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         <div class="label">27</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 27</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is my light and my salvation&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.27.1"><span class="content">whom shall I fear?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.27.1"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is the stronghold of my life&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.27.1"><span class="content">of whom shall I be afraid?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.27.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When the wicked advance against me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.27.2"><span class="content">to devour</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">slander</span></span></span><span class="content"> me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.27.2"><span class="content">it is my enemies and my foes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.27.2"><span class="content">who will stumble and fall.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.27.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Though an army besiege me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.27.3"><span class="content">my heart will not fear;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.27.3"><span class="content">though war break out against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.27.3"><span class="content">even then I will be confident.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.27.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">One thing I ask from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.27.4"><span class="content">this only do I seek:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.27.4"><span class="content">that I may dwell in the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.27.4"><span class="content">all the days of my life,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.27.4"><span class="content">to gaze on the beauty of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.27.4"><span class="content">and to seek him in his temple.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.27.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For in the day of trouble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.27.5"><span class="content">he will keep me safe in his dwelling;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.27.5"><span class="content">he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.27.5"><span class="content">and set me high upon a rock.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.27.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then my head will be exalted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.27.6"><span class="content">above the enemies who surround me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.27.6"><span class="content">at his sacred tent I will sacrifice with shouts of joy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.27.6"><span class="content">I will sing and make music to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.27.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Hear my voice when I call, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.27.7"><span class="content">be merciful to me and answer me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.27.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">My heart says of you, &#8220;Seek his face!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.27.8"><span class="content">Your face, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I will seek.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.27.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Do not hide your face from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.27.9"><span class="content">do not turn your servant away in anger;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.27.9"><span class="content">you have been my helper.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.27.9"><span class="content">Do not reject me or forsake me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.27.9"><span class="content">God my Savior.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.27.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.27.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Though my father and mother forsake me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.27.10"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will receive me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.27.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.27.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Teach me your way, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.27.11"><span class="content">lead me in a straight path</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.27.11"><span class="content">because of my oppressors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.27.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.27.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.27.12"><span class="content">for false witnesses rise up against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.27.12"><span class="content">spouting malicious accusations.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.27.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.27.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I remain confident of this:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.27.13"><span class="content">I will see the goodness of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.27.13"><span class="content">in the land of the living.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.27.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.27.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Wait for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.27.14"><span class="content">be strong and take heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.27.14"><span class="content">and wait for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">28</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 28</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.28.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">To you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I call;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.28.1"><span class="content">you are my Rock,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.28.1"><span class="content">do not turn a deaf ear to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.28.1"><span class="content">For if you remain silent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.28.1"><span class="content">I will be like those who go down to the pit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.28.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.28.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Hear my cry for mercy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.28.2"><span class="content">as I call to you for help,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.28.2"><span class="content">as I lift up my hands</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.28.2"><span class="content">toward your Most Holy Place.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.28.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.28.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Do not drag me away with the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.28.3"><span class="content">with those who do evil,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.28.3"><span class="content">who speak cordially with their neighbors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.28.3"><span class="content">but harbor malice in their hearts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.28.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.28.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Repay them for their deeds</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.28.4"><span class="content">and for their evil work;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.28.4"><span class="content">repay them for what their hands have done</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.28.4"><span class="content">and bring back on them what they deserve.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.28.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.28.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Because they have no regard for the deeds of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.28.5"><span class="content">and what his hands have done,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.28.5"><span class="content">he will tear them down</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.28.5"><span class="content">and never build them up again.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.28.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.28.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.28.6"><span class="content">for he has heard my cry for mercy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.28.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.28.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is my strength and my shield;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.28.7"><span class="content">my heart trusts in him, and he helps me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.28.7"><span class="content">My heart leaps for joy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.28.7"><span class="content">and with my song I praise him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.28.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.28.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is the strength of his people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.28.8"><span class="content">a fortress of salvation for his anointed one.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.28.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.28.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Save your people and bless your inheritance;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.28.9"><span class="content">be their shepherd and carry them forever.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">29</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 29</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.29.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Ascribe to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you heavenly beings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.29.1"><span class="content">ascribe to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> glory and strength.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.29.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.29.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Ascribe to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> the glory due his name;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.29.2"><span class="content">worship the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in the splendor of his</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa"><span class="nd">Lord</span> with the splendor of</span></span></span><span class="content"> holiness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.29.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.29.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The voice of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is over the waters;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.29.3"><span class="content">the God of glory thunders,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.29.3"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> thunders over the mighty waters.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.29.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.29.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The voice of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is powerful;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.29.4"><span class="content">the voice of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is majestic.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.29.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.29.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The voice of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> breaks the cedars;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.29.5"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.29.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.29.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He makes Lebanon leap like a calf,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.29.6"><span class="content">Sirion</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:6 </span><span class="ft">That is, Mount Hermon</span></span></span><span class="content"> like a young wild ox.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.29.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.29.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The voice of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> strikes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.29.7"><span class="content">with flashes of lightning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.29.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.29.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The voice of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> shakes the desert;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.29.8"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> shakes the Desert of Kadesh.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.29.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.29.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The voice of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> twists the oaks</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">29:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa"><span class="nd">Lord</span> makes the deer give birth</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.29.9"><span class="content">and strips the forests bare.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.29.9"><span class="content">And in his temple all cry, &#8220;Glory!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.29.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.29.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sits enthroned over the flood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.29.10"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is enthroned as King forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.29.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.29.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gives strength to his people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.29.11"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> blesses his people with peace.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Church and Its Leaders</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly&#8212;mere infants in Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans? </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For when one says, &#8220;I follow Paul,&#8221; and another, &#8220;I follow Apollos,&#8221; are you not mere human beings?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe&#8212;as the Lord has assigned to each his task. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For we are co-workers in God&#8217;s service; you are God&#8217;s field, God&#8217;s building.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person&#8217;s work. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved&#8212;even though only as one escaping through the flames.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Don&#8217;t you know that you yourselves are God&#8217;s temple and that God&#8217;s Spirit dwells in your midst? </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">If anyone destroys God&#8217;s temple, God will destroy that person; for God&#8217;s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CO.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become &#8220;fools&#8221; so that you may become wise. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God&#8217;s sight. As it is written: &#8220;He catches the wise in their craftiness&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:19 </span><span class="ft">Job 5:13</span></span></span><span class="content">; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CO.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">and again, &#8220;The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:20 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 94:11</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CO.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So then, no more boasting about human leaders! All things are yours, </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1CO.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:22 </span><span class="ft">That is, Peter</span></span></span><span class="content"> or the world or life or death or the present or the future&#8212;all are yours, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1CO.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Nature of True Apostleship</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now, brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning of the saying, &#8220;Do not go beyond what is written.&#8221; Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over against the other. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! You have begun to reign&#8212;and that without us! How I wish that you really had begun to reign so that we also might reign with you! </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like those condemned to die in the arena. We have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to human beings. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored! </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage of the world&#8212;right up to this moment.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Appeal and Warning</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I am writing this not to shame you but to warn you as my dear children. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Therefore I urge you to imitate me. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which agrees with what I teach everywhere in every church.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CO.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But I will come to you very soon, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only how these arrogant people are talking, but what power they have. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CO.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CO.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod of discipline, or shall I come in love and with a gentle spirit?</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">36</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Esau&#8217;s Descendants</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.36.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is the account of the family line of Esau (that is, Edom).</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.36.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.36.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.36.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">also Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.36.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.36.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath bore Reuel, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.36.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam and Korah. These were the sons of Esau, who were born to him in Canaan.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.36.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.36.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the members of his household, as well as his livestock and all his other animals and all the goods he had acquired in Canaan, and moved to a land some distance from his brother Jacob. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.36.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Their possessions were too great for them to remain together; the land where they were staying could not support them both because of their livestock. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.36.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the hill country of Seir.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.36.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.36.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">This is the account of the family line of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.36.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.36.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">These are the names of Esau&#8217;s sons:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.36.10"><span class="content">Eliphaz, the son of Esau&#8217;s wife Adah, and Reuel, the son of Esau&#8217;s wife Basemath.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.36.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.36.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The sons of Eliphaz:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.36.11"><span class="content">Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam and Kenaz.</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.36.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.36.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Esau&#8217;s son Eliphaz also had a concubine named Timna, who bore him Amalek. These were grandsons of Esau&#8217;s wife Adah.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.36.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.36.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The sons of Reuel:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.36.13"><span class="content">Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah. These were grandsons of Esau&#8217;s wife Basemath.</span></span></div><div class="li4"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.36.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.36.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The sons of Esau&#8217;s wife Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon, whom she bore to Esau:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.36.14"><span class="content">Jeush, Jalam and Korah.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.36.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.36.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">These were the chiefs among Esau&#8217;s descendants:</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.36.15"><span class="content">The sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.36.15"><span class="content">Chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.36.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Korah,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">36:16 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; Samaritan Pentateuch (also verse 11 and 1 Chron. 1:36) does not have </span><span class="fq">Korah</span><span class="ft">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> Gatam and Amalek. These were the chiefs descended from Eliphaz in Edom; they were grandsons of Adah.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.36.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.36.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The sons of Esau&#8217;s son Reuel:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.36.17"><span class="content">Chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah. These were the chiefs descended from Reuel in Edom; they were grandsons of Esau&#8217;s wife Basemath.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.36.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.36.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The sons of Esau&#8217;s wife Oholibamah:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.36.18"><span class="content">Chiefs Jeush, Jalam and Korah. These were the chiefs descended from Esau&#8217;s wife Oholibamah daughter of Anah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.36.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.36.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">These were the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these were their chiefs.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.36.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.36.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">These were the sons of Seir the Horite, who were living in the region:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.36.20"><span class="content">Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.36.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Dishon, Ezer and Dishan. These sons of Seir in Edom were Horite chiefs.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.36.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.36.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The sons of Lotan:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.36.22"><span class="content">Hori and Homam.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">36:22 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Hemam, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Homam </span><span class="ft">(see 1 Chron. 1:39)</span></span></span><span class="content"> Timna was Lotan&#8217;s sister.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.36.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.36.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The sons of Shobal:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.36.23"><span class="content">Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho and Onam.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.36.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.36.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The sons of Zibeon:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.36.24"><span class="content">Aiah and Anah. This is the Anah who discovered the hot springs</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">36:24 </span><span class="ft">Vulgate; Syriac </span><span class="fqa">discovered water; </span><span class="ft">the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the desert while he was grazing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.36.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.36.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The children of Anah:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.36.25"><span class="content">Dishon and Oholibamah daughter of Anah.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.36.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.36.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The sons of Dishon</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">36:26 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Dishan, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Dishon</span></span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.36.26"><span class="content">Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran and Keran.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.36.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.36.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The sons of Ezer:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.36.27"><span class="content">Bilhan, Zaavan and Akan.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.36.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.36.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">The sons of Dishan:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.36.28"><span class="content">Uz and Aran.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.36.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.36.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">These were the Horite chiefs:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.36.29"><span class="content">Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.36.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Dishon, Ezer and Dishan. These were the Horite chiefs, according to their divisions, in the land of Seir.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Rulers of Edom</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.36.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.36.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">These were the kings who reigned in Edom before any Israelite king reigned:</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.36.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.36.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Bela son of Beor became king of Edom. His city was named Dinhabah.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.36.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.36.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah succeeded him as king.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.36.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.36.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">When Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites succeeded him as king.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.36.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.36.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, succeeded him as king. His city was named Avith.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.36.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.36.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah succeeded him as king.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.36.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.36.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth on the river succeeded him as king.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.36.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.36.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">When Shaul died, Baal-Hanan son of Akbor succeeded him as king.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.36.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.36.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">When Baal-Hanan son of Akbor died, Hadad</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">36:39 </span><span class="ft">Many manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Samaritan Pentateuch and Syriac (see also 1 Chron. 1:50); most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">Hadar</span></span></span><span class="content"> succeeded him as king. His city was named Pau, and his wife&#8217;s name was Mehetabel daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-Zahab.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.36.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.36.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">These were the chiefs descended from Esau, by name, according to their clans and regions:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.36.40"><span class="content">Timna, Alvah, Jetheth, </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="GEN.36.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="GEN.36.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="GEN.36.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Magdiel and Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their settlements in the land they occupied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="GEN.36.43"><span class="content">This is the family line of Esau, the father of the Edomites.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">37</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Joseph&#8217;s Dreams</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.37.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.37.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.37.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">This is the account of Jacob&#8217;s family line.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.37.2"><span class="content">Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father&#8217;s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.37.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.37.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">37:3 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain; also in verses 23 and 32.</span></span></span><span class="content"> robe for him. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.37.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.37.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.37.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.37.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He said to them, &#8220;Listen to this dream I had: </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.37.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.37.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.37.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">His brothers said to him, &#8220;Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?&#8221; And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.37.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.37.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. &#8220;Listen,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.37.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.37.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, &#8220;What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.37.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Joseph Sold by His Brothers</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.37.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.37.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Now his brothers had gone to graze their father&#8217;s flocks near Shechem, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.37.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and Israel said to Joseph, &#8220;As you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I am going to send you to them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.37.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Very well,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.37.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.37.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So he said to him, &#8220;Go and see if all is well with your brothers and with the flocks, and bring word back to me.&#8221; Then he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.37.14"><span class="content">When Joseph arrived at Shechem, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.37.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">a man found him wandering around in the fields and asked him, &#8220;What are you looking for?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.37.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.37.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are grazing their flocks?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.37.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.37.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;They have moved on from here,&#8221; the man answered. &#8220;I heard them say, &#8216;Let&#8217;s go to Dothan.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.37.17"><span class="content">So Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.37.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.37.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.37.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Here comes that dreamer!&#8221; they said to each other. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.37.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come now, let&#8217;s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we&#8217;ll see what comes of his dreams.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.37.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.37.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. &#8220;Let&#8217;s not take his life,&#8221; he said. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.37.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the wilderness, but don&#8217;t lay a hand on him.&#8221; Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.37.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.37.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe&#8212;the ornate robe he was wearing&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.37.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">and they took him and threw him into the cistern. The cistern was empty; there was no water in it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.37.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.37.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.37.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.37.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Judah said to his brothers, &#8220;What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood? </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.37.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Come, let&#8217;s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood.&#8221; His brothers agreed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.37.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.37.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">37:28 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 8 ounces or about 230 grams</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.37.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.37.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">When Reuben returned to the cistern and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.37.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He went back to his brothers and said, &#8220;The boy isn&#8217;t there! Where can I turn now?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.37.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.37.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Then they got Joseph&#8217;s robe, slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.37.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">They took the ornate robe back to their father and said, &#8220;We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son&#8217;s robe.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.37.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.37.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">He recognized it and said, &#8220;It is my son&#8217;s robe! Some ferocious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.37.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.37.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.37.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. &#8220;No,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I will continue to mourn until I join my son in the grave.&#8221; So his father wept for him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.37.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.37.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Meanwhile, the Midianites</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">37:36 </span><span class="ft">Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac (see also verse 28); Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">Medanites</span></span></span><span class="content"> sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh&#8217;s officials, the captain of the guard.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">38</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judah and Tamar</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.38.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">At that time, Judah left his brothers and went down to stay with a man of Adullam named Hirah. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.38.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. He married her and made love to her; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.38.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, who was named Er. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.38.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">She conceived again and gave birth to a son and named him Onan. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.38.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">She gave birth to still another son and named him Shelah. It was at Kezib that she gave birth to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.38.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.38.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.38.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But Er, Judah&#8217;s firstborn, was wicked in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s sight; so the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> put him to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.38.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.38.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then Judah said to Onan, &#8220;Sleep with your brother&#8217;s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.38.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother&#8217;s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.38.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">What he did was wicked in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s sight; so the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> put him to death also.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.38.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.38.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Judah then said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, &#8220;Live as a widow in your father&#8217;s household until my son Shelah grows up.&#8221; For he thought, &#8220;He may die too, just like his brothers.&#8221; So Tamar went to live in her father&#8217;s household.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.38.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.38.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">After a long time Judah&#8217;s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had recovered from his grief, he went up to Timnah, to the men who were shearing his sheep, and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.38.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.38.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When Tamar was told, &#8220;Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.38.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">she took off her widow&#8217;s clothes, covered herself with a veil to disguise herself, and then sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had now grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.38.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.38.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.38.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, &#8220;Come now, let me sleep with you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.38.16"><span class="content">&#8220;And what will you give me to sleep with you?&#8221; she asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.38.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.38.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;I&#8217;ll send you a young goat from my flock,&#8221; he said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.38.17"><span class="content">&#8220;Will you give me something as a pledge until you send it?&#8221; she asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.38.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.38.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;What pledge should I give you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.38.18"><span class="content">&#8220;Your seal and its cord, and the staff in your hand,&#8221; she answered. So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.38.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">After she left, she took off her veil and put on her widow&#8217;s clothes again.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.38.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.38.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Meanwhile Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get his pledge back from the woman, but he did not find her. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.38.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He asked the men who lived there, &#8220;Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.38.21"><span class="content">&#8220;There hasn&#8217;t been any shrine prostitute here,&#8221; they said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.38.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.38.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">So he went back to Judah and said, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t find her. Besides, the men who lived there said, &#8216;There hasn&#8217;t been any shrine prostitute here.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.38.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.38.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then Judah said, &#8220;Let her keep what she has, or we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you didn&#8217;t find her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.38.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.38.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">About three months later Judah was told, &#8220;Your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of prostitution, and as a result she is now pregnant.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.38.24"><span class="content">Judah said, &#8220;Bring her out and have her burned to death!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.38.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.38.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As she was being brought out, she sent a message to her father-in-law. &#8220;I am pregnant by the man who owns these,&#8221; she said. And she added, &#8220;See if you recognize whose seal and cord and staff these are.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.38.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.38.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Judah recognized them and said, &#8220;She is more righteous than I, since I wouldn&#8217;t give her to my son Shelah.&#8221; And he did not sleep with her again.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.38.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.38.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.38.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his wrist and said, &#8220;This one came out first.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.38.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">But when he drew back his hand, his brother came out, and she said, &#8220;So this is how you have broken out!&#8221; And he was named Perez.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38:29 </span><span class="fq">Perez </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">breaking out.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.38.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Then his brother, who had the scarlet thread on his wrist, came out. And he was named Zerah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38:30 </span><span class="fq">Zerah </span><span class="ft">can mean </span><span class="fq">scarlet </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">brightness.</span></span></span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch39" data-usfm="GEN.39">
         <div class="label">39</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Joseph and Potiphar&#8217;s Wife</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.39.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh&#8217;s officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.39.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.39.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.39.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When his master saw that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was with him and that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave him success in everything he did, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.39.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Joseph found favor in his eyes and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household, and he entrusted to his care everything he owned. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.39.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">From the time he put him in charge of his household and of all that he owned, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> blessed the household of the Egyptian because of Joseph. The blessing of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was on everything Potiphar had, both in the house and in the field. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.39.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph&#8217;s care; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.39.6"><span class="content">Now Joseph was well-built and handsome, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.39.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and after a while his master&#8217;s wife took notice of Joseph and said, &#8220;Come to bed with me!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.39.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.39.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But he refused. &#8220;With me in charge,&#8221; he told her, &#8220;my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.39.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.39.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.39.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.39.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">One day he went into the house to attend to his duties, and none of the household servants was inside. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.39.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">She caught him by his cloak and said, &#8220;Come to bed with me!&#8221; But he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.39.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.39.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When she saw that he had left his cloak in her hand and had run out of the house, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.39.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">she called her household servants. &#8220;Look,&#8221; she said to them, &#8220;this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us! He came in here to sleep with me, but I screamed. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.39.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.39.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.39.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">She kept his cloak beside her until his master came home. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.39.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then she told him this story: &#8220;That Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.39.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But as soon as I screamed for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.39.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.39.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, &#8220;This is how your slave treated me,&#8221; he burned with anger. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.39.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Joseph&#8217;s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king&#8217;s prisoners were confined.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.39.20"><span class="content">But while Joseph was there in the prison, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.39.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.39.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">So the warden put Joseph in charge of all those held in the prison, and he was made responsible for all that was done there. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.39.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The warden paid no attention to anything under Joseph&#8217;s care, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Naomi Loses Her Husband and Sons</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="RUT.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the days when the judges ruled,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:1 </span><span class="ft">Traditionally </span><span class="fqa">judged</span></span></span><span class="content"> there was a famine in the land. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah, together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while in the country of Moab. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="RUT.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The man&#8217;s name was Elimelek, his wife&#8217;s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to Moab and lived there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="RUT.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="RUT.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now Elimelek, Naomi&#8217;s husband, died, and she was left with her two sons. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="RUT.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They married Moabite women, one named Orpah and the other Ruth. After they had lived there about ten years, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="RUT.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Naomi and Ruth Return to Bethlehem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="RUT.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="RUT.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When Naomi heard in Moab that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="RUT.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">With her two daughters-in-law she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road that would take them back to the land of Judah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="RUT.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="RUT.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, &#8220;Go back, each of you, to your mother&#8217;s home. May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> show you kindness, as you have shown kindness to your dead husbands and to me. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="RUT.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> grant that each of you will find rest in the home of another husband.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="RUT.1.9"><span class="content">Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept aloud </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="RUT.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and said to her, &#8220;We will go back with you to your people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="RUT.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="RUT.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But Naomi said, &#8220;Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands? </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="RUT.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me&#8212;even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="RUT.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s hand has turned against me!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="RUT.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="RUT.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">At this they wept aloud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="RUT.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="RUT.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Look,&#8221; said Naomi, &#8220;your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="RUT.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="RUT.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But Ruth replied, &#8220;Don&#8217;t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="RUT.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="RUT.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="RUT.1.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="RUT.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So the two women went on until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women exclaimed, &#8220;Can this be Naomi?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="RUT.1.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="RUT.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t call me Naomi,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:20 </span><span class="fq">Naomi </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">pleasant.</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221; she told them. &#8220;Call me Mara,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:20 </span><span class="fq">Mara </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fq">bitter</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> because the Almighty</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:20 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Shaddai</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 21</span></span></span><span class="content"> has made my life very bitter. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="RUT.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">I went away full, but the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has afflicted</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">has testified against</span></span></span><span class="content"> me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="RUT.1.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="RUT.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch2" data-usfm="RUT.2">
         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ruth Meets Boaz in the Grain Field</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="RUT.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now Naomi had a relative on her husband&#8217;s side, a man of standing from the clan of Elimelek, whose name was Boaz.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="RUT.2.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="RUT.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, &#8220;Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="RUT.2.2"><span class="content">Naomi said to her, &#8220;Go ahead, my daughter.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="RUT.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So she went out, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters. As it turned out, she was working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelek.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="RUT.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="RUT.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the harvesters, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> be with you!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="RUT.2.4"><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> bless you!&#8221; they answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="RUT.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="RUT.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Boaz asked the overseer of his harvesters, &#8220;Who does that young woman belong to?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="RUT.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="RUT.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The overseer replied, &#8220;She is the Moabite who came back from Moab with Naomi. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="RUT.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">She said, &#8216;Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves behind the harvesters.&#8217; She came into the field and has remained here from morning till now, except for a short rest in the shelter.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="RUT.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="RUT.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So Boaz said to Ruth, &#8220;My daughter, listen to me. Don&#8217;t go and glean in another field and don&#8217;t go away from here. Stay here with the women who work for me. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="RUT.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Watch the field where the men are harvesting, and follow along after the women. I have told the men not to lay a hand on you. And whenever you are thirsty, go and get a drink from the water jars the men have filled.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="RUT.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="RUT.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She asked him, &#8220;Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me&#8212;a foreigner?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="RUT.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="RUT.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Boaz replied, &#8220;I&#8217;ve been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband&#8212;how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="RUT.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="RUT.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="RUT.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;May I continue to find favor in your eyes, my lord,&#8221; she said. &#8220;You have put me at ease by speaking kindly to your servant&#8212;though I do not have the standing of one of your servants.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="RUT.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="RUT.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">At mealtime Boaz said to her, &#8220;Come over here. Have some bread and dip it in the wine vinegar.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="RUT.2.14"><span class="content">When she sat down with the harvesters, he offered her some roasted grain. She ate all she wanted and had some left over. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="RUT.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">As she got up to glean, Boaz gave orders to his men, &#8220;Let her gather among the sheaves and don&#8217;t reprimand her. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="RUT.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Even pull out some stalks for her from the bundles and leave them for her to pick up, and don&#8217;t rebuke her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="RUT.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="RUT.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So Ruth gleaned in the field until evening. Then she threshed the barley she had gathered, and it amounted to about an ephah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:17 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 30 pounds or about 13 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="RUT.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much she had gathered. Ruth also brought out and gave her what she had left over after she had eaten enough.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="RUT.2.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="RUT.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Her mother-in-law asked her, &#8220;Where did you glean today? Where did you work? Blessed be the man who took notice of you!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="RUT.2.19"><span class="content">Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. &#8220;The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,&#8221; she said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="RUT.2.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="RUT.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> bless him!&#8221; Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. &#8220;He has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead.&#8221; She added, &#8220;That man is our close relative; he is one of our guardian-redeemers.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:20 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word for </span><span class="fq">guardian-redeemer </span><span class="ft">is a legal term for one who has the obligation to redeem a relative in serious difficulty (see Lev. 25:25-55).</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="RUT.2.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="RUT.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then Ruth the Moabite said, &#8220;He even said to me, &#8216;Stay with my workers until they finish harvesting all my grain.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="RUT.2.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="RUT.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, &#8220;It will be good for you, my daughter, to go with the women who work for him, because in someone else&#8217;s field you might be harmed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="RUT.2.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="RUT.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So Ruth stayed close to the women of Boaz to glean until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ruth and Boaz at the Threshing Floor</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="RUT.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">One day Ruth&#8217;s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, &#8220;My daughter, I must find a home</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">find rest </span><span class="ft">(see 1:9).</span></span></span><span class="content"> for you, where you will be well provided for. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="RUT.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now Boaz, with whose women you have worked, is a relative of ours. Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="RUT.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Wash, put on perfume, and get dressed in your best clothes. Then go down to the threshing floor, but don&#8217;t let him know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="RUT.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When he lies down, note the place where he is lying. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down. He will tell you what to do.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="RUT.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="RUT.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will do whatever you say,&#8221; Ruth answered. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="RUT.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law told her to do.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="RUT.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="RUT.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When Boaz had finished eating and drinking and was in good spirits, he went over to lie down at the far end of the grain pile. Ruth approached quietly, uncovered his feet and lay down. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="RUT.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In the middle of the night something startled the man; he turned&#8212;and there was a woman lying at his feet!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="RUT.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="RUT.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Who are you?&#8221; he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="RUT.3.9"><span class="content">&#8220;I am your servant Ruth,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Spread the corner of your garment over me, since you are a guardian-redeemer</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:9 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word for </span><span class="fq">guardian-redeemer </span><span class="ft">is a legal term for one who has the obligation to redeem a relative in serious difficulty (see Lev. 25:25-55); also in verses 12 and 13.</span></span></span><span class="content"> of our family.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="RUT.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="RUT.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> bless you, my daughter,&#8221; he replied. &#8220;This kindness is greater than that which you showed earlier: You have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="RUT.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And now, my daughter, don&#8217;t be afraid. I will do for you all you ask. All the people of my town know that you are a woman of noble character. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="RUT.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Although it is true that I am a guardian-redeemer of our family, there is another who is more closely related than I. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="RUT.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Stay here for the night, and in the morning if he wants to do his duty as your guardian-redeemer, good; let him redeem you. But if he is not willing, as surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives I will do it. Lie here until morning.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="RUT.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="RUT.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So she lay at his feet until morning, but got up before anyone could be recognized; and he said, &#8220;No one must know that a woman came to the threshing floor.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="RUT.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="RUT.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He also said, &#8220;Bring me the shawl you are wearing and hold it out.&#8221; When she did so, he poured into it six measures of barley and placed the bundle on her. Then he</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:15 </span><span class="ft">Most Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts, Vulgate and Syriac </span><span class="fqa">she</span></span></span><span class="content"> went back to town.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="RUT.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="RUT.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When Ruth came to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, &#8220;How did it go, my daughter?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="RUT.3.16"><span class="content">Then she told her everything Boaz had done for her </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="RUT.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">and added, &#8220;He gave me these six measures of barley, saying, &#8216;Don&#8217;t go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="RUT.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="RUT.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then Naomi said, &#8220;Wait, my daughter, until you find out what happens. For the man will not rest until the matter is settled today.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Boaz Marries Ruth</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="RUT.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Meanwhile Boaz went up to the town gate and sat down there just as the guardian-redeemer</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:1 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word for </span><span class="fq">guardian-redeemer </span><span class="ft">is a legal term for one who has the obligation to redeem a relative in serious difficulty (see Lev. 25:25-55); also in verses 3, 6, 8 and 14.</span></span></span><span class="content"> he had mentioned came along. Boaz said, &#8220;Come over here, my friend, and sit down.&#8221; So he went over and sat down.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="RUT.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="RUT.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Boaz took ten of the elders of the town and said, &#8220;Sit here,&#8221; and they did so. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="RUT.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then he said to the guardian-redeemer, &#8220;Naomi, who has come back from Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our relative Elimelek. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="RUT.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I thought I should bring the matter to your attention and suggest that you buy it in the presence of these seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, do so. But if you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">he</span></span></span><span class="content"> will not, tell me, so I will know. For no one has the right to do it except you, and I am next in line.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="RUT.4.4"><span class="content">&#8220;I will redeem it,&#8221; he said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="RUT.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="RUT.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then Boaz said, &#8220;On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:5 </span><span class="ft">Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew (see also Septuagint) </span><span class="fqa">Naomi and from Ruth the Moabite, you acquire the</span></span></span><span class="content"> dead man&#8217;s widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="RUT.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="RUT.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">At this, the guardian-redeemer said, &#8220;Then I cannot redeem it because I might endanger my own estate. You redeem it yourself. I cannot do it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="RUT.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="RUT.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">(Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other. This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="RUT.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="RUT.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So the guardian-redeemer said to Boaz, &#8220;Buy it yourself.&#8221; And he removed his sandal.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="RUT.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="RUT.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, &#8220;Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="RUT.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon&#8217;s widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="RUT.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="RUT.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then the elders and all the people at the gate said, &#8220;We are witnesses. May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the family of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="RUT.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Through the offspring the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gives you by this young woman, may your family be like that of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Naomi Gains a Son</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="RUT.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="RUT.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he made love to her, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="RUT.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The women said to Naomi: &#8220;Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who this day has not left you without a guardian-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel! </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="RUT.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="RUT.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="RUT.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then Naomi took the child in her arms and cared for him. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="RUT.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The women living there said, &#8220;Naomi has a son!&#8221; And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Genealogy of David</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="RUT.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="RUT.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">This, then, is the family line of Perez:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="RUT.4.18"><span class="content">Perez was the father of Hezron,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="RUT.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="RUT.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Hezron the father of Ram,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="RUT.4.19"><span class="content">Ram the father of Amminadab,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="RUT.4.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="RUT.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Amminadab the father of Nahshon,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="RUT.4.20"><span class="content">Nahshon the father of Salmon,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:20 </span><span class="ft">A few Hebrew manuscripts, some Septuagint manuscripts and Vulgate (see also verse 21 and Septuagint of 1 Chron. 2:11); most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Salma</span></span></span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="RUT.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="RUT.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Salmon the father of Boaz,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="RUT.4.21"><span class="content">Boaz the father of Obed,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="RUT.4.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="RUT.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Obed the father of Jesse,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="RUT.4.22"><span class="content">and Jesse the father of David.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.19.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;How long will you torment me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.19.2"><span class="content">and crush me with words?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.19.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Ten times now you have reproached me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.19.3"><span class="content">shamelessly you attack me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.19.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">If it is true that I have gone astray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.19.4"><span class="content">my error remains my concern alone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.19.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.19.5"><span class="content">and use my humiliation against me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.19.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">then know that God has wronged me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.19.6"><span class="content">and drawn his net around me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.19.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Though I cry, &#8216;Violence!&#8217; I get no response;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.19.7"><span class="content">though I call for help, there is no justice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.19.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He has blocked my way so I cannot pass;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.19.8"><span class="content">he has shrouded my paths in darkness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He has stripped me of my honor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.19.9"><span class="content">and removed the crown from my head.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.19.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He tears me down on every side till I am gone;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.19.10"><span class="content">he uproots my hope like a tree.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.19.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">His anger burns against me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.19.11"><span class="content">he counts me among his enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.19.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">His troops advance in force;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.19.12"><span class="content">they build a siege ramp against me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.19.12"><span class="content">and encamp around my tent.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.19.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;He has alienated my family from me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.19.13"><span class="content">my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">My relatives have gone away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.19.14"><span class="content">my closest friends have forgotten me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.19.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.19.15"><span class="content">they look on me as on a stranger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I summon my servant, but he does not answer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.19.16"><span class="content">though I beg him with my own mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.19.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">My breath is offensive to my wife;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.19.17"><span class="content">I am loathsome to my own family.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.19.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Even the little boys scorn me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.19.18"><span class="content">when I appear, they ridicule me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.19.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">All my intimate friends detest me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.19.19"><span class="content">those I love have turned against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.19.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I am nothing but skin and bones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.19.20"><span class="content">I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">only by my gums</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.19.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Have pity on me, my friends, have pity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.19.21"><span class="content">for the hand of God has struck me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.19.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Why do you pursue me as God does?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.19.22"><span class="content">Will you never get enough of my flesh?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;Oh, that my words were recorded,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.19.23"><span class="content">that they were written on a scroll,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.19.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">that they were inscribed with an iron tool on</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">and</span></span></span><span class="content"> lead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.19.24"><span class="content">or engraved in rock forever!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.19.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I know that my redeemer</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">vindicator</span></span></span><span class="content"> lives,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.19.25"><span class="content">and that in the end he will stand on the earth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">on my grave</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.19.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">And after my skin has been destroyed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.19.26"><span class="content">yet</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">And after I awake, / though this body has been destroyed, / then</span></span></span><span class="content"> in</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">destroyed, / apart from</span></span></span><span class="content"> my flesh I will see God;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.19.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">I myself will see him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.19.27"><span class="content">with my own eyes&#8212;I, and not another.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.19.27"><span class="content">How my heart yearns within me!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.19.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you say, &#8216;How we will hound him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.19.28"><span class="content">since the root of the trouble lies in him,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:28 </span><span class="ft">Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">me</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.19.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">you should fear the sword yourselves;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.19.29"><span class="content">for wrath will bring punishment by the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.19.29"><span class="content">and then you will know that there is judgment.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:29 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">sword, / that you may come to know the Almighty</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">20</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Zophar</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.20.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.20.2"><span class="content">because I am greatly disturbed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.20.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I hear a rebuke that dishonors me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.20.3"><span class="content">and my understanding inspires me to reply.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.20.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely you know how it has been from of old,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.20.4"><span class="content">ever since mankind</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Adam</span></span></span><span class="content"> was placed on the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.20.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">that the mirth of the wicked is brief,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.20.5"><span class="content">the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.20.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Though the pride of the godless person reaches to the heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.20.6"><span class="content">and his head touches the clouds,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.20.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">he will perish forever, like his own dung;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.20.7"><span class="content">those who have seen him will say, &#8216;Where is he?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.20.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Like a dream he flies away, no more to be found,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.20.8"><span class="content">banished like a vision of the night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.20.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The eye that saw him will not see him again;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.20.9"><span class="content">his place will look on him no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.20.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.20.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">His children must make amends to the poor;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.20.10"><span class="content">his own hands must give back his wealth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.20.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.20.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The youthful vigor that fills his bones</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.20.11"><span class="content">will lie with him in the dust.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.20.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Though evil is sweet in his mouth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.20.12"><span class="content">and he hides it under his tongue,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.20.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">though he cannot bear to let it go</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.20.13"><span class="content">and lets it linger in his mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.20.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">yet his food will turn sour in his stomach;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.20.14"><span class="content">it will become the venom of serpents within him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.20.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He will spit out the riches he swallowed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.20.15"><span class="content">God will make his stomach vomit them up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.20.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He will suck the poison of serpents;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.20.16"><span class="content">the fangs of an adder will kill him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.20.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He will not enjoy the streams,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.20.17"><span class="content">the rivers flowing with honey and cream.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.20.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">What he toiled for he must give back uneaten;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.20.18"><span class="content">he will not enjoy the profit from his trading.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.20.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.20.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For he has oppressed the poor and left them destitute;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.20.19"><span class="content">he has seized houses he did not build.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.20.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.20.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely he will have no respite from his craving;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.20.20"><span class="content">he cannot save himself by his treasure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.20.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.20.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Nothing is left for him to devour;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.20.21"><span class="content">his prosperity will not endure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.20.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.20.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">In the midst of his plenty, distress will overtake him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.20.22"><span class="content">the full force of misery will come upon him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.20.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.20.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When he has filled his belly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.20.23"><span class="content">God will vent his burning anger against him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.20.23"><span class="content">and rain down his blows on him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.20.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.20.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Though he flees from an iron weapon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.20.24"><span class="content">a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.20.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.20.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He pulls it out of his back,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.20.25"><span class="content">the gleaming point out of his liver.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.20.25"><span class="content">Terrors will come over him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.20.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.20.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">total darkness lies in wait for his treasures.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.20.26"><span class="content">A fire unfanned will consume him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.20.26"><span class="content">and devour what is left in his tent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.20.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.20.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The heavens will expose his guilt;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.20.27"><span class="content">the earth will rise up against him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.20.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.20.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">A flood will carry off his house,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.20.28"><span class="content">rushing waters</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:28 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">The possessions in his house will be carried off, / washed away</span></span></span><span class="content"> on the day of God&#8217;s wrath.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.20.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.20.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Such is the fate God allots the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.20.29"><span class="content">the heritage appointed for them by God.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch51" data-usfm="ISA.51">
         <div class="label">51</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Everlasting Salvation for Zion</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.51.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.51.1"><span class="content">and who seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.51.1"><span class="content">Look to the rock from which you were cut</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.51.1"><span class="content">and to the quarry from which you were hewn;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.51.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.51.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">look to Abraham, your father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.51.2"><span class="content">and to Sarah, who gave you birth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.51.2"><span class="content">When I called him he was only one man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.51.2"><span class="content">and I blessed him and made him many.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.51.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will surely comfort Zion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="content">and will look with compassion on all her ruins;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="content">he will make her deserts like Eden,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="content">her wastelands like the garden of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="content">Joy and gladness will be found in her,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="content">thanksgiving and the sound of singing.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.51.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.51.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to me, my people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.51.4"><span class="content">hear me, my nation:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.51.4"><span class="content">Instruction will go out from me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.51.4"><span class="content">my justice will become a light to the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.51.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.51.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My righteousness draws near speedily,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.51.5"><span class="content">my salvation is on the way,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.51.5"><span class="content">and my arm will bring justice to the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.51.5"><span class="content">The islands will look to me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.51.5"><span class="content">and wait in hope for my arm.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.51.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Lift up your eyes to the heavens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">look at the earth beneath;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">the heavens will vanish like smoke,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">the earth will wear out like a garment</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">and its inhabitants die like flies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">But my salvation will last forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">my righteousness will never fail.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.51.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.51.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Hear me, you who know what is right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.51.7"><span class="content">you people who have taken my instruction to heart:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.51.7"><span class="content">Do not fear the reproach of mere mortals</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.51.7"><span class="content">or be terrified by their insults.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.51.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.51.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For the moth will eat them up like a garment;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.51.8"><span class="content">the worm will devour them like wool.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.51.8"><span class="content">But my righteousness will last forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.51.8"><span class="content">my salvation through all generations.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.51.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Awake, awake, arm of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="content">clothe yourself with strength!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="content">Awake, as in days gone by,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="content">as in generations of old.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="content">Was it not you who cut Rahab to pieces,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="content">who pierced that monster through?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.51.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.51.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Was it not you who dried up the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.51.10"><span class="content">the waters of the great deep,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.51.10"><span class="content">who made a road in the depths of the sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.51.10"><span class="content">so that the redeemed might cross over?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.51.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.51.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Those the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has rescued will return.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.51.11"><span class="content">They will enter Zion with singing;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.51.11"><span class="content">everlasting joy will crown their heads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.51.11"><span class="content">Gladness and joy will overtake them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.51.11"><span class="content">and sorrow and sighing will flee away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.51.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.51.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;I, even I, am he who comforts you.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.51.12"><span class="content">Who are you that you fear mere mortals,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.51.12"><span class="content">human beings who are but grass,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.51.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">that you forget the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your Maker,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">who stretches out the heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">and who lays the foundations of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">that you live in constant terror every day</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">because of the wrath of the oppressor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">who is bent on destruction?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">For where is the wrath of the oppressor?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.51.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.51.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The cowering prisoners will soon be set free;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.51.14"><span class="content">they will not die in their dungeon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.51.14"><span class="content">nor will they lack bread.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.51.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.51.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.51.15"><span class="content">who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.51.15"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty is his name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.51.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.51.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I have put my words in your mouth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.51.16"><span class="content">and covered you with the shadow of my hand&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.51.16"><span class="content">I who set the heavens in place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.51.16"><span class="content">who laid the foundations of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.51.16"><span class="content">and who say to Zion, &#8216;You are my people.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Cup of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Wrath</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.51.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Awake, awake!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">Rise up, Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">you who have drunk from the hand of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">the cup of his wrath,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">you who have drained to its dregs</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">the goblet that makes people stagger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Among all the children she bore</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="content">there was none to guide her;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="content">among all the children she reared</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="content">there was none to take her by the hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">These double calamities have come upon you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="content">who can comfort you?&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="content">ruin and destruction, famine and sword&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="content">who can</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">51:19 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">/ how can I</span></span></span><span class="content"> console you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Your children have fainted;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">they lie at every street corner,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">like antelope caught in a net.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">They are filled with the wrath of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">with the rebuke of your God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.51.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Therefore hear this, you afflicted one,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.51.21"><span class="content">made drunk, but not with wine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.51.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">This is what your Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">your God, who defends his people:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">&#8220;See, I have taken out of your hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">the cup that made you stagger;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">from that cup, the goblet of my wrath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">you will never drink again.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I will put it into the hands of your tormentors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="content">who said to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="content">&#8216;Fall prostrate that we may walk on you.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="content">And you made your back like the ground,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="content">like a street to be walked on.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div>
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   <div class="book bkISA">
      <div class="chapter ch52" data-usfm="ISA.52">
         <div class="label">52</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Awake, awake, Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="content">clothe yourself with strength!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="content">Put on your garments of splendor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="content">Jerusalem, the holy city.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="content">The uncircumcised and defiled</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="content">will not enter you again.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.52.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Shake off your dust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.52.2"><span class="content">rise up, sit enthroned, Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.52.2"><span class="content">Free yourself from the chains on your neck,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.52.2"><span class="content">Daughter Zion, now a captive.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.52.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.52.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.52.3"><span class="content">&#8220;You were sold for nothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.52.3"><span class="content">and without money you will be redeemed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.52.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.52.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.52.4"><span class="content">&#8220;At first my people went down to Egypt to live;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.52.4"><span class="content">lately, Assyria has oppressed them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.52.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.52.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;And now what do I have here?&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.52.5"><span class="content">&#8220;For my people have been taken away for nothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.52.5"><span class="content">and those who rule them mock,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">52:5 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls and Vulgate; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">wail</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.52.5"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.52.5"><span class="content">&#8220;And all day long</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.52.5"><span class="content">my name is constantly blasphemed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.52.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.52.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Therefore my people will know my name;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.52.6"><span class="content">therefore in that day they will know</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.52.6"><span class="content">that it is I who foretold it.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.52.6"><span class="content">Yes, it is I.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.52.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">How beautiful on the mountains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">are the feet of those who bring good news,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">who proclaim peace,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">who bring good tidings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">who proclaim salvation,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">who say to Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Your God reigns!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.52.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.52.8"><span class="content">together they shout for joy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.52.8"><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> returns to Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.52.8"><span class="content">they will see it with their own eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.52.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.52.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Burst into songs of joy together,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.52.9"><span class="content">you ruins of Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.52.9"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has comforted his people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.52.9"><span class="content">he has redeemed Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.52.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.52.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will lay bare his holy arm</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.52.10"><span class="content">in the sight of all the nations,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.52.10"><span class="content">and all the ends of the earth will see</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.52.10"><span class="content">the salvation of our God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.52.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.52.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Depart, depart, go out from there!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.52.11"><span class="content">Touch no unclean thing!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.52.11"><span class="content">Come out from it and be pure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.52.11"><span class="content">you who carry the articles of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s house.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.52.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.52.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But you will not leave in haste</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.52.12"><span class="content">or go in flight;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.52.12"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will go before you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.52.12"><span class="content">the God of Israel will be your rear guard.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Suffering and Glory of the Servant</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.52.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.52.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">See, my servant will act wisely</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">52:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will prosper</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.52.13"><span class="content">he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.52.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.52.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Just as there were many who were appalled at him</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">52:14 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">you</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.52.14"><span class="content">his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.52.14"><span class="content">and his form marred beyond human likeness&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.52.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.52.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">so he will sprinkle many nations,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">52:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">so will many nations be amazed at him </span><span class="ft">(see also Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.52.15"><span class="content">and kings will shut their mouths because of him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.52.15"><span class="content">For what they were not told, they will see,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.52.15"><span class="content">and what they have not heard, they will understand.</span></span></div><div 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         <div class="label">53</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.53.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Who has believed our message</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.53.1"><span class="content">and to whom has the arm of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> been revealed?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.53.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.53.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He grew up before him like a tender shoot,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.53.2"><span class="content">and like a root out of dry ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.53.2"><span class="content">He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.53.2"><span class="content">nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.53.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.53.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He was despised and rejected by mankind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.53.3"><span class="content">a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.53.3"><span class="content">Like one from whom people hide their faces</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.53.3"><span class="content">he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.53.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.53.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Surely he took up our pain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.53.4"><span class="content">and bore our suffering,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.53.4"><span class="content">yet we considered him punished by God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.53.4"><span class="content">stricken by him, and afflicted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.53.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.53.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But he was pierced for our transgressions,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.53.5"><span class="content">he was crushed for our iniquities;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.53.5"><span class="content">the punishment that brought us peace was on him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.53.5"><span class="content">and by his wounds we are healed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.53.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.53.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">We all, like sheep, have gone astray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.53.6"><span class="content">each of us has turned to our own way;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.53.6"><span class="content">and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has laid on him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.53.6"><span class="content">the iniquity of us all.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.53.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.53.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He was oppressed and afflicted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.53.7"><span class="content">yet he did not open his mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.53.7"><span class="content">he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.53.7"><span class="content">and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.53.7"><span class="content">so he did not open his mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.53.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.53.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">By oppression</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">53:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">From arrest</span></span></span><span class="content"> and judgment he was taken away.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.53.8"><span class="content">Yet who of his generation protested?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.53.8"><span class="content">For he was cut off from the land of the living;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.53.8"><span class="content">for the transgression of my people he was punished.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">53:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">generation considered / that he was cut off from the land of the living, / that he was punished for the transgression of my people?</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.53.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.53.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He was assigned a grave with the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.53.9"><span class="content">and with the rich in his death,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.53.9"><span class="content">though he had done no violence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.53.9"><span class="content">nor was any deceit in his mouth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.53.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.53.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Yet it was the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.53.10"><span class="content">and though the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> makes</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">53:10 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">though you make</span></span></span><span class="content"> his life an offering for sin,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.53.10"><span class="content">he will see his offspring and prolong his days,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.53.10"><span class="content">and the will of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will prosper in his hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.53.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.53.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">After he has suffered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.53.11"><span class="content">he will see the light of life</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">53:11 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint); Masoretic Text does not have </span><span class="fq">the light of life</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and be satisfied</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">53:11 </span><span class="ft">Or (with Masoretic Text) </span><span class="fv">11 </span><span class="fqa">He will see the fruit of his suffering / and will be satisfied</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.53.11"><span class="content">by his knowledge</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">53:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">by knowledge of him</span></span></span><span class="content"> my righteous servant will justify many,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.53.11"><span class="content">and he will bear their iniquities.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.53.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.53.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">53:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">many</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.53.12"><span class="content">and he will divide the spoils with the strong,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">53:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">numerous</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.53.12"><span class="content">because he poured out his life unto death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.53.12"><span class="content">and was numbered with the transgressors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.53.12"><span class="content">For he bore the sin of many,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.53.12"><span class="content">and made intercession for the transgressors.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkISA">
      <div class="chapter ch54" data-usfm="ISA.54">
         <div class="label">54</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Future Glory of Zion</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.54.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Sing, barren woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.54.1"><span class="content">you who never bore a child;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.54.1"><span class="content">burst into song, shout for joy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.54.1"><span class="content">you who were never in labor;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.54.1"><span class="content">because more are the children of the desolate woman</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.54.1"><span class="content">than of her who has a husband,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.54.1"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.54.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.54.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Enlarge the place of your tent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.54.2"><span class="content">stretch your tent curtains wide,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.54.2"><span class="content">do not hold back;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.54.2"><span class="content">lengthen your cords,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.54.2"><span class="content">strengthen your stakes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.54.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.54.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For you will spread out to the right and to the left;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.54.3"><span class="content">your descendants will dispossess nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.54.3"><span class="content">and settle in their desolate cities.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.54.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.54.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not be afraid; you will not be put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.54.4"><span class="content">Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.54.4"><span class="content">You will forget the shame of your youth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.54.4"><span class="content">and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.54.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.54.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For your Maker is your husband&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.54.5"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty is his name&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.54.5"><span class="content">the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.54.5"><span class="content">he is called the God of all the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.54.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.54.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will call you back</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.54.6"><span class="content">as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.54.6"><span class="content">a wife who married young,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.54.6"><span class="content">only to be rejected,&#8221; says your God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.54.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.54.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;For a brief moment I abandoned you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.54.7"><span class="content">but with deep compassion I will bring you back.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.54.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.54.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In a surge of anger</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.54.8"><span class="content">I hid my face from you for a moment,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.54.8"><span class="content">but with everlasting kindness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.54.8"><span class="content">I will have compassion on you,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.54.8"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your Redeemer.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.54.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.54.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;To me this is like the days of Noah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.54.9"><span class="content">when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.54.9"><span class="content">So now I have sworn not to be angry with you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.54.9"><span class="content">never to rebuke you again.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.54.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.54.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Though the mountains be shaken</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.54.10"><span class="content">and the hills be removed,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.54.10"><span class="content">yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.54.10"><span class="content">nor my covenant of peace be removed,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.54.10"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who has compassion on you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.54.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.54.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.54.11"><span class="content">I will rebuild you with stones of turquoise,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">54:11 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.54.11"><span class="content">your foundations with lapis lazuli.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.54.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.54.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I will make your battlements of rubies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.54.12"><span class="content">your gates of sparkling jewels,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.54.12"><span class="content">and all your walls of precious stones.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.54.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.54.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">All your children will be taught by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.54.13"><span class="content">and great will be their peace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.54.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.54.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">In righteousness you will be established:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.54.14"><span class="content">Tyranny will be far from you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.54.14"><span class="content">you will have nothing to fear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.54.14"><span class="content">Terror will be far removed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.54.14"><span class="content">it will not come near you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.54.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.54.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.54.15"><span class="content">whoever attacks you will surrender to you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.54.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.54.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, it is I who created the blacksmith</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.54.16"><span class="content">who fans the coals into flame</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.54.16"><span class="content">and forges a weapon fit for its work.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.54.16"><span class="content">And it is I who have created the destroyer to wreak havoc;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.54.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.54.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">no weapon forged against you will prevail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.54.17"><span class="content">and you will refute every tongue that accuses you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.54.17"><span class="content">This is the heritage of the servants of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.54.17"><span class="content">and this is their vindication from me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.54.17"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">55</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Invitation to the Thirsty</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come, all you who are thirsty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">come to the waters;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">and you who have no money,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">come, buy and eat!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">Come, buy wine and milk</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">without money and without cost.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Why spend money on what is not bread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="content">and your labor on what does not satisfy?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="content">Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="content">and you will delight in the richest of fare.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Give ear and come to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="content">listen, that you may live.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="content">I will make an everlasting covenant with you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="content">my faithful love promised to David.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.55.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.55.4"><span class="content">a ruler and commander of the peoples.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.55.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Surely you will summon nations you know not,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">and nations you do not know will come running to you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">because of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">the Holy One of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">for he has endowed you with splendor.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.55.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> while he may be found;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.55.6"><span class="content">call on him while he is near.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.55.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Let the wicked forsake their ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="content">and the unrighteous their thoughts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="content">Let them turn to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and he will have mercy on them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="content">and to our God, for he will freely pardon.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.55.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;For my thoughts are not your thoughts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.55.8"><span class="content">neither are your ways my ways,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.55.8"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.55.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.55.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;As the heavens are higher than the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.55.9"><span class="content">so are my ways higher than your ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.55.9"><span class="content">and my thoughts than your thoughts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.55.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">As the rain and the snow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">come down from heaven,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">and do not return to it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">without watering the earth</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">and making it bud and flourish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">so is my word that goes out from my mouth:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="content">It will not return to me empty,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="content">but will accomplish what I desire</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="content">and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You will go out in joy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">and be led forth in peace;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">the mountains and hills</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">will burst into song before you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">and all the trees of the field</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">will clap their hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="content">and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="content">This will be for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s renown,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="content">for an everlasting sign,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="content">that will endure forever.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch3" data-usfm="MAT.3">
         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">John the Baptist Prepares the Way</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and saying, &#8220;Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.3.3"><span class="content">&#8220;A voice of one calling in the wilderness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.3.3"><span class="content">&#8216;Prepare the way for the Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.3.3"><span class="content">make straight paths for him.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:3 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 40:3</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">John&#8217;s clothes were made of camel&#8217;s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: &#8220;You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And do not think you can say to yourselves, &#8216;We have Abraham as our father.&#8217; I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;I baptize you with</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in</span></span></span><span class="content"> water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in</span></span></span><span class="content"> the Holy Spirit and fire. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Baptism of Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But John tried to deter him, saying, &#8220;I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Then John consented.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And a voice from heaven said, &#8220;This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:1 </span><span class="ft">The Greek for </span><span class="fq">tempted </span><span class="ft">can also mean </span><span class="fqa">tested.</span></span></span><span class="content"> by the devil. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The tempter came to him and said, &#8220;If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is written: &#8216;Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 8:3</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you are the Son of God,&#8221; he said, &#8220;throw yourself down. For it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.4.6"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;He will command his angels concerning you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.4.6"><span class="content">and they will lift you up in their hands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.4.6"><span class="content">so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:6 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 91:11,12</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Jesus answered him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is also written: &#8216;Do not put the Lord your God to the test.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:7 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 6:16</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;All this I will give you,&#8221; he said, &#8220;if you will bow down and worship me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Jesus said to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Away from me, Satan! For it is written: &#8216;Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:10 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 6:13</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Begins to Preach</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, he withdrew to Galilee. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Leaving Nazareth, he went and lived in Capernaum, which was by the lake in the area of Zebulun and Naphtali&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">to fulfill what was said through the prophet Isaiah:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.4.15"><span class="content">the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.4.15"><span class="content">Galilee of the Gentiles&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">the people living in darkness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.4.16"><span class="content">have seen a great light;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.4.16"><span class="content">on those living in the land of the shadow of death</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.4.16"><span class="content">a light has dawned.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:16 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 9:1,2</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">From that time on Jesus began to preach, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Calls His First Disciples</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Come, follow me,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;and I will send you out to fish for people.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">At once they left their nets and followed him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, preparing their nets. Jesus called them, </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">and immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Heals the Sick</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.4.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">News about him spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed; and he healed them. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Large crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:25 </span><span class="ft">That is, the Ten Cities</span></span></span><span class="content"> Jerusalem, Judea and the region across the Jordan followed him.</span></span></div>
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