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         <div class="label">60</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 60</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 60:1-12 is numbered 60:3-14.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. To the tune of &#8220;The Lily of the Covenant.&#8221; A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">miktam</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of David. For teaching. When he fought Aram Naharaim</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: That is, Arameans of Northwest Mesopotamia</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Aram Zobah,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: That is, Arameans of central Syria</span></span></span><span class="content"> and when Joab returned and struck down twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.60.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">You have rejected us, God, and burst upon us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.60.1"><span class="content">you have been angry&#8212;now restore us!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.60.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.60.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You have shaken the land and torn it open;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.60.2"><span class="content">mend its fractures, for it is quaking.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.60.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.60.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You have shown your people desperate times;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.60.3"><span class="content">you have given us wine that makes us stagger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.60.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.60.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But for those who fear you, you have raised a banner</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.60.4"><span class="content">to be unfurled against the bow.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">60:4 </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 v4" data-usfm="PSA.60.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.60.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Save us and help us with your right hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.60.5"><span class="content">that those you love may be delivered.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.60.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.60.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">God has spoken from his sanctuary:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.60.6"><span class="content">&#8220;In triumph I will parcel out Shechem</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.60.6"><span class="content">and measure off the Valley of Sukkoth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.60.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.60.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.60.7"><span class="content">Ephraim is my helmet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.60.7"><span class="content">Judah is my scepter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.60.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.60.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Moab is my washbasin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.60.8"><span class="content">on Edom I toss my sandal;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.60.8"><span class="content">over Philistia I shout in triumph.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.60.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.60.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Who will bring me to the fortified city?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.60.9"><span class="content">Who will lead me to Edom?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.60.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.60.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Is it not you, God, you who have now rejected us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.60.10"><span class="content">and no longer go out with our armies?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.60.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.60.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Give us aid against the enemy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.60.11"><span class="content">for human help is worthless.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.60.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.60.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">With God we will gain the victory,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.60.12"><span class="content">and he will trample down our enemies.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">61</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 61</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 61:1-8 is numbered 61:2-9.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. With stringed instruments. Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.61.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear my cry, O God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.61.1"><span class="content">listen to my prayer.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.61.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.61.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">From the ends of the earth I call to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.61.2"><span class="content">I call as my heart grows faint;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.61.2"><span class="content">lead me to the rock that is higher than I.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.61.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.61.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For you have been my refuge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.61.3"><span class="content">a strong tower against the foe.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.61.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.61.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I long to dwell in your tent forever</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.61.4"><span class="content">and take refuge in the shelter of your wings.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">61:4 </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="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.61.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.61.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For you, God, have heard my vows;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.61.5"><span class="content">you have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.61.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.61.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Increase the days of the king&#8217;s life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.61.6"><span class="content">his years for many generations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.61.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.61.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">May he be enthroned in God&#8217;s presence forever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.61.7"><span class="content">appoint your love and faithfulness to protect him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.61.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.61.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then I will ever sing in praise of your name</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.61.8"><span class="content">and fulfill my vows day after day.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EST.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the edict commanded by the king was to be carried out. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but now the tables were turned and the Jews got the upper hand over those who hated them. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EST.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The Jews assembled in their cities in all the provinces of King Xerxes to attack those determined to destroy them. No one could stand against them, because the people of all the other nationalities were afraid of them. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EST.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And all the nobles of the provinces, the satraps, the governors and the king&#8217;s administrators helped the Jews, because fear of Mordecai had seized them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EST.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Mordecai was prominent in the palace; his reputation spread throughout the provinces, and he became more and more powerful.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EST.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EST.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Jews struck down all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them, and they did what they pleased to those who hated them. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EST.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EST.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They also killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EST.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EST.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai and Vaizatha, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EST.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">the ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews. But they did not lay their hands on the plunder.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EST.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EST.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The number of those killed in the citadel of Susa was reported to the king that same day. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EST.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The king said to Queen Esther, &#8220;The Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman in the citadel of Susa. What have they done in the rest of the king&#8217;s provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given you. What is your request? It will also be granted.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EST.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EST.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;If it pleases the king,&#8221; Esther answered, &#8220;give the Jews in Susa permission to carry out this day&#8217;s edict tomorrow also, and let Haman&#8217;s ten sons be impaled on poles.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EST.9.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EST.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued in Susa, and they impaled the ten sons of Haman. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EST.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The Jews in Susa came together on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they put to death in Susa three hundred men, but they did not lay their hands on the plunder.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EST.9.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EST.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Meanwhile, the remainder of the Jews who were in the king&#8217;s provinces also assembled to protect themselves and get relief from their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand of them but did not lay their hands on the plunder. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EST.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">This happened on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth they rested and made it a day of feasting and joy.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EST.9.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EST.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and fourteenth, and then on the fifteenth they rested and made it a day of feasting and joy.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EST.9.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EST.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">That is why rural Jews&#8212;those living in villages&#8212;observe the fourteenth of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting, a day for giving presents to each other.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Purim Established</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EST.9.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EST.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters to all the Jews throughout the provinces of King Xerxes, near and far, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EST.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">to have them celebrate annually the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EST.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">as the time when the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month when their sorrow was turned into joy and their mourning into a day of celebration. He wrote them to observe the days as days of feasting and joy and giving presents of food to one another and gifts to the poor.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EST.9.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EST.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So the Jews agreed to continue the celebration they had begun, doing what Mordecai had written to them. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EST.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">pur</span></span><span class="content"> (that is, the lot) for their ruin and destruction. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EST.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">But when the plot came to the king&#8217;s attention,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">when Esther came before the king</span></span></span><span class="content"> he issued written orders that the evil scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back onto his own head, and that he and his sons should be impaled on poles. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EST.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">(Therefore these days were called Purim, from the word </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">pur</span></span><span class="content">.) Because of everything written in this letter and because of what they had seen and what had happened to them, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EST.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">the Jews took it on themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should without fail observe these two days every year, in the way prescribed and at the time appointed. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EST.9.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">These days should be remembered and observed in every generation by every family, and in every province and in every city. And these days of Purim should never fail to be celebrated by the Jews&#8212;nor should the memory of these days die out among their descendants.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EST.9.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EST.9.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">So Queen Esther, daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EST.9.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">And Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews in the 127 provinces of Xerxes&#8217; kingdom&#8212;words of goodwill and assurance&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EST.9.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">to establish these days of Purim at their designated times, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had decreed for them, and as they had established for themselves and their descendants in regard to their times of fasting and lamentation. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EST.9.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Esther&#8217;s decree confirmed these regulations about Purim, and it was written down in the records.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Greatness of Mordecai</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EST.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">King Xerxes imposed tribute throughout the empire, to its distant shores. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EST.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And all his acts of power and might, together with a full account of the greatness of Mordecai, whom the king had promoted, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Media and Persia? </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EST.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews, and held in high esteem by his many fellow Jews, because he worked for the good of his people and spoke up for the welfare of all the Jews.</span></span></div>
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