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         <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David at Nob</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 21:1-15 is numbered 21:2-16.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">David went to Nob, to Ahimelek the priest. Ahimelek trembled when he met him, and asked, &#8220;Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.21.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">David answered Ahimelek the priest, &#8220;The king sent me on a mission and said to me, &#8216;No one is to know anything about the mission I am sending you on.&#8217; As for my men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.21.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But the priest answered David, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have any ordinary bread on hand; however, there is some consecrated bread here&#8212;provided the men have kept themselves from women.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.21.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">David replied, &#8220;Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual whenever</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">from us in the past few days since</span></span></span><span class="content"> I set out. The men&#8217;s bodies are holy even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and replaced by hot bread on the day it was taken away.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.21.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now one of Saul&#8217;s servants was there that day, detained before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; he was Doeg the Edomite, Saul&#8217;s chief shepherd.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">David asked Ahimelek, &#8220;Don&#8217;t you have a spear or a sword here? I haven&#8217;t brought my sword or any other weapon, because the king&#8217;s mission was urgent.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.21.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The priest replied, &#8220;The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want it, take it; there is no sword here but that one.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.21.9"><span class="content">David said, &#8220;There is none like it; give it to me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David at Gath</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.21.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But the servants of Achish said to him, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t this David, the king of the land? Isn&#8217;t he the one they sing about in their dances:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.21.11"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Saul has slain his thousands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.21.11"><span class="content">and David his tens of thousands&#8217;?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.21.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">David took these words to heart and was very much afraid of Achish king of Gath. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So he pretended to be insane in their presence; and while he was in their hands he acted like a madman, making marks on the doors of the gate and letting saliva run down his beard.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.21.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Achish said to his servants, &#8220;Look at the man! He is insane! Why bring him to me? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Am I so short of madmen that you have to bring this fellow here to carry on like this in front of me? Must this man come into my house?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David at Adullam and Mizpah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and his father&#8217;s household heard about it, they went down to him there. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their commander. About four hundred men were with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">From there David went to Mizpah in Moab and said to the king of Moab, &#8220;Would you let my father and mother come and stay with you until I learn what God will do for me?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him as long as David was in the stronghold.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But the prophet Gad said to David, &#8220;Do not stay in the stronghold. Go into the land of Judah.&#8221; So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Saul Kills the Priests of Nob</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now Saul heard that David and his men had been discovered. And Saul was seated, spear in hand, under the tamarisk tree on the hill at Gibeah, with all his officials standing at his side. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He said to them, &#8220;Listen, men of Benjamin! Will the son of Jesse give all of you fields and vineyards? Will he make all of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds? </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Is that why you have all conspired against me? No one tells me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you is concerned about me or tells me that my son has incited my servant to lie in wait for me, as he does today.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But Doeg the Edomite, who was standing with Saul&#8217;s officials, said, &#8220;I saw the son of Jesse come to Ahimelek son of Ahitub at Nob. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Ahimelek inquired of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> for him; he also gave him provisions and the sword of Goliath the Philistine.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then the king sent for the priest Ahimelek son of Ahitub and all the men of his family, who were the priests at Nob, and they all came to the king. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Saul said, &#8220;Listen now, son of Ahitub.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.22.12"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, my lord,&#8221; he answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Saul said to him, &#8220;Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, giving him bread and a sword and inquiring of God for him, so that he has rebelled against me and lies in wait for me, as he does today?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Ahimelek answered the king, &#8220;Who of all your servants is as loyal as David, the king&#8217;s son-in-law, captain of your bodyguard and highly respected in your household? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Was that day the first time I inquired of God for him? Of course not! Let not the king accuse your servant or any of his father&#8217;s family, for your servant knows nothing at all about this whole affair.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.22.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But the king said, &#8220;You will surely die, Ahimelek, you and your whole family.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then the king ordered the guards at his side: &#8220;Turn and kill the priests of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, because they too have sided with David. They knew he was fleeing, yet they did not tell me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.22.17"><span class="content">But the king&#8217;s officials were unwilling to raise a hand to strike the priests of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The king then ordered Doeg, &#8220;You turn and strike down the priests.&#8221; So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck them down. That day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He also put to the sword Nob, the town of the priests, with its men and women, its children and infants, and its cattle, donkeys and sheep.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But one son of Ahimelek son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled to join David. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He told David that Saul had killed the priests of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then David said to Abiathar, &#8220;That day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, I knew he would be sure to tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of your whole family. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Stay with me; don&#8217;t be afraid. The man who wants to kill you is trying to kill me too. You will be safe with me.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David Saves Keilah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When David was told, &#8220;Look, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and are looting the threshing floors,&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">he inquired of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, saying, &#8220;Shall I go and attack these Philistines?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.23.2"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> answered him, &#8220;Go, attack the Philistines and save Keilah.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But David&#8217;s men said to him, &#8220;Here in Judah we are afraid. How much more, then, if we go to Keilah against the Philistine forces!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Once again David inquired of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> answered him, &#8220;Go down to Keilah, for I am going to give the Philistines into your hand.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So David and his men went to Keilah, fought the Philistines and carried off their livestock. He inflicted heavy losses on the Philistines and saved the people of Keilah. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">(Now Abiathar son of Ahimelek had brought the ephod down with him when he fled to David at Keilah.)</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Saul Pursues David</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.23.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, and he said, &#8220;God has delivered him into my hands, for David has imprisoned himself by entering a town with gates and bars.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And Saul called up all his forces for battle, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.23.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When David learned that Saul was plotting against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, &#8220;Bring the ephod.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">David said, &#8220;</span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, God of Israel, your servant has heard definitely that Saul plans to come to Keilah and destroy the town on account of me. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me to him? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, God of Israel, tell your servant.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.23.11"><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;He will.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.23.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Again David asked, &#8220;Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me and my men to Saul?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.23.12"><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;They will.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.23.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So David and his men, about six hundred in number, left Keilah and kept moving from place to place. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he did not go there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.23.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hills of the Desert of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God did not give David into his hands.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.23.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">While David was at Horesh in the Desert of Ziph, he learned that</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">he was afraid because</span></span></span><span class="content"> Saul had come out to take his life. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And Saul&#8217;s son Jonathan went to David at Horesh and helped him find strength in God. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.23.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid,&#8221; he said. &#8220;My father Saul will not lay a hand on you. You will be king over Israel, and I will be second to you. Even my father Saul knows this.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The two of them made a covenant before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. Then Jonathan went home, but David remained at Horesh.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.23.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.23.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah and said, &#8220;Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hakilah, south of Jeshimon? </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.23.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Now, Your Majesty, come down whenever it pleases you to do so, and we will be responsible for giving him into your hands.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.23.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.23.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Saul replied, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> bless you for your concern for me. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.23.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Go and get more information. Find out where David usually goes and who has seen him there. They tell me he is very crafty. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.23.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Find out about all the hiding places he uses and come back to me with definite information. Then I will go with you; if he is in the area, I will track him down among all the clans of Judah.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.23.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1SA.23.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">So they set out and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Desert of Maon, in the Arabah south of Jeshimon. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1SA.23.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Saul and his men began the search, and when David was told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Desert of Maon. When Saul heard this, he went into the Desert of Maon in pursuit of David.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1SA.23.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1SA.23.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Saul was going along one side of the mountain, and David and his men were on the other side, hurrying to get away from Saul. As Saul and his forces were closing in on David and his men to capture them, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1SA.23.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">a messenger came to Saul, saying, &#8220;Come quickly! The Philistines are raiding the land.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1SA.23.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then Saul broke off his pursuit of David and went to meet the Philistines. That is why they call this place Sela Hammahlekoth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:28 </span><span class="fq">Sela Hammahlekoth </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">rock of parting.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1SA.23.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:29 </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts this verse (23:29) is numbered 24:1.</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">24</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David Spares Saul&#8217;s Life</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 24:1-22 is numbered 24:22-23.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.24.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, &#8220;David is in the Desert of En Gedi.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.24.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So Saul took three thousand able young men from all Israel and set out to look for David and his men near the Crags of the Wild Goats.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.24.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.24.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He came to the sheep pens along the way; a cave was there, and Saul went in to relieve himself. David and his men were far back in the cave. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.24.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The men said, &#8220;This is the day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke of when he said</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">&#8220;Today the <span class="nd">Lord</span> is saying</span></span></span><span class="content"> to you, &#8216;I will give your enemy into your hands for you to deal with as you wish.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; Then David crept up unnoticed and cut off a corner of Saul&#8217;s robe.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.24.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.24.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Afterward, David was conscience-stricken for having cut off a corner of his robe. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.24.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He said to his men, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anointed, or lay my hand on him; for he is the anointed of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.24.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">With these words David sharply rebuked his men and did not allow them to attack Saul. And Saul left the cave and went his way.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.24.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.24.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then David went out of the cave and called out to Saul, &#8220;My lord the king!&#8221; When Saul looked behind him, David bowed down and prostrated himself with his face to the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.24.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He said to Saul, &#8220;Why do you listen when men say, &#8216;David is bent on harming you&#8217;? </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.24.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">This day you have seen with your own eyes how the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> delivered you into my hands in the cave. Some urged me to kill you, but I spared you; I said, &#8216;I will not lay my hand on my lord, because he is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anointed.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.24.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">See, my father, look at this piece of your robe in my hand! I cut off the corner of your robe but did not kill you. See that there is nothing in my hand to indicate that I am guilty of wrongdoing or rebellion. I have not wronged you, but you are hunting me down to take my life. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.24.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> judge between you and me. And may the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> avenge the wrongs you have done to me, but my hand will not touch you. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.24.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">As the old saying goes, &#8216;From evildoers come evil deeds,&#8217; so my hand will not touch you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.24.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.24.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Who are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea? </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.24.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> be our judge and decide between us. May he consider my cause and uphold it; may he vindicate me by delivering me from your hand.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.24.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.24.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When David finished saying this, Saul asked, &#8220;Is that your voice, David my son?&#8221; And he wept aloud. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.24.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;You are more righteous than I,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You have treated me well, but I have treated you badly. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.24.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">You have just now told me about the good you did to me; the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> delivered me into your hands, but you did not kill me. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.24.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When a man finds his enemy, does he let him get away unharmed? May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> reward you well for the way you treated me today. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.24.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I know that you will surely be king and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hands. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.24.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Now swear to me by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> that you will not kill off my descendants or wipe out my name from my father&#8217;s family.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.24.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.24.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">So David gave his oath to Saul. Then Saul returned home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">25</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David, Nabal and Abigail</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.25.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David moved down into the Desert of Paran.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew and some Septuagint manuscripts; other Septuagint manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Maon</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.25.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.25.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">A certain man in Maon, who had property there at Carmel, was very wealthy. He had a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.25.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">His name was Nabal and his wife&#8217;s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband was surly and mean in his dealings&#8212;he was a Calebite.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.25.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.25.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.25.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So he sent ten young men and said to them, &#8220;Go up to Nabal at Carmel and greet him in my name. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.25.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Say to him: &#8216;Long life to you! Good health to you and your household! And good health to all that is yours!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.25.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.25.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Now I hear that it is sheep-shearing time. When your shepherds were with us, we did not mistreat them, and the whole time they were at Carmel nothing of theirs was missing. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.25.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Ask your own servants and they will tell you. Therefore be favorable toward my men, since we come at a festive time. Please give your servants and your son David whatever you can find for them.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.25.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.25.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When David&#8217;s men arrived, they gave Nabal this message in David&#8217;s name. Then they waited.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.25.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.25.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Nabal answered David&#8217;s servants, &#8220;Who is this David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants are breaking away from their masters these days. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.25.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Why should I take my bread and water, and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men coming from who knows where?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.25.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.25.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">David&#8217;s men turned around and went back. When they arrived, they reported every word. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.25.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">David said to his men, &#8220;Each of you strap on your sword!&#8221; So they did, and David strapped his on as well. About four hundred men went up with David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.25.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.25.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">One of the servants told Abigail, Nabal&#8217;s wife, &#8220;David sent messengers from the wilderness to give our master his greetings, but he hurled insults at them. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.25.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Yet these men were very good to us. They did not mistreat us, and the whole time we were out in the fields near them nothing was missing. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.25.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Night and day they were a wall around us the whole time we were herding our sheep near them. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.25.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked man that no one can talk to him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.25.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.25.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:18 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 60 pounds or about 27 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.25.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then she told her servants, &#8220;Go on ahead; I&#8217;ll follow you.&#8221; But she did not tell her husband Nabal.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.25.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.25.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">As she came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, there were David and his men descending toward her, and she met them. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.25.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">David had just said, &#8220;It&#8217;s been useless&#8212;all my watching over this fellow&#8217;s property in the wilderness so that nothing of his was missing. He has paid me back evil for good. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.25.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">May God deal with David,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:22 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint manuscripts; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">with David&#8217;s enemies</span></span></span><span class="content"> be it ever so severely, if by morning I leave alive one male of all who belong to him!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.25.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.25.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down before David with her face to the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1SA.25.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">She fell at his feet and said: &#8220;Pardon your servant, my lord, and let me speak to you; hear what your servant has to say. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1SA.25.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Please pay no attention, my lord, to that wicked man Nabal. He is just like his name&#8212;his name means Fool, and folly goes with him. And as for me, your servant, I did not see the men my lord sent. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1SA.25.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">And now, my lord, as surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God lives and as you live, since the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has kept you from bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hands, may your enemies and all who are intent on harming my lord be like Nabal. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1SA.25.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And let this gift, which your servant has brought to my lord, be given to the men who follow you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1SA.25.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1SA.25.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;Please forgive your servant&#8217;s presumption. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will certainly make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because you fight the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s battles, and no wrongdoing will be found in you as long as you live. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1SA.25.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life, the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurl away as from the pocket of a sling. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1SA.25.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has fulfilled for my lord every good thing he promised concerning him and has appointed him ruler over Israel, </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1SA.25.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">my lord will not have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed or of having avenged himself. And when the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has brought my lord success, remember your servant.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1SA.25.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1SA.25.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">David said to Abigail, &#8220;Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="1SA.25.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="1SA.25.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Otherwise, as surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by daybreak.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="1SA.25.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="1SA.25.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him and said, &#8220;Go home in peace. I have heard your words and granted your request.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="1SA.25.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="1SA.25.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until daybreak. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="1SA.25.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him and he became like a stone. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="1SA.25.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">About ten days later, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> struck Nabal and he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="1SA.25.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="1SA.25.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, &#8220;Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who has upheld my cause against Nabal for treating me with contempt. He has kept his servant from doing wrong and has brought Nabal&#8217;s wrongdoing down on his own head.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="1SA.25.39"><span class="content">Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="1SA.25.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">His servants went to Carmel and said to Abigail, &#8220;David has sent us to you to take you to become his wife.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="1SA.25.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="1SA.25.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">She bowed down with her face to the ground and said, &#8220;I am your servant and am ready to serve you and wash the feet of my lord&#8217;s servants.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="1SA.25.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Abigail quickly got on a donkey and, attended by her five female servants, went with David&#8217;s messengers and became his wife. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="1SA.25.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both were his wives. </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="1SA.25.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David&#8217;s wife, to Paltiel</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:44 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Palti</span><span class="ft">, a variant of </span><span class="fq">Paltiel</span></span></span><span class="content"> son of Laish, who was from Gallim.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">61</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Year of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Favor</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.61.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The Spirit of the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is on me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.61.1"><span class="content">because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has anointed me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.61.1"><span class="content">to proclaim good news to the poor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.61.1"><span class="content">He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.61.1"><span class="content">to proclaim freedom for the captives</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.61.1"><span class="content">and release from darkness for the prisoners,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">61:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">the blind</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.61.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.61.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">to proclaim the year of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s favor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.61.2"><span class="content">and the day of vengeance of our God,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.61.2"><span class="content">to comfort all who mourn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.61.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.61.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and provide for those who grieve in Zion&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.61.3"><span class="content">to bestow on them a crown of beauty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.61.3"><span class="content">instead of ashes,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.61.3"><span class="content">the oil of joy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.61.3"><span class="content">instead of mourning,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.61.3"><span class="content">and a garment of praise</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.61.3"><span class="content">instead of a spirit of despair.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.61.3"><span class="content">They will be called oaks of righteousness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.61.3"><span class="content">a planting of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.61.3"><span class="content">for the display of his splendor.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.61.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.61.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They will rebuild the ancient ruins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.61.4"><span class="content">and restore the places long devastated;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.61.4"><span class="content">they will renew the ruined cities</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.61.4"><span class="content">that have been devastated for generations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.61.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.61.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Strangers will shepherd your flocks;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.61.5"><span class="content">foreigners will work your fields and vineyards.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.61.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.61.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And you will be called priests of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.61.6"><span class="content">you will be named ministers of our God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.61.6"><span class="content">You will feed on the wealth of nations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.61.6"><span class="content">and in their riches you will boast.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.61.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.61.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Instead of your shame</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.61.7"><span class="content">you will receive a double portion,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.61.7"><span class="content">and instead of disgrace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.61.7"><span class="content">you will rejoice in your inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.61.7"><span class="content">And so you will inherit a double portion in your land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.61.7"><span class="content">and everlasting joy will be yours.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.61.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.61.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;For I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, love justice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.61.8"><span class="content">I hate robbery and wrongdoing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.61.8"><span class="content">In my faithfulness I will reward my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.61.8"><span class="content">and make an everlasting covenant with them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.61.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.61.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Their descendants will be known among the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.61.9"><span class="content">and their offspring among the peoples.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.61.9"><span class="content">All who see them will acknowledge</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.61.9"><span class="content">that they are a people the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has blessed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.61.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.61.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I delight greatly in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.61.10"><span class="content">my soul rejoices in my God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.61.10"><span class="content">For he has clothed me with garments of salvation</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.61.10"><span class="content">and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.61.10"><span class="content">as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.61.10"><span class="content">and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.61.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.61.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For as the soil makes the sprout come up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.61.11"><span class="content">and a garden causes seeds to grow,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.61.11"><span class="content">so the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will make righteousness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.61.11"><span class="content">and praise spring up before all nations.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkISA">
      <div class="chapter ch62" data-usfm="ISA.62">
         <div class="label">62</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Zion&#8217;s New Name</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.62.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">For Zion&#8217;s sake I will not keep silent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.62.1"><span class="content">for Jerusalem&#8217;s sake I will not remain quiet,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.62.1"><span class="content">till her vindication shines out like the dawn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.62.1"><span class="content">her salvation like a blazing torch.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.62.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.62.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The nations will see your vindication,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.62.2"><span class="content">and all kings your glory;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.62.2"><span class="content">you will be called by a new name</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.62.2"><span class="content">that the mouth of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will bestow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.62.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.62.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You will be a crown of splendor in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.62.3"><span class="content">a royal diadem in the hand of your God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.62.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.62.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">No longer will they call you Deserted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.62.4"><span class="content">or name your land Desolate.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.62.4"><span class="content">But you will be called Hephzibah,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">62:4 </span><span class="fq">Hephzibah </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">my delight is in her.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.62.4"><span class="content">and your land Beulah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">62:4 </span><span class="fq">Beulah </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fq">married</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.62.4"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will take delight in you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.62.4"><span class="content">and your land will be married.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.62.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.62.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">As a young man marries a young woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.62.5"><span class="content">so will your Builder marry you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.62.5"><span class="content">as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.62.5"><span class="content">so will your God rejoice over you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.62.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.62.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I have posted watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.62.6"><span class="content">they will never be silent day or night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.62.6"><span class="content">You who call on the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.62.6"><span class="content">give yourselves no rest,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.62.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.62.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.62.7"><span class="content">and makes her the praise of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.62.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.62.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has sworn by his right hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.62.8"><span class="content">and by his mighty arm:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.62.8"><span class="content">&#8220;Never again will I give your grain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.62.8"><span class="content">as food for your enemies,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.62.8"><span class="content">and never again will foreigners drink the new wine</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.62.8"><span class="content">for which you have toiled;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.62.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.62.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">but those who harvest it will eat it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.62.9"><span class="content">and praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.62.9"><span class="content">and those who gather the grapes will drink it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.62.9"><span class="content">in the courts of my sanctuary.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.62.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.62.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Pass through, pass through the gates!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.62.10"><span class="content">Prepare the way for the people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.62.10"><span class="content">Build up, build up the highway!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.62.10"><span class="content">Remove the stones.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.62.10"><span class="content">Raise a banner for the nations.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.62.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.62.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has made proclamation</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.62.11"><span class="content">to the ends of the earth:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.62.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Say to Daughter Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.62.11"><span class="content">&#8216;See, your Savior comes!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.62.11"><span class="content">See, his reward is with him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.62.11"><span class="content">and his recompense accompanies him.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.62.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.62.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They will be called the Holy People,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.62.12"><span class="content">the Redeemed of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.62.12"><span class="content">and you will be called Sought After,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.62.12"><span class="content">the City No Longer Deserted.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkISA">
      <div class="chapter ch63" data-usfm="ISA.63">
         <div class="label">63</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Day of Vengeance and Redemption</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.63.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Who is this coming from Edom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.63.1"><span class="content">from Bozrah, with his garments stained crimson?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.63.1"><span class="content">Who is this, robed in splendor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.63.1"><span class="content">striding forward in the greatness of his strength?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.63.1"><span class="content">&#8220;It is I, proclaiming victory,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.63.1"><span class="content">mighty to save.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.63.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.63.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Why are your garments red,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.63.2"><span class="content">like those of one treading the winepress?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.63.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.63.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have trodden the winepress alone;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.63.3"><span class="content">from the nations no one was with me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.63.3"><span class="content">I trampled them in my anger</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.63.3"><span class="content">and trod them down in my wrath;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.63.3"><span class="content">their blood spattered my garments,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.63.3"><span class="content">and I stained all my clothing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.63.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.63.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">It was for me the day of vengeance;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.63.4"><span class="content">the year for me to redeem had come.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.63.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.63.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I looked, but there was no one to help,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.63.5"><span class="content">I was appalled that no one gave support;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.63.5"><span class="content">so my own arm achieved salvation for me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.63.5"><span class="content">and my own wrath sustained me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.63.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.63.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I trampled the nations in my anger;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.63.6"><span class="content">in my wrath I made them drunk</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.63.6"><span class="content">and poured their blood on the ground.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Praise and Prayer</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.63.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.63.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will tell of the kindnesses of 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="ISA.63.7"><span class="content">the deeds for which he is to be praised,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.63.7"><span class="content">according to all the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has done for us&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.63.7"><span class="content">yes, the many good things</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.63.7"><span class="content">he has done for Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.63.7"><span class="content">according to his compassion and many kindnesses.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.63.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.63.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;Surely they are my people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.63.8"><span class="content">children who will be true to me&#8221;;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.63.8"><span class="content">and so he became their Savior.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.63.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.63.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">In all their distress he too was distressed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.63.9"><span class="content">and the angel of his presence saved them.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">63:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Savior </span><span class="fv">9 </span><span class="fqa">in their distress. / It was no envoy or angel / but his own presence that saved them</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.63.9"><span class="content">In his love and mercy he redeemed them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.63.9"><span class="content">he lifted them up and carried them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.63.9"><span class="content">all the days of old.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.63.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.63.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Yet they rebelled</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.63.10"><span class="content">and grieved his Holy Spirit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.63.10"><span class="content">So he turned and became their enemy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.63.10"><span class="content">and he himself fought against them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.63.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.63.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then his people recalled</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">63:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">But may he recall</span></span></span><span class="content"> the days of old,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.63.11"><span class="content">the days of Moses and his people&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.63.11"><span class="content">where is he who brought them through the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.63.11"><span class="content">with the shepherd of his flock?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.63.11"><span class="content">Where is he who set</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.63.11"><span class="content">his Holy Spirit among them,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.63.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.63.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">who sent his glorious arm of power</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.63.12"><span class="content">to be at Moses&#8217; right hand,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.63.12"><span class="content">who divided the waters before them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.63.12"><span class="content">to gain for himself everlasting renown,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.63.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.63.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">who led them through the depths?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.63.13"><span class="content">Like a horse in open country,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.63.13"><span class="content">they did not stumble;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.63.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.63.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">like cattle that go down to the plain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.63.14"><span class="content">they were given rest by the Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.63.14"><span class="content">This is how you guided your people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.63.14"><span class="content">to make for yourself a glorious name.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.63.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.63.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Look down from heaven and see,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.63.15"><span class="content">from your lofty throne, holy and glorious.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.63.15"><span class="content">Where are your zeal and your might?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.63.15"><span class="content">Your tenderness and compassion are withheld from us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.63.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.63.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But you are our Father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.63.16"><span class="content">though Abraham does not know us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.63.16"><span class="content">or Israel acknowledge us;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.63.16"><span class="content">you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, are our Father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.63.16"><span class="content">our Redeemer from of old is your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.63.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.63.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Why, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do you make us wander from your ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.63.17"><span class="content">and harden our hearts so we do not revere you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.63.17"><span class="content">Return for the sake of your servants,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.63.17"><span class="content">the tribes that are your inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.63.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.63.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For a little while your people possessed your holy place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.63.18"><span class="content">but now our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.63.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.63.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">We are yours from of old;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.63.19"><span class="content">but you have not ruled over them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.63.19"><span class="content">they have not been called</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">63:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">We are like those you have never ruled, / like those never called</span></span></span><span class="content"> by your name.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">64</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 64:1 is numbered 63:19b, and 64:2-12 is numbered 64:1-11.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.64.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.64.1"><span class="content">that the mountains would tremble before you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.64.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.64.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">As when fire sets twigs ablaze</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.64.2"><span class="content">and causes water to boil,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.64.2"><span class="content">come down to make your name known to your enemies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.64.2"><span class="content">and cause the nations to quake before you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.64.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.64.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For when you did awesome things that we did not expect,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.64.3"><span class="content">you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.64.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.64.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Since ancient times no one has heard,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.64.4"><span class="content">no ear has perceived,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.64.4"><span class="content">no eye has seen any God besides you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.64.4"><span class="content">who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.64.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.64.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You come to the help of those who gladly do right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.64.5"><span class="content">who remember your ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.64.5"><span class="content">But when we continued to sin against them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.64.5"><span class="content">you were angry.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.64.5"><span class="content">How then can we be saved?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.64.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.64.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">All of us have become like one who is unclean,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.64.6"><span class="content">and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.64.6"><span class="content">we all shrivel up like a leaf,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.64.6"><span class="content">and like the wind our sins sweep us away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.64.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.64.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">No one calls on your name</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.64.7"><span class="content">or strives to lay hold of you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.64.7"><span class="content">for you have hidden your face from us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.64.7"><span class="content">and have given us over to</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">64:7 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">have made us melt because of</span></span></span><span class="content"> our sins.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.64.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.64.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Yet you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, are our Father.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.64.8"><span class="content">We are the clay, you are the potter;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.64.8"><span class="content">we are all the work of your hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.64.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.64.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Do not be angry beyond measure, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.64.9"><span class="content">do not remember our sins forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.64.9"><span class="content">Oh, look on us, we pray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.64.9"><span class="content">for we are all your people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.64.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.64.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Your sacred cities have become a wasteland;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.64.10"><span class="content">even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.64.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.64.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Our holy and glorious temple, where our ancestors praised you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.64.11"><span class="content">has been burned with fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.64.11"><span class="content">and all that we treasured lies in ruins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.64.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.64.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">After all this, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, will you hold yourself back?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.64.12"><span class="content">Will you keep silent and punish us beyond measure?</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">65</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judgment and Salvation</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.65.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.65.1"><span class="content">I was found by those who did not seek me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.65.1"><span class="content">To a nation that did not call on my name,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.65.1"><span class="content">I said, &#8216;Here am I, here am I.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.65.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.65.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">All day long I have held out my hands</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.65.2"><span class="content">to an obstinate people,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.65.2"><span class="content">who walk in ways not good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.65.2"><span class="content">pursuing their own imaginations&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.65.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.65.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">a people who continually provoke me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.65.3"><span class="content">to my very face,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.65.3"><span class="content">offering sacrifices in gardens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.65.3"><span class="content">and burning incense on altars of brick;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.65.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.65.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">who sit among the graves</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.65.4"><span class="content">and spend their nights keeping secret vigil;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.65.4"><span class="content">who eat the flesh of pigs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.65.4"><span class="content">and whose pots hold broth of impure meat;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.65.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.65.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">who say, &#8216;Keep away; don&#8217;t come near me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.65.5"><span class="content">for I am too sacred for you!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.65.5"><span class="content">Such people are smoke in my nostrils,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.65.5"><span class="content">a fire that keeps burning all day.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.65.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.65.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, it stands written before me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.65.6"><span class="content">I will not keep silent but will pay back in full;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.65.6"><span class="content">I will pay it back into their laps&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.65.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.65.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">both your sins and the sins of your ancestors,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.65.7"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.65.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.65.7"><span class="content">and defied me on the hills,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.65.7"><span class="content">I will measure into their laps</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.65.7"><span class="content">the full payment for their former deeds.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.65.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.65.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.65.8"><span class="content">&#8220;As when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.65.8"><span class="content">and people say, &#8216;Don&#8217;t destroy it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.65.8"><span class="content">there is still a blessing in it,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.65.8"><span class="content">so will I do in behalf of my servants;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.65.8"><span class="content">I will not destroy them all.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.65.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.65.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I will bring forth descendants from Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.65.9"><span class="content">and from Judah those who will possess my mountains;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.65.9"><span class="content">my chosen people will inherit them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.65.9"><span class="content">and there will my servants live.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.65.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.65.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Sharon will become a pasture for flocks,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.65.10"><span class="content">and the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.65.10"><span class="content">for my people who seek me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.65.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.65.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;But as for you who forsake the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.65.11"><span class="content">and forget my holy mountain,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.65.11"><span class="content">who spread a table for Fortune</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.65.11"><span class="content">and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.65.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.65.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I will destine you for the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.65.12"><span class="content">and all of you will fall in the slaughter;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.65.12"><span class="content">for I called but you did not answer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.65.12"><span class="content">I spoke but you did not listen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.65.12"><span class="content">You did evil in my sight</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.65.12"><span class="content">and chose what displeases me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.65.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.65.13"><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:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.65.13"><span class="content">&#8220;My servants will eat,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.65.13"><span class="content">but you will go hungry;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.65.13"><span class="content">my servants will drink,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.65.13"><span class="content">but you will go thirsty;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.65.13"><span class="content">my servants will rejoice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.65.13"><span class="content">but you will be put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.65.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.65.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">My servants will sing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.65.14"><span class="content">out of the joy of their hearts,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.65.14"><span class="content">but you will cry out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.65.14"><span class="content">from anguish of heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.65.14"><span class="content">and wail in brokenness of spirit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.65.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.65.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You will leave your name</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.65.15"><span class="content">for my chosen ones to use in their curses;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.65.15"><span class="content">the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will put you to death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.65.15"><span class="content">but to his servants he will give another name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.65.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.65.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Whoever invokes a blessing in the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.65.16"><span class="content">will do so by the one true God;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.65.16"><span class="content">whoever takes an oath in the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.65.16"><span class="content">will swear by the one true God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.65.16"><span class="content">For the past troubles will be forgotten</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.65.16"><span class="content">and hidden from my eyes.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">New Heavens and a New Earth</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.65.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.65.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, I will create</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.65.17"><span class="content">new heavens and a new earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.65.17"><span class="content">The former things will not be remembered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.65.17"><span class="content">nor will they come to mind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.65.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.65.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But be glad and rejoice forever</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.65.18"><span class="content">in what I will create,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.65.18"><span class="content">for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.65.18"><span class="content">and its people a joy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.65.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.65.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I will rejoice over Jerusalem</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.65.19"><span class="content">and take delight in my people;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.65.19"><span class="content">the sound of weeping and of crying</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.65.19"><span class="content">will be heard in it no more.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.65.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.65.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Never again will there be in it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.65.20"><span class="content">an infant who lives but a few days,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.65.20"><span class="content">or an old man who does not live out his years;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.65.20"><span class="content">the one who dies at a hundred</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.65.20"><span class="content">will be thought a mere child;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.65.20"><span class="content">the one who fails to reach</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">65:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the sinner who reaches</span></span></span><span class="content"> a hundred</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.65.20"><span class="content">will be considered accursed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.65.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.65.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They will build houses and dwell in them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.65.21"><span class="content">they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.65.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.65.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">No longer will they build houses and others live in them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.65.22"><span class="content">or plant and others eat.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.65.22"><span class="content">For as the days of a tree,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.65.22"><span class="content">so will be the days of my people;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.65.22"><span class="content">my chosen ones will long enjoy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.65.22"><span class="content">the work of their hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.65.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.65.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">They will not labor in vain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.65.23"><span class="content">nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.65.23"><span class="content">for they will be a people blessed by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.65.23"><span class="content">they and their descendants with them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.65.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.65.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Before they call I will answer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.65.24"><span class="content">while they are still speaking I will hear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.65.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.65.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The wolf and the lamb will feed together,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.65.25"><span class="content">and the lion will eat straw like the ox,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.65.25"><span class="content">and dust will be the serpent&#8217;s food.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.65.25"><span class="content">They will neither harm nor destroy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.65.25"><span class="content">on all my holy mountain,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.65.25"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">66</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judgment and Hope</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.66.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.66.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Heaven is my throne,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.66.1"><span class="content">and the earth is my footstool.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.66.1"><span class="content">Where is the house you will build for me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.66.1"><span class="content">Where will my resting place be?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.66.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.66.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Has not my hand made all these things,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.66.2"><span class="content">and so they came into being?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.66.2"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.66.2"><span class="content">&#8220;These are the ones I look on with favor:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.66.2"><span class="content">those who are humble and contrite in spirit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.66.2"><span class="content">and who tremble at my word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.66.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.66.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But whoever sacrifices a bull</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.66.3"><span class="content">is like one who kills a person,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.66.3"><span class="content">and whoever offers a lamb</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.66.3"><span class="content">is like one who breaks a dog&#8217;s neck;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.66.3"><span class="content">whoever makes a grain offering</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.66.3"><span class="content">is like one who presents pig&#8217;s blood,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.66.3"><span class="content">and whoever burns memorial incense</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.66.3"><span class="content">is like one who worships an idol.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.66.3"><span class="content">They have chosen their own ways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.66.3"><span class="content">and they delight in their abominations;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.66.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.66.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">so I also will choose harsh treatment for them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.66.4"><span class="content">and will bring on them what they dread.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.66.4"><span class="content">For when I called, no one answered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.66.4"><span class="content">when I spoke, no one listened.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.66.4"><span class="content">They did evil in my sight</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.66.4"><span class="content">and chose what displeases me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.66.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.66.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.66.5"><span class="content">you who tremble at his word:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.66.5"><span class="content">&#8220;Your own people who hate you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.66.5"><span class="content">and exclude you because of my name, have said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.66.5"><span class="content">&#8216;Let the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> be glorified,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.66.5"><span class="content">that we may see your joy!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.66.5"><span class="content">Yet they will be put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.66.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.66.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Hear that uproar from the city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.66.6"><span class="content">hear that noise from the temple!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.66.6"><span class="content">It is the sound of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.66.6"><span class="content">repaying his enemies all they deserve.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.66.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.66.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Before she goes into labor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.66.7"><span class="content">she gives birth;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.66.7"><span class="content">before the pains come upon her,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.66.7"><span class="content">she delivers a son.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.66.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.66.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Who has ever heard of such things?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.66.8"><span class="content">Who has ever seen things like this?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.66.8"><span class="content">Can a country be born in a day</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.66.8"><span class="content">or a nation be brought forth in a moment?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.66.8"><span class="content">Yet no sooner is Zion in labor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.66.8"><span class="content">than she gives birth to her children.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.66.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.66.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Do I bring to the moment of birth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.66.9"><span class="content">and not give delivery?&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.66.9"><span class="content">&#8220;Do I close up the womb</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.66.9"><span class="content">when I bring to delivery?&#8221; says your God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.66.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.66.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.66.10"><span class="content">all you who love her;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.66.10"><span class="content">rejoice greatly with her,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.66.10"><span class="content">all you who mourn over her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.66.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.66.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For you will nurse and be satisfied</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.66.11"><span class="content">at her comforting breasts;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.66.11"><span class="content">you will drink deeply</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.66.11"><span class="content">and delight in her overflowing abundance.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.66.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.66.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.66.12"><span class="content">&#8220;I will extend peace to her like a river,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.66.12"><span class="content">and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.66.12"><span class="content">you will nurse and be carried on her arm</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.66.12"><span class="content">and dandled on her knees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.66.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.66.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">As a mother comforts her child,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.66.13"><span class="content">so will I comfort you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.66.13"><span class="content">and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.66.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.66.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When you see this, your heart will rejoice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.66.14"><span class="content">and you will flourish like grass;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.66.14"><span class="content">the hand of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will be made known to his servants,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.66.14"><span class="content">but his fury will be shown to his foes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.66.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.66.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">See, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is coming with fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.66.15"><span class="content">and his chariots are like a whirlwind;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.66.15"><span class="content">he will bring down his anger with fury,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.66.15"><span class="content">and his rebuke with flames of fire.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.66.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.66.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For with fire and with his sword</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.66.16"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will execute judgment on all people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.66.16"><span class="content">and many will be those slain by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.66.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.66.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Those who consecrate and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one who is among those who eat the flesh of pigs, rats and other unclean things&#8212;they will meet their end together with the one they follow,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.66.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.66.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;And I, because of what they have planned and done, am about to come</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">66:18 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and gather the people of all nations and languages, and they will come and see my glory.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.66.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.66.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will set a sign among them, and I will send some of those who survive to the nations&#8212;to Tarshish, to the Libyans</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">66:19 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Put </span><span class="ft">(Libyans); Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Pul</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Lydians (famous as archers), to Tubal and Greece, and to the distant islands that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory. They will proclaim my glory among the nations. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.66.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And they will bring all your people, from all the nations, to my holy mountain in Jerusalem as an offering to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;on horses, in chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. &#8220;They will bring them, as the Israelites bring their grain offerings, to the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in ceremonially clean vessels. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.66.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">And I will select some of them also to be priests and Levites,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.66.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.66.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;so will your name and descendants endure. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.66.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.66.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Defense of His Ministry</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">By the humility and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you&#8212;I, Paul, who am &#8220;timid&#8221; when face to face with you, but &#8220;bold&#8221; toward you when away! </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I beg you that when I come I may not have to be as bold as I expect to be toward some people who think that we live by the standards of this world. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You are judging by appearances.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Look at the obvious facts</span></span></span><span class="content"> If anyone is confident that they belong to Christ, they should consider again that we belong to Christ just as much as they do. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CO.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So even if I boast somewhat freely about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up rather than tearing you down, I will not be ashamed of it. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you with my letters. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For some say, &#8220;His letters are weighty and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive and his speaking amounts to nothing.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Such people should realize that what we are in our letters when we are absent, we will be in our actions when we are present.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.10.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">We, however, will not boast beyond proper limits, but will confine our boasting to the sphere of service God himself has assigned to us, a sphere that also includes you. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">We are not going too far in our boasting, as would be the case if we had not come to you, for we did get as far as you with the gospel of Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Neither do we go beyond our limits by boasting of work done by others. Our hope is that, as your faith continues to grow, our sphere of activity among you will greatly expand, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. For we do not want to boast about work already done in someone else&#8217;s territory. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But, &#8220;Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:17 </span><span class="ft">Jer. 9:24</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul and the False Apostles</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I hope you will put up with me in a little foolishness. Yes, please put up with me! </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent&#8217;s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.11.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I do not think I am in the least inferior to those &#8220;super-apostles.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">to the most eminent apostles</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I may indeed be untrained as a speaker, but I do have knowledge. We have made this perfectly clear to you in every way. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Was it a sin for me to lower myself in order to elevate you by preaching the gospel of God to you free of charge? </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CO.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I robbed other churches by receiving support from them so as to serve you. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And when I was with you and needed something, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied what I needed. I have kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, nobody in the regions of Achaia will stop this boasting of mine. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.11.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And I will keep on doing what I am doing in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things they boast about. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul Boasts About His Sufferings</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.11.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then tolerate me just as you would a fool, so that I may do a little boasting. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">In this self-confident boasting I am not talking as the Lord would, but as a fool. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Since many are boasting in the way the world does, I too will boast. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CO.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You gladly put up with fools since you are so wise! </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CO.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or puts on airs or slaps you in the face. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CO.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">To my shame I admit that we were too weak for that!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CO.11.21"><span class="content">Whatever anyone else dares to boast about&#8212;I am speaking as a fool&#8212;I also dare to boast about. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CO.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they Abraham&#8217;s descendants? So am I. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CO.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Are they servants of Christ? (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more. I have worked much harder, been in prison more frequently, been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and again. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CO.11.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2CO.11.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was pelted with stones, three times I was shipwrecked, I spent a night and a day in the open sea, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2CO.11.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my fellow Jews, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false believers. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2CO.11.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2CO.11.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2CO.11.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Who is weak, and I do not feel weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not inwardly burn?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2CO.11.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2CO.11.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2CO.11.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is to be praised forever, knows that I am not lying. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2CO.11.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">In Damascus the governor under King Aretas had the city of the Damascenes guarded in order to arrest me. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2CO.11.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">But I was lowered in a basket from a window in the wall and slipped through his hands.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Vision and His Thorn</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know&#8212;God knows. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And I know that this man&#8212;whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CO.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But he said to me, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ&#8217;s power may rest on me. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">That is why, for Christ&#8217;s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Concern for the Corinthians</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.12.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I have made a fool of myself, but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the &#8220;super-apostles,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the most eminent apostles</span></span></span><span class="content"> even though I am nothing. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I persevered in demonstrating among you the marks of a true apostle, including signs, wonders and miracles. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">How were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was never a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.12.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Now I am ready to visit you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you. After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So I will very gladly spend for you everything I have and expend myself as well. If I love you more, will you love me less? </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Be that as it may, I have not been a burden to you. Yet, crafty fellow that I am, I caught you by trickery! </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Did I exploit you through any of the men I sent to you? </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.12.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I urged Titus to go to you and I sent our brother with him. Titus did not exploit you, did he? Did we not walk in the same footsteps by the same Spirit?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.12.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CO.12.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? We have been speaking in the sight of God as those in Christ; and everything we do, dear friends, is for your strengthening. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CO.12.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CO.12.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">I am afraid that when I come again my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual sin and debauchery in which they have indulged.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Final Warnings</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This will be my third visit to you. &#8220;Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:1 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 19:15</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I already gave you a warning when I was with you the second time. I now repeat it while absent: On my return I will not spare those who sinned earlier or any of the others, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">since you are demanding proof that Christ is speaking through me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful among you. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For to be sure, he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God&#8217;s power. Likewise, we are weak in him, yet by God&#8217;s power we will live with him in our dealing with you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.13.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you&#8212;unless, of course, you fail the test? </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And I trust that you will discover that we have not failed the test. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now we pray to God that you will not do anything wrong&#8212;not so that people will see that we have stood the test but so that you will do what is right even though we may seem to have failed. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CO.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">We are glad whenever we are weak but you are strong; and our prayer is that you may be fully restored. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">This is why I write these things when I am absent, that when I come I may not have to be harsh in my use of authority&#8212;the authority the Lord gave me for building you up, not for tearing you down.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Final Greetings</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.13.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.13.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Greet one another with a holy kiss. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">All God&#8217;s people here send their greetings.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.13.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.</span></span></div>
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