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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Water From the Rock</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, traveling from place to place as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So they quarreled with Moses and said, &#8220;Give us water to drink.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.17.2"><span class="content">Moses replied, &#8220;Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to the test?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, &#8220;Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then Moses cried out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;What am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> answered Moses, &#8220;Go out in front of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink.&#8221; So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And he called the place Massah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:7 </span><span class="fq">Massah </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">testing.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Meribah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:7 </span><span class="fq">Meribah </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">quarreling.</span></span></span><span class="content"> because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> saying, &#8220;Is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> among us or not?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Amalekites Defeated</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.17.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Moses said to Joshua, &#8220;Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When Moses&#8217; hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up&#8212;one on one side, one on the other&#8212;so that his hands remained steady till sunset. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Moses built an altar and called it The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is my Banner. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;Because hands were lifted up against</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">to</span></span></span><span class="content"> the throne of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:16 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will be at war against the Amalekites from generation to generation.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">18</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jethro Visits Moses</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now Jethro, the priest of Midian and father-in-law of Moses, heard of everything God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, and how the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had brought Israel out of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.18.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">After Moses had sent away his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro received her </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and her two sons. One son was named Gershom,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:3 </span><span class="fq">Gershom </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">a foreigner </span><span class="fqa">there.</span></span></span><span class="content"> for Moses said, &#8220;I have become a foreigner in a foreign land&#8221;; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">and the other was named Eliezer,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:4 </span><span class="fq">Eliezer </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">my God is </span><span class="fq">helper</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> for he said, &#8220;My father&#8217;s God was my helper; he saved me from the sword of Pharaoh.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.18.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Jethro, Moses&#8217; father-in-law, together with Moses&#8217; sons and wife, came to him in the wilderness, where he was camped near the mountain of God. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Jethro had sent word to him, &#8220;I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.18.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and then went into the tent. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Moses told his father-in-law about everything the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel&#8217;s sake and about all the hardships they had met along the way and how the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had saved them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.18.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Jethro was delighted to hear about all the good things the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had done for Israel in rescuing them from the hand of the Egyptians. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians and of Pharaoh, and who rescued the people from the hand of the Egyptians. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now I know that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is greater than all other gods, for he did this to those who had treated Israel arrogantly.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then Jethro, Moses&#8217; father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and other sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses&#8217; father-in-law in the presence of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.18.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The next day Moses took his seat to serve as judge for the people, and they stood around him from morning till evening. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When his father-in-law saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he said, &#8220;What is this you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit as judge, while all these people stand around you from morning till evening?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.18.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Moses answered him, &#8220;Because the people come to me to seek God&#8217;s will. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me, and I decide between the parties and inform them of God&#8217;s decrees and instructions.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.18.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Moses&#8217; father-in-law replied, &#8220;What you are doing is not good. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.18.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.18.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Listen now to me and I will give you some advice, and may God be with you. You must be the people&#8217;s representative before God and bring their disputes to him. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.18.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Teach them his decrees and instructions, and show them the way they are to live and how they are to behave. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But select capable men from all the people&#8212;men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain&#8212;and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.18.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Have them serve as judges for the people at all times, but have them bring every difficult case to you; the simple cases they can decide themselves. That will make your load lighter, because they will share it with you. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.18.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">If you do this and God so commands, you will be able to stand the strain, and all these people will go home satisfied.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.18.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.18.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.18.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He chose capable men from all Israel and made them leaders of the people, officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.18.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">They served as judges for the people at all times. The difficult cases they brought to Moses, but the simple ones they decided themselves.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.18.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.18.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Then Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and Jethro returned to his own country.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">At Mount Sinai</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">On the first day of the third month after the Israelites left Egypt&#8212;on that very day&#8212;they came to the Desert of Sinai. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">After they set out from Rephidim, they entered the Desert of Sinai, and Israel camped there in the desert in front of the mountain.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.19.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then Moses went up to God, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> called to him from the mountain and said, &#8220;This is what you are to say to the descendants of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel: </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8216;You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles&#8217; wings and brought you to myself. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:5,6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">possession, for the whole earth is mine. </span><span class="fv">6 </span><span class="fqa">You</span></span></span><span class="content"> will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.&#8217; These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.19.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So Moses went back and summoned the elders of the people and set before them all the words the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded him to speak. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The people all responded together, &#8220;We will do everything the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has said.&#8221; So Moses brought their answer back to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear me speaking with you and will always put their trust in you.&#8221; Then Moses told the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> what the people had said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.19.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. Have them wash their clothes </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and be ready by the third day, because on that day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Put limits for the people around the mountain and tell them, &#8216;Be careful that you do not approach the mountain or touch the foot of it. Whoever touches the mountain is to be put to death. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They are to be stoned or shot with arrows; not a hand is to be laid on them. No person or animal shall be permitted to live.&#8217; Only when the ram&#8217;s horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">After Moses had gone down the mountain to the people, he consecrated them, and they washed their clothes. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then he said to the people, &#8220;Prepare yourselves for the third day. Abstain from sexual relations.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:18 </span><span class="ft">Most Hebrew manuscripts; a few Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">and all the people</span></span></span><span class="content"> trembled violently. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">As the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and the voice of God answered him.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and God answered him with thunder</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.19.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the top of the mountain. So Moses went up </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to him, &#8220;Go down and warn the people so they do not force their way through to see the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and many of them perish. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Even the priests, who approach the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, must consecrate themselves, or the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will break out against them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Moses said to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, because you yourself warned us, &#8216;Put limits around the mountain and set it apart as holy.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.19.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> replied, &#8220;Go down and bring Aaron up with you. But the priests and the people must not force their way through to come up to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, or he will break out against them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.19.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">So Moses went down to the people and told them.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">10</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 10</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">Psalms 9 and 10 may originally have been a single acrostic poem in which alternating lines began with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Septuagint they constitute one psalm.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Why, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do you stand far off?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.10.1"><span class="content">Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.10.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.10.2"><span class="content">who are caught in the schemes he devises.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.10.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He boasts about the cravings of his heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.10.3"><span class="content">he blesses the greedy and reviles the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.10.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In his pride the wicked man does not seek him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.10.4"><span class="content">in all his thoughts there is no room for God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.10.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">His ways are always prosperous;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.10.5"><span class="content">your laws are rejected by</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:5 </span><span class="ft">See Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">/ they are haughty, and your laws are far from</span></span></span><span class="content"> him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.10.5"><span class="content">he sneers at all his enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He says to himself, &#8220;Nothing will ever shake me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.10.6"><span class="content">He swears, &#8220;No one will ever do me harm.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">His mouth is full of lies and threats;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.10.7"><span class="content">trouble and evil are under his tongue.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.10.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He lies in wait near the villages;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.10.8"><span class="content">from ambush he murders the innocent.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.10.8"><span class="content">His eyes watch in secret for his victims;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.10.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">like a lion in cover he lies in wait.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.10.9"><span class="content">He lies in wait to catch the helpless;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.10.9"><span class="content">he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.10.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">His victims are crushed, they collapse;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.10.10"><span class="content">they fall under his strength.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.10.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He says to himself, &#8220;God will never notice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.10.11"><span class="content">he covers his face and never sees.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.10.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Arise, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">! Lift up your hand, O God.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.10.12"><span class="content">Do not forget the helpless.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.10.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Why does the wicked man revile God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.10.13"><span class="content">Why does he say to himself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.10.13"><span class="content">&#8220;He won&#8217;t call me to account&#8221;?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.10.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.10.14"><span class="content">you consider their grief and take it in hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.10.14"><span class="content">The victims commit themselves to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.10.14"><span class="content">you are the helper of the fatherless.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.10.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Break the arm of the wicked man;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.10.15"><span class="content">call the evildoer to account for his wickedness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.10.15"><span class="content">that would not otherwise be found out.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.10.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is King for ever and ever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.10.16"><span class="content">the nations will perish from his land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.10.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">You, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, hear the desire of the afflicted;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.10.17"><span class="content">you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.10.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">defending the fatherless and the oppressed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.10.18"><span class="content">so that mere earthly mortals</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.10.18"><span class="content">will never again strike terror.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 11</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> I take refuge.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.11.1"><span class="content">How then can you say to me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.11.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Flee like a bird to your mountain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.11.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For look, the wicked bend their bows;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.11.2"><span class="content">they set their arrows against the strings</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.11.2"><span class="content">to shoot from the shadows</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.11.2"><span class="content">at the upright in heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.11.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When the foundations are being destroyed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.11.3"><span class="content">what can the righteous do?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.11.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is in his holy temple;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.11.4"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is on his heavenly throne.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.11.4"><span class="content">He observes everyone on earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.11.4"><span class="content">his eyes examine them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.11.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> examines the righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.11.5"><span class="content">but the wicked, those who love violence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.11.5"><span class="content">he hates with a passion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.11.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">On the wicked he will rain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.11.6"><span class="content">fiery coals and burning sulfur;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.11.6"><span class="content">a scorching wind will be their lot.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.11.7"><span class="content">he loves justice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.11.7"><span class="content">the upright will see his face.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 12</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 12:1-8 is numbered 12:2-9.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. According to </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">sheminith.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Help, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, for no one is faithful anymore;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.12.1"><span class="content">those who are loyal have vanished from the human race.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.12.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Everyone lies to their neighbor;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.12.2"><span class="content">they flatter with their lips</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.12.2"><span class="content">but harbor deception in their hearts.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.12.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> silence all flattering lips</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.12.3"><span class="content">and every boastful tongue&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.12.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">those who say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.12.4"><span class="content">&#8220;By our tongues we will prevail;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.12.4"><span class="content">our own lips will defend us&#8212;who is lord over us?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.12.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.12.5"><span class="content">I will now arise,&#8221; says 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.12.5"><span class="content">&#8220;I will protect them from those who malign them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.12.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And the words of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> are flawless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.12.6"><span class="content">like silver purified in a crucible,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.12.6"><span class="content">like gold</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:6 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">earth</span></span></span><span class="content"> refined seven times.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, will keep the needy safe</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.12.7"><span class="content">and will protect us forever from the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.12.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">who freely strut about</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.12.8"><span class="content">when what is vile is honored by the human race.</span></span></div>
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