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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">To the Church in Sardis</span></div><div class="m"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;To the angel</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">3:1 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fqa">messenger</span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">; also in verses 7 and 14</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">of the church in Sardis write:</span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.3.1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">3:1 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">That is, the sevenfold Spirit</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.</span></span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">To the Church in Philadelphia</span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:</span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.3.7"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars&#8212;I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.</span></span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">To the Church in Laodicea</span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:</span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.3.14"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God&#8217;s creation.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So, because you are lukewarm&#8212;neither hot nor cold&#8212;I am about to spit you out of my mouth.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You say, &#8216;I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.&#8217; But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.</span></span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="REV.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="REV.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.</span></span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="REV.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="REV.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="REV.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">139</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 139</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.139.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">You have searched me, </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.139.1"><span class="content">and you know me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.139.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.139.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You know when I sit and when I rise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.139.2"><span class="content">you perceive my thoughts from afar.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.139.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.139.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You discern my going out and my lying down;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.139.3"><span class="content">you are familiar with all my ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.139.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.139.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Before a word is on my tongue</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.139.4"><span class="content">you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, know it completely.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.139.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.139.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You hem me in behind and before,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.139.5"><span class="content">and you lay your hand upon me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.139.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.139.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.139.6"><span class="content">too lofty for me to attain.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.139.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.139.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Where can I go from your Spirit?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.139.7"><span class="content">Where can I flee from your presence?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.139.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.139.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If I go up to the heavens, you are there;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.139.8"><span class="content">if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.139.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.139.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If I rise on the wings of the dawn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.139.9"><span class="content">if I settle on the far side of the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.139.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.139.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">even there your hand will guide me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.139.10"><span class="content">your right hand will hold me fast.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.139.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.139.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">If I say, &#8220;Surely the darkness will hide me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.139.11"><span class="content">and the light become night around me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.139.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.139.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">even the darkness will not be dark to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.139.12"><span class="content">the night will shine like the day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.139.12"><span class="content">for darkness is as light to you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.139.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.139.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For you created my inmost being;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.139.13"><span class="content">you knit me together in my mother&#8217;s womb.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.139.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.139.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.139.14"><span class="content">your works are wonderful,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.139.14"><span class="content">I know that full well.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.139.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.139.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My frame was not hidden from you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.139.15"><span class="content">when I was made in the secret place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.139.15"><span class="content">when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.139.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Your eyes saw my unformed body;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="content">all the days ordained for me were written in your book</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="content">before one of them came to be.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.139.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.139.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">How precious to me are your thoughts,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">139:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">How amazing are your thoughts concerning me</span></span></span><span class="content"> God!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.139.17"><span class="content">How vast is the sum of them!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.139.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.139.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Were I to count them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.139.18"><span class="content">they would outnumber the grains of sand&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.139.18"><span class="content">when I awake, I am still with you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.139.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.139.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">If only you, God, would slay the wicked!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.139.19"><span class="content">Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.139.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.139.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They speak of you with evil intent;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.139.20"><span class="content">your adversaries misuse your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.139.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.139.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Do I not hate those who hate you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.139.21"><span class="content">and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.139.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.139.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I have nothing but hatred for them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.139.22"><span class="content">I count them my enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.139.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.139.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Search me, God, and know my heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.139.23"><span class="content">test me and know my anxious thoughts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.139.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.139.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">See if there is any offensive way in me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.139.24"><span class="content">and lead me in the way everlasting.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">47</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Fall of Babylon</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.47.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go down, sit in the dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.47.1"><span class="content">Virgin Daughter Babylon;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.47.1"><span class="content">sit on the ground without a throne,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.47.1"><span class="content">queen city of the Babylonians.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">47:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 5</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.47.1"><span class="content">No more will you be called</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.47.1"><span class="content">tender or delicate.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.47.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.47.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Take millstones and grind flour;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.47.2"><span class="content">take off your veil.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.47.2"><span class="content">Lift up your skirts, bare your legs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.47.2"><span class="content">and wade through the streams.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.47.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.47.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Your nakedness will be exposed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.47.3"><span class="content">and your shame uncovered.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.47.3"><span class="content">I will take vengeance;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.47.3"><span class="content">I will spare no one.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.47.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.47.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Our Redeemer&#8212;the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty is his name&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.47.4"><span class="content">is the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.47.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.47.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Sit in silence, go into darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.47.5"><span class="content">queen city of the Babylonians;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.47.5"><span class="content">no more will you be called</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.47.5"><span class="content">queen of kingdoms.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.47.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.47.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I was angry with my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.47.6"><span class="content">and desecrated my inheritance;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.47.6"><span class="content">I gave them into your hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.47.6"><span class="content">and you showed them no mercy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.47.6"><span class="content">Even on the aged</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.47.6"><span class="content">you laid a very heavy yoke.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.47.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.47.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You said, &#8216;I am forever&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.47.7"><span class="content">the eternal queen!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.47.7"><span class="content">But you did not consider these things</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.47.7"><span class="content">or reflect on what might happen.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.47.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.47.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now then, listen, you lover of pleasure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.47.8"><span class="content">lounging in your security</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.47.8"><span class="content">and saying to yourself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.47.8"><span class="content">&#8216;I am, and there is none besides me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.47.8"><span class="content">I will never be a widow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.47.8"><span class="content">or suffer the loss of children.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.47.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.47.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Both of these will overtake you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.47.9"><span class="content">in a moment, on a single day:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.47.9"><span class="content">loss of children and widowhood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.47.9"><span class="content">They will come upon you in full measure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.47.9"><span class="content">in spite of your many sorceries</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.47.9"><span class="content">and all your potent spells.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.47.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.47.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You have trusted in your wickedness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.47.10"><span class="content">and have said, &#8216;No one sees me.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.47.10"><span class="content">Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.47.10"><span class="content">when you say to yourself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.47.10"><span class="content">&#8216;I am, and there is none besides me.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.47.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.47.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Disaster will come upon you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.47.11"><span class="content">and you will not know how to conjure it away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.47.11"><span class="content">A calamity will fall upon you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.47.11"><span class="content">that you cannot ward off with a ransom;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.47.11"><span class="content">a catastrophe you cannot foresee</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.47.11"><span class="content">will suddenly come upon you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.47.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.47.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Keep on, then, with your magic spells</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.47.12"><span class="content">and with your many sorceries,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.47.12"><span class="content">which you have labored at since childhood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.47.12"><span class="content">Perhaps you will succeed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.47.12"><span class="content">perhaps you will cause terror.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.47.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.47.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">All the counsel you have received has only worn you out!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.47.13"><span class="content">Let your astrologers come forward,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.47.13"><span class="content">those stargazers who make predictions month by month,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.47.13"><span class="content">let them save you from what is coming upon you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.47.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.47.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Surely they are like stubble;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.47.14"><span class="content">the fire will burn them up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.47.14"><span class="content">They cannot even save themselves</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.47.14"><span class="content">from the power of the flame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.47.14"><span class="content">These are not coals for warmth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.47.14"><span class="content">this is not a fire to sit by.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.47.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.47.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">That is all they are to you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.47.15"><span class="content">these you have dealt with</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.47.15"><span class="content">and labored with since childhood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.47.15"><span class="content">All of them go on in their error;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.47.15"><span class="content">there is not one that can save 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