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         <div class="label">20</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hezekiah&#8217;s Illness</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2KI.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2KI.20.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2KI.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2KI.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Remember, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.&#8221; And Hezekiah wept bitterly.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2KI.20.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2KI.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Before Isaiah had left the middle court, the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to him: </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2KI.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2KI.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I will add fifteen years to your life. And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2KI.20.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2KI.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then Isaiah said, &#8220;Prepare a poultice of figs.&#8221; They did so and applied it to the boil, and he recovered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2KI.20.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2KI.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, &#8220;What will be the sign that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will heal me and that I will go up to the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> on the third day from now?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2KI.20.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2KI.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Isaiah answered, &#8220;This is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s sign to you that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will do what he has promised: Shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or shall it go back ten steps?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2KI.20.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2KI.20.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;It is a simple matter for the shadow to go forward ten steps,&#8221; said Hezekiah. &#8220;Rather, have it go back ten steps.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2KI.20.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2KI.20.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then the prophet Isaiah called on the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> made the shadow go back the ten steps it had gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Envoys From Babylon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2KI.20.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2KI.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">At that time Marduk-Baladan son of Baladan king of Babylon sent Hezekiah letters and a gift, because he had heard of Hezekiah&#8217;s illness. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2KI.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Hezekiah received the envoys and showed them all that was in his storehouses&#8212;the silver, the gold, the spices and the fine olive oil&#8212;his armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in his palace or in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2KI.20.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2KI.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked, &#8220;What did those men say, and where did they come from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2KI.20.14"><span class="content">&#8220;From a distant land,&#8221; Hezekiah replied. &#8220;They came from Babylon.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2KI.20.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2KI.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The prophet asked, &#8220;What did they see in your palace?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2KI.20.15"><span class="content">&#8220;They saw everything in my palace,&#8221; Hezekiah said. &#8220;There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2KI.20.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2KI.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, &#8220;Hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2KI.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2KI.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2KI.20.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2KI.20.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> you have spoken is good,&#8221; Hezekiah replied. For he thought, &#8220;Will there not be peace and security in my lifetime?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2KI.20.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2KI.20.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">As for the other events of Hezekiah&#8217;s reign, all his achievements and how he made the pool and the tunnel by which he brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.20.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Hezekiah rested with his ancestors. And Manasseh his son succeeded him as king.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch13" data-usfm="HOS.13">
         <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Anger Against Israel</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Ephraim spoke, people trembled;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.13.1"><span class="content">he was exalted in Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.13.1"><span class="content">But he became guilty of Baal worship and died.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.13.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now they sin more and more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.13.2"><span class="content">they make idols for themselves from their silver,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.13.2"><span class="content">cleverly fashioned images,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.13.2"><span class="content">all of them the work of craftsmen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.13.2"><span class="content">It is said of these people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.13.2"><span class="content">&#8220;They offer human sacrifices!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.13.2"><span class="content">They kiss</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">&#8220;Men who sacrifice / kiss</span></span></span><span class="content"> calf-idols!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.13.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Therefore they will be like the morning mist,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.13.3"><span class="content">like the early dew that disappears,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.13.3"><span class="content">like chaff swirling from a threshing floor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.13.3"><span class="content">like smoke escaping through a window.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.13.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;But I have been the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.13.4"><span class="content">ever since you came out of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.13.4"><span class="content">You shall acknowledge no God but me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.13.4"><span class="content">no Savior except me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.13.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I cared for you in the wilderness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.13.5"><span class="content">in the land of burning heat.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When I fed them, they were satisfied;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.13.6"><span class="content">when they were satisfied, they became proud;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.13.6"><span class="content">then they forgot me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.13.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So I will be like a lion to them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.13.7"><span class="content">like a leopard I will lurk by the path.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Like a bear robbed of her cubs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.13.8"><span class="content">I will attack them and rip them open;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.13.8"><span class="content">like a lion I will devour them&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.13.8"><span class="content">a wild animal will tear them apart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.13.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;You are destroyed, Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.13.9"><span class="content">because you are against me, against your helper.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.13.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Where is your king, that he may save you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.13.10"><span class="content">Where are your rulers in all your towns,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.13.10"><span class="content">of whom you said,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.13.10"><span class="content">&#8216;Give me a king and princes&#8217;?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.13.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So in my anger I gave you a king,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.13.11"><span class="content">and in my wrath I took him away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.13.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The guilt of Ephraim is stored up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.13.12"><span class="content">his sins are kept on record.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.13.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Pains as of a woman in childbirth come to him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.13.13"><span class="content">but he is a child without wisdom;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.13.13"><span class="content">when the time arrives,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.13.13"><span class="content">he doesn&#8217;t have the sense to come out of the womb.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.13.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will deliver this people from the power of the grave;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.13.14"><span class="content">I will redeem them from death.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.13.14"><span class="content">Where, O death, are your plagues?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.13.14"><span class="content">Where, O grave, is your destruction?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.13.14"><span class="content">&#8220;I will have no compassion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.13.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">even though he thrives among his brothers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.13.15"><span class="content">An east wind from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.13.15"><span class="content">blowing in from the desert;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.13.15"><span class="content">his spring will fail</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.13.15"><span class="content">and his well dry up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.13.15"><span class="content">His storehouse will be plundered</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.13.15"><span class="content">of all its treasures.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HOS.13.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The people of Samaria must bear their guilt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.13.16"><span class="content">because they have rebelled against their God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.13.16"><span class="content">They will fall by the sword;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.13.16"><span class="content">their little ones will be dashed to the ground,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HOS.13.16"><span class="content">their pregnant women ripped open.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:16 </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts this verse (13:16) is numbered 14:1.</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Warning to Pay Attention</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HEB.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HEB.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Made Fully Human</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But there is a place where someone has testified:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.2.6"><span class="content">&#8220;What is mankind that you are mindful of them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.2.6"><span class="content">a son of man that you care for him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You made them a little</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">them for a little while</span></span></span><span class="content"> lower than the angels;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.2.7"><span class="content">you crowned them with glory and honor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and put everything under their feet.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:6-8 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 8:4-6</span></span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:7,8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fv">7 </span><span class="fqa">You made him a little lower than the angels; / you crowned him with glory and honor / </span><span class="fv">8 </span><span class="fqa">and put everything under his feet.&#8221;</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.2.8"><span class="content">In putting everything under them,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">him</span></span></span><span class="content"> God left nothing that is not subject to them.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">him</span></span></span><span class="content"> Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">him</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:11 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in verse 12; and in 3:1, 12; 10:19; 13:22.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.2.12"><span class="content">&#8220;I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.2.12"><span class="content">in the assembly I will sing your praises.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:12 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 22:22</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And again,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="content">&#8220;I will put my trust in him.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:13 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 8:17</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="content">And again he says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Here am I, and the children God has given me.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:13 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 8:18</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HEB.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death&#8212;that is, the devil&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HEB.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham&#8217;s descendants. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HEB.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For this reason he had to be made like them,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">like his brothers</span></span></span><span class="content"> fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HEB.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">137</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 137</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.137.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.137.1"><span class="content">when we remembered Zion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.137.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.137.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There on the poplars</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.137.2"><span class="content">we hung our harps,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.137.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.137.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">for there our captors asked us for songs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.137.3"><span class="content">our tormentors demanded songs of joy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.137.3"><span class="content">they said, &#8220;Sing us one of the songs of Zion!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.137.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.137.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">How can we sing the songs of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.137.4"><span class="content">while in a foreign land?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.137.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.137.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If I forget you, Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.137.5"><span class="content">may my right hand forget its skill.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.137.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.137.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.137.6"><span class="content">if I do not remember you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.137.6"><span class="content">if I do not consider Jerusalem</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.137.6"><span class="content">my highest joy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.137.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.137.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Remember, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, what the Edomites did</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.137.7"><span class="content">on the day Jerusalem fell.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.137.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Tear it down,&#8221; they cried,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.137.7"><span class="content">&#8220;tear it down to its foundations!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.137.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.137.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.137.8"><span class="content">happy is the one who repays you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.137.8"><span class="content">according to what you have done to us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.137.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.137.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Happy is the one who seizes your infants</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.137.9"><span class="content">and dashes them against the rocks.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">138</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 138</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.138.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I will praise you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, with all my heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.138.1"><span class="content">before the &#8220;gods&#8221; I will sing your praise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.138.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.138.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I will bow down toward your holy temple</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.138.2"><span class="content">and will praise your name</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.138.2"><span class="content">for your unfailing love and your faithfulness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.138.2"><span class="content">for you have so exalted your solemn decree</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.138.2"><span class="content">that it surpasses your fame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.138.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.138.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When I called, you answered me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.138.3"><span class="content">you greatly emboldened me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.138.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.138.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">May all the kings of the earth praise you, </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.138.4"><span class="content">when they hear what you have decreed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.138.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.138.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">May they sing of the ways of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.138.5"><span class="content">for the glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is great.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.138.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.138.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Though the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is exalted, he looks kindly on the lowly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.138.6"><span class="content">though lofty, he sees them from afar.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.138.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.138.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Though I walk in the midst of trouble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.138.7"><span class="content">you preserve my life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.138.7"><span class="content">You stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.138.7"><span class="content">with your right hand you save me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.138.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.138.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will vindicate me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.138.8"><span class="content">your love, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, endures forever&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.138.8"><span class="content">do not abandon the works of your hands.</span></span></div>
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