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         <div class="label">129</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 129</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A song of ascents.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.129.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;They have greatly oppressed me from my youth,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.129.1"><span class="content">let Israel say;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.129.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.129.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;they have greatly oppressed me from my youth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.129.2"><span class="content">but they have not gained the victory over me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.129.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.129.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Plowmen have plowed my back</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.129.3"><span class="content">and made their furrows long.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.129.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.129.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is righteous;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.129.4"><span class="content">he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.129.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.129.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">May all who hate Zion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.129.5"><span class="content">be turned back in shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.129.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.129.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">May they be like grass on the roof,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.129.6"><span class="content">which withers before it can grow;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.129.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.129.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">a reaper cannot fill his hands with it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.129.7"><span class="content">nor one who gathers fill his arms.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.129.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.129.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">May those who pass by not say to them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.129.8"><span class="content">&#8220;The blessing of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> be on you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.129.8"><span class="content">we bless you in the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">130</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 130</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A song of ascents.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.130.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Out of the depths I cry to you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.130.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.130.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Lord, hear my voice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.130.2"><span class="content">Let your ears be attentive</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.130.2"><span class="content">to my cry for mercy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.130.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.130.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">If you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, kept a record of sins,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.130.3"><span class="content">Lord, who could stand?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.130.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.130.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But with you there is forgiveness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.130.4"><span class="content">so that we can, with reverence, serve you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.130.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.130.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I wait for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my whole being waits,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.130.5"><span class="content">and in his word I put my hope.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.130.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.130.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I wait for the Lord</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.130.6"><span class="content">more than watchmen wait for the morning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.130.6"><span class="content">more than watchmen wait for the morning.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.130.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.130.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Israel, put your hope in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.130.7"><span class="content">for with the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is unfailing love</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.130.7"><span class="content">and with him is full redemption.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.130.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.130.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He himself will redeem Israel</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.130.8"><span class="content">from all their sins.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">131</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 131</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A song of ascents. Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.131.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My heart is not proud, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.131.1"><span class="content">my eyes are not haughty;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.131.1"><span class="content">I do not concern myself with great matters</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.131.1"><span class="content">or things too wonderful for me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.131.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.131.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But I have calmed and quieted myself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.131.2"><span class="content">I am like a weaned child with its mother;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.131.2"><span class="content">like a weaned child I am content.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.131.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.131.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Israel, put your hope in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.131.3"><span class="content">both now and forevermore.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">25</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Ammon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.25.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.25.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, set your face against the Ammonites and prophesy against them. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.25.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Say to them, &#8216;Hear the word of the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Because you said &#8220;Aha!&#8221; over my sanctuary when it was desecrated and over the land of Israel when it was laid waste and over the people of Judah when they went into exile, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.25.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">therefore I am going to give you to the people of the East as a possession. They will set up their camps and pitch their tents among you; they will eat your fruit and drink your milk. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.25.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I will turn Rabbah into a pasture for camels and Ammon into a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.25.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet, rejoicing with all the malice of your heart against the land of Israel, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.25.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">therefore I will stretch out my hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will wipe you out from among the nations and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Moab</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.25.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.25.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;Because Moab and Seir said, &#8220;Look, Judah has become like all the other nations,&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.25.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">therefore I will expose the flank of Moab, beginning at its frontier towns&#8212;Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon and Kiriathaim&#8212;the glory of that land. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.25.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I will give Moab along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, so that the Ammonites will not be remembered among the nations; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.25.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and I will inflict punishment on Moab. Then they will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Edom</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.25.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.25.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;Because Edom took revenge on Judah and became very guilty by doing so, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.25.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">therefore this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom and kill both man and beast. I will lay it waste, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.25.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I will take vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they will deal with Edom in accordance with my anger and my wrath; they will know my vengeance, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Philistia</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.25.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.25.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;Because the Philistines acted in vengeance and took revenge with malice in their hearts, and with ancient hostility sought to destroy Judah, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.25.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">therefore this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will wipe out the Kerethites and destroy those remaining along the coast. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.25.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I will carry out great vengeance on them and punish them in my wrath. Then they will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, when I take vengeance on them.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">26</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Tyre</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.26.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the eleventh month of the twelfth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:1 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text does not have </span><span class="fq">month of the twelfth</span><span class="ft">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> year, on the first day of the month, the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.26.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, &#8216;Aha! The gate to the nations is broken, and its doors have swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will prosper,&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.26.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">therefore this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the sea casting up its waves. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.26.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They will destroy the walls of Tyre and pull down her towers; I will scrape away her rubble and make her a bare rock. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.26.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Out in the sea she will become a place to spread fishnets, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. She will become plunder for the nations, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.26.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and her settlements on the mainland will be ravaged by the sword. Then they will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.26.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.26.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;For this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: From the north I am going to bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:7 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Nebuchadrezzar, </span><span class="ft">of which </span><span class="fqa">Nebuchadnezzar </span><span class="ft">is a variant; here and often in Ezekiel and Jeremiah</span></span></span><span class="content"> king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with horsemen and a great army. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.26.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He will ravage your settlements on the mainland with the sword; he will set up siege works against you, build a ramp up to your walls and raise his shields against you. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.26.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and demolish your towers with his weapons. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.26.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">His horses will be so many that they will cover you with dust. Your walls will tremble at the noise of the warhorses, wagons and chariots when he enters your gates as men enter a city whose walls have been broken through. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.26.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The hooves of his horses will trample all your streets; he will kill your people with the sword, and your strong pillars will fall to the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.26.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They will plunder your wealth and loot your merchandise; they will break down your walls and demolish your fine houses and throw your stones, timber and rubble into the sea. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.26.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I will put an end to your noisy songs, and the music of your harps will be heard no more. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.26.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread fishnets. You will never be rebuilt, for I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> have spoken, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.26.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.26.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to Tyre: Will not the coastlands tremble at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan and the slaughter takes place in you? </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.26.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then all the princes of the coast will step down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and take off their embroidered garments. Clothed with terror, they will sit on the ground, trembling every moment, appalled at you. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.26.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then they will take up a lament concerning you and say to you:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.26.17"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;How you are destroyed, city of renown,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.26.17"><span class="content">peopled by men of the sea!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.26.17"><span class="content">You were a power on the seas,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.26.17"><span class="content">you and your citizens;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.26.17"><span class="content">you put your terror</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.26.17"><span class="content">on all who lived there.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.26.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.26.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Now the coastlands tremble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.26.18"><span class="content">on the day of your fall;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.26.18"><span class="content">the islands in the sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.26.18"><span class="content">are terrified at your collapse.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.26.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.26.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: When I make you a desolate city, like cities no longer inhabited, and when I bring the ocean depths over you and its vast waters cover you, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.26.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of long ago. I will make you dwell in the earth below, as in ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pit, and you will not return or take your place</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">26:20 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">return, and I will give glory</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the land of the living. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.26.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">I will bring you to a horrible end and you will be no more. You will be sought, but you will never again be found, declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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