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         <div class="label">25</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David, Nabal and Abigail</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.25.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David moved down into the Desert of Paran.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew and some Septuagint manuscripts; other Septuagint manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Maon</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.25.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.25.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">A certain man in Maon, who had property there at Carmel, was very wealthy. He had a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.25.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">His name was Nabal and his wife&#8217;s name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband was surly and mean in his dealings&#8212;he was a Calebite.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.25.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.25.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.25.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So he sent ten young men and said to them, &#8220;Go up to Nabal at Carmel and greet him in my name. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.25.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Say to him: &#8216;Long life to you! Good health to you and your household! And good health to all that is yours!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.25.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.25.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Now I hear that it is sheep-shearing time. When your shepherds were with us, we did not mistreat them, and the whole time they were at Carmel nothing of theirs was missing. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.25.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Ask your own servants and they will tell you. Therefore be favorable toward my men, since we come at a festive time. Please give your servants and your son David whatever you can find for them.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.25.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.25.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When David&#8217;s men arrived, they gave Nabal this message in David&#8217;s name. Then they waited.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.25.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.25.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Nabal answered David&#8217;s servants, &#8220;Who is this David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants are breaking away from their masters these days. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.25.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Why should I take my bread and water, and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men coming from who knows where?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.25.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.25.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">David&#8217;s men turned around and went back. When they arrived, they reported every word. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.25.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">David said to his men, &#8220;Each of you strap on your sword!&#8221; So they did, and David strapped his on as well. About four hundred men went up with David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.25.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.25.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">One of the servants told Abigail, Nabal&#8217;s wife, &#8220;David sent messengers from the wilderness to give our master his greetings, but he hurled insults at them. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.25.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Yet these men were very good to us. They did not mistreat us, and the whole time we were out in the fields near them nothing was missing. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.25.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Night and day they were a wall around us the whole time we were herding our sheep near them. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.25.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked man that no one can talk to him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.25.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.25.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:18 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 60 pounds or about 27 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.25.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then she told her servants, &#8220;Go on ahead; I&#8217;ll follow you.&#8221; But she did not tell her husband Nabal.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.25.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.25.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">As she came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, there were David and his men descending toward her, and she met them. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.25.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">David had just said, &#8220;It&#8217;s been useless&#8212;all my watching over this fellow&#8217;s property in the wilderness so that nothing of his was missing. He has paid me back evil for good. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.25.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">May God deal with David,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:22 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint manuscripts; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">with David&#8217;s enemies</span></span></span><span class="content"> be it ever so severely, if by morning I leave alive one male of all who belong to him!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.25.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.25.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed down before David with her face to the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1SA.25.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">She fell at his feet and said: &#8220;Pardon your servant, my lord, and let me speak to you; hear what your servant has to say. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1SA.25.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Please pay no attention, my lord, to that wicked man Nabal. He is just like his name&#8212;his name means Fool, and folly goes with him. And as for me, your servant, I did not see the men my lord sent. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1SA.25.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">And now, my lord, as surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God lives and as you live, since the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has kept you from bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hands, may your enemies and all who are intent on harming my lord be like Nabal. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1SA.25.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And let this gift, which your servant has brought to my lord, be given to the men who follow you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1SA.25.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1SA.25.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;Please forgive your servant&#8217;s presumption. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will certainly make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because you fight the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s battles, and no wrongdoing will be found in you as long as you live. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1SA.25.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life, the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurl away as from the pocket of a sling. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1SA.25.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has fulfilled for my lord every good thing he promised concerning him and has appointed him ruler over Israel, </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1SA.25.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">my lord will not have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed or of having avenged himself. And when the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has brought my lord success, remember your servant.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1SA.25.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1SA.25.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">David said to Abigail, &#8220;Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, who has sent you today to meet me. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="1SA.25.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">May you be blessed for your good judgment and for keeping me from bloodshed this day and from avenging myself with my own hands. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="1SA.25.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Otherwise, as surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by daybreak.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="1SA.25.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="1SA.25.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him and said, &#8220;Go home in peace. I have heard your words and granted your request.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="1SA.25.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="1SA.25.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until daybreak. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="1SA.25.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him and he became like a stone. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="1SA.25.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">About ten days later, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> struck Nabal and he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="1SA.25.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="1SA.25.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, &#8220;Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who has upheld my cause against Nabal for treating me with contempt. He has kept his servant from doing wrong and has brought Nabal&#8217;s wrongdoing down on his own head.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="1SA.25.39"><span class="content">Then David sent word to Abigail, asking her to become his wife. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="1SA.25.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">His servants went to Carmel and said to Abigail, &#8220;David has sent us to you to take you to become his wife.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="1SA.25.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="1SA.25.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">She bowed down with her face to the ground and said, &#8220;I am your servant and am ready to serve you and wash the feet of my lord&#8217;s servants.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="1SA.25.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Abigail quickly got on a donkey and, attended by her five female servants, went with David&#8217;s messengers and became his wife. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="1SA.25.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they both were his wives. </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="1SA.25.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David&#8217;s wife, to Paltiel</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:44 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Palti</span><span class="ft">, a variant of </span><span class="fq">Paltiel</span></span></span><span class="content"> son of Laish, who was from Gallim.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Siege of Jerusalem Symbolized</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now, son of man, take a block of clay, put it in front of you and draw the city of Jerusalem on it. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then lay siege to it: Erect siege works against it, build a ramp up to it, set up camps against it and put battering rams around it. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then take an iron pan, place it as an iron wall between you and the city and turn your face toward it. It will be under siege, and you shall besiege it. This will be a sign to the people of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then lie on your left side and put the sin of the people of Israel upon yourself.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">upon your side</span></span></span><span class="content"> You are to bear their sin for the number of days you lie on your side. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I have assigned you the same number of days as the years of their sin. So for 390 days you will bear the sin of the people of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;After you have finished this, lie down again, this time on your right side, and bear the sin of the people of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem and with bared arm prophesy against her. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I will tie you up with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have finished the days of your siege.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Weigh out twenty shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:10 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 8 ounces or about 230 grams</span></span></span><span class="content"> of food to eat each day and eat it at set times. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Also measure out a sixth of a hin</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:11 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 2/3 quart or about 0.6 liter</span></span></span><span class="content"> of water and drink it at set times. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Eat the food as you would a loaf of barley bread; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;In this way the people of Israel will eat defiled food among the nations where I will drive them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then I said, &#8220;Not so, Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">! I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead or torn by wild animals. No impure meat has ever entered my mouth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Very well,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I will let you bake your bread over cow dung instead of human excrement.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He then said to me: &#8220;Son of man, I am about to cut off the food supply in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">for food and water will be scarce. They will be appalled at the sight of each other and will waste away because of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">away in</span></span></span><span class="content"> their sin.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Lawsuits Among Believers</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">If any of you has a dispute with another, do you dare to take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the Lord&#8217;s people? </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Or do you not know that the Lord&#8217;s people will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, do you ask for a ruling from those whose way of life is scorned in the church? </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers? </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But instead, one brother takes another to court&#8212;and this in front of unbelievers!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers and sisters. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:9 </span><span class="ft">The words </span><span class="fq">men who have sex with men </span><span class="ft">translate two Greek words that refer to the passive and active participants in homosexual acts.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Sexual Immorality</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have the right to do anything,&#8221; you say&#8212;but not everything is beneficial. &#8220;I have the right to do anything&#8221;&#8212;but I will not be mastered by anything. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You say, &#8220;Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.&#8221; The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, &#8220;The two will become one flesh.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:16 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 2:24</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in the Spirit</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.6.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CO.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CO.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">40</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 40</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 40:1-17 is numbered 40:2-18.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.40.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I waited patiently for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.40.1"><span class="content">he turned to me and heard my cry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.40.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.40.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He lifted me out of the slimy pit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.40.2"><span class="content">out of the mud and mire;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.40.2"><span class="content">he set my feet on a rock</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.40.2"><span class="content">and gave me a firm place to stand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.40.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.40.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He put a new song in my mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.40.3"><span class="content">a hymn of praise to our God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.40.3"><span class="content">Many will see and fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.40.3"><span class="content">and put their trust in him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.40.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.40.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Blessed is the one</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.40.4"><span class="content">who trusts in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.40.4"><span class="content">who does not look to the proud,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.40.4"><span class="content">to those who turn aside to false gods.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">40:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">to lies</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.40.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.40.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Many, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.40.5"><span class="content">are the wonders you have done,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.40.5"><span class="content">the things you planned for us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.40.5"><span class="content">None can compare with you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.40.5"><span class="content">were I to speak and tell of your deeds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.40.5"><span class="content">they would be too many to declare.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.40.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.40.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Sacrifice and offering you did not desire&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.40.6"><span class="content">but my ears you have opened</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">40:6 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">but a body you have prepared for me</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.40.6"><span class="content">burnt offerings and sin offerings</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">40:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">purification offerings</span></span></span><span class="content"> you did not require.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.40.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.40.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then I said, &#8220;Here I am, I have come&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.40.7"><span class="content">it is written about me in the scroll.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">40:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">come / with the scroll written for me</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.40.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.40.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I desire to do your will, my God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.40.8"><span class="content">your law is within my heart.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.40.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.40.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I proclaim your saving acts in the great assembly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.40.9"><span class="content">I do not seal my lips, </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="PSA.40.9"><span class="content">as you know.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.40.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.40.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I do not hide your righteousness in my heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.40.10"><span class="content">I speak of your faithfulness and your saving help.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.40.10"><span class="content">I do not conceal your love and your faithfulness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.40.10"><span class="content">from the great assembly.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.40.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.40.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Do not withhold your mercy from me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.40.11"><span class="content">may your love and faithfulness always protect me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.40.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.40.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For troubles without number surround me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.40.12"><span class="content">my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.40.12"><span class="content">They are more than the hairs of my head,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.40.12"><span class="content">and my heart fails within me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.40.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.40.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Be pleased to save me, </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="PSA.40.13"><span class="content">come quickly, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, to help me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.40.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.40.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">May all who want to take my life</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.40.14"><span class="content">be put to shame and confusion;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.40.14"><span class="content">may all who desire my ruin</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.40.14"><span class="content">be turned back in disgrace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.40.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.40.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">May those who say to me, &#8220;Aha! Aha!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.40.15"><span class="content">be appalled at their own shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.40.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.40.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But may all who seek you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.40.16"><span class="content">rejoice and be glad in you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.40.16"><span class="content">may those who long for your saving help always say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.40.16"><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is great!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.40.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.40.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But as for me, I am poor and needy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.40.17"><span class="content">may the Lord think of me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.40.17"><span class="content">You are my help and my deliverer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.40.17"><span class="content">you are my God, do not delay.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">41</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 41</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 41:1-13 is numbered 41:2-14.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.41.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Blessed are those who have regard for the weak;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.41.1"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> delivers them in times of trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.41.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.41.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> protects and preserves them&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.41.2"><span class="content">they are counted among the blessed in the land&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.41.2"><span class="content">he does not give them over to the desire of their foes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.41.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.41.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sustains them on their sickbed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.41.3"><span class="content">and restores them from their bed of illness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.41.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.41.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I said, &#8220;Have mercy on me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.41.4"><span class="content">heal me, for I have sinned against you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.41.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.41.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My enemies say of me in malice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.41.5"><span class="content">&#8220;When will he die and his name perish?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.41.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.41.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When one of them comes to see me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.41.6"><span class="content">he speaks falsely, while his heart gathers slander;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.41.6"><span class="content">then he goes out and spreads it around.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.41.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.41.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All my enemies whisper together against me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.41.7"><span class="content">they imagine the worst for me, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.41.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.41.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;A vile disease has afflicted him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.41.8"><span class="content">he will never get up from the place where he lies.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.41.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.41.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Even my close friend,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.41.9"><span class="content">someone I trusted,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.41.9"><span class="content">one who shared my bread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.41.9"><span class="content">has turned</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">41:9 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">has lifted up his heel</span></span></span><span class="content"> against me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.41.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.41.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But may you have mercy on me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.41.10"><span class="content">raise me up, that I may repay them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.41.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.41.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I know that you are pleased with me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.41.11"><span class="content">for my enemy does not triumph over me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.41.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.41.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Because of my integrity you uphold me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.41.12"><span class="content">and set me in your presence forever.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.41.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.41.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.41.13"><span class="content">from everlasting to everlasting.</span></span></div><div class="qc"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.41.13"><span class="content">Amen and Amen.</span></span></div>
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