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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Widow&#8217;s Olive Oil</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2KI.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, &#8220;Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2KI.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2KI.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Elisha replied to her, &#8220;How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2KI.4.2"><span class="content">&#8220;Your servant has nothing there at all,&#8221; she said, &#8220;except a small jar of olive oil.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2KI.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2KI.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Elisha said, &#8220;Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don&#8217;t ask for just a few. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2KI.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2KI.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2KI.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">She left him and shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2KI.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When all the jars were full, she said to her son, &#8220;Bring me another one.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2KI.4.6"><span class="content">But he replied, &#8220;There is not a jar left.&#8221; Then the oil stopped flowing.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2KI.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2KI.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">She went and told the man of God, and he said, &#8220;Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Shunammite&#8217;s Son Restored to Life</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2KI.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2KI.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">One day Elisha went to Shunem. And a well-to-do woman was there, who urged him to stay for a meal. So whenever he came by, he stopped there to eat. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2KI.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">She said to her husband, &#8220;I know that this man who often comes our way is a holy man of God. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2KI.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Let&#8217;s make a small room on the roof and put in it a bed and a table, a chair and a lamp for him. Then he can stay there whenever he comes to us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2KI.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2KI.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">One day when Elisha came, he went up to his room and lay down there. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2KI.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He said to his servant Gehazi, &#8220;Call the Shunammite.&#8221; So he called her, and she stood before him. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2KI.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Elisha said to him, &#8220;Tell her, &#8216;You have gone to all this trouble for us. Now what can be done for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2KI.4.13"><span class="content">She replied, &#8220;I have a home among my own people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2KI.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2KI.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;What can be done for her?&#8221; Elisha asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2KI.4.14"><span class="content">Gehazi said, &#8220;She has no son, and her husband is old.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2KI.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2KI.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then Elisha said, &#8220;Call her.&#8221; So he called her, and she stood in the doorway. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2KI.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;About this time next year,&#8221; Elisha said, &#8220;you will hold a son in your arms.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2KI.4.16"><span class="content">&#8220;No, my lord!&#8221; she objected. &#8220;Please, man of God, don&#8217;t mislead your servant!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2KI.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2KI.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But the woman became pregnant, and the next year about that same time she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2KI.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2KI.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the reapers. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2KI.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He said to his father, &#8220;My head! My head!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2KI.4.19"><span class="content">His father told a servant, &#8220;Carry him to his mother.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2KI.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">After the servant had lifted him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and went out.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.4.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2KI.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">She called her husband and said, &#8220;Please send me one of the servants and a donkey so I can go to the man of God quickly and return.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2KI.4.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why go to him today?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;It&#8217;s not the New Moon or the Sabbath.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.4.23"><span class="content">&#8220;That&#8217;s all right,&#8221; she said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.4.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2KI.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">She saddled the donkey and said to her servant, &#8220;Lead on; don&#8217;t slow down for me unless I tell you.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.4.25"><span class="content">When he saw her in the distance, the man of God said to his servant Gehazi, &#8220;Look! There&#8217;s the Shunammite! </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Run to meet her and ask her, &#8216;Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.4.26"><span class="content">&#8220;Everything is all right,&#8221; she said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.4.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2KI.4.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she took hold of his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, &#8220;Leave her alone! She is in bitter distress, but the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has hidden it from me and has not told me why.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2KI.4.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.4.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;Did I ask you for a son, my lord?&#8221; she said. &#8220;Didn&#8217;t I tell you, &#8216;Don&#8217;t raise my hopes&#8217;?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.4.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.4.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Elisha said to Gehazi, &#8220;Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand and run. Don&#8217;t greet anyone you meet, and if anyone greets you, do not answer. Lay my staff on the boy&#8217;s face.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.4.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2KI.4.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">But the child&#8217;s mother said, &#8220;As surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives and as you live, I will not leave you.&#8221; So he got up and followed her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2KI.4.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2KI.4.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the boy&#8217;s face, but there was no sound or response. So Gehazi went back to meet Elisha and told him, &#8220;The boy has not awakened.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2KI.4.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2KI.4.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his couch. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2KI.4.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">He went in, shut the door on the two of them and prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="2KI.4.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Then he got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. As he stretched himself out on him, the boy&#8217;s body grew warm. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="2KI.4.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Elisha turned away and walked back and forth in the room and then got on the bed and stretched out on him once more. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="2KI.4.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="2KI.4.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, &#8220;Call the Shunammite.&#8221; And he did. When she came, he said, &#8220;Take your son.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="2KI.4.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">She came in, fell at his feet and bowed to the ground. Then she took her son and went out.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Death in the Pot</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="2KI.4.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="2KI.4.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Elisha returned to Gilgal and there was a famine in that region. While the company of the prophets was meeting with him, he said to his servant, &#8220;Put on the large pot and cook some stew for these prophets.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="2KI.4.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="2KI.4.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">One of them went out into the fields to gather herbs and found a wild vine and picked as many of its gourds as his garment could hold. When he returned, he cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="2KI.4.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">The stew was poured out for the men, but as they began to eat it, they cried out, &#8220;Man of God, there is death in the pot!&#8221; And they could not eat it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="2KI.4.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="2KI.4.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Elisha said, &#8220;Get some flour.&#8221; He put it into the pot and said, &#8220;Serve it to the people to eat.&#8221; And there was nothing harmful in the pot.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Feeding of a Hundred</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="2KI.4.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="2KI.4.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">A man came from Baal Shalishah, bringing the man of God twenty loaves of barley bread baked from the first ripe grain, along with some heads of new grain. &#8220;Give it to the people to eat,&#8221; Elisha said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="2KI.4.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="2KI.4.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">&#8220;How can I set this before a hundred men?&#8221; his servant asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="2KI.4.43"><span class="content">But Elisha answered, &#8220;Give it to the people to eat. For this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;They will eat and have some left over.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="2KI.4.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">Then he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch1" data-usfm="1TI.1">
         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1TI.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1TI.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1TI.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">To Timothy my true son in the faith:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1TI.1.2"><span class="content">Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Timothy Charged to Oppose False Teachers</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1TI.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1TI.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain people not to teach false doctrines any longer </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1TI.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">or to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. Such things promote controversial speculations rather than advancing God&#8217;s work&#8212;which is by faith. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1TI.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1TI.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Some have departed from these and have turned to meaningless talk. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1TI.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not know what they are talking about or what they so confidently affirm.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1TI.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1TI.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">We know that the law is good if one uses it properly. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1TI.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1TI.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers&#8212;and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1TI.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">that conforms to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Lord&#8217;s Grace to Paul</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1TI.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1TI.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me trustworthy, appointing me to his service. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1TI.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1TI.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The grace of our Lord was poured out on me abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1TI.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1TI.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners&#8212;of whom I am the worst. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1TI.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1TI.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Charge to Timothy Renewed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1TI.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1TI.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Timothy, my son, I am giving you this command in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by recalling them you may fight the battle well, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1TI.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1TI.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch8" data-usfm="DAN.8">
         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Daniel&#8217;s Vision of a Ram and a Goat</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DAN.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the third year of King Belshazzar&#8217;s reign, I, Daniel, had a vision, after the one that had already appeared to me. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DAN.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">In my vision I saw myself in the citadel of Susa in the province of Elam; in the vision I was beside the Ulai Canal. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DAN.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I looked up, and there before me was a ram with two horns, standing beside the canal, and the horns were long. One of the horns was longer than the other but grew up later. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DAN.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I watched the ram as it charged toward the west and the north and the south. No animal could stand against it, and none could rescue from its power. It did as it pleased and became great.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DAN.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DAN.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">As I was thinking about this, suddenly a goat with a prominent horn between its eyes came from the west, crossing the whole earth without touching the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DAN.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">It came toward the two-horned ram I had seen standing beside the canal and charged at it in great rage. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DAN.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I saw it attack the ram furiously, striking the ram and shattering its two horns. The ram was powerless to stand against it; the goat knocked it to the ground and trampled on it, and none could rescue the ram from its power. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DAN.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The goat became very great, but at the height of its power the large horn was broken off, and in its place four prominent horns grew up toward the four winds of heaven.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DAN.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DAN.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Out of one of them came another horn, which started small but grew in power to the south and to the east and toward the Beautiful Land. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DAN.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">It grew until it reached the host of the heavens, and it threw some of the starry host down to the earth and trampled on them. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DAN.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">It set itself up to be as great as the commander of the army of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; it took away the daily sacrifice from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and his sanctuary was thrown down. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DAN.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Because of rebellion, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s people</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">rebellion, the armies</span></span></span><span class="content"> and the daily sacrifice were given over to it. It prospered in everything it did, and truth was thrown to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DAN.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DAN.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, &#8220;How long will it take for the vision to be fulfilled&#8212;the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, the surrender of the sanctuary and the trampling underfoot of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s people?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DAN.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DAN.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He said to me, &#8220;It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be reconsecrated.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Interpretation of the Vision</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DAN.8.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DAN.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and trying to understand it, there before me stood one who looked like a man. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DAN.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And I heard a man&#8217;s voice from the Ulai calling, &#8220;Gabriel, tell this man the meaning of the vision.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DAN.8.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DAN.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">As he came near the place where I was standing, I was terrified and fell prostrate. &#8220;Son of man,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:17 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew phrase <span class="tl">ben adam</span> means </span><span class="fqa">human being. </span><span class="ft">The phrase </span><span class="fq">son of man </span><span class="ft">is retained as a form of address here because of its possible association with &#8220;Son of Man&#8221; in the New Testament.</span></span></span><span class="content"> he said to me, &#8220;understand that the vision concerns the time of the end.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DAN.8.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DAN.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">While he was speaking to me, I was in a deep sleep, with my face to the ground. Then he touched me and raised me to my feet.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DAN.8.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DAN.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He said: &#8220;I am going to tell you what will happen later in the time of wrath, because the vision concerns the appointed time of the end.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">because the end will be at the appointed time</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DAN.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kings of Media and Persia. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The shaggy goat is the king of Greece, and the large horn between its eyes is the first king. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DAN.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The four horns that replaced the one that was broken off represent four kingdoms that will emerge from his nation but will not have the same power.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DAN.8.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DAN.8.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;In the latter part of their reign, when rebels have become completely wicked, a fierce-looking king, a master of intrigue, will arise. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DAN.8.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">He will become very strong, but not by his own power. He will cause astounding devastation and will succeed in whatever he does. He will destroy those who are mighty, the holy people. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DAN.8.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He will cause deceit to prosper, and he will consider himself superior. When they feel secure, he will destroy many and take his stand against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be destroyed, but not by human power.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DAN.8.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DAN.8.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;The vision of the evenings and mornings that has been given you is true, but seal up the vision, for it concerns the distant future.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DAN.8.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="DAN.8.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">I, Daniel, was worn out. I lay exhausted for several days. Then I got up and went about the king&#8217;s business. I was appalled by the vision; it was beyond understanding.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">50</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 50</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of Asaph.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The Mighty One, God, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="content">speaks and summons the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="content">from the rising of the sun to where it sets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.50.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">From Zion, perfect in beauty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.50.2"><span class="content">God shines forth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.50.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Our God comes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">and will not be silent;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">a fire devours before him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">and around him a tempest rages.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.50.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He summons the heavens above,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.50.4"><span class="content">and the earth, that he may judge his people:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.50.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.50.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Gather to me this consecrated people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.50.5"><span class="content">who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.50.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.50.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And the heavens proclaim his righteousness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.50.6"><span class="content">for he is a God of justice.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:6 </span><span class="ft">With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">for God himself is judge</span></span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:6 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.50.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen, my people, and I will speak;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="content">I will testify against you, Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="content">I am God, your God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.50.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I bring no charges against you concerning your sacrifices</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.50.8"><span class="content">or concerning your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.50.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.50.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I have no need of a bull from your stall</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.50.9"><span class="content">or of goats from your pens,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.50.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.50.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">for every animal of the forest is mine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.50.10"><span class="content">and the cattle on a thousand hills.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.50.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.50.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I know every bird in the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.50.11"><span class="content">and the insects in the fields are mine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.50.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.50.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If I were hungry I would not tell you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.50.12"><span class="content">for the world is mine, and all that is in it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.50.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.50.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Do I eat the flesh of bulls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.50.13"><span class="content">or drink the blood of goats?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.50.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.50.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Sacrifice thank offerings to God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.50.14"><span class="content">fulfill your vows to the Most High,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.50.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.50.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and call on me in the day of trouble;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.50.15"><span class="content">I will deliver you, and you will honor me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.50.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But to the wicked person, God says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="content">&#8220;What right have you to recite my laws</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="content">or take my covenant on your lips?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.50.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">You hate my instruction</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.50.17"><span class="content">and cast my words behind you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.50.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.50.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When you see a thief, you join with him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.50.18"><span class="content">you throw in your lot with adulterers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.50.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.50.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You use your mouth for evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.50.19"><span class="content">and harness your tongue to deceit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.50.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.50.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You sit and testify against your brother</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.50.20"><span class="content">and slander your own mother&#8217;s son.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.50.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When you did these things and I kept silent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">you thought I was exactly</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">thought the &#8216;<span class="nd">I am</span>&#8217; was</span></span></span><span class="content"> like you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">But I now arraign you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">and set my accusations before you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.50.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Consider this, you who forget God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.50.22"><span class="content">or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.50.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.50.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Those who sacrifice thank offerings honor me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.50.23"><span class="content">and to the blameless</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:23 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; the meaning of the Masoretic Text for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> I will show my salvation.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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