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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkJOS">
        <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="JOS.12">
            <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">List of Defeated Kings</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">These are the kings of the land whom the Israelites had defeated and whose territory they took over east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge to Mount Hermon, including all the eastern side of the Arabah:</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.12.1"></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.12.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.</span></span></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.12.2"><span class="content">He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge&#8212;from the middle of the gorge&#8212;to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites. This included half of Gilead. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He also ruled over the eastern Arabah from the Sea of Galilee</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">12:3 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Kinnereth</span></span></span><span class="content"> to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea), to Beth Jeshimoth, and then southward below the slopes of Pisgah.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.12.3"></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.12.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And the territory of Og king of Bashan, one of the last of the Rephaites, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei.</span></span></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.12.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salekah, all of Bashan to the border of the people of Geshur and Maakah, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.12.5"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.12.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Moses, the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and the Israelites conquered them. And Moses the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave their land to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh to be their possession.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.12.6"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.12.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Here is a list of the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir. Joshua gave their lands as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel according to their tribal divisions. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The lands included the hill country, the western foothills, the Arabah, the mountain slopes, the wilderness and the Negev. These were the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. These were the kings:</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.12.8"></span></div><table class="table"><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.12.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">the king of Jericho</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.12.9"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.12.9"><span class="content">the king of Ai (near Bethel)</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.12.9"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.12.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">the king of Jerusalem</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.12.10"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.12.10"><span class="content">the king of Hebron</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.12.10"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.12.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">the king of Jarmuth</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.12.11"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.12.11"><span class="content">the king of Lachish</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.12.11"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.12.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">the king of Eglon</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.12.12"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.12.12"><span class="content">the king of Gezer</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.12.12"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.12.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">the king of Debir</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.12.13"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.12.13"><span class="content">the king of Geder</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.12.13"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.12.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">the king of Hormah</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.12.14"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.12.14"><span class="content">the king of Arad</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.12.14"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.12.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">the king of Libnah</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.12.15"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.12.15"><span class="content">the king of Adullam</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.12.15"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.12.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">the king of Makkedah</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.12.16"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.12.16"><span class="content">the king of Bethel</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.12.16"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.12.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">the king of Tappuah</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.12.17"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.12.17"><span class="content">the king of Hepher</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.12.17"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.12.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.12.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">the king of Aphek</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.12.18"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.12.18"><span class="content">the king of Lasharon</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.12.18"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.12.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.12.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">the king of Madon</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.12.19"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.12.19"><span class="content">the king of Hazor</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.12.19"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.12.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.12.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">the king of Shimron Meron</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.12.20"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.12.20"><span class="content">the king of Akshaph</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.12.20"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.12.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.12.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">the king of Taanach</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.12.21"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.12.21"><span class="content">the king of Megiddo</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.12.21"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.12.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.12.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">the king of Kedesh</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.12.22"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.12.22"><span class="content">the king of Jokneam in Carmel</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.12.22"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.12.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.12.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">the king of Dor (in Naphoth Dor)</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.12.23"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.12.23"><span class="content">the king of Goyim in Gilgal</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.12.23"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.12.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.12.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">the king of Tirzah</span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.12.24"><span class="content">one</span></span></td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="cell"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.12.24"><span class="content"></span></span></td><td class="cell"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.12.24"><span class="content">thirty-one kings in all.</span></span></td></tr></table>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkJOB">
        <div class="chapter ch6" data-usfm="JOB.6">
            <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Job</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.6.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;If only my anguish could be weighed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.6.2"><span class="content">and all my misery be placed on the scales!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.6.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">It would surely outweigh the sand of the seas&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.6.3"><span class="content">no wonder my words have been impetuous.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.6.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The arrows of the Almighty are in me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.6.4"><span class="content">my spirit drinks in their poison;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.6.4"><span class="content">God&#8217;s terrors are marshaled against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.6.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Does a wild donkey bray when it has grass,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.6.5"><span class="content">or an ox bellow when it has fodder?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.6.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Is tasteless food eaten without salt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.6.6"><span class="content">or is there flavor in the sap of the mallow</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:6 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.6.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I refuse to touch it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.6.7"><span class="content">such food makes me ill.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.6.7"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.6.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Oh, that I might have my request,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.6.8"><span class="content">that God would grant what I hope for,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.6.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">that God would be willing to crush me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.6.9"><span class="content">to let loose his hand and cut off my life!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.6.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then I would still have this consolation&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.6.10"><span class="content">my joy in unrelenting pain&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.6.10"><span class="content">that I had not denied the words of the Holy One.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.6.10"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.6.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;What strength do I have, that I should still hope?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.6.11"><span class="content">What prospects, that I should be patient?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.6.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Do I have the strength of stone?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.6.12"><span class="content">Is my flesh bronze?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.6.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Do I have any power to help myself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.6.13"><span class="content">now that success has been driven from me?</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.6.13"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.6.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.6.14"><span class="content">forsakes the fear of the Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.6.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.6.15"><span class="content">as the streams that overflow</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.6.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">when darkened by thawing ice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.6.16"><span class="content">and swollen with melting snow,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.6.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">but that stop flowing in the dry season,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.6.17"><span class="content">and in the heat vanish from their channels.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.6.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Caravans turn aside from their routes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.6.18"><span class="content">they go off into the wasteland and perish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.6.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The caravans of Tema look for water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.6.19"><span class="content">the traveling merchants of Sheba look in hope.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.6.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They are distressed, because they had been confident;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.6.20"><span class="content">they arrive there, only to be disappointed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.6.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Now you too have proved to be of no help;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.6.21"><span class="content">you see something dreadful and are afraid.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.6.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Have I ever said, &#8216;Give something on my behalf,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.6.22"><span class="content">pay a ransom for me from your wealth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.6.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.6.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">deliver me from the hand of the enemy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.6.23"><span class="content">rescue me from the clutches of the ruthless&#8217;?</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.6.23"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.6.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.6.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Teach me, and I will be quiet;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.6.24"><span class="content">show me where I have been wrong.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.6.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.6.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">How painful are honest words!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.6.25"><span class="content">But what do your arguments prove?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.6.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.6.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Do you mean to correct what I say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.6.26"><span class="content">and treat my desperate words as wind?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.6.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.6.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">You would even cast lots for the fatherless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.6.27"><span class="content">and barter away your friend.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.6.27"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.6.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.6.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;But now be so kind as to look at me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.6.28"><span class="content">Would I lie to your face?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.6.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.6.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Relent, do not be unjust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.6.29"><span class="content">reconsider, for my integrity is at stake.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:29 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">my righteousness still stands</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.6.29"></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.6.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Is there any wickedness on my lips?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.6.30"><span class="content">Can my mouth not discern malice?</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.6.30"></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
    <div class="book bkISA">
        <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="ISA.17">
            <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Damascus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prophecy against Damascus:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.17.1"><span class="content">&#8220;See, Damascus will no longer be a city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.17.1"><span class="content">but will become a heap of ruins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.17.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The cities of Aroer will be deserted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.17.2"><span class="content">and left to flocks, which will lie down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.17.2"><span class="content">with no one to make them afraid.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.17.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">and royal power from Damascus;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">the remnant of Aram will be</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">like the glory of the Israelites,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day the glory of Jacob will fade;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.17.4"><span class="content">the fat of his body will waste away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.17.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="content">gathering the grain in their arms&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="content">as when someone gleans heads of grain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="content">in the Valley of Rephaim.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Yet some gleanings will remain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">as when an olive tree is beaten,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">four or five on the fruitful boughs,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In that day people will look to their Maker</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.17.7"><span class="content">and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.17.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They will not look to the altars,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="content">the work of their hands,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="content">and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">17:8 </span><span class="ft">That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="content">and the incense altars their fingers have made.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all will be desolation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.17.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You have forgotten God your Savior;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="content">you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="content">Therefore, though you set out the finest plants</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="content">and plant imported vines,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="content">and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="content">yet the harvest will be as nothing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="content">in the day of disease and incurable pain.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Woe to the many nations that rage&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="content">they rage like the raging sea!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="content">Woe to the peoples who roar&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="content">they roar like the roaring of great waters!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="content">when he rebukes them they flee far away,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="content">driven before the wind like chaff on the hills,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="content">like tumbleweed before a gale.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">In the evening, sudden terror!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.17.14"><span class="content">Before the morning, they are gone!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.17.14"><span class="content">This is the portion of those who loot us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.17.14"><span class="content">the lot of those who plunder us.</span></span></div>
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    <div class="book bkACT">
        <div class="chapter ch22" data-usfm="ACT.22">
            <div class="label">22</div><div class="nb"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Brothers and fathers, listen now to my defense.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.22.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When they heard him speak to them in Aramaic, they became very quiet.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.22.2"><span class="content">Then Paul said: </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city. I studied under Gamaliel and was thoroughly trained in the law of our ancestors. I was just as zealous for God as any of you are today. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I persecuted the followers of this Way to their death, arresting both men and women and throwing them into prison, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">as the high priest and all the Council can themselves testify. I even obtained letters from them to their associates in Damascus, and went there to bring these people as prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.22.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;About noon as I came near Damascus, suddenly a bright light from heaven flashed around me. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.22.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Who are you, Lord?&#8217; I asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.22.8"><span class="content">&#8220; </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting,&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> he replied. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">My companions saw the light, but they did not understand the voice of him who was speaking to me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.22.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;What shall I do, Lord?&#8217; I asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.22.10"><span class="content">&#8220; </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Get up,&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> the Lord said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;and go into Damascus. There you will be told all that you have been assigned to do.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My companions led me by the hand into Damascus, because the brilliance of the light had blinded me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.22.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;A man named Ananias came to see me. He was a devout observer of the law and highly respected by all the Jews living there. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He stood beside me and said, &#8216;Brother Saul, receive your sight!&#8217; And at that very moment I was able to see him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.22.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then he said: &#8216;The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will and to see the Righteous One and to hear words from his mouth. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You will be his witness to all people of what you have seen and heard. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.22.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;When I returned to Jerusalem and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">and saw the Lord speaking to me. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Quick!&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> he said. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Leave Jerusalem immediately, because the people here will not accept your testimony about me.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.22.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Lord,&#8217; I replied, &#8216;these people know that I went from one synagogue to another to imprison and beat those who believe in you. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And when the blood of your martyr</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">22:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">witness</span></span></span><span class="content"> Stephen was shed, I stood there giving my approval and guarding the clothes of those who were killing him.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.22.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then the Lord said to me, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Go; I will send you far away to the Gentiles.&#8217; </span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul the Roman Citizen</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.22.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The crowd listened to Paul until he said this. Then they raised their voices and shouted, &#8220;Rid the earth of him! He&#8217;s not fit to live!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.22.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">As they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks and flinging dust into the air, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">the commander ordered that Paul be taken into the barracks. He directed that he be flogged and interrogated in order to find out why the people were shouting at him like this. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As they stretched him out to flog him, Paul said to the centurion standing there, &#8220;Is it legal for you to flog a Roman citizen who hasn&#8217;t even been found guilty?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.22.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">When the centurion heard this, he went to the commander and reported it. &#8220;What are you going to do?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;This man is a Roman citizen.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.22.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The commander went to Paul and asked, &#8220;Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.22.27"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, I am,&#8221; he answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.22.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then the commander said, &#8220;I had to pay a lot of money for my citizenship.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.22.28"><span class="content">&#8220;But I was born a citizen,&#8221; Paul replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.22.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Those who were about to interrogate him withdrew immediately. The commander himself was alarmed when he realized that he had put Paul, a Roman citizen, in chains.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul Before the Sanhedrin</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.22.29"></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The commander wanted to find out exactly why Paul was being accused by the Jews. So the next day he released him and ordered the chief priests and all the members of the Sanhedrin to assemble. Then he brought Paul and had him stand before them.</span></span></div>
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