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         <div class="label">34</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The New Stone Tablets</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.34.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.34.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai. Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.34.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">No one is to come with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks and herds may graze in front of the mountain.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.34.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.34.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up Mount Sinai early in the morning, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded him; and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.34.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.34.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.34.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.34.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.34.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Moses bowed to the ground at once and worshiped. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.34.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Lord,&#8221; he said, &#8220;if I have found favor in your eyes, then let the Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wickedness and our sin, and take us as your inheritance.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.34.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.34.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said: &#8220;I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, will do for you. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.34.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Obey what I command you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.34.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.34.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">34:13 </span><span class="ft">That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.34.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Do not worship any other god, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.34.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.34.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.34.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.34.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.34.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not make any idols.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.34.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.34.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.34.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.34.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.34.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.34.20"><span class="content">&#8220;No one is to appear before me empty-handed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.34.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.34.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.34.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.34.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">34:22 </span><span class="ft">That is, in the autumn</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.34.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.34.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.34.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.34.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Festival remain until morning.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.34.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.34.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.34.26"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not cook a young goat in its mother&#8217;s milk.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.34.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.34.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.34.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Moses was there with the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant&#8212;the Ten Commandments.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Radiant Face of Moses</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.34.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.34.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.34.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, his face was radiant, and they were afraid to come near him. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EXO.34.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">But Moses called to them; so Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him, and he spoke to them. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EXO.34.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Afterward all the Israelites came near him, and he gave them all the commands the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had given him on Mount Sinai.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EXO.34.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="EXO.34.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">When Moses finished speaking to them, he put a veil over his face. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="EXO.34.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">But whenever he entered the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s presence to speak with him, he removed the veil until he came out. And when he came out and told the Israelites what he had been commanded, </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="EXO.34.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">they saw that his face was radiant. Then Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch54" data-usfm="ISA.54">
         <div class="label">54</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Future Glory of Zion</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.54.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Sing, barren woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.54.1"><span class="content">you who never bore a child;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.54.1"><span class="content">burst into song, shout for joy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.54.1"><span class="content">you who were never in labor;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.54.1"><span class="content">because more are the children of the desolate woman</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.54.1"><span class="content">than of her who has a husband,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.54.1"><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 v1" data-usfm="ISA.54.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.54.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Enlarge the place of your tent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.54.2"><span class="content">stretch your tent curtains wide,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.54.2"><span class="content">do not hold back;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.54.2"><span class="content">lengthen your cords,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.54.2"><span class="content">strengthen your stakes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.54.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.54.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For you will spread out to the right and to the left;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.54.3"><span class="content">your descendants will dispossess nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.54.3"><span class="content">and settle in their desolate cities.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.54.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.54.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not be afraid; you will not be put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.54.4"><span class="content">Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.54.4"><span class="content">You will forget the shame of your youth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.54.4"><span class="content">and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.54.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.54.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For your Maker is your husband&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.54.5"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty is his name&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.54.5"><span class="content">the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.54.5"><span class="content">he is called the God of all the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.54.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.54.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will call you back</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.54.6"><span class="content">as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.54.6"><span class="content">a wife who married young,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.54.6"><span class="content">only to be rejected,&#8221; says your God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.54.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.54.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;For a brief moment I abandoned you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.54.7"><span class="content">but with deep compassion I will bring you back.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.54.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.54.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In a surge of anger</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.54.8"><span class="content">I hid my face from you for a moment,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.54.8"><span class="content">but with everlasting kindness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.54.8"><span class="content">I will have compassion on you,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.54.8"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your Redeemer.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.54.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.54.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;To me this is like the days of Noah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.54.9"><span class="content">when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.54.9"><span class="content">So now I have sworn not to be angry with you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.54.9"><span class="content">never to rebuke you again.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.54.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.54.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Though the mountains be shaken</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.54.10"><span class="content">and the hills be removed,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.54.10"><span class="content">yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.54.10"><span class="content">nor my covenant of peace be removed,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.54.10"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who has compassion on you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.54.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.54.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.54.11"><span class="content">I will rebuild you with stones of turquoise,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">54:11 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.54.11"><span class="content">your foundations with lapis lazuli.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.54.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.54.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I will make your battlements of rubies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.54.12"><span class="content">your gates of sparkling jewels,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.54.12"><span class="content">and all your walls of precious stones.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.54.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.54.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">All your children will be taught by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.54.13"><span class="content">and great will be their peace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.54.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.54.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">In righteousness you will be established:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.54.14"><span class="content">Tyranny will be far from you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.54.14"><span class="content">you will have nothing to fear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.54.14"><span class="content">Terror will be far removed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.54.14"><span class="content">it will not come near you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.54.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.54.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.54.15"><span class="content">whoever attacks you will surrender to you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.54.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.54.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, it is I who created the blacksmith</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.54.16"><span class="content">who fans the coals into flame</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.54.16"><span class="content">and forges a weapon fit for its work.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.54.16"><span class="content">And it is I who have created the destroyer to wreak havoc;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.54.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.54.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">no weapon forged against you will prevail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.54.17"><span class="content">and you will refute every tongue that accuses you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.54.17"><span class="content">This is the heritage of the servants of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.54.17"><span class="content">and this is their vindication from me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.54.17"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">55</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Invitation to the Thirsty</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come, all you who are thirsty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">come to the waters;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">and you who have no money,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">come, buy and eat!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">Come, buy wine and milk</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">without money and without cost.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Why spend money on what is not bread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="content">and your labor on what does not satisfy?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="content">Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="content">and you will delight in the richest of fare.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Give ear and come to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="content">listen, that you may live.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="content">I will make an everlasting covenant with you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="content">my faithful love promised to David.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.55.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.55.4"><span class="content">a ruler and commander of the peoples.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.55.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Surely you will summon nations you know not,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">and nations you do not know will come running to you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">because of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">the Holy One of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">for he has endowed you with splendor.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.55.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> while he may be found;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.55.6"><span class="content">call on him while he is near.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.55.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Let the wicked forsake their ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="content">and the unrighteous their thoughts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="content">Let them turn to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and he will have mercy on them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="content">and to our God, for he will freely pardon.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.55.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;For my thoughts are not your thoughts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.55.8"><span class="content">neither are your ways my ways,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.55.8"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.55.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.55.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;As the heavens are higher than the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.55.9"><span class="content">so are my ways higher than your ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.55.9"><span class="content">and my thoughts than your thoughts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.55.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">As the rain and the snow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">come down from heaven,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">and do not return to it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">without watering the earth</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">and making it bud and flourish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">so is my word that goes out from my mouth:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="content">It will not return to me empty,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="content">but will accomplish what I desire</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="content">and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You will go out in joy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">and be led forth in peace;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">the mountains and hills</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">will burst into song before you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">and all the trees of the field</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">will clap their hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="content">and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="content">This will be for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s renown,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="content">for an everlasting sign,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="content">that will endure forever.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch13" data-usfm="MRK.13.24+MRK.13.25+MRK.13.26+MRK.13.27+MRK.13.28+MRK.13.29+MRK.13.30+MRK.13.31+MRK.13.32+MRK.13.33+MRK.13.34+MRK.13.35+MRK.13.36+MRK.13.37">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But in those days, following that distress,</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.13.24"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;the sun will be darkened,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.13.24"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and the moon will not give its light;</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.13.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">the stars will fall from the sky,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.13.25"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.&#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">13:25 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Isaiah 13:10; 34:4  </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.13.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;At that time people will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And he will send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.13.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.13.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.13.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that it</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:29 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">he</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">is near, right at the door.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MRK.13.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.13.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Day and Hour Unknown</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.13.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.13.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MRK.13.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Be on guard! Be alert</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:33 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">alert and pray</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">! You do not know when that time will come.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.13.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It&#8217;s like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with their assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.13.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MRK.13.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back&#8212;whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MRK.13.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MRK.13.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">What I say to you, I say to everyone: &#8216;Watch!&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch14" data-usfm="MRK.14.1+MRK.14.2+MRK.14.3+MRK.14.4+MRK.14.5+MRK.14.6+MRK.14.7+MRK.14.8+MRK.14.9+MRK.14.10+MRK.14.11">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were scheming to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;But not during the festival,&#8221; they said, &#8220;or the people may riot.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.14.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.14.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, &#8220;Why this waste of perfume? </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It could have been sold for more than a year&#8217;s wages</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:5 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">than three hundred denarii</span></span></span><span class="content"> and the money given to the poor.&#8221; And they rebuked her harshly.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.14.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Leave her alone,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> said Jesus. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The poor you will always have with you,</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:7 </span><span class="ft">See Deut. 15:11.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.14.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They were delighted to hear this and promised to give him money. So he watched for an opportunity to hand him over.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch11" data-usfm="2CO.11.16+2CO.11.17+2CO.11.18+2CO.11.19+2CO.11.20+2CO.11.21+2CO.11.22+2CO.11.23+2CO.11.24+2CO.11.25+2CO.11.26+2CO.11.27+2CO.11.28+2CO.11.29+2CO.11.30+2CO.11.31+2CO.11.32+2CO.11.33">
         <div class="p"><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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