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         <div class="label">23</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.23.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then the whole assembly rose and led him off to Pilate. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.23.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And they began to accuse him, saying, &#8220;We have found this man subverting our nation. He opposes payment of taxes to Caesar and claims to be Messiah, a king.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.23.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.23.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So Pilate asked Jesus, &#8220;Are you the king of the Jews?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.23.3"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You have said so,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.23.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.23.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then Pilate announced to the chief priests and the crowd, &#8220;I find no basis for a charge against this man.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.23.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.23.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But they insisted, &#8220;He stirs up the people all over Judea by his teaching. He started in Galilee and has come all the way here.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.23.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.23.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">On hearing this, Pilate asked if the man was a Galilean. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.23.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When he learned that Jesus was under Herod&#8217;s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem at that time.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.23.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.23.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When Herod saw Jesus, he was greatly pleased, because for a long time he had been wanting to see him. From what he had heard about him, he hoped to see him perform a sign of some sort. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.23.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He plied him with many questions, but Jesus gave him no answer. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.23.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The chief priests and the teachers of the law were standing there, vehemently accusing him. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.23.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then Herod and his soldiers ridiculed and mocked him. Dressing him in an elegant robe, they sent him back to Pilate. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.23.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">That day Herod and Pilate became friends&#8212;before this they had been enemies.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.23.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.23.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers and the people, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.23.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and said to them, &#8220;You brought me this man as one who was inciting the people to rebellion. I have examined him in your presence and have found no basis for your charges against him. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.23.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Neither has Herod, for he sent him back to us; as you can see, he has done nothing to deserve death. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.23.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Therefore, I will punish him and then release him.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.23.17"><span class="label">[17]</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:17 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts include here words similar to Matt. 27:15 and Mark 15:6.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.23.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.23.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But the whole crowd shouted, &#8220;Away with this man! Release Barabbas to us!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.23.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">(Barabbas had been thrown into prison for an insurrection in the city, and for murder.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.23.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.23.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Wanting to release Jesus, Pilate appealed to them again. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.23.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But they kept shouting, &#8220;Crucify him! Crucify him!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.23.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.23.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For the third time he spoke to them: &#8220;Why? What crime has this man committed? I have found in him no grounds for the death penalty. Therefore I will have him punished and then release him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.23.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.23.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But with loud shouts they insistently demanded that he be crucified, and their shouts prevailed. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.23.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">So Pilate decided to grant their demand. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.23.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, the one they asked for, and surrendered Jesus to their will.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Crucifixion of Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.23.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.23.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">As the soldiers led him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.23.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.23.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Jesus turned and said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.23.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For the time will come when you will say, &#8216;Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.23.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Then</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.23.30"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;they will say to the mountains, &#8220;Fall on us!&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.23.30"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and to the hills, &#8220;Cover us!&#8221;&#8198;&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">23:30 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Hosea 10:8
          </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.23.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.23.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For if people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.23.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.23.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Two other men, both criminals, were also led out with him to be executed. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.23.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals&#8212;one on his right, the other on his left. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.23.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.&#8221;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:34 </span><span class="ft">Some early manuscripts do not have this sentence.</span></span></span><span class="content"> And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.23.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.23.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him. They said, &#8220;He saved others; let him save himself if he is God&#8217;s Messiah, the Chosen One.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.23.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.23.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">The soldiers also came up and mocked him. They offered him wine vinegar </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.23.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">and said, &#8220;If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.23.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.23.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">There was a written notice above him, which read: </span><span class="sc"><span class="content">this is the king of the jews</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.23.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.23.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: &#8220;Aren&#8217;t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.23.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LUK.23.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">But the other criminal rebuked him. &#8220;Don&#8217;t you fear God,&#8221; he said, &#8220;since you are under the same sentence? </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LUK.23.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LUK.23.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LUK.23.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Then he said, &#8220;Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:42 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">come with your kingly power</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LUK.23.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.23.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Jesus answered him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Death of Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.23.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="LUK.23.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="LUK.23.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="LUK.23.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">Jesus called out with a loud voice, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.&#8221;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:46 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 31:5</span></span></span><span class="content"> When he had said this, he breathed his last.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="LUK.23.46"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="LUK.23.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">The centurion, seeing what had happened, praised God and said, &#8220;Surely this was a righteous man.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="LUK.23.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">When all the people who had gathered to witness this sight saw what took place, they beat their breasts and went away. </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="LUK.23.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">But all those who knew him, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Burial of Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="LUK.23.49"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="LUK.23.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">Now there was a man named Joseph, a member of the Council, a good and upright man, </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="LUK.23.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">who had not consented to their decision and action. He came from the Judean town of Arimathea, and he himself was waiting for the kingdom of God. </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="LUK.23.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus&#8217; body. </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="LUK.23.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">Then he took it down, wrapped it in linen cloth and placed it in a tomb cut in the rock, one in which no one had yet been laid. </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="LUK.23.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">It was Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was about to begin.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="LUK.23.54"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="LUK.23.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it. </span></span><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="LUK.23.56"><span class="label">56</span><span class="content">Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="nb"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 8:1-4 is numbered 7:26-29, and 8:5-32 is numbered 8:1-28.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Go to Pharaoh and say to him, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The frogs will come up on you and your people and all your officials.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Tell Aaron, &#8216;Stretch out your hand with your staff over the streams and canals and ponds, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But the magicians did the same things by their secret arts; they also made frogs come up on the land of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, &#8220;Pray to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to take the frogs away from me and my people, and I will let your people go to offer sacrifices to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Moses said to Pharaoh, &#8220;I leave to you the honor of setting the time for me to pray for you and your officials and your people that you and your houses may be rid of the frogs, except for those that remain in the Nile.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Tomorrow,&#8221; Pharaoh said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.8.10"><span class="content">Moses replied, &#8220;It will be as you say, so that you may know there is no one like the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The frogs will leave you and your houses, your officials and your people; they will remain only in the Nile.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">After Moses and Aaron left Pharaoh, Moses cried out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> about the frogs he had brought on Pharaoh. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> did what Moses asked. The frogs died in the houses, in the courtyards and in the fields. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They were piled into heaps, and the land reeked of them. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had said.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Plague of Gnats</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.8.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Tell Aaron, &#8216;Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the ground,&#8217; and throughout the land of Egypt the dust will become gnats.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">They did this, and when Aaron stretched out his hand with the staff and struck the dust of the ground, gnats came on people and animals. All the dust throughout the land of Egypt became gnats. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But when the magicians tried to produce gnats by their secret arts, they could not.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.8.18"><span class="content">Since the gnats were on people and animals everywhere, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">the magicians said to Pharaoh, &#8220;This is the finger of God.&#8221; But Pharaoh&#8217;s heart was hard and he would not listen, just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had said.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Plague of Flies</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.8.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Get up early in the morning and confront Pharaoh as he goes to the river and say to him, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">If you do not let my people go, I will send swarms of flies on you and your officials, on your people and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies; even the ground will be covered with them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.8.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;But on that day I will deal differently with the land of Goshen, where my people live; no swarms of flies will be there, so that you will know that I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, am in this land. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.8.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I will make a distinction</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:23 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint and Vulgate; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">will put a deliverance</span></span></span><span class="content"> between my people and your people. This sign will occur tomorrow.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.8.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.8.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> did this. Dense swarms of flies poured into Pharaoh&#8217;s palace and into the houses of his officials; throughout Egypt the land was ruined by the flies.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.8.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.8.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, &#8220;Go, sacrifice to your God here in the land.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.8.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EXO.8.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">But Moses said, &#8220;That would not be right. The sacrifices we offer the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God would be detestable to the Egyptians. And if we offer sacrifices that are detestable in their eyes, will they not stone us? </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.8.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">We must take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God, as he commands us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.8.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.8.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Pharaoh said, &#8220;I will let you go to offer sacrifices to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God in the wilderness, but you must not go very far. Now pray for me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.8.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.8.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Moses answered, &#8220;As soon as I leave you, I will pray to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and tomorrow the flies will leave Pharaoh and his officials and his people. Only let Pharaoh be sure that he does not act deceitfully again by not letting the people go to offer sacrifices to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="EXO.8.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="EXO.8.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Then Moses left Pharaoh and prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="EXO.8.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> did what Moses asked. The flies left Pharaoh and his officials and his people; not a fly remained. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="EXO.8.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">But this time also Pharaoh hardened his heart and would not let the people go.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch11" data-usfm="ROM.11">
         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Remnant of Israel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don&#8217;t you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah&#8212;how he appealed to God against Israel: </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:3 </span><span class="ft">1 Kings 19:10,14</span></span></span><span class="content">? </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And what was God&#8217;s answer to him? &#8220;I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:4 </span><span class="ft">1 Kings 19:18</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">What then? What the people of Israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain. The elect among them did, but the others were hardened, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">as it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.11.8"><span class="content">&#8220;God gave them a spirit of stupor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.11.8"><span class="content">eyes that could not see</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.11.8"><span class="content">and ears that could not hear,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.11.8"><span class="content">to this very day.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:8 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 29:4; Isaiah 29:10</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.11.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And David says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.11.9"><span class="content">&#8220;May their table become a snare and a trap,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.11.9"><span class="content">a stumbling block and a retribution for them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.11.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.11.10"><span class="content">and their backs be bent forever.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:10 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 69:22,23</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ingrafted Branches</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.11.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their full inclusion bring!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.11.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.11.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You will say then, &#8220;Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.11.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.11.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">All Israel Will Be Saved</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.11.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.11.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.11.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">and in this way</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and so</span></span></span><span class="content"> all Israel will be saved. As it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.11.26"><span class="content">&#8220;The deliverer will come from Zion;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.11.26"><span class="content">he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.11.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.11.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And this is</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:27 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will be</span></span></span><span class="content"> my covenant with them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.11.27"><span class="content">when I take away their sins.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:27 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 59:20,21; 27:9 (see Septuagint); Jer. 31:33,34</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.11.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ROM.11.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.11.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">for God&#8217;s gifts and his call are irrevocable. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ROM.11.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ROM.11.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:31 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts do not have </span><span class="fqa">now.</span></span></span><span class="content"> receive mercy as a result of God&#8217;s mercy to you. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ROM.11.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Doxology</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ROM.11.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.11.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:33 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">riches and the wisdom and the</span></span></span><span class="content"> knowledge of God!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.11.33"><span class="content">How unsearchable his judgments,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.11.33"><span class="content">and his paths beyond tracing out!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.11.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ROM.11.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">&#8220;Who has known the mind of the Lord?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ROM.11.34"><span class="content">Or who has been his counselor?&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:34 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 40:13</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ROM.11.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ROM.11.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">&#8220;Who has ever given to God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ROM.11.35"><span class="content">that God should repay them?&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:35 </span><span class="ft">Job 41:11</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ROM.11.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ROM.11.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">For from him and through him and for him are all things.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ROM.11.36"><span class="content">To him be the glory forever! Amen.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkREV">
      <div class="chapter ch7" data-usfm="REV.7">
         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">144,000 Sealed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.7.5"><span class="content">from the tribe of Reuben 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.7.5"><span class="content">from the tribe of Gad 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Asher 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.7.6"><span class="content">from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.7.6"><span class="content">from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Simeon 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.7.7"><span class="content">from the tribe of Levi 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.7.7"><span class="content">from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.7.8"><span class="content">from the tribe of Joseph 12,000,</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.7.8"><span class="content">from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Great Multitude in White Robes</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And they cried out in a loud voice:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.7.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Salvation belongs to our God,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.7.10"><span class="content">who sits on the throne,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.7.10"><span class="content">and to the Lamb.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">saying:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">&#8220;Amen!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">Praise and glory</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">and wisdom and thanks and honor</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">and power and strength</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">be to our God for ever and ever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">Amen!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then one of the elders asked me, &#8220;These in white robes&#8212;who are they, and where did they come from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I answered, &#8220;Sir, you know.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.7.14"><span class="content">And he said, &#8220;These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Therefore,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.7.15"><span class="content">&#8220;they are before the throne of God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.7.15"><span class="content">and serve him day and night in his temple;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.7.15"><span class="content">and he who sits on the throne</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.7.15"><span class="content">will shelter them with his presence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8216;Never again will they hunger;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.7.16"><span class="content">never again will they thirst.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.7.16"><span class="content">The sun will not beat down on them,&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:16 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 49:10</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.7.16"><span class="content">nor any scorching heat.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For the Lamb at the center of the throne</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.7.17"><span class="content">will be their shepherd;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.7.17"><span class="content">&#8216;he will lead them to springs of living water.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:17 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 49:10</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.7.17"><span class="content">&#8216;And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:17 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 25:8</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">He</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.5.1"><span class="content">I have gathered my myrrh with my spice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.5.1"><span class="content">I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.5.1"><span class="content">I have drunk my wine and my milk.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">Friends</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.5.1"><span class="content">Eat, friends, and drink;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.5.1"><span class="content">drink your fill of love.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">She</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.5.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I slept but my heart was awake.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.5.2"><span class="content">Listen! My beloved is knocking:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.5.2"><span class="content">&#8220;Open to me, my sister, my darling,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.5.2"><span class="content">my dove, my flawless one.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.5.2"><span class="content">My head is drenched with dew,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.5.2"><span class="content">my hair with the dampness of the night.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I have taken off my robe&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.5.3"><span class="content">must I put it on again?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.5.3"><span class="content">I have washed my feet&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.5.3"><span class="content">must I soil them again?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">My beloved thrust his hand through the latch-opening;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.5.4"><span class="content">my heart began to pound for him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.5.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I arose to open for my beloved,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.5.5"><span class="content">and my hands dripped with myrrh,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.5.5"><span class="content">my fingers with flowing myrrh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.5.5"><span class="content">on the handles of the bolt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I opened for my beloved,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.5.6"><span class="content">but my beloved had left; he was gone.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.5.6"><span class="content">My heart sank at his departure.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">heart had gone out to him when he spoke</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.5.6"><span class="content">I looked for him but did not find him.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.5.6"><span class="content">I called him but he did not answer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The watchmen found me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.5.7"><span class="content">as they made their rounds in the city.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.5.7"><span class="content">They beat me, they bruised me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.5.7"><span class="content">they took away my cloak,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.5.7"><span class="content">those watchmen of the walls!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.5.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.5.8"><span class="content">if you find my beloved,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.5.8"><span class="content">what will you tell him?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.5.8"><span class="content">Tell him I am faint with love.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">Friends</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">How is your beloved better than others,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.5.9"><span class="content">most beautiful of women?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.5.9"><span class="content">How is your beloved better than others,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.5.9"><span class="content">that you so charge us?</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">She</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My beloved is radiant and ruddy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.5.10"><span class="content">outstanding among ten thousand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">His head is purest gold;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.5.11"><span class="content">his hair is wavy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.5.11"><span class="content">and black as a raven.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">His eyes are like doves</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.5.12"><span class="content">by the water streams,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.5.12"><span class="content">washed in milk,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.5.12"><span class="content">mounted like jewels.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.5.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">His cheeks are like beds of spice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.5.13"><span class="content">yielding perfume.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.5.13"><span class="content">His lips are like lilies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.5.13"><span class="content">dripping with myrrh.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.5.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">His arms are rods of gold</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.5.14"><span class="content">set with topaz.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.5.14"><span class="content">His body is like polished ivory</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.5.14"><span class="content">decorated with lapis lazuli.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">His legs are pillars of marble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.5.15"><span class="content">set on bases of pure gold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.5.15"><span class="content">His appearance is like Lebanon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.5.15"><span class="content">choice as its cedars.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="SNG.5.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">His mouth is sweetness itself;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.5.16"><span class="content">he is altogether lovely.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.5.16"><span class="content">This is my beloved, this is my friend,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="SNG.5.16"><span class="content">daughters of Jerusalem.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">95</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 95</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.95.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Come, let us sing for joy to 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.95.1"><span class="content">let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.95.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.95.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Let us come before him with thanksgiving</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.95.2"><span class="content">and extol him with music and song.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.95.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.95.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is the great God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.95.3"><span class="content">the great King above all gods.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.95.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.95.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In his hand are the depths of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.95.4"><span class="content">and the mountain peaks belong to him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.95.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.95.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The sea is his, for he made it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.95.5"><span class="content">and his hands formed the dry land.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.95.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.95.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Come, let us bow down in worship,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.95.6"><span class="content">let us kneel before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our Maker;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.95.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.95.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">for he is our God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.95.7"><span class="content">and we are the people of his pasture,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.95.7"><span class="content">the flock under his care.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.95.7"><span class="content">Today, if only you would hear his voice,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.95.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.95.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">95:8 </span><span class="fq">Meribah </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">quarreling.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.95.8"><span class="content">as you did that day at Massah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">95:8 </span><span class="fq">Massah </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">testing.</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the wilderness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.95.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.95.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">where your ancestors tested me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.95.9"><span class="content">they tried me, though they had seen what I did.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.95.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.95.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For forty years I was angry with that generation;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.95.10"><span class="content">I said, &#8216;They are a people whose hearts go astray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.95.10"><span class="content">and they have not known my ways.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.95.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.95.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So I declared on oath in my anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.95.11"><span class="content">&#8216;They shall never enter my rest.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">28</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.28.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The wicked flee though no one pursues,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.28.1"><span class="content">but the righteous are as bold as a lion.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.28.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.28.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When a country is rebellious, it has many rulers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.28.2"><span class="content">but a ruler with discernment and knowledge maintains order.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.28.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.28.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">A ruler</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">A poor person</span></span></span><span class="content"> who oppresses the poor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.28.3"><span class="content">is like a driving rain that leaves no crops.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.28.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.28.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Those who forsake instruction praise the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.28.4"><span class="content">but those who heed it resist them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.28.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.28.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Evildoers do not understand what is right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.28.5"><span class="content">but those who seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> understand it fully.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.28.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.28.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Better the poor whose walk is blameless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.28.6"><span class="content">than the rich whose ways are perverse.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.28.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.28.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">A discerning son heeds instruction,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.28.7"><span class="content">but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.28.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.28.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Whoever increases wealth by taking interest or profit from the poor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.28.8"><span class="content">amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.28.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.28.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If anyone turns a deaf ear to my instruction,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.28.9"><span class="content">even their prayers are detestable.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.28.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.28.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Whoever leads the upright along an evil path</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.28.10"><span class="content">will fall into their own trap,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.28.10"><span class="content">but the blameless will receive a good inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.28.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.28.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The rich are wise in their own eyes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.28.11"><span class="content">one who is poor and discerning sees how deluded they are.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.28.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.28.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When the righteous triumph, there is great elation;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.28.12"><span class="content">but when the wicked rise to power, people go into hiding.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.28.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.28.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.28.13"><span class="content">but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.28.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.28.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Blessed is the one who always trembles before God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.28.14"><span class="content">but whoever hardens their heart falls into trouble.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.28.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.28.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Like a roaring lion or a charging bear</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.28.15"><span class="content">is a wicked ruler over a helpless people.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.28.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.28.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">A tyrannical ruler practices extortion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.28.16"><span class="content">but one who hates ill-gotten gain will enjoy a long reign.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.28.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.28.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Anyone tormented by the guilt of murder</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.28.17"><span class="content">will seek refuge in the grave;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.28.17"><span class="content">let no one hold them back.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.28.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.28.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The one whose walk is blameless is kept safe,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.28.18"><span class="content">but the one whose ways are perverse will fall into the pit.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:18 </span><span class="ft">Syriac (see Septuagint); Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">into one</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.28.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.28.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Those who work their land will have abundant food,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.28.19"><span class="content">but those who chase fantasies will have their fill of poverty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.28.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.28.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">A faithful person will be richly blessed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.28.20"><span class="content">but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.28.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.28.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">To show partiality is not good&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.28.21"><span class="content">yet a person will do wrong for a piece of bread.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.28.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.28.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The stingy are eager to get rich</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.28.22"><span class="content">and are unaware that poverty awaits them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.28.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.28.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Whoever rebukes a person will in the end gain favor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.28.23"><span class="content">rather than one who has a flattering tongue.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.28.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.28.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Whoever robs their father or mother</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.28.24"><span class="content">and says, &#8220;It&#8217;s not wrong,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.28.24"><span class="content">is partner to one who destroys.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.28.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.28.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The greedy stir up conflict,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.28.25"><span class="content">but those who trust in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will prosper.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.28.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.28.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Those who trust in themselves are fools,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.28.26"><span class="content">but those who walk in wisdom are kept safe.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.28.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.28.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Those who give to the poor will lack nothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.28.27"><span class="content">but those who close their eyes to them receive many curses.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.28.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.28.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">When the wicked rise to power, people go into hiding;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.28.28"><span class="content">but when the wicked perish, the righteous thrive.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Mordecai Honored</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EST.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">That night the king could not sleep; so he ordered the book of the chronicles, the record of his reign, to be brought in and read to him. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EST.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">It was found recorded there that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king&#8217;s officers who guarded the doorway, who had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EST.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EST.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;What honor and recognition has Mordecai received for this?&#8221; the king asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EST.6.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Nothing has been done for him,&#8221; his attendants answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EST.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EST.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The king said, &#8220;Who is in the court?&#8221; Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the palace to speak to the king about impaling Mordecai on the pole he had set up for him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EST.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EST.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">His attendants answered, &#8220;Haman is standing in the court.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EST.6.5"><span class="content">&#8220;Bring him in,&#8221; the king ordered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EST.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EST.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When Haman entered, the king asked him, &#8220;What should be done for the man the king delights to honor?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EST.6.6"><span class="content">Now Haman thought to himself, &#8220;Who is there that the king would rather honor than me?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EST.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So he answered the king, &#8220;For the man the king delights to honor, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EST.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">have them bring a royal robe the king has worn and a horse the king has ridden, one with a royal crest placed on its head. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EST.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then let the robe and horse be entrusted to one of the king&#8217;s most noble princes. Let them robe the man the king delights to honor, and lead him on the horse through the city streets, proclaiming before him, &#8216;This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EST.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EST.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go at once,&#8221; the king commanded Haman. &#8220;Get the robe and the horse and do just as you have suggested for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king&#8217;s gate. Do not neglect anything you have recommended.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EST.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EST.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So Haman got the robe and the horse. He robed Mordecai, and led him on horseback through the city streets, proclaiming before him, &#8220;This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EST.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EST.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Afterward Mordecai returned to the king&#8217;s gate. But Haman rushed home, with his head covered in grief, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EST.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and told Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EST.6.13"><span class="content">His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, &#8220;Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has started, is of Jewish origin, you cannot stand against him&#8212;you will surely come to ruin!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EST.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">While they were still talking with him, the king&#8217;s eunuchs arrived and hurried Haman away to the banquet Esther had prepared.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Cleansing From Sin</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEC.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEC.13.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEC.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;On that day, I will banish the names of the idols from the land, and they will be remembered no more,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty. &#8220;I will remove both the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEC.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And if anyone still prophesies, their father and mother, to whom they were born, will say to them, &#8216;You must die, because you have told lies in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s name.&#8217; Then their own parents will stab the one who prophesies.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEC.13.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEC.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;On that day every prophet will be ashamed of their prophetic vision. They will not put on a prophet&#8217;s garment of hair in order to deceive. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEC.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Each will say, &#8216;I am not a prophet. I am a farmer; the land has been my livelihood since my youth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">farmer; a man sold me in my youth</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEC.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">If someone asks, &#8216;What are these wounds on your body</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">wounds between your hands</span></span></span><span class="content">?&#8217; they will answer, &#8216;The wounds I was given at the house of my friends.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Shepherd Struck, the Sheep Scattered</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEC.13.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Awake, sword, against my shepherd,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.13.7"><span class="content">against the man who is close to me!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.13.7"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.13.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Strike the shepherd,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.13.7"><span class="content">and the sheep will be scattered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.13.7"><span class="content">and I will turn my hand against the little ones.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEC.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In the whole land,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEC.13.8"><span class="content">&#8220;two-thirds will be struck down and perish;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEC.13.8"><span class="content">yet one-third will be left in it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEC.13.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">This third I will put into the fire;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.13.9"><span class="content">I will refine them like silver</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.13.9"><span class="content">and test them like gold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.13.9"><span class="content">They will call on my name</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.13.9"><span class="content">and I will answer them;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.13.9"><span class="content">I will say, &#8216;They are my people,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.13.9"><span class="content">and they will say, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is our God.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">On to Jerusalem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After we had torn ourselves away from them, we put out to sea and sailed straight to Kos. The next day we went to Rhodes and from there to Patara. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">We found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, went on board and set sail. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">After sighting Cyprus and passing to the south of it, we sailed on to Syria. We landed at Tyre, where our ship was to unload its cargo. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">We sought out the disciples there and stayed with them seven days. Through the Spirit they urged Paul not to go on to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When it was time to leave, we left and continued on our way. All of them, including wives and children, accompanied us out of the city, and there on the beach we knelt to pray. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">After saying goodbye to each other, we went aboard the ship, and they returned home.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.21.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">We continued our voyage from Tyre and landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and sisters and stayed with them for a day. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Leaving the next day, we reached Caesarea and stayed at the house of Philip the evangelist, one of the Seven. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He had four unmarried daughters who prophesied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.21.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">After we had been there a number of days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Coming over to us, he took Paul&#8217;s belt, tied his own hands and feet with it and said, &#8220;The Holy Spirit says, &#8216;In this way the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and will hand him over to the Gentiles.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.21.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When we heard this, we and the people there pleaded with Paul not to go up to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then Paul answered, &#8220;Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When he would not be dissuaded, we gave up and said, &#8220;The Lord&#8217;s will be done.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.21.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">After this, we started on our way up to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Some of the disciples from Caesarea accompanied us and brought us to the home of Mnason, where we were to stay. He was a man from Cyprus and one of the early disciples.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Arrival at Jerusalem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.21.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When we arrived at Jerusalem, the brothers and sisters received us warmly. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The next day Paul and the rest of us went to see James, and all the elders were present. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Paul greeted them and reported in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.21.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">When they heard this, they praised God. Then they said to Paul: &#8220;You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They have been informed that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">What shall we do? They will certainly hear that you have come, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">so do what we tell you. There are four men with us who have made a vow. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.21.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Take these men, join in their purification rites and pay their expenses, so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is no truth in these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.21.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.21.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.21.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The next day Paul took the men and purified himself along with them. Then he went to the temple to give notice of the date when the days of purification would end and the offering would be made for each of them.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul Arrested</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.21.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.21.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">When the seven days were nearly over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him, </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.21.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">shouting, &#8220;Fellow Israelites, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and our law and this place. And besides, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.21.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">(They had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with Paul and assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.21.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.21.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The whole city was aroused, and the people came running from all directions. Seizing Paul, they dragged him from the temple, and immediately the gates were shut. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.21.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">While they were trying to kill him, news reached the commander of the Roman troops that the whole city of Jerusalem was in an uproar. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.21.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">He at once took some officers and soldiers and ran down to the crowd. When the rioters saw the commander and his soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.21.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.21.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">The commander came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.21.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Some in the crowd shouted one thing and some another, and since the commander could not get at the truth because of the uproar, he ordered that Paul be taken into the barracks. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.21.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">When Paul reached the steps, the violence of the mob was so great he had to be carried by the soldiers. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.21.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">The crowd that followed kept shouting, &#8220;Get rid of him!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul Speaks to the Crowd</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.21.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.21.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">As the soldiers were about to take Paul into the barracks, he asked the commander, &#8220;May I say something to you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.21.37"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you speak Greek?&#8221; he replied. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.21.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">&#8220;Aren&#8217;t you the Egyptian who started a revolt and led four thousand terrorists out into the wilderness some time ago?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.21.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ACT.21.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Paul answered, &#8220;I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Please let me speak to the people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ACT.21.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="ACT.21.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">After receiving the commander&#8217;s permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned to the crowd. When they were all silent, he said to them in Aramaic</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:40 </span><span class="ft">Or possibly </span><span class="fqa">Hebrew</span><span class="ft">; also in 22:2</span></span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div>
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