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         <div class="label">16</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Korah, Dathan and Abiram</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and certain Reubenites&#8212;Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth&#8212;became insolent</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Peleth&#8212;took men</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and rose up against Moses. With them were 250 Israelite men, well-known community leaders who had been appointed members of the council. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They came as a group to oppose Moses and Aaron and said to them, &#8220;You have gone too far! The whole community is holy, every one of them, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is with them. Why then do you set yourselves above the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s assembly?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.16.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When Moses heard this, he fell facedown. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then he said to Korah and all his followers: &#8220;In the morning the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will show who belongs to him and who is holy, and he will have that person come near him. The man he chooses he will cause to come near him. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You, Korah, and all your followers are to do this: Take censers </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and tomorrow put burning coals and incense in them before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. The man the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> chooses will be the one who is holy. You Levites have gone too far!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.16.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Moses also said to Korah, &#8220;Now listen, you Levites! </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Isn&#8217;t it enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the rest of the Israelite community and brought you near himself to do the work at the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s tabernacle and to stand before the community and minister to them? </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He has brought you and all your fellow Levites near himself, but now you are trying to get the priesthood too. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">It is against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> that you and all your followers have banded together. Who is Aaron that you should grumble against him?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.16.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then Moses summoned Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab. But they said, &#8220;We will not come! </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Isn&#8217;t it enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? And now you also want to lord it over us! </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Moreover, you haven&#8217;t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you want to treat these men like slaves</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">to deceive these men</span><span class="ft">; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Will you gouge out the eyes of these men</span></span></span><span class="content">? No, we will not come!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.16.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then Moses became very angry and said to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;Do not accept their offering. I have not taken so much as a donkey from them, nor have I wronged any of them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.16.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Moses said to Korah, &#8220;You and all your followers are to appear before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> tomorrow&#8212;you and they and Aaron. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.16.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Each man is to take his censer and put incense in it&#8212;250 censers in all&#8212;and present it before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. You and Aaron are to present your censers also.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.16.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">So each of them took his censer, put burning coals and incense in it, and stood with Moses and Aaron at the entrance to the tent of meeting. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.16.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When Korah had gathered all his followers in opposition to them at the entrance to the tent of meeting, the glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to the entire assembly. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.16.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses and Aaron, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.16.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Separate yourselves from this assembly so I can put an end to them at once.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.16.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.16.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and cried out, &#8220;O God, the God who gives breath to all living things, will you be angry with the entire assembly when only one man sins?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.16.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.16.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.16.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say to the assembly, &#8216;Move away from the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.16.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.16.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.16.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">He warned the assembly, &#8220;Move back from the tents of these wicked men! Do not touch anything belonging to them, or you will be swept away because of all their sins.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.16.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">So they moved away from the tents of Korah, Dathan and Abiram. Dathan and Abiram had come out and were standing with their wives, children and little ones at the entrances to their tents.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.16.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.16.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then Moses said, &#8220;This is how you will know that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has sent me to do all these things and that it was not my idea: </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.16.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">If these men die a natural death and suffer the fate of all mankind, then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has not sent me. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.16.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">But if the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> brings about something totally new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the realm of the dead, then you will know that these men have treated the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> with contempt.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.16.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.16.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them split apart </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NUM.16.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, and all those associated with Korah, together with their possessions. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NUM.16.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">They went down alive into the realm of the dead, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the community. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NUM.16.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">At their cries, all the Israelites around them fled, shouting, &#8220;The earth is going to swallow us too!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NUM.16.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NUM.16.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">And fire came out from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NUM.16.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="NUM.16.36"><span class="label">36</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 v37" data-usfm="NUM.16.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">&#8220;Tell Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest, to remove the censers from the charred remains and scatter the coals some distance away, for the censers are holy&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="NUM.16.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">the censers of the men who sinned at the cost of their lives. Hammer the censers into sheets to overlay the altar, for they were presented before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and have become holy. Let them be a sign to the Israelites.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="NUM.16.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="NUM.16.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">So Eleazar the priest collected the bronze censers brought by those who had been burned to death, and he had them hammered out to overlay the altar, </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="NUM.16.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> directed him through Moses. This was to remind the Israelites that no one except a descendant of Aaron should come to burn incense before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, or he would become like Korah and his followers.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="NUM.16.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="NUM.16.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">The next day the whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. &#8220;You have killed the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s people,&#8221; they said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="NUM.16.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="NUM.16.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">But when the assembly gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron and turned toward the tent of meeting, suddenly the cloud covered it and the glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="NUM.16.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Then Moses and Aaron went to the front of the tent of meeting, </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="NUM.16.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="NUM.16.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">&#8220;Get away from this assembly so I can put an end to them at once.&#8221; And they fell facedown.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="NUM.16.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="NUM.16.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">Then Moses said to Aaron, &#8220;Take your censer and put incense in it, along with burning coals from the altar, and hurry to the assembly to make atonement for them. Wrath has come out from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; the plague has started.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="NUM.16.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">So Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly. The plague had already started among the people, but Aaron offered the incense and made atonement for them. </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="NUM.16.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague stopped. </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="NUM.16.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">But 14,700 people died from the plague, in addition to those who had died because of Korah. </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="NUM.16.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance to the tent of meeting, for the plague had stopped.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:50 </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 16:36-50 is numbered 17:1-15.</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">52</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 52</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 52:1-9 is numbered 52:3-11.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of David. When Doeg the Edomite had gone to Saul and told him: &#8220;David has gone to the house of Ahimelek.&#8221;</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.52.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Why do you boast of evil, you mighty hero?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.52.1"><span class="content">Why do you boast all day long,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.52.1"><span class="content">you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.52.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.52.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You who practice deceit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.52.2"><span class="content">your tongue plots destruction;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.52.2"><span class="content">it is like a sharpened razor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.52.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.52.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You love evil rather than good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.52.3"><span class="content">falsehood rather than speaking the truth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">52:3 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 5.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.52.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.52.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You love every harmful word,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.52.4"><span class="content">you deceitful tongue!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.52.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.52.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.52.5"><span class="content">He will snatch you up and pluck you from your tent;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.52.5"><span class="content">he will uproot you from the land of the living.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.52.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.52.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The righteous will see and fear;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.52.6"><span class="content">they will laugh at you, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.52.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.52.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Here now is the man</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.52.7"><span class="content">who did not make God his stronghold</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.52.7"><span class="content">but trusted in his great wealth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.52.7"><span class="content">and grew strong by destroying others!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.52.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.52.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But I am like an olive tree</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.52.8"><span class="content">flourishing in the house of God;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.52.8"><span class="content">I trust in God&#8217;s unfailing love</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.52.8"><span class="content">for ever and ever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.52.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.52.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For what you have done I will always praise you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.52.9"><span class="content">in the presence of your faithful people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.52.9"><span class="content">And I will hope in your name,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.52.9"><span class="content">for your name is good.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">53</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 53</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 53:1-6 is numbered 53:2-7.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. According to </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">mahalath.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.53.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The fool says in his heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.53.1"><span class="content">&#8220;There is no God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.53.1"><span class="content">They are corrupt, and their ways are vile;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.53.1"><span class="content">there is no one who does good.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.53.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.53.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">God looks down from heaven</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.53.2"><span class="content">on all mankind</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.53.2"><span class="content">to see if there are any who understand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.53.2"><span class="content">any who seek God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.53.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.53.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Everyone has turned away, all have become corrupt;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.53.3"><span class="content">there is no one who does good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.53.3"><span class="content">not even one.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.53.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.53.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Do all these evildoers know nothing?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.53.4"><span class="content">They devour my people as though eating bread;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.53.4"><span class="content">they never call on God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.53.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.53.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But there they are, overwhelmed with dread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.53.5"><span class="content">where there was nothing to dread.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.53.5"><span class="content">God scattered the bones of those who attacked you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.53.5"><span class="content">you put them to shame, for God despised them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.53.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.53.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.53.6"><span class="content">When God restores his people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.53.6"><span class="content">let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">54</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 54</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 54:1-7 is numbered 54:3-9.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of David. When the Ziphites had gone to Saul and said, &#8220;Is not David hiding among us?&#8221;</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.54.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Save me, O God, by your name;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.54.1"><span class="content">vindicate me by your might.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.54.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.54.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Hear my prayer, O God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.54.2"><span class="content">listen to the words of my mouth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.54.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.54.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Arrogant foes are attacking me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.54.3"><span class="content">ruthless people are trying to kill me&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.54.3"><span class="content">people without regard for God.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">54:3 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.54.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.54.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Surely God is my help;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.54.4"><span class="content">the Lord is the one who sustains me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.54.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.54.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Let evil recoil on those who slander me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.54.5"><span class="content">in your faithfulness destroy them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.54.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.54.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.54.6"><span class="content">I will praise your name, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, for it is good.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.54.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.54.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You have delivered me from all my troubles,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.54.7"><span class="content">and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Isaiah&#8217;s Commission</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And they were calling to one another:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.6.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Holy, holy, holy is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.6.3"><span class="content">the whole earth is full of his glory.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Woe to me!&#8221; I cried. &#8220;I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">With it he touched my mouth and said, &#8220;See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, &#8220;Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.6.8"><span class="content">And I said, &#8220;Here am I. Send me!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;Go and tell this people:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.6.9"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Be ever hearing, but never understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.6.9"><span class="content">be ever seeing, but never perceiving.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Make the heart of this people calloused;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">make their ears dull</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">and close their eyes.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:9,10 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">&#8216;You will be ever hearing, but never understanding; / you will be ever seeing, but never perceiving.&#8217; / </span><span class="fv">10 </span><span class="fqa">This people&#8217;s heart has become calloused; / they hardly hear with their ears, / and they have closed their eyes</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">Otherwise they might see with their eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">hear with their ears,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">understand with their hearts,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">and turn and be healed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then I said, &#8220;For how long, Lord?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">And he answered:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Until the cities lie ruined</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">and without inhabitant,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">until the houses are left deserted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">and the fields ruined and ravaged,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">until the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has sent everyone far away</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.6.12"><span class="content">and the land is utterly forsaken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And though a tenth remains in the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="content">it will again be laid waste.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="content">But as the terebinth and oak</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="content">leave stumps when they are cut down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.6.13"><span class="content">so the holy seed will be the stump in the land.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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