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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Fire From the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and when he heard them his anger was aroused. Then fire from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and the fire died down. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So that place was called Taberah,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:3 </span><span class="fq">Taberah </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">burning.</span></span></span><span class="content"> because fire from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had burned among them.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Quail From the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.11.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, &#8220;If only we had meat to eat! </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost&#8212;also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The manna was like coriander seed and looked like resin. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The people went around gathering it, and then ground it in a hand mill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into loaves. And it tasted like something made with olive oil. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When the dew settled on the camp at night, the manna also came down.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.11.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Moses heard the people of every family wailing at the entrance to their tents. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> became exceedingly angry, and Moses was troubled. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He asked the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;Why have you brought this trouble on your servant? What have I done to displease you that you put the burden of all these people on me? </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth? Why do you tell me to carry them in my arms, as a nurse carries an infant, to the land you promised on oath to their ancestors? </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Where can I get meat for all these people? They keep wailing to me, &#8216;Give us meat to eat!&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I cannot carry all these people by myself; the burden is too heavy for me. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If this is how you are going to treat me, please go ahead and kill me&#8212;if I have found favor in your eyes&#8212;and do not let me face my own ruin.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.11.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses: &#8220;Bring me seventy of Israel&#8217;s elders who are known to you as leaders and officials among the people. Have them come to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the power of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them. They will share the burden of the people with you so that you will not have to carry it alone.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NUM.11.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NUM.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Tell the people: &#8216;Consecrate yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, when you will eat meat. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> heard you when you wailed, &#8220;If only we had meat to eat! We were better off in Egypt!&#8221; Now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will give you meat, and you will eat it. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NUM.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You will not eat it for just one day, or two days, or five, ten or twenty days, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">but for a whole month&#8212;until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it&#8212;because you have rejected the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who is among you, and have wailed before him, saying, &#8220;Why did we ever leave Egypt?&#8221;&#8198;&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NUM.11.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="NUM.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But Moses said, &#8220;Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot, and you say, &#8216;I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Would they have enough if flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? Would they have enough if all the fish in the sea were caught for them?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="NUM.11.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> answered Moses, &#8220;Is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not what I say will come true for you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="NUM.11.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="NUM.11.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">So Moses went out and told the people what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had said. He brought together seventy of their elders and had them stand around the tent. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.11.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took some of the power of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied&#8212;but did not do so again.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="NUM.11.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="NUM.11.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">However, two men, whose names were Eldad and Medad, had remained in the camp. They were listed among the elders, but did not go out to the tent. Yet the Spirit also rested on them, and they prophesied in the camp. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.11.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">A young man ran and told Moses, &#8220;Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="NUM.11.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.11.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses&#8217; aide since youth, spoke up and said, &#8220;Moses, my lord, stop them!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="NUM.11.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="NUM.11.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">But Moses replied, &#8220;Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s people were prophets and that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> would put his Spirit on them!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.11.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Then Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="NUM.11.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="NUM.11.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Now a wind went out from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and drove quail in from the sea. It scattered them up to two cubits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:31 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 3 feet or about 90 centimeters</span></span></span><span class="content"> deep all around the camp, as far as a day&#8217;s walk in any direction. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="NUM.11.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">All that day and night and all the next day the people went out and gathered quail. No one gathered less than ten homers.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:32 </span><span class="ft">That is, possibly about 1 3/4 tons or about 1.6 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> Then they spread them out all around the camp. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="NUM.11.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">But while the meat was still between their teeth and before it could be consumed, the anger of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> burned against the people, and he struck them with a severe plague. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NUM.11.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Therefore the place was named Kibroth Hattaavah,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:34 </span><span class="fq">Kibroth Hattaavah </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">graves of craving.</span></span></span><span class="content"> because there they buried the people who had craved other food.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="NUM.11.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="NUM.11.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">From Kibroth Hattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth and stayed there.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="NUM.12">
         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="NUM.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife, for he had married a Cushite. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Has the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoken only through Moses?&#8221; they asked. &#8220;Hasn&#8217;t he also spoken through us?&#8221; And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> heard this.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="NUM.12.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">(Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="NUM.12.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="NUM.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">At once the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, &#8220;Come out to the tent of meeting, all three of you.&#8221; So the three of them went out. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="NUM.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came down in a pillar of cloud; he stood at the entrance to the tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When the two of them stepped forward, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">he said, &#8220;Listen to my words:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.12.6"><span class="content">&#8220;When there is a prophet among you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.12.6"><span class="content">I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, reveal myself to them in visions,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.12.6"><span class="content">I speak to them in dreams.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="NUM.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But this is not true of my servant Moses;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.12.7"><span class="content">he is faithful in all my house.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="NUM.12.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">With him I speak face to face,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.12.8"><span class="content">clearly and not in riddles;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.12.8"><span class="content">he sees the form of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.12.8"><span class="content">Why then were you not afraid</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.12.8"><span class="content">to speak against my servant Moses?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="NUM.12.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The anger of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> burned against them, and he left them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="NUM.12.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="NUM.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When the cloud lifted from above the tent, Miriam&#8217;s skin was leprous</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:10 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">leprous </span><span class="ft">was used for various diseases affecting the skin.</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;it became as white as snow. Aaron turned toward her and saw that she had a defiling skin disease, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NUM.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and he said to Moses, &#8220;Please, my lord, I ask you not to hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother&#8217;s womb with its flesh half eaten away.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NUM.12.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So Moses cried out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;Please, God, heal her!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NUM.12.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NUM.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> replied to Moses, &#8220;If her father had spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Confine her outside the camp for seven days; after that she can be brought back.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on till she was brought back.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NUM.12.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NUM.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">After that, the people left Hazeroth and encamped in the Desert of Paran.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch72" data-usfm="PSA.72">
         <div class="label">72</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 72</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">Of Solomon.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.72.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Endow the king with your justice, O God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.72.1"><span class="content">the royal son with your righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.72.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.72.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">May he judge your people in righteousness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.72.2"><span class="content">your afflicted ones with justice.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.72.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.72.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">May the mountains bring prosperity to the people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.72.3"><span class="content">the hills the fruit of righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.72.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.72.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">May he defend the afflicted among the people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.72.4"><span class="content">and save the children of the needy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.72.4"><span class="content">may he crush the oppressor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.72.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.72.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">May he endure</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">72:5 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">You will be feared</span></span></span><span class="content"> as long as the sun,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.72.5"><span class="content">as long as the moon, through all generations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.72.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.72.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">May he be like rain falling on a mown field,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.72.6"><span class="content">like showers watering the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.72.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.72.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In his days may the righteous flourish</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.72.7"><span class="content">and prosperity abound till the moon is no more.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.72.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.72.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">May he rule from sea to sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.72.8"><span class="content">and from the River</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">72:8 </span><span class="ft">That is, the Euphrates</span></span></span><span class="content"> to the ends of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.72.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.72.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">May the desert tribes bow before him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.72.9"><span class="content">and his enemies lick the dust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.72.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.72.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">May the kings of Tarshish and of distant shores</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.72.10"><span class="content">bring tribute to him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.72.10"><span class="content">May the kings of Sheba and Seba</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.72.10"><span class="content">present him gifts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.72.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.72.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">May all kings bow down to him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.72.11"><span class="content">and all nations serve him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.72.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.72.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For he will deliver the needy who cry out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.72.12"><span class="content">the afflicted who have no one to help.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.72.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.72.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He will take pity on the weak and the needy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.72.13"><span class="content">and save the needy from death.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.72.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.72.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He will rescue them from oppression and violence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.72.14"><span class="content">for precious is their blood in his sight.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.72.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.72.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Long may he live!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.72.15"><span class="content">May gold from Sheba be given him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.72.15"><span class="content">May people ever pray for him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.72.15"><span class="content">and bless him all day long.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.72.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.72.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">May grain abound throughout the land;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.72.16"><span class="content">on the tops of the hills may it sway.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.72.16"><span class="content">May the crops flourish like Lebanon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.72.16"><span class="content">and thrive</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">72:16 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">Lebanon, / from the city</span></span></span><span class="content"> like the grass of the field.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.72.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.72.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">May his name endure forever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.72.17"><span class="content">may it continue as long as the sun.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.72.17"><span class="content">Then all nations will be blessed through him,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">72:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will use his name in blessings </span><span class="ft">(see Gen. 48:20)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.72.17"><span class="content">and they will call him blessed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.72.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.72.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God, the God of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.72.18"><span class="content">who alone does marvelous deeds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.72.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.72.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Praise be to his glorious name forever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.72.19"><span class="content">may the whole earth be filled with his glory.</span></span></div><div class="qc"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.72.19"><span class="content">Amen and Amen.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.72.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.72.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">This concludes the prayers of David son of Jesse.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">73</div><div class="ms"><span class="heading">BOOK III</span></div><div class="mr"><span class="heading">  </span><span class="heading">Psalms 73&#8211;89</span></div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 73</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of Asaph.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.73.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Surely God is good to Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.73.1"><span class="content">to those who are pure in heart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.73.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.73.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But as for me, my feet had almost slipped;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.73.2"><span class="content">I had nearly lost my foothold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.73.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.73.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For I envied the arrogant</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.73.3"><span class="content">when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.73.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.73.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They have no struggles;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.73.4"><span class="content">their bodies are healthy and strong.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">73:4 </span><span class="ft">With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">struggles at their death; / their bodies are healthy</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.73.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.73.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They are free from common human burdens;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.73.5"><span class="content">they are not plagued by human ills.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.73.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.73.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Therefore pride is their necklace;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.73.6"><span class="content">they clothe themselves with violence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.73.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.73.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">From their callous hearts comes iniquity</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">73:7 </span><span class="ft">Syriac (see also Septuagint); Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Their eyes bulge with fat</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.73.7"><span class="content">their evil imaginations have no limits.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.73.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.73.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They scoff, and speak with malice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.73.8"><span class="content">with arrogance they threaten oppression.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.73.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.73.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Their mouths lay claim to heaven,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.73.9"><span class="content">and their tongues take possession of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.73.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.73.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Therefore their people turn to them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.73.10"><span class="content">and drink up waters in abundance.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">73:10 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.73.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.73.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They say, &#8220;How would God know?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.73.11"><span class="content">Does the Most High know anything?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.73.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.73.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">This is what the wicked are like&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.73.12"><span class="content">always free of care, they go on amassing wealth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.73.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.73.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.73.13"><span class="content">and have washed my hands in innocence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.73.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.73.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">All day long I have been afflicted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.73.14"><span class="content">and every morning brings new punishments.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.73.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.73.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If I had spoken out like that,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.73.15"><span class="content">I would have betrayed your children.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.73.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.73.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When I tried to understand all this,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.73.16"><span class="content">it troubled me deeply</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.73.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.73.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">till I entered the sanctuary of God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.73.17"><span class="content">then I understood their final destiny.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.73.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.73.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Surely you place them on slippery ground;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.73.18"><span class="content">you cast them down to ruin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.73.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.73.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">How suddenly are they destroyed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.73.19"><span class="content">completely swept away by terrors!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.73.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.73.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They are like a dream when one awakes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.73.20"><span class="content">when you arise, Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.73.20"><span class="content">you will despise them as fantasies.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.73.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.73.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When my heart was grieved</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.73.21"><span class="content">and my spirit embittered,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.73.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.73.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I was senseless and ignorant;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.73.22"><span class="content">I was a brute beast before you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.73.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.73.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Yet I am always with you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.73.23"><span class="content">you hold me by my right hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.73.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.73.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">You guide me with your counsel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.73.24"><span class="content">and afterward you will take me into glory.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.73.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.73.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Whom have I in heaven but you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.73.25"><span class="content">And earth has nothing I desire besides you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.73.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.73.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">My flesh and my heart may fail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.73.26"><span class="content">but God is the strength of my heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.73.26"><span class="content">and my portion forever.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.73.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.73.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Those who are far from you will perish;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.73.27"><span class="content">you destroy all who are unfaithful to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.73.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.73.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">But as for me, it is good to be near God.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.73.28"><span class="content">I have made the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my refuge;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.73.28"><span class="content">I will tell of all your deeds.</span></span></div>
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