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         <div class="label">16</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Manna and Quail</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The Israelites said to them, &#8220;If only we had died by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.16.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">On the sixth day they are to prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other days.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.16.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, &#8220;In the evening you will know that it was the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> who brought you out of Egypt, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and in the morning you will see the glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we, that you should grumble against us?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Moses also said, &#8220;You will know that it was the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> when he gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.16.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then Moses told Aaron, &#8220;Say to the entire Israelite community, &#8216;Come before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, for he has heard your grumbling.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.16.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">While Aaron was speaking to the whole Israelite community, they looked toward the desert, and there was the glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appearing in the cloud.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.16.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, &#8216;At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.16.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, &#8220;What is it?&#8221; For they did not know what it was.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.16.15"><span class="content">Moses said to them, &#8220;It is the bread the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given you to eat. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has commanded: &#8216;Everyone is to gather as much as they need. Take an omer</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:16 </span><span class="ft">That is, possibly about 3 pounds or about 1.4 kilograms; also in verses 18, 32, 33 and 36</span></span></span><span class="content"> for each person you have in your tent.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.16.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.16.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The Israelites did as they were told; some gathered much, some little. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.16.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And when they measured it by the omer, the one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little. Everyone had gathered just as much as they needed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.16.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.16.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then Moses said to them, &#8220;No one is to keep any of it until morning.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.16.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.16.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">However, some of them paid no attention to Moses; they kept part of it until morning, but it was full of maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.16.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.16.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Each morning everyone gathered as much as they needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.16.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much&#8212;two omers</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:22 </span><span class="ft">That is, possibly about 6 pounds or about 2.8 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> for each person&#8212;and the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.16.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He said to them, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded: &#8216;Tomorrow is to be a day of sabbath rest, a holy sabbath to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. So bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.16.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.16.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">So they saved it until morning, as Moses commanded, and it did not stink or get maggots in it. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.16.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;Eat it today,&#8221; Moses said, &#8220;because today is a sabbath to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. You will not find any of it on the ground today. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.16.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.16.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.16.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Nevertheless, some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather it, but they found none. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.16.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;How long will you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:28 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is plural.</span></span></span><span class="content"> refuse to keep my commands and my instructions? </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.16.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Bear in mind that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Everyone is to stay where they are on the seventh day; no one is to go out.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.16.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">So the people rested on the seventh day.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.16.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EXO.16.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">The people of Israel called the bread manna.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:31 </span><span class="fq">Manna </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">What is it? </span><span class="ft">(see verse 15).</span></span></span><span class="content"> It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EXO.16.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Moses said, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has commanded: &#8216;Take an omer of manna and keep it for the generations to come, so they can see the bread I gave you to eat in the wilderness when I brought you out of Egypt.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EXO.16.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EXO.16.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">So Moses said to Aaron, &#8220;Take a jar and put an omer of manna in it. Then place it before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to be kept for the generations to come.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EXO.16.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EXO.16.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">As the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses, Aaron put the manna with the tablets of the covenant law, so that it might be preserved. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="EXO.16.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="EXO.16.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="EXO.16.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">(An omer is one-tenth of an ephah.)</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">42</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.42.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Here is my servant, whom I uphold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.42.1"><span class="content">my chosen one in whom I delight;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.42.1"><span class="content">I will put my Spirit on him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.42.1"><span class="content">and he will bring justice to the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.42.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.42.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He will not shout or cry out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.42.2"><span class="content">or raise his voice in the streets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.42.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.42.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">A bruised reed he will not break,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.42.3"><span class="content">and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.42.3"><span class="content">In faithfulness he will bring forth justice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.42.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.42.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">he will not falter or be discouraged</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.42.4"><span class="content">till he establishes justice on earth.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.42.4"><span class="content">In his teaching the islands will put their hope.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.42.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.42.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">This is what God the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.42.5"><span class="content">the Creator of the heavens, who stretches them out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.42.5"><span class="content">who spreads out the earth with all that springs from it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.42.5"><span class="content">who gives breath to its people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.42.5"><span class="content">and life to those who walk on it:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.42.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.42.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, have called you in righteousness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.42.6"><span class="content">I will take hold of your hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.42.6"><span class="content">I will keep you and will make you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.42.6"><span class="content">to be a covenant for the people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.42.6"><span class="content">and a light for the Gentiles,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.42.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.42.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">to open eyes that are blind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.42.7"><span class="content">to free captives from prison</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.42.7"><span class="content">and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.42.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.42.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; that is my name!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.42.8"><span class="content">I will not yield my glory to another</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.42.8"><span class="content">or my praise to idols.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.42.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.42.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">See, the former things have taken place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.42.9"><span class="content">and new things I declare;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.42.9"><span class="content">before they spring into being</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.42.9"><span class="content">I announce them to you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Song of Praise to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.42.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.42.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Sing to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> a new song,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.42.10"><span class="content">his praise from the ends of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.42.10"><span class="content">you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.42.10"><span class="content">you islands, and all who live in them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.42.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.42.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Let the wilderness and its towns raise their voices;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.42.11"><span class="content">let the settlements where Kedar lives rejoice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.42.11"><span class="content">Let the people of Sela sing for joy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.42.11"><span class="content">let them shout from the mountaintops.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.42.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.42.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Let them give glory to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.42.12"><span class="content">and proclaim his praise in the islands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.42.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.42.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will march out like a champion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.42.13"><span class="content">like a warrior he will stir up his zeal;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.42.13"><span class="content">with a shout he will raise the battle cry</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.42.13"><span class="content">and will triumph over his enemies.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.42.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.42.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;For a long time I have kept silent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.42.14"><span class="content">I have been quiet and held myself back.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.42.14"><span class="content">But now, like a woman in childbirth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.42.14"><span class="content">I cry out, I gasp and pant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.42.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.42.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I will lay waste the mountains and hills</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.42.15"><span class="content">and dry up all their vegetation;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.42.15"><span class="content">I will turn rivers into islands</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.42.15"><span class="content">and dry up the pools.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.42.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.42.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I will lead the blind by ways they have not known,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.42.16"><span class="content">along unfamiliar paths I will guide them;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.42.16"><span class="content">I will turn the darkness into light before them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.42.16"><span class="content">and make the rough places smooth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.42.16"><span class="content">These are the things I will do;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.42.16"><span class="content">I will not forsake them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.42.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.42.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But those who trust in idols,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.42.17"><span class="content">who say to images, &#8216;You are our gods,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.42.17"><span class="content">will be turned back in utter shame.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel Blind and Deaf</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.42.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.42.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Hear, you deaf;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.42.18"><span class="content">look, you blind, and see!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.42.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.42.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Who is blind but my servant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.42.19"><span class="content">and deaf like the messenger I send?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.42.19"><span class="content">Who is blind like the one in covenant with me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.42.19"><span class="content">blind like the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.42.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.42.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You have seen many things, but you pay no attention;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.42.20"><span class="content">your ears are open, but you do not listen.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.42.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.42.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">It pleased the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.42.21"><span class="content">for the sake of his righteousness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.42.21"><span class="content">to make his law great and glorious.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.42.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.42.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But this is a people plundered and looted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.42.22"><span class="content">all of them trapped in pits</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.42.22"><span class="content">or hidden away in prisons.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.42.22"><span class="content">They have become plunder,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.42.22"><span class="content">with no one to rescue them;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.42.22"><span class="content">they have been made loot,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.42.22"><span class="content">with no one to say, &#8220;Send them back.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.42.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.42.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Which of you will listen to this</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.42.23"><span class="content">or pay close attention in time to come?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.42.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.42.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Who handed Jacob over to become loot,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.42.24"><span class="content">and Israel to the plunderers?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.42.24"><span class="content">Was it not the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.42.24"><span class="content">against whom we have sinned?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.42.24"><span class="content">For they would not follow his ways;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.42.24"><span class="content">they did not obey his law.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.42.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.42.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">So he poured out on them his burning anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.42.25"><span class="content">the violence of war.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.42.25"><span class="content">It enveloped them in flames, yet they did not understand;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.42.25"><span class="content">it consumed them, but they did not 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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water&#8217;s edge. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said: </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, some multiplying thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He told them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">so that,</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.4.12"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;they may be ever seeing but never perceiving,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.4.12"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and ever hearing but never understanding;</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.4.12"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">4:12 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Isaiah 6:9,10  </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The farmer sows the word.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop&#8212;some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">16</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Collection for the Lord&#8217;s People</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now about the collection for the Lord&#8217;s people: Do what I told the Galatian churches to do. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with your income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then, when I arrive, I will give letters of introduction to the men you approve and send them with your gift to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">If it seems advisable for me to go also, they will accompany me.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Personal Requests</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.16.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">After I go through Macedonia, I will come to you&#8212;for I will be going through Macedonia. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Perhaps I will stay with you for a while, or even spend the winter, so that you can help me on my journey, wherever I go. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For I do not want to see you now and make only a passing visit; I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But I will stay on at Ephesus until Pentecost, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">because a great door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many who oppose me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.16.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When Timothy comes, see to it that he has nothing to fear while he is with you, for he is carrying on the work of the Lord, just as I am. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">No one, then, should treat him with contempt. Send him on his way in peace so that he may return to me. I am expecting him along with the brothers.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.16.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Now about our brother Apollos: I strongly urged him to go to you with the brothers. He was quite unwilling to go now, but he will go when he has the opportunity.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.16.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Do everything in love.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.16.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the service of the Lord&#8217;s people. I urge you, brothers and sisters, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">to submit to such people and to everyone who joins in the work and labors at it. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.16.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I was glad when Stephanas, Fortunatus and Achaicus arrived, because they have supplied what was lacking from you. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CO.16.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For they refreshed my spirit and yours also. Such men deserve recognition.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Final Greetings</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CO.16.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.16.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The churches in the province of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Priscilla</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:19 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">Prisca</span><span class="ft">, a variant of </span><span class="fq">Priscilla</span></span></span><span class="content"> greet you warmly in the Lord, and so does the church that meets at their house. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CO.16.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">All the brothers and sisters here send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CO.16.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CO.16.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">I, Paul, write this greeting in my own hand.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CO.16.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1CO.16.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">If anyone does not love the Lord, let that person be cursed! Come, Lord</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:22 </span><span class="ft">The Greek for </span><span class="fq">Come, Lord </span><span class="ft">reproduces an Aramaic expression (Marana tha) used by early Christians.</span></span></span><span class="content">!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1CO.16.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1CO.16.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1CO.16.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1CO.16.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">My love to all of you in Christ Jesus. Amen.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:24 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts do not have </span><span class="fq">Amen</span><span class="ft">.</span></span></span></span></div>
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