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.19.15"><span class="content">head or tail, palm branch or reed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">In that day the Egyptians will become weaklings. They will shudder with fear at the uplifted hand that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty raises against them. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And the land of Judah will bring terror to the Egyptians; everyone to whom Judah is mentioned will be terrified, because of what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty is planning against them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.19.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">In that day five cities in Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:18 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls, Symmachus and Vulgate; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">City of Destruction</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.19.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">In that day there will be an altar to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in the heart of Egypt, and a monument to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> at its border. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">It will be a sign and witness to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> because of their oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and he will rescue them. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will make himself known to the Egyptians, and in that day they will acknowledge the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. They will worship with sacrifices and grain offerings; they will make vows to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and keep them. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will strike Egypt with a plague; he will strike them and heal them. They will turn to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and he will respond to their pleas and heal them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:24 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Assyria, whose names will be used in blessings </span><span class="ft">(see Gen. 48:20); or </span><span class="fqa">Assyria, who will be seen by others as blessed</span></span></span><span class="content"> on the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty will bless them, saying, &#8220;Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork, and Israel my inheritance.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. &#8220;Sovereign Lord,&#8221; they said, &#8220;you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.4.25"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Why do the nations rage</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.4.25"><span class="content">and the peoples plot in vain?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.4.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The kings of the earth rise up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.4.26"><span class="content">and the rulers band together</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.4.26"><span class="content">against the Lord</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.4.26"><span class="content">and against his anointed one.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:26 </span><span class="ft">That is, Messiah or Christ</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:26 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 2:1,2</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.4.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.4.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.4.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.4.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.4.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.4.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.4.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Believers Share Their Possessions</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.4.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.4.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.4.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God&#8217;s grace was so powerfully at work in them all </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.4.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.4.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">and put it at the apostles&#8217; feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.4.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.4.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (which means &#8220;son of encouragement&#8221;), </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.4.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">sold a field he owned and brought the money and put it at the apostles&#8217; feet.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">With his wife&#8217;s full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostles&#8217; feet.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then Peter said, &#8220;Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Didn&#8217;t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn&#8217;t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.5.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard what had happened. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then some young men came forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Peter asked her, &#8220;Tell me, is this the price you and Ananias got for the land?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.5.8"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes,&#8221; she said, &#8220;that is the price.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Peter said to her, &#8220;How could you conspire to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">At that moment she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v97" data-usfm="PSA.119.97"><span class="label">97</span><span class="content">Oh, how I love your law!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v97" data-usfm="PSA.119.97"><span class="content">I meditate on it all day long.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v97" data-usfm="PSA.119.97"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v98" data-usfm="PSA.119.98"><span class="label">98</span><span class="content">Your commands are always with me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v98" data-usfm="PSA.119.98"><span class="content">and make me wiser than my enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v98" data-usfm="PSA.119.98"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v99" data-usfm="PSA.119.99"><span class="label">99</span><span class="content">I have more insight than all my teachers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v99" data-usfm="PSA.119.99"><span class="content">for I meditate on your statutes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v99" data-usfm="PSA.119.99"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v100" data-usfm="PSA.119.100"><span class="label">100</span><span class="content">I have more understanding than the elders,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v100" data-usfm="PSA.119.100"><span class="content">for I obey your precepts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v100" data-usfm="PSA.119.100"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v101" data-usfm="PSA.119.101"><span class="label">101</span><span class="content">I have kept my feet from every evil path</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v101" data-usfm="PSA.119.101"><span class="content">so that I might obey your word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v101" data-usfm="PSA.119.101"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v102" data-usfm="PSA.119.102"><span class="label">102</span><span class="content">I have not departed from your laws,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v102" data-usfm="PSA.119.102"><span class="content">for you yourself have taught me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v102" data-usfm="PSA.119.102"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v103" data-usfm="PSA.119.103"><span class="label">103</span><span class="content">How sweet are your words to my taste,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v103" data-usfm="PSA.119.103"><span class="content">sweeter than honey to my mouth!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v103" data-usfm="PSA.119.103"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v104" data-usfm="PSA.119.104"><span class="label">104</span><span class="content">I gain understanding from your precepts;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v104" data-usfm="PSA.119.104"><span class="content">therefore I hate every wrong path.</span></span></div>
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