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Manger Throne

The Listener’s Bible®: KJV Edition

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         <div class="label">27</div><div class="d"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">A Psalm</span></span><span class="content"> of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.27.1"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.27.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When the wicked, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">even</span></span><span class="content"> mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.27.2"><span class="content">They stumbled and fell.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.27.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.27.3"><span class="content">Though war should rise against me, in this </span><span class="add"><span class="content">will</span></span><span class="content"> I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content"> confident.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.27.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">One </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thing</span></span><span class="content"> have I desired of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, that will I seek after;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.27.4"><span class="content">That I may dwell in the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> all the days of my life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.27.4"><span class="content">To behold the beauty of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, and to enquire in his temple.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.27.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.27.5"><span class="content">In the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.27.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And now shall mine head be lifted up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.27.6"><span class="content">Above mine enemies round about me:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.27.6"><span class="content">Therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.27.6"><span class="content">I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto 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 v6" data-usfm="PSA.27.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Hear, O </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">when</span></span><span class="content"> I cry with my voice:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.27.7"><span class="content">Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.27.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">When thou saidst</span></span><span class="content">, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.27.8"><span class="content">Thy face, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, will I seek.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.27.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Hide not thy face </span><span class="add"><span class="content">far</span></span><span class="content"> from me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.27.9"><span class="content">Put not thy servant away in anger:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.27.9"><span class="content">Thou hast been my help;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.27.9"><span class="content">Leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.27.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.27.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When my father and my mother forsake me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.27.10"><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> will take me up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.27.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.27.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Teach me thy way, O </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.27.11"><span class="content">And lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.27.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.27.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.27.12"><span class="content">For false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.27.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.27.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">I had fainted</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.27.13"><span class="content">Unless I had believed to see the goodness of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> in the land of the living.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.27.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.27.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Wait on the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.27.14"><span class="content">Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">57</div><div class="d"><span class="content">To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.57.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: For my soul trusteth in thee:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.57.1"><span class="content">Yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until </span><span class="add"><span class="content">these</span></span><span class="content"> calamities be overpast.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.57.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.57.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I will cry unto God most high;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.57.2"><span class="content">Unto God that performeth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">all things</span></span><span class="content"> for me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.57.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.57.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He shall send from heaven, and save me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.57.3"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">From</span></span><span class="content"> the reproach of him that would swallow me up. </span><span class="qs"><span class="content">Selah.</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.57.3"><span class="content">God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.57.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.57.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">My soul </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> among lions:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.57.4"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> I lie </span><span class="add"><span class="content">even among</span></span><span class="content"> them that are set on fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.57.4"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Even</span></span><span class="content"> the sons of men, whose teeth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.57.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.57.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.57.5"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Let</span></span><span class="content"> thy glory </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content"> above all the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.57.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.57.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.57.6"><span class="content">They have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen </span><span class="add"><span class="content">themselves</span></span><span class="content">. </span><span class="qs"><span class="content">Selah.</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.57.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.57.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.57.7"><span class="content">I will sing and give praise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.57.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.57.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.57.8"><span class="content">I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">myself</span></span><span class="content"> will awake early.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.57.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.57.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.57.9"><span class="content">I will sing unto thee among the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.57.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.57.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For thy mercy </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> great unto the heavens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.57.10"><span class="content">And thy truth unto the clouds.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.57.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.57.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.57.11"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Let</span></span><span class="content"> thy glory </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content"> above all the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">87</div><div class="d"><span class="content">A Psalm </span><span class="add"><span class="content">or</span></span><span class="content"> Song for the sons of Korah.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.87.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">His foundation </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> in the holy mountains.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.87.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.87.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.87.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.87.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Glorious things are spoken of thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.87.3"><span class="content">O city of God. </span><span class="qs"><span class="content">Selah.</span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.87.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.87.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.87.4"><span class="content">Behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.87.4"><span class="content">This </span><span class="add"><span class="content">man</span></span><span class="content"> was born there.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.87.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.87.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.87.5"><span class="content">And the highest himself shall establish her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.87.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.87.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> shall count, when he writeth up the people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.87.6"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">That</span></span><span class="content"> this </span><span class="add"><span class="content">man</span></span><span class="content"> was born there. </span><span class="qs"><span class="content">Selah.</span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.87.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.87.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">As well the singers as the players on instruments </span><span class="add"><span class="content">shall be there:</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.87.7"><span class="content">All my springs </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> in thee.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">117</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.117.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">O praise 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.117.1"><span class="content">All ye nations: Praise him, all ye people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.117.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.117.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For his merciful kindness is great toward us:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.117.2"><span class="content">And the truth of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">endureth</span></span><span class="content"> for ever.</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.117.2"><span class="content">Praise ye the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">147</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.147.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Praise ye the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">: For </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it is</span></span><span class="content"> good to sing praises unto our God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.147.1"><span class="content">For </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it is</span></span><span class="content"> pleasant; </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> praise is comely.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.147.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.147.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> doth build up Jerusalem:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.147.2"><span class="content">He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.147.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.147.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He healeth the broken in heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.147.3"><span class="content">And bindeth up their wounds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.147.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.147.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He telleth the number of the stars;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.147.4"><span class="content">He calleth them all by </span><span class="add"><span class="content">their</span></span><span class="content"> names.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.147.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.147.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Great </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> our Lord, and of great power:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.147.5"><span class="content">His understanding </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> infinite.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.147.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.147.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> lifteth up the meek:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.147.6"><span class="content">He casteth the wicked down to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.147.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.147.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Sing unto the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> with thanksgiving;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.147.7"><span class="content">Sing praise upon the harp unto our God:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.147.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.147.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.147.8"><span class="content">Who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.147.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.147.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He giveth to the beast his food,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.147.9"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> to the young ravens which cry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.147.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.147.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He delighteth not in the strength of the horse:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.147.10"><span class="content">He taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.147.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.147.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> taketh pleasure in them that fear him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.147.11"><span class="content">In those that hope in his mercy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.147.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.147.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, O Jerusalem;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.147.12"><span class="content">Praise thy God, O Zion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.147.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.147.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.147.13"><span class="content">He hath blessed thy children within thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.147.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.147.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He maketh peace </span><span class="add"><span class="content">in</span></span><span class="content"> thy borders,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.147.14"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.147.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.147.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He sendeth forth his commandment </span><span class="add"><span class="content">upon</span></span><span class="content"> earth:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.147.15"><span class="content">His word runneth very swiftly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.147.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.147.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He giveth snow like wool:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.147.16"><span class="content">He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.147.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.147.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He casteth forth his ice like morsels:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.147.17"><span class="content">Who can stand before his cold?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.147.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.147.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He sendeth out his word, and melteth them:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.147.18"><span class="content">He causeth his wind to blow, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> the waters flow.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.147.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.147.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He sheweth his word unto Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.147.19"><span class="content">His statutes and his judgments unto Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.147.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.147.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He hath not dealt so with any nation:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.147.20"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">as for his</span></span><span class="content"> judgments, they have not known them.</span></span></div><div class="qr"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.147.20"><span class="content">Praise ye the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">27</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Boast not thyself of to morrow;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.27.1"><span class="content">For thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.27.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.27.2"><span class="content">A stranger, and not thine own lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.27.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">A stone </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> heavy, and the sand weighty;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.27.3"><span class="content">But a fool's wrath </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> heavier than them both.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.27.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Wrath </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> cruel, and anger </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> outrageous;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.27.4"><span class="content">But who </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> able to stand before envy?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.27.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Open rebuke </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> better</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.27.5"><span class="content">Than secret love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.27.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Faithful </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> the wounds of a friend;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.27.6"><span class="content">But the kisses of an enemy </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> deceitful.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.27.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The full soul loatheth an honeycomb;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.27.7"><span class="content">But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.27.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">As a bird that wandereth from her nest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.27.8"><span class="content">So </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> a man that wandereth from his place.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.27.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.27.9"><span class="content">So </span><span class="add"><span class="content">doth</span></span><span class="content"> the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.27.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.27.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.27.10"><span class="content">Neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.27.10"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">For</span></span><span class="content"> better </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> a neighbour </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that is</span></span><span class="content"> near than a brother far off.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.27.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.27.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My son, be wise, and make my heart glad,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.27.11"><span class="content">That I may answer him that reproacheth me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.27.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.27.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">A prudent </span><span class="add"><span class="content">man</span></span><span class="content"> foreseeth the evil, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> hideth himself;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.27.12"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">But</span></span><span class="content"> the simple pass on, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> are punished.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.27.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.27.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Take his garment that is surety for a stranger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.27.13"><span class="content">And take a pledge of him for a strange woman.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.27.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.27.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.27.14"><span class="content">It shall be counted a curse to him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.27.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.27.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">A continual dropping in a very rainy day</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.27.15"><span class="content">And a contentious woman are alike.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.27.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.27.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.27.16"><span class="content">And the ointment of his right hand, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> bewrayeth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">itself</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.27.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.27.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Iron sharpeneth iron;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.27.17"><span class="content">So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.27.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.27.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.27.18"><span class="content">So he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.27.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.27.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">As in water face </span><span class="add"><span class="content">answereth</span></span><span class="content"> to face,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.27.19"><span class="content">So the heart of man to man.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.27.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.27.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Hell and destruction are never full;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.27.20"><span class="content">So the eyes of man are never satisfied.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.27.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.27.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">As</span></span><span class="content"> the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.27.21"><span class="content">So </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> a man to his praise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.27.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.27.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.27.22"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Yet</span></span><span class="content"> will not his foolishness depart from him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.27.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.27.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.27.23"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> look well to thy herds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.27.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.27.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For riches </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> not for ever:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.27.24"><span class="content">And doth the crown </span><span class="add"><span class="content">endure</span></span><span class="content"> to every generation?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.27.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.27.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.27.25"><span class="content">And herbs of the mountains are gathered.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.27.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.27.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The lambs </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> for thy clothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.27.26"><span class="content">And the goats </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> the price of the field.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.27.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.27.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thou shalt have</span></span><span class="content"> goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.27.27"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">for</span></span><span class="content"> the maintenance for thy maidens.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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