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   <div class="book bkEPH">
      <div class="chapter ch3" data-usfm="EPH.3">
         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Marvelous Plan for the Gentiles</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EPH.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EPH.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EPH.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Surely you have heard about the administration of God&#8217;s grace that was given to me for you, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EPH.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">that is, the mystery made known to me by revelation, as I have already written briefly. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EPH.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In reading this, then, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EPH.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">which was not made known to people in other generations as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to God&#8217;s holy apostles and prophets. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EPH.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EPH.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EPH.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God&#8217;s grace given me through the working of his power. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EPH.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Although I am less than the least of all the Lord&#8217;s people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the boundless riches of Christ, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EPH.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EPH.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EPH.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">according to his eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EPH.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EPH.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prayer for the Ephesians</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EPH.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EPH.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For this reason I kneel before the Father, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EPH.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">from whom every family</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:15 </span><span class="ft">The Greek for </span><span class="fq">family </span><span class="ft">(patria) is derived from the Greek for father (<span class="tl">pater</span>).</span></span></span><span class="content"> in heaven and on earth derives its name. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EPH.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EPH.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EPH.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">may have power, together with all the Lord&#8217;s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EPH.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">and to know this love that surpasses knowledge&#8212;that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EPH.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EPH.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EPH.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch8" data-usfm="EZK.8">
         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Idolatry in the Temple</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the sixth year, in the sixth month on the fifth day, while I was sitting in my house and the elders of Judah were sitting before me, the hand of the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came on me there. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I looked, and I saw a figure like that of a man.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">saw a fiery figure</span></span></span><span class="content"> From what appeared to be his waist down he was like fire, and from there up his appearance was as bright as glowing metal. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. The Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and in visions of God he took me to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes to jealousy stood. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And there before me was the glory of the God of Israel, as in the vision I had seen in the plain.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then he said to me, &#8220;Son of man, look toward the north.&#8221; So I looked, and in the entrance north of the gate of the altar I saw this idol of jealousy.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And he said to me, &#8220;Son of man, do you see what they are doing&#8212;the utterly detestable things the Israelites are doing here, things that will drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see things that are even more detestable.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then he brought me to the entrance to the court. I looked, and I saw a hole in the wall. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He said to me, &#8220;Son of man, now dig into the wall.&#8221; So I dug into the wall and saw a doorway there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And he said to me, &#8220;Go in and see the wicked and detestable things they are doing here.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So I went in and looked, and I saw portrayed all over the walls all kinds of crawling things and unclean animals and all the idols of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">In front of them stood seventy elders of Israel, and Jaazaniah son of Shaphan was standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He said to me, &#8220;Son of man, have you seen what the elders of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? They say, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> does not see us; the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has forsaken the land.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Again, he said, &#8220;You will see them doing things that are even more detestable.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and I saw women sitting there, mourning the god Tammuz. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He said to me, &#8220;Do you see this, son of man? You will see things that are even more detestable than this.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.8.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He then brought me into the inner court of the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and there at the entrance to the temple, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men. With their backs toward the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and their faces toward the east, they were bowing down to the sun in the east.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.8.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He said to me, &#8220;Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a trivial matter for the people of Judah to do the detestable things they are doing here? Must they also fill the land with violence and continually arouse my anger? Look at them putting the branch to their nose! </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Therefore I will deal with them in anger; I will not look on them with pity or spare them. Although they shout in my ears, I will not listen to them.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch9" data-usfm="EZK.9">
         <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judgment on the Idolaters</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then I heard him call out in a loud voice, &#8220;Bring near those who are appointed to execute judgment on the city, each with a weapon in his hand.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And I saw six men coming from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with a deadly weapon in his hand. With them was a man clothed in linen who had a writing kit at his side. They came in and stood beside the bronze altar.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now the glory of the God of Israel went up from above the cherubim, where it had been, and moved to the threshold of the temple. Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> called to the man clothed in linen who had the writing kit at his side </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">and said to him, &#8220;Go throughout the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of those who grieve and lament over all the detestable things that are done in it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">As I listened, he said to the others, &#8220;Follow him through the city and kill, without showing pity or compassion. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Slaughter the old men, the young men and women, the mothers and children, but do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.&#8221; So they began with the old men who were in front of the temple.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then he said to them, &#8220;Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go!&#8221; So they went out and began killing throughout the city. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">While they were killing and I was left alone, I fell facedown, crying out, &#8220;Alas, Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">! Are you going to destroy the entire remnant of Israel in this outpouring of your wrath on Jerusalem?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He answered me, &#8220;The sin of the people of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of injustice. They say, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has forsaken the land; the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> does not see.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So I will not look on them with pity or spare them, but I will bring down on their own heads what they have done.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then the man in linen with the writing kit at his side brought back word, saying, &#8220;I have done as you commanded.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch41" data-usfm="ISA.41">
         <div class="label">41</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Helper of Israel</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.41.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Be silent before me, you islands!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.41.1"><span class="content">Let the nations renew their strength!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.41.1"><span class="content">Let them come forward and speak;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.41.1"><span class="content">let us meet together at the place of judgment.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.41.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.41.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Who has stirred up one from the east,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.41.2"><span class="content">calling him in righteousness to his service</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">41:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">east, / whom victory meets at every step</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.41.2"><span class="content">He hands nations over to him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.41.2"><span class="content">and subdues kings before him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.41.2"><span class="content">He turns them to dust with his sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.41.2"><span class="content">to windblown chaff with his bow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.41.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.41.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He pursues them and moves on unscathed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.41.3"><span class="content">by a path his feet have not traveled before.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.41.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.41.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Who has done this and carried it through,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.41.4"><span class="content">calling forth the generations from the beginning?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.41.4"><span class="content">I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;with the first of them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.41.4"><span class="content">and with the last&#8212;I am he.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.41.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.41.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The islands have seen it and fear;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.41.5"><span class="content">the ends of the earth tremble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.41.5"><span class="content">They approach and come forward;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.41.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.41.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">they help each other</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.41.6"><span class="content">and say to their companions, &#8220;Be strong!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.41.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.41.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The metalworker encourages the goldsmith,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.41.7"><span class="content">and the one who smooths with the hammer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.41.7"><span class="content">spurs on the one who strikes the anvil.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.41.7"><span class="content">One says of the welding, &#8220;It is good.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.41.7"><span class="content">The other nails down the idol so it will not topple.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.41.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.41.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;But you, Israel, my servant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.41.8"><span class="content">Jacob, whom I have chosen,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.41.8"><span class="content">you descendants of Abraham my friend,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.41.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.41.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I took you from the ends of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.41.9"><span class="content">from its farthest corners I called you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.41.9"><span class="content">I said, &#8216;You are my servant&#8217;;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.41.9"><span class="content">I have chosen you and have not rejected you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.41.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.41.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So do not fear, for I am with you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.41.10"><span class="content">do not be dismayed, for I am your God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.41.10"><span class="content">I will strengthen you and help you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.41.10"><span class="content">I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.41.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.41.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;All who rage against you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.41.11"><span class="content">will surely be ashamed and disgraced;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.41.11"><span class="content">those who oppose you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.41.11"><span class="content">will be as nothing and perish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.41.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.41.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Though you search for your enemies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.41.12"><span class="content">you will not find them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.41.12"><span class="content">Those who wage war against you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.41.12"><span class="content">will be as nothing at all.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.41.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.41.13"><span class="label">13</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 v13" data-usfm="ISA.41.13"><span class="content">who takes hold of your right hand</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.41.13"><span class="content">and says to you, Do not fear;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.41.13"><span class="content">I will help you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.41.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.41.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Do not be afraid, you worm Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.41.14"><span class="content">little Israel, do not fear,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.41.14"><span class="content">for I myself will help you,&#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 v14" data-usfm="ISA.41.14"><span class="content">your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.41.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.41.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, I will make you into a threshing sledge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.41.15"><span class="content">new and sharp, with many teeth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.41.15"><span class="content">You will thresh the mountains and crush them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.41.15"><span class="content">and reduce the hills to chaff.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.41.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.41.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">You will winnow them, the wind will pick them up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.41.16"><span class="content">and a gale will blow them away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.41.16"><span class="content">But you will rejoice in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.41.16"><span class="content">and glory in the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.41.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.41.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;The poor and needy search for water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.41.17"><span class="content">but there is none;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.41.17"><span class="content">their tongues are parched with thirst.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.41.17"><span class="content">But I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will answer them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.41.17"><span class="content">I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.41.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.41.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I will make rivers flow on barren heights,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.41.18"><span class="content">and springs within the valleys.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.41.18"><span class="content">I will turn the desert into pools of water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.41.18"><span class="content">and the parched ground into springs.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.41.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.41.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I will put in the desert</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.41.19"><span class="content">the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.41.19"><span class="content">I will set junipers in the wasteland,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.41.19"><span class="content">the fir and the cypress together,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.41.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.41.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">so that people may see and know,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.41.20"><span class="content">may consider and understand,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.41.20"><span class="content">that the hand of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has done this,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.41.20"><span class="content">that the Holy One of Israel has created it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.41.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.41.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Present your case,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.41.21"><span class="content">&#8220;Set forth your arguments,&#8221; says Jacob&#8217;s King.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.41.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.41.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Tell us, you idols,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.41.22"><span class="content">what is going to happen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.41.22"><span class="content">Tell us what the former things were,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.41.22"><span class="content">so that we may consider them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.41.22"><span class="content">and know their final outcome.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.41.22"><span class="content">Or declare to us the things to come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.41.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.41.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">tell us what the future holds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.41.23"><span class="content">so we may know that you are gods.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.41.23"><span class="content">Do something, whether good or bad,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.41.23"><span class="content">so that we will be dismayed and filled with fear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.41.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.41.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But you are less than nothing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.41.24"><span class="content">and your works are utterly worthless;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.41.24"><span class="content">whoever chooses you is detestable.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.41.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.41.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have stirred up one from the north, and he comes&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.41.25"><span class="content">one from the rising sun who calls on my name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.41.25"><span class="content">He treads on rulers as if they were mortar,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.41.25"><span class="content">as if he were a potter treading the clay.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.41.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.41.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Who told of this from the beginning, so we could know,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.41.26"><span class="content">or beforehand, so we could say, &#8216;He was right&#8217;?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.41.26"><span class="content">No one told of this,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.41.26"><span class="content">no one foretold it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.41.26"><span class="content">no one heard any words from you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.41.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.41.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">I was the first to tell Zion, &#8216;Look, here they are!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.41.27"><span class="content">I gave to Jerusalem a messenger of good news.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.41.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.41.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">I look but there is no one&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.41.28"><span class="content">no one among the gods to give counsel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.41.28"><span class="content">no one to give answer when I ask them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.41.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ISA.41.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">See, they are all false!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ISA.41.29"><span class="content">Their deeds amount to nothing;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ISA.41.29"><span class="content">their images are but wind and confusion.</span></span></div>
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