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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">False Religion Worthless</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Stand at the gate of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s house and there proclaim this message:</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.7.2"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Reform your ways and your actions, and I will let you live in this place. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Do not trust in deceptive words and say, &#8220;This is the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and swear by false gods</span></span></span><span class="content"> burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, &#8220;We are safe&#8221;&#8212;safe to do all these detestable things? </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for my Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">While you were doing all these things, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I spoke to you again and again, but you did not listen; I called you, but you did not answer. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Therefore, what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears my Name, the temple you trust in, the place I gave to you and your ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I will thrust you from my presence, just as I did all your fellow Israelites, the people of Ephraim.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;So do not pray for this people nor offer any plea or petition for them; do not plead with me, for I will not listen to you. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes to offer to the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods to arouse my anger. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But am I the one they are provoking? declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.7.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Therefore this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: My anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place&#8212;on man and beast, on the trees of the field and on the crops of your land&#8212;and it will burn and not be quenched.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.7.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Go ahead, add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves! </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For when I brought your ancestors out of Egypt and spoke to them, I did not just give them commands about burnt offerings and sacrifices, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">but I gave them this command: Obey me, and I will be your God and you will be my people. Walk in obedience to all I command you, that it may go well with you. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts. They went backward and not forward. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">From the time your ancestors left Egypt until now, day after day, again and again I sent you my servants the prophets. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.7.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">But they did not listen to me or pay attention. They were stiff-necked and did more evil than their ancestors.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.7.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.7.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you; when you call to them, they will not answer. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.7.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Therefore say to them, &#8216;This is the nation that has not obeyed the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> its God or responded to correction. Truth has perished; it has vanished from their lips.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JER.7.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JER.7.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Cut off your hair and throw it away; take up a lament on the barren heights, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has rejected and abandoned this generation that is under his wrath.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Valley of Slaughter</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JER.7.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JER.7.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The people of Judah have done evil in my eyes, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my Name and have defiled it. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JER.7.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire&#8212;something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JER.7.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">So beware, the days are coming, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, when people will no longer call it Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter, for they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JER.7.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Then the carcasses of this people will become food for the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JER.7.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, for the land will become desolate.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch8" data-usfm="JER.8">
         <div class="label">8</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;At that time, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the bones of the kings and officials of Judah, the bones of the priests and prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped. They will not be gathered up or buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Wherever I banish them, all the survivors of this evil nation will prefer death to life, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Sin and Punishment</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.8.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say to them, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.8.4"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;When people fall down, do they not get up?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.8.4"><span class="content">When someone turns away, do they not return?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Why then have these people turned away?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.8.5"><span class="content">Why does Jerusalem always turn away?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.8.5"><span class="content">They cling to deceit;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.8.5"><span class="content">they refuse to return.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I have listened attentively,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.8.6"><span class="content">but they do not say what is right.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.8.6"><span class="content">None of them repent of their wickedness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.8.6"><span class="content">saying, &#8220;What have I done?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.8.6"><span class="content">Each pursues their own course</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.8.6"><span class="content">like a horse charging into battle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Even the stork in the sky</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.8.7"><span class="content">knows her appointed seasons,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.8.7"><span class="content">and the dove, the swift and the thrush</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.8.7"><span class="content">observe the time of their migration.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.8.7"><span class="content">But my people do not know</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.8.7"><span class="content">the requirements of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;How can you say, &#8220;We are wise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.8.8"><span class="content">for we have the law of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.8.8"><span class="content">when actually the lying pen of the scribes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.8.8"><span class="content">has handled it falsely?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The wise will be put to shame;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.8.9"><span class="content">they will be dismayed and trapped.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.8.9"><span class="content">Since they have rejected the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.8.9"><span class="content">what kind of wisdom do they have?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Therefore I will give their wives to other men</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.8.10"><span class="content">and their fields to new owners.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.8.10"><span class="content">From the least to the greatest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.8.10"><span class="content">all are greedy for gain;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.8.10"><span class="content">prophets and priests alike,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.8.10"><span class="content">all practice deceit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.8.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They dress the wound of my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.8.11"><span class="content">as though it were not serious.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.8.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Peace, peace,&#8221; they say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.8.11"><span class="content">when there is no peace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.8.12"><span class="content">No, they have no shame at all;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.8.12"><span class="content">they do not even know how to blush.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.8.12"><span class="content">So they will fall among the fallen;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.8.12"><span class="content">they will be brought down when they are punished,</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.8.12"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I will take away their harvest,</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.8.13"><span class="content">declares 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="JER.8.13"><span class="content">There will be no grapes on the vine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.8.13"><span class="content">There will be no figs on the tree,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.8.13"><span class="content">and their leaves will wither.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.8.13"><span class="content">What I have given them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.8.13"><span class="content">will be taken from them.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:13 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Why are we sitting here?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.8.14"><span class="content">Gather together!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.8.14"><span class="content">Let us flee to the fortified cities</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.8.14"><span class="content">and perish there!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.8.14"><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God has doomed us to perish</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.8.14"><span class="content">and given us poisoned water to drink,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.8.14"><span class="content">because we have sinned against him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.8.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">We hoped for peace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.8.15"><span class="content">but no good has come,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.8.15"><span class="content">for a time of healing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.8.15"><span class="content">but there is only terror.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.8.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The snorting of the enemy&#8217;s horses</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.8.16"><span class="content">is heard from Dan;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.8.16"><span class="content">at the neighing of their stallions</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.8.16"><span class="content">the whole land trembles.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.8.16"><span class="content">They have come to devour</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.8.16"><span class="content">the land and everything in it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.8.16"><span class="content">the city and all who live there.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.8.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, I will send venomous snakes among you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.8.17"><span class="content">vipers that cannot be charmed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.8.17"><span class="content">and they will bite you,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.8.17"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.8.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">You who are my Comforter</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:18 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> in sorrow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.8.18"><span class="content">my heart is faint within me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.8.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Listen to the cry of my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="content">from a land far away:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="content">&#8220;Is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> not in Zion?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="content">Is her King no longer there?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="content">&#8220;Why have they aroused my anger with their images,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="content">with their worthless foreign idols?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;The harvest is past,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.8.20"><span class="content">the summer has ended,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.8.20"><span class="content">and we are not saved.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.8.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Since my people are crushed, I am crushed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.8.21"><span class="content">I mourn, and horror grips me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.8.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Is there no balm in Gilead?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.8.22"><span class="content">Is there no physician there?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.8.22"><span class="content">Why then is there no healing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.8.22"><span class="content">for the wound of my people?</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 9:1 is numbered 8:23, and 9:2-26 is numbered 9:1-25.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Oh, that my head were a spring of water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.9.1"><span class="content">and my eyes a fountain of tears!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.9.1"><span class="content">I would weep day and night</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.9.1"><span class="content">for the slain of my people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.9.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Oh, that I had in the desert</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="content">a lodging place for travelers,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="content">so that I might leave my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="content">and go away from them;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="content">for they are all adulterers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="content">a crowd of unfaithful people.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;They make ready their tongue</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">like a bow, to shoot lies;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">it is not by truth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">that they triumph</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">lies; / they are not valiant for truth</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">They go from one sin to another;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">they do not acknowledge me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><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 v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Beware of your friends;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.9.4"><span class="content">do not trust anyone in your clan.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.9.4"><span class="content">For every one of them is a deceiver,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">a deceiving Jacob</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.9.4"><span class="content">and every friend a slanderer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Friend deceives friend,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.9.5"><span class="content">and no one speaks the truth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.9.5"><span class="content">They have taught their tongues to lie;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.9.5"><span class="content">they weary themselves with sinning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:6 </span><span class="ft">That is, Jeremiah (the Hebrew is singular)</span></span></span><span class="content"> live in the midst of deception;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.9.6"><span class="content">in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.9.6"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.9.7"><span class="content">&#8220;See, I will refine and test them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.9.7"><span class="content">for what else can I do</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.9.7"><span class="content">because of the sin of my people?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Their tongue is a deadly arrow;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.9.8"><span class="content">it speaks deceitfully.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.9.8"><span class="content">With their mouths they all speak cordially to their neighbors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.9.8"><span class="content">but in their hearts they set traps for them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Should I not punish them for this?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.9.9"><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 v9" data-usfm="JER.9.9"><span class="content">&#8220;Should I not avenge myself</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.9.9"><span class="content">on such a nation as this?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I will weep and wail for the mountains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="content">and take up a lament concerning the wilderness grasslands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="content">They are desolate and untraveled,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="content">and the lowing of cattle is not heard.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="content">The birds have all fled</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="content">and the animals are gone.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.9.11"><span class="content">a haunt of jackals;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.9.11"><span class="content">and I will lay waste the towns of Judah</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.9.11"><span class="content">so no one can live there.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Who is wise enough to understand this? Who has been instructed by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and can explain it? Why has the land been ruined and laid waste like a desert that no one can cross?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;It is because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them; they have not obeyed me or followed my law. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts; they have followed the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, the God of Israel, says: &#8220;See, I will make this people eat bitter food and drink poisoned water. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known, and I will pursue them with the sword until I have made an end of them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.9.17"><span class="content">&#8220;Consider now! Call for the wailing women to come;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.9.17"><span class="content">send for the most skillful of them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.9.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Let them come quickly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.9.18"><span class="content">and wail over us</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.9.18"><span class="content">till our eyes overflow with tears</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.9.18"><span class="content">and water streams from our eyelids.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.9.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The sound of wailing is heard from Zion:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"><span class="content">&#8216;How ruined we are!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"><span class="content">How great is our shame!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"><span class="content">We must leave our land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"><span class="content">because our houses are in ruins.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Now, you women, hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.9.20"><span class="content">open your ears to the words of his mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.9.20"><span class="content">Teach your daughters how to wail;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.9.20"><span class="content">teach one another a lament.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.9.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Death has climbed in through our windows</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.9.21"><span class="content">and has entered our fortresses;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.9.21"><span class="content">it has removed the children from the streets</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.9.21"><span class="content">and the young men from the public squares.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.9.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Say, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> declares:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.9.22"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Dead bodies will lie</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.9.22"><span class="content">like dung on the open field,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.9.22"><span class="content">like cut grain behind the reaper,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.9.22"><span class="content">with no one to gather them.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.9.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="content">&#8220;Let not the wise boast of their wisdom</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="content">or the strong boast of their strength</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="content">or the rich boast of their riches,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">but let the one who boasts boast about this:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">that they have the understanding to know me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who exercises kindness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">justice and righteousness on earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">for in these I delight,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;The days are coming,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab and all who live in the wilderness in distant places.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">wilderness and who clip the hair by their foreheads</span></span></span><span class="content"> For all these nations are really uncircumcised, and even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch13" data-usfm="JHN.13">
         <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Washes His Disciples&#8217; Feet</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.13.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples&#8217; feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, &#8220;Lord, are you going to wash my feet?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.13.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;No,&#8221; said Peter, &#8220;you shall never wash my feet.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.13.8"><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.13.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then, Lord,&#8221; Simon Peter replied, &#8220;not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.13.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not every one was clean.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.13.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you understand what I have done for you?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked them. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You call me &#8216;Teacher&#8217; and &#8216;Lord,&#8217; and rightly so, for that is what I am.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another&#8217;s feet.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Predicts His Betrayal</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.13.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill this passage of Scripture: &#8216;He who shared my bread has turned</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">13:18 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fqa">has lifted up his heel</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">against me.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:18 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 41:9</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.13.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am who I am.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Very truly I tell you, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.13.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Very truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.13.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them he meant. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, &#8220;Ask him which one he means.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.13.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, &#8220;Lord, who is it?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.13.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.13.27"><span class="content">So Jesus told him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What you are about to do, do quickly.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.13.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">But no one at the meal understood why Jesus said this to him. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.13.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Since Judas had charge of the money, some thought Jesus was telling him to buy what was needed for the festival, or to give something to the poor. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.13.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">As soon as Judas had taken the bread, he went out. And it was night.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Predicts Peter&#8217;s Denial</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.13.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.13.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">When he was gone, Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Now the Son of Man is glorified and God is glorified in him.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.13.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If God is glorified in him,</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:32 </span><span class="ft">Many early manuscripts do not have </span><span class="fqa">If God is glorified in him.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.13.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.13.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.13.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.13.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.13.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.13.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.13.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Simon Peter asked him, &#8220;Lord, where are you going?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.13.36"><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.13.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.13.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Peter asked, &#8220;Lord, why can&#8217;t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.13.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JHN.13.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Then Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Will you really lay down your life for me? Very truly I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!</span></span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch11" data-usfm="PRO.11">
         <div class="label">11</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> detests dishonest scales,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.11.1"><span class="content">but accurate weights find favor with him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.11.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When pride comes, then comes disgrace,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.11.2"><span class="content">but with humility comes wisdom.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.11.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The integrity of the upright guides them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.11.3"><span class="content">but the unfaithful are destroyed by their duplicity.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.11.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.11.4"><span class="content">but righteousness delivers from death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.11.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The righteousness of the blameless makes their paths straight,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.11.5"><span class="content">but the wicked are brought down by their own wickedness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.11.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The righteousness of the upright delivers them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.11.6"><span class="content">but the unfaithful are trapped by evil desires.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Hopes placed in mortals die with them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.11.7"><span class="content">all the promise of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:7 </span><span class="ft">Two Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts, Vulgate, Syriac and Targum </span><span class="fqa">When the wicked die, their hope perishes; / all they expected from</span></span></span><span class="content"> their power comes to nothing.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.11.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The righteous person is rescued from trouble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.11.8"><span class="content">and it falls on the wicked instead.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.11.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.11.9"><span class="content">but through knowledge the righteous escape.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.11.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.11.10"><span class="content">when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.11.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Through the blessing of the upright a city is exalted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.11.11"><span class="content">but by the mouth of the wicked it is destroyed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.11.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Whoever derides their neighbor has no sense,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.11.12"><span class="content">but the one who has understanding holds their tongue.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.11.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">A gossip betrays a confidence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.11.13"><span class="content">but a trustworthy person keeps a secret.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.11.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For lack of guidance a nation falls,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.11.14"><span class="content">but victory is won through many advisers.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.11.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.11.15"><span class="content">but whoever refuses to shake hands in pledge is safe.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.11.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">A kindhearted woman gains honor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.11.16"><span class="content">but ruthless men gain only wealth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.11.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Those who are kind benefit themselves,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.11.17"><span class="content">but the cruel bring ruin on themselves.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.11.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">A wicked person earns deceptive wages,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.11.18"><span class="content">but the one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.11.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Truly the righteous attain life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.11.19"><span class="content">but whoever pursues evil finds death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.11.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> detests those whose hearts are perverse,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.11.20"><span class="content">but he delights in those whose ways are blameless.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.11.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Be sure of this: The wicked will not go unpunished,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.11.21"><span class="content">but those who are righteous will go free.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.11.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Like a gold ring in a pig&#8217;s snout</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.11.22"><span class="content">is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.11.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The desire of the righteous ends only in good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.11.23"><span class="content">but the hope of the wicked only in wrath.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.11.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.11.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">One person gives freely, yet gains even more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.11.24"><span class="content">another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.11.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.11.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">A generous person will prosper;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.11.25"><span class="content">whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.11.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.11.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">People curse the one who hoards grain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.11.26"><span class="content">but they pray God&#8217;s blessing on the one who is willing to sell.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.11.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.11.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Whoever seeks good finds favor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.11.27"><span class="content">but evil comes to one who searches for it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.11.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.11.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Those who trust in their riches will fall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.11.28"><span class="content">but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.11.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.11.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Whoever brings ruin on their family will inherit only wind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.11.29"><span class="content">and the fool will be servant to the wise.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.11.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.11.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.11.30"><span class="content">and the one who is wise saves lives.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.11.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.11.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">If the righteous receive their due on earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.11.31"><span class="content">how much more the ungodly and the sinner!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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