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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 7:1-13 is numbered 7:2-14.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">How beautiful your sandaled feet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.7.1"><span class="content">O prince&#8217;s daughter!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.7.1"><span class="content">Your graceful legs are like jewels,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.7.1"><span class="content">the work of an artist&#8217;s hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Your navel is a rounded goblet</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.7.2"><span class="content">that never lacks blended wine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.7.2"><span class="content">Your waist is a mound of wheat</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.7.2"><span class="content">encircled by lilies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Your breasts are like two fawns,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.7.3"><span class="content">like twin fawns of a gazelle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Your neck is like an ivory tower.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.7.4"><span class="content">Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.7.4"><span class="content">by the gate of Bath Rabbim.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.7.4"><span class="content">Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.7.4"><span class="content">looking toward Damascus.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.7.5"><span class="content">Your hair is like royal tapestry;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.7.5"><span class="content">the king is held captive by its tresses.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">How beautiful you are and how pleasing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.7.6"><span class="content">my love, with your delights!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Your stature is like that of the palm,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.7.7"><span class="content">and your breasts like clusters of fruit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I said, &#8220;I will climb the palm tree;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.7.8"><span class="content">I will take hold of its fruit.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.7.8"><span class="content">May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.7.8"><span class="content">the fragrance of your breath like apples,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">and your mouth like the best wine.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">She</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.7.9"><span class="content">May the wine go straight to my beloved,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.7.9"><span class="content">flowing gently over lips and teeth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:9 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint, Aquila, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">lips of sleepers</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I belong to my beloved,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.7.10"><span class="content">and his desire is for me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.7.11"><span class="content">let us spend the night in the villages.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the henna bushes</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Let us go early to the vineyards</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.7.12"><span class="content">to see if the vines have budded,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.7.12"><span class="content">if their blossoms have opened,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.7.12"><span class="content">and if the pomegranates are in bloom&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.7.12"><span class="content">there I will give you my love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The mandrakes send out their fragrance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.7.13"><span class="content">and at our door is every delicacy,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.7.13"><span class="content">both new and old,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.7.13"><span class="content">that I have stored up for you, my beloved.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch3" data-usfm="AMO.3">
         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Witnesses Summoned Against Israel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear this word, people of Israel, the word the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken against you&#8212;against the whole family I brought up out of Egypt:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;You only have I chosen</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.3.2"><span class="content">of all the families of the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.3.2"><span class="content">therefore I will punish you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.3.2"><span class="content">for all your sins.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Do two walk together</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.3.3"><span class="content">unless they have agreed to do so?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Does a lion roar in the thicket</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.3.4"><span class="content">when it has no prey?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.3.4"><span class="content">Does it growl in its den</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.3.4"><span class="content">when it has caught nothing?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Does a bird swoop down to a trap on the ground</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.3.5"><span class="content">when no bait is there?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.3.5"><span class="content">Does a trap spring up from the ground</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.3.5"><span class="content">if it has not caught anything?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When a trumpet sounds in a city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.3.6"><span class="content">do not the people tremble?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.3.6"><span class="content">When disaster comes to a city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.3.6"><span class="content">has not the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> caused it?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Surely the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> does nothing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.3.7"><span class="content">without revealing his plan</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.3.7"><span class="content">to his servants the prophets.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The lion has roared&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.3.8"><span class="content">who will not fear?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.3.8"><span class="content">The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.3.8"><span class="content">who can but prophesy?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Proclaim to the fortresses of Ashdod</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.3.9"><span class="content">and to the fortresses of Egypt:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.3.9"><span class="content">&#8220;Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.3.9"><span class="content">see the great unrest within her</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.3.9"><span class="content">and the oppression among her people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;They do not know how to do right,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.3.10"><span class="content">&#8220;who store up in their fortresses</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.3.10"><span class="content">what they have plundered and looted.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Therefore 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 v11" data-usfm="AMO.3.11"><span class="content">&#8220;An enemy will overrun your land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.3.11"><span class="content">pull down your strongholds</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.3.11"><span class="content">and plunder your fortresses.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">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 v12" data-usfm="AMO.3.12"><span class="content">&#8220;As a shepherd rescues from the lion&#8217;s mouth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.3.12"><span class="content">only two leg bones or a piece of an ear,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.3.12"><span class="content">so will the Israelites living in Samaria be rescued,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.3.12"><span class="content">with only the head of a bed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.3.12"><span class="content">and a piece of fabric</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:12 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> from a couch.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Israelites be rescued, / those who sit in Samaria / on the edge of their beds / and in Damascus on their couches.</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Hear this and testify against the descendants of Jacob,&#8221; declares the Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;On the day I punish Israel for her sins,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.3.14"><span class="content">I will destroy the altars of Bethel;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.3.14"><span class="content">the horns of the altar will be cut off</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.3.14"><span class="content">and fall to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I will tear down the winter house</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.3.15"><span class="content">along with the summer house;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.3.15"><span class="content">the houses adorned with ivory will be destroyed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.3.15"><span class="content">and the mansions will be demolished,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.3.15"><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">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel Has Not Returned to God</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.4.1"><span class="content">you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.4.1"><span class="content">and say to your husbands, &#8220;Bring us some drinks!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has sworn by his holiness:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.4.2"><span class="content">&#8220;The time will surely come</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.4.2"><span class="content">when you will be taken away with hooks,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.4.2"><span class="content">the last of you with fishhooks.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">away in baskets, / the last of you in fish baskets</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You will each go straight out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.4.3"><span class="content">through breaches in the wall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.4.3"><span class="content">and you will be cast out toward Harmon,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:3 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; with a different word division of the Hebrew (see Septuagint) </span><span class="fqa">out, you mountain of oppression</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.4.3"><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 v3" data-usfm="AMO.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go to Bethel and sin;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.4.4"><span class="content">go to Gilgal and sin yet more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.4.4"><span class="content">Bring your sacrifices every morning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.4.4"><span class="content">your tithes every three years.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">days</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Burn leavened bread as a thank offering</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.4.5"><span class="content">and brag about your freewill offerings&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.4.5"><span class="content">boast about them, you Israelites,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.4.5"><span class="content">for this is what you love to do,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.4.5"><span class="content">declares the Sovereign </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 v5" data-usfm="AMO.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;I gave you empty stomachs in every city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.4.6"><span class="content">and lack of bread in every town,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.4.6"><span class="content">yet you have not returned to me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.4.6"><span class="content">declares 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="AMO.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;I also withheld rain from you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="content">when the harvest was still three months away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="content">I sent rain on one town,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="content">but withheld it from another.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="content">One field had rain;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="content">another had none and dried up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">People staggered from town to town for water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.4.8"><span class="content">but did not get enough to drink,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.4.8"><span class="content">yet you have not returned to me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.4.8"><span class="content">declares 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 v8" data-usfm="AMO.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.4.9"><span class="content">destroying them with blight and mildew.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.4.9"><span class="content">Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.4.9"><span class="content">yet you have not returned to me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.4.9"><span class="content">declares 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 v9" data-usfm="AMO.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;I sent plagues among you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">as I did to Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">I killed your young men with the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">along with your captured horses.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">yet you have not returned to me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">declares 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 v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;I overthrew some of you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.4.11"><span class="content">as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.4.11"><span class="content">You were like a burning stick snatched from the fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.4.11"><span class="content">yet you have not returned to me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.4.11"><span class="content">declares 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 v11" data-usfm="AMO.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.4.12"><span class="content">and because I will do this to you, Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.4.12"><span class="content">prepare to meet your God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He who forms the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.4.13"><span class="content">who creates the wind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.4.13"><span class="content">and who reveals his thoughts to mankind,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.4.13"><span class="content">who turns dawn to darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.4.13"><span class="content">and treads on the heights of the earth&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.4.13"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty is his name.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">16</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Seven Bowls of God&#8217;s Wrath</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, &#8220;Go, pour out the seven bowls of God&#8217;s wrath on the earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.16.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly, festering sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.16.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead person, and every living thing in the sea died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.16.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters say:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.16.5"><span class="content">&#8220;You are just in these judgments, O Holy One,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.16.5"><span class="content">you who are and who were;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.16.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">for they have shed the blood of your holy people and your prophets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.16.6"><span class="content">and you have given them blood to drink as they deserve.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.16.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And I heard the altar respond:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.16.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, Lord God Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.16.7"><span class="content">true and just are your judgments.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.16.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was allowed to scorch people with fire. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.16.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in agony </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, but they refused to repent of what they had done.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.16.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then I saw three impure spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They are demonic spirits that perform signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.16.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Look, I come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and remains clothed, so as not to go naked and be shamefully exposed.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.16.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.16.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.16.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, &#8220;It is done!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.16.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since mankind has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="REV.16.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="REV.16.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="REV.16.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">From the sky huge hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:21 </span><span class="ft">Or about 45 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> fell on people. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible.</span></span></div>
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