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        <div class="chapter ch37" data-usfm="GEN.37">
            <div class="label">37</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Joseph&#8217;s Dreams</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.37.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.37.1"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.37.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.37.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">This is the account of Jacob&#8217;s family line.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.37.2"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.37.2"><span class="content">Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father&#8217;s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.37.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.37.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">37:3 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain; also in verses 23 and 32.</span></span></span><span class="content"> robe for him. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.37.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.37.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.37.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.37.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He said to them, &#8220;Listen to this dream I had: </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.37.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.37.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.37.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">His brothers said to him, &#8220;Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?&#8221; And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.37.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.37.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. &#8220;Listen,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.37.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.37.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, &#8220;What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.37.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Joseph Sold by His Brothers</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.37.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.37.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Now his brothers had gone to graze their father&#8217;s flocks near Shechem, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.37.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and Israel said to Joseph, &#8220;As you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I am going to send you to them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.37.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Very well,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.37.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.37.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So he said to him, &#8220;Go and see if all is well with your brothers and with the flocks, and bring word back to me.&#8221; Then he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.37.14"><span class="content">When Joseph arrived at Shechem, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.37.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">a man found him wandering around in the fields and asked him, &#8220;What are you looking for?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.37.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.37.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m looking for my brothers. Can you tell me where they are grazing their flocks?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.37.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.37.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;They have moved on from here,&#8221; the man answered. &#8220;I heard them say, &#8216;Let&#8217;s go to Dothan.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.37.17"><span class="content">So Joseph went after his brothers and found them near Dothan. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.37.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.37.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.37.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Here comes that dreamer!&#8221; they said to each other. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.37.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come now, let&#8217;s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we&#8217;ll see what comes of his dreams.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.37.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.37.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. &#8220;Let&#8217;s not take his life,&#8221; he said. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.37.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the wilderness, but don&#8217;t lay a hand on him.&#8221; Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.37.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.37.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe&#8212;the ornate robe he was wearing&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.37.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">and they took him and threw him into the cistern. The cistern was empty; there was no water in it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.37.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.37.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As they sat down to eat their meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were loaded with spices, balm and myrrh, and they were on their way to take them down to Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.37.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.37.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Judah said to his brothers, &#8220;What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood? </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.37.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Come, let&#8217;s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood.&#8221; His brothers agreed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.37.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.37.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">37:28 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 8 ounces or about 230 grams</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.37.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.37.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">When Reuben returned to the cistern and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.37.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He went back to his brothers and said, &#8220;The boy isn&#8217;t there! Where can I turn now?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.37.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.37.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Then they got Joseph&#8217;s robe, slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.37.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">They took the ornate robe back to their father and said, &#8220;We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son&#8217;s robe.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.37.32"></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.37.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">He recognized it and said, &#8220;It is my son&#8217;s robe! Some ferocious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.37.33"></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.37.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.37.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. &#8220;No,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I will continue to mourn until I join my son in the grave.&#8221; So his father wept for him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.37.35"></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.37.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Meanwhile, the Midianites</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">37:36 </span><span class="ft">Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac (see also verse 28); Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">Medanites</span></span></span><span class="content"> sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh&#8217;s officials, the captain of the guard.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch38" data-usfm="GEN.38">
            <div class="label">38</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judah and Tamar</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.38.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">At that time, Judah left his brothers and went down to stay with a man of Adullam named Hirah. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.38.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. He married her and made love to her; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.38.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, who was named Er. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.38.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">She conceived again and gave birth to a son and named him Onan. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.38.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">She gave birth to still another son and named him Shelah. It was at Kezib that she gave birth to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.38.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.38.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.38.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But Er, Judah&#8217;s firstborn, was wicked in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s sight; so the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> put him to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.38.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.38.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then Judah said to Onan, &#8220;Sleep with your brother&#8217;s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.38.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother&#8217;s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.38.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">What he did was wicked in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s sight; so the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> put him to death also.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.38.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.38.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Judah then said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, &#8220;Live as a widow in your father&#8217;s household until my son Shelah grows up.&#8221; For he thought, &#8220;He may die too, just like his brothers.&#8221; So Tamar went to live in her father&#8217;s household.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.38.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.38.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">After a long time Judah&#8217;s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had recovered from his grief, he went up to Timnah, to the men who were shearing his sheep, and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.38.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.38.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When Tamar was told, &#8220;Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.38.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">she took off her widow&#8217;s clothes, covered herself with a veil to disguise herself, and then sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had now grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.38.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.38.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.38.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her by the roadside and said, &#8220;Come now, let me sleep with you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.38.16"><span class="content">&#8220;And what will you give me to sleep with you?&#8221; she asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.38.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.38.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;I&#8217;ll send you a young goat from my flock,&#8221; he said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.38.17"><span class="content">&#8220;Will you give me something as a pledge until you send it?&#8221; she asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.38.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.38.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;What pledge should I give you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.38.18"><span class="content">&#8220;Your seal and its cord, and the staff in your hand,&#8221; she answered. So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.38.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">After she left, she took off her veil and put on her widow&#8217;s clothes again.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.38.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.38.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Meanwhile Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get his pledge back from the woman, but he did not find her. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.38.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He asked the men who lived there, &#8220;Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.38.21"><span class="content">&#8220;There hasn&#8217;t been any shrine prostitute here,&#8221; they said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.38.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.38.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">So he went back to Judah and said, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t find her. Besides, the men who lived there said, &#8216;There hasn&#8217;t been any shrine prostitute here.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.38.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.38.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then Judah said, &#8220;Let her keep what she has, or we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you didn&#8217;t find her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.38.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.38.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">About three months later Judah was told, &#8220;Your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of prostitution, and as a result she is now pregnant.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.38.24"><span class="content">Judah said, &#8220;Bring her out and have her burned to death!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.38.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.38.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As she was being brought out, she sent a message to her father-in-law. &#8220;I am pregnant by the man who owns these,&#8221; she said. And she added, &#8220;See if you recognize whose seal and cord and staff these are.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.38.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.38.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Judah recognized them and said, &#8220;She is more righteous than I, since I wouldn&#8217;t give her to my son Shelah.&#8221; And he did not sleep with her again.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.38.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.38.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.38.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his wrist and said, &#8220;This one came out first.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.38.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">But when he drew back his hand, his brother came out, and she said, &#8220;So this is how you have broken out!&#8221; And he was named Perez.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">38:29 </span><span class="fq">Perez </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">breaking out.</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.38.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Then his brother, who had the scarlet thread on his wrist, came out. And he was named Zerah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">38:30 </span><span class="fq">Zerah </span><span class="ft">can mean </span><span class="fq">scarlet </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">brightness.</span></span></span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkPSA">
        <div class="chapter ch9" data-usfm="PSA.9">
            <div class="label">9</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 9</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">Psalms 9 and 10 may originally have been a single acrostic poem in which alternating lines began with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Septuagint they constitute one psalm.</span></span></span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 9:1-20 is numbered 9:2-21.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. To the tune of &#8220;The Death of the Son.&#8221; A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I will give thanks to you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, with all my heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.9.1"><span class="content">I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.9.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I will be glad and rejoice in you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.9.2"><span class="content">I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.9.2"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.9.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">My enemies turn back;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.9.3"><span class="content">they stumble and perish before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.9.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For you have upheld my right and my cause,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.9.4"><span class="content">sitting enthroned as the righteous judge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.9.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.9.5"><span class="content">you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.9.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Endless ruin has overtaken my enemies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.9.6"><span class="content">you have uprooted their cities;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.9.6"><span class="content">even the memory of them has perished.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.9.6"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.9.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> reigns forever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.9.7"><span class="content">he has established his throne for judgment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.9.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He rules the world in righteousness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.9.8"><span class="content">and judges the peoples with equity.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.9.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is a refuge for the oppressed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.9.9"><span class="content">a stronghold in times of trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.9.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Those who know your name trust in you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.9.10"><span class="content">for you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, have never forsaken those who seek you.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.9.10"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.9.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Sing the praises of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, enthroned in Zion;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.9.11"><span class="content">proclaim among the nations what he has done.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.9.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For he who avenges blood remembers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.9.12"><span class="content">he does not ignore the cries of the afflicted.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.9.12"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.9.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, see how my enemies persecute me!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.9.13"><span class="content">Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.9.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">that I may declare your praises</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.9.14"><span class="content">in the gates of Daughter Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.9.14"><span class="content">and there rejoice in your salvation.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.9.14"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.9.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.9.15"><span class="content">their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.9.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is known by his acts of justice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.9.16"><span class="content">the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:16 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Higgaion </span><span class="ft">and </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(words of uncertain meaning) here; </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">occurs also at the end of verse 20.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.9.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The wicked go down to the realm of the dead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.9.17"><span class="content">all the nations that forget God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.9.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But God will never forget the needy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.9.18"><span class="content">the hope of the afflicted will never perish.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.9.18"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.9.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Arise, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do not let mortals triumph;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.9.19"><span class="content">let the nations be judged in your presence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.9.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Strike them with terror, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.9.20"><span class="content">let the nations know they are only mortal.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Zacchaeus the Tax Collector</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.19.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.19.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All the people saw this and began to mutter, &#8220;He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.19.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, &#8220;Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.19.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Jesus said to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Parable of the Ten Minas</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.19.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He said: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;A man of noble birth went to a distant country to have himself appointed king and then to return.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So he called ten of his servants and gave them ten minas.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">19:13 </span><span class="ft">A mina was about three months&#8217; wages.</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Put this money to work,&#8217; he said, &#8216;until I come back.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.19.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, &#8216;We don&#8217;t want this man to be our king.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.19.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;He was made king, however, and returned home. Then he sent for the servants to whom he had given the money, in order to find out what they had gained with it.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.19.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The first one came and said, &#8216;Sir, your mina has earned ten more.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.19.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Well done, my good servant!&#8217; his master replied. &#8216;Because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter, take charge of ten cities.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.19.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The second came and said, &#8216;Sir, your mina has earned five more.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.19.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;His master answered, &#8216;You take charge of five cities.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.19.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then another servant came and said, &#8216;Sir, here is your mina; I have kept it laid away in a piece of cloth.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take out what you did not put in and reap what you did not sow.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.19.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;His master replied, &#8216;I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant! You knew, did you, that I am a hard man, taking out what I did not put in, and reaping what I did not sow?</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Why then didn&#8217;t you put my money on deposit, so that when I came back, I could have collected it with interest?&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.19.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then he said to those standing by, &#8216;Take his mina away from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.19.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Sir,&#8217; they said, &#8216;he already has ten!&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.19.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;He replied, &#8216;I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but as for the one who has nothing, even what they have will be taken away.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them&#8212;bring them here and kill them in front of me.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Comes to Jerusalem as King</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.19.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">As he approached Bethphage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.19.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.19.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If anyone asks you, &#8216;Why are you untying it?&#8217; say, &#8216;The Lord needs it.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.19.31"></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.19.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Those who were sent ahead went and found it just as he had told them. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.19.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">As they were untying the colt, its owners asked them, &#8220;Why are you untying the colt?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.19.33"></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.19.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">They replied, &#8220;The Lord needs it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.19.34"></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.19.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">They brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks on the colt and put Jesus on it. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.19.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">As he went along, people spread their cloaks on the road.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="LUK.19.36"></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.19.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="LUK.19.37"></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.19.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">&#8220;Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">19:38 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="PSA.118.26">Psalm 118:26</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.19.38"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.19.38"><span class="content">&#8220;Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="LUK.19.38"></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.19.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, &#8220;Teacher, rebuke your disciples!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="LUK.19.39"></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LUK.19.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I tell you,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="LUK.19.40"></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="LUK.19.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="LUK.19.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace&#8212;but now it is hidden from your eyes.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="LUK.19.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="LUK.19.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God&#8217;s coming to you.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus at the Temple</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="LUK.19.44"></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="LUK.19.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">When Jesus entered the temple courts, he began to drive out those who were selling. </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="LUK.19.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is written,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;My house will be a house of prayer&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">19:46 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="ISA.56.7">Isaiah 56:7</span></span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">; but you have made it &#8216;a den of robbers.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">19:46 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="JER.7.11">Jer. 7:11</span></span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="LUK.19.46"></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="LUK.19.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">Every day he was teaching at the temple. But the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the leaders among the people were trying to kill him. </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="LUK.19.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">Yet they could not find any way to do it, because all the people hung on his words.</span></span></div>
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