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         <div class="label">44</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 44</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 44:1-26 is numbered 44:2-27.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil.</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></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.44.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">We have heard it with our ears, O God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.44.1"><span class="content">our ancestors have told us</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.44.1"><span class="content">what you did in their days,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.44.1"><span class="content">in days long ago.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.44.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.44.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">With your hand you drove out the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.44.2"><span class="content">and planted our ancestors;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.44.2"><span class="content">you crushed the peoples</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.44.2"><span class="content">and made our ancestors flourish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.44.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.44.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">It was not by their sword that they won the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.44.3"><span class="content">nor did their arm bring them victory;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.44.3"><span class="content">it was your right hand, your arm,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.44.3"><span class="content">and the light of your face, for you loved them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.44.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.44.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You are my King and my God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.44.4"><span class="content">who decrees</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">44:4 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint, Aquila and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">King, O God; / command</span></span></span><span class="content"> victories for Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.44.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.44.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Through you we push back our enemies;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.44.5"><span class="content">through your name we trample our foes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.44.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.44.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I put no trust in my bow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.44.6"><span class="content">my sword does not bring me victory;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.44.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.44.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">but you give us victory over our enemies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.44.7"><span class="content">you put our adversaries to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.44.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.44.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In God we make our boast all day long,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.44.8"><span class="content">and we will praise your name forever.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">44:8 </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 v8" data-usfm="PSA.44.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.44.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But now you have rejected and humbled us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.44.9"><span class="content">you no longer go out with our armies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.44.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.44.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You made us retreat before the enemy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.44.10"><span class="content">and our adversaries have plundered us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.44.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.44.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You gave us up to be devoured like sheep</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.44.11"><span class="content">and have scattered us among the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.44.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.44.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You sold your people for a pittance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.44.12"><span class="content">gaining nothing from their sale.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.44.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.44.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You have made us a reproach to our neighbors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.44.13"><span class="content">the scorn and derision of those around us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.44.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.44.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">You have made us a byword among the nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.44.14"><span class="content">the peoples shake their heads at us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.44.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.44.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I live in disgrace all day long,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.44.15"><span class="content">and my face is covered with shame</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.44.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.44.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">at the taunts of those who reproach and revile me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.44.16"><span class="content">because of the enemy, who is bent on revenge.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.44.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.44.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">All this came upon us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.44.17"><span class="content">though we had not forgotten you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.44.17"><span class="content">we had not been false to your covenant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.44.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.44.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Our hearts had not turned back;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.44.18"><span class="content">our feet had not strayed from your path.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.44.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.44.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.44.19"><span class="content">you covered us over with deep darkness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.44.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.44.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">If we had forgotten the name of our God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.44.20"><span class="content">or spread out our hands to a foreign god,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.44.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.44.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">would not God have discovered it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.44.21"><span class="content">since he knows the secrets of the heart?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.44.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.44.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Yet for your sake we face death all day long;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.44.22"><span class="content">we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.44.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.44.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Awake, Lord! Why do you sleep?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.44.23"><span class="content">Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.44.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.44.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Why do you hide your face</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.44.24"><span class="content">and forget our misery and oppression?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.44.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.44.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">We are brought down to the dust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.44.25"><span class="content">our bodies cling to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.44.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.44.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Rise up and help us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.44.26"><span class="content">rescue us because of your unfailing love.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">45</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 45</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 45:1-17 is numbered 45:2-18.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. To the tune of &#8220;Lilies.&#8221; Of the Sons of Korah. A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil.</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"> A wedding song.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.45.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My heart is stirred by a noble theme</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.45.1"><span class="content">as I recite my verses for the king;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.45.1"><span class="content">my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.45.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.45.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You are the most excellent of men</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.45.2"><span class="content">and your lips have been anointed with grace,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.45.2"><span class="content">since God has blessed you forever.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.45.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.45.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Gird your sword on your side, you mighty one;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.45.3"><span class="content">clothe yourself with splendor and majesty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.45.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.45.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In your majesty ride forth victoriously</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.45.4"><span class="content">in the cause of truth, humility and justice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.45.4"><span class="content">let your right hand achieve awesome deeds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.45.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.45.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Let your sharp arrows pierce the hearts of the king&#8217;s enemies;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.45.5"><span class="content">let the nations fall beneath your feet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.45.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.45.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Your throne, O God,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">45:6 </span><span class="ft">Here the king is addressed as God&#8217;s representative.</span></span></span><span class="content"> will last for ever and ever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.45.6"><span class="content">a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.45.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.45.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You love righteousness and hate wickedness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.45.7"><span class="content">therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.45.7"><span class="content">by anointing you with the oil of joy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.45.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.45.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">All your robes are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.45.8"><span class="content">from palaces adorned with ivory</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.45.8"><span class="content">the music of the strings makes you glad.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.45.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.45.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Daughters of kings are among your honored women;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.45.9"><span class="content">at your right hand is the royal bride in gold of Ophir.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.45.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.45.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Listen, daughter, and pay careful attention:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.45.10"><span class="content">Forget your people and your father&#8217;s house.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.45.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.45.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Let the king be enthralled by your beauty;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.45.11"><span class="content">honor him, for he is your lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.45.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.45.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The city of Tyre will come with a gift,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">45:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">A Tyrian robe is among the gifts</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.45.12"><span class="content">people of wealth will seek your favor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.45.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.45.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">All glorious is the princess within her chamber;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.45.13"><span class="content">her gown is interwoven with gold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.45.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.45.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">In embroidered garments she is led to the king;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.45.14"><span class="content">her virgin companions follow her&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.45.14"><span class="content">those brought to be with her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.45.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.45.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Led in with joy and gladness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.45.15"><span class="content">they enter the palace of the king.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.45.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.45.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Your sons will take the place of your fathers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.45.16"><span class="content">you will make them princes throughout the land.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.45.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.45.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I will perpetuate your memory through all generations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.45.17"><span class="content">therefore the nations will praise you for ever and ever.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Driving Out the Nations</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DEU.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations&#8212;the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and when the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:2 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, often by totally destroying them; also in verse 26.</span></span></span><span class="content"> Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah; here and elsewhere in Deuteronomy</span></span></span><span class="content"> and burn their idols in the fire. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For you are a people holy to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But it was because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> loved you and kept the oath he swore to your ancestors that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Know therefore that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.7.10"><span class="content">those who hate him he will repay to their face by destruction;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.7.10"><span class="content">he will not be slow to repay to their face those who hate him.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Therefore, take care to follow the commands, decrees and laws I give you today.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land&#8212;your grain, new wine and olive oil&#8212;the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">You will be blessed more than any other people; none of your men or women will be childless, nor will any of your livestock be without young. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will keep you free from every disease. He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will inflict them on all who hate you. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">You must destroy all the peoples the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God gives over to you. Do not look on them with pity and do not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">You may say to yourselves, &#8220;These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But do not be afraid of them; remember well what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand and outstretched arm, with which the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God brought you out. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Moreover, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will send the hornet among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DEU.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Do not be terrified by them, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DEU.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DEU.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great confusion until they are destroyed. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DEU.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">He will give their kings into your hand, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand up against you; you will destroy them. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DEU.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The images of their gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DEU.7.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. Regard it as vile and utterly detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Do Not Forget the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DEU.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> promised on oath to your ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Remember how the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God disciplines you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Observe the commands of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, walking in obedience to him and revering him. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is bringing you into a good land&#8212;a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God for the good land he has given you. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Be careful that you do not forget the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">then your heart will become proud and you will forget the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">You may say to yourself, &#8220;My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But remember the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.8.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">If you ever forget the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Like the nations the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.</span></span></div>
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