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         <div class="label">116</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 116</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.116.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I love the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, for he heard my voice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.116.1"><span class="content">he heard my cry for mercy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.116.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.116.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Because he turned his ear to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.116.2"><span class="content">I will call on him as long as I live.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.116.2"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.116.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.116.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The cords of death entangled me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.116.3"><span class="content">the anguish of the grave came over me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.116.3"><span class="content">I was overcome by distress and sorrow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.116.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.116.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then I called on the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.116.4"><span class="content">&#8220;</span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, save me!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.116.4"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.116.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.116.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is gracious and righteous;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.116.5"><span class="content">our God is full of compassion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.116.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.116.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> protects the unwary;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.116.6"><span class="content">when I was brought low, he saved me.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.116.6"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.116.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.116.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Return to your rest, my soul,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.116.7"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has been good to you.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.116.7"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.116.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.116.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, have delivered me from death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.116.8"><span class="content">my eyes from tears,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.116.8"><span class="content">my feet from stumbling,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.116.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.116.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">that I may walk before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.116.9"><span class="content">in the land of the living.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.116.9"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.116.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.116.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I trusted in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> when I said,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.116.10"><span class="content">&#8220;I am greatly afflicted&#8221;;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.116.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.116.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">in my alarm I said,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.116.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Everyone is a liar.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.116.11"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.116.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.116.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">What shall I return to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.116.12"><span class="content">for all his goodness to me?</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.116.12"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.116.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.116.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I will lift up the cup of salvation</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.116.13"><span class="content">and call on the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.116.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.116.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I will fulfill my vows to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.116.14"><span class="content">in the presence of all his people.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.116.14"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.116.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.116.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Precious in the sight of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.116.15"><span class="content">is the death of his faithful servants.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.116.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.116.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Truly I am your servant, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.116.16"><span class="content">I serve you just as my mother did;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.116.16"><span class="content">you have freed me from my chains.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.116.16"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.116.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.116.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I will sacrifice a thank offering to you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.116.17"><span class="content">and call on the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.116.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.116.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I will fulfill my vows to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.116.18"><span class="content">in the presence of all his people,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.116.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.116.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">in the courts of the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.116.19"><span class="content">in your midst, Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.116.19"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.116.19"><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">116:19 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Hallelu Yah</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Judah&#8217;s sin is engraved with an iron tool,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.17.1"><span class="content">inscribed with a flint point,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.17.1"><span class="content">on the tablets of their hearts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.17.1"><span class="content">and on the horns of their altars.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.17.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Even their children remember</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.17.2"><span class="content">their altars and Asherah poles</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">17:2 </span><span class="ft">That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.17.2"><span class="content">beside the spreading trees</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.17.2"><span class="content">and on the high hills.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.17.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">My mountain in the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.17.3"><span class="content">and your</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">17:2,3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">hills / </span><span class="fv">3 </span><span class="fqa">and the mountains of the land. / Your</span></span></span><span class="content"> wealth and all your treasures</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.17.3"><span class="content">I will give away as plunder,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.17.3"><span class="content">together with your high places,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.17.3"><span class="content">because of sin throughout your country.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.17.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Through your own fault you will lose</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.17.4"><span class="content">the inheritance I gave you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.17.4"><span class="content">I will enslave you to your enemies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.17.4"><span class="content">in a land you do not know,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.17.4"><span class="content">for you have kindled my anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.17.4"><span class="content">and it will burn forever.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.17.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.17.5"><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed is the one who trusts in man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.17.5"><span class="content">who draws strength from mere flesh</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.17.5"><span class="content">and whose heart turns away from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.17.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">That person will be like a bush in the wastelands;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.17.6"><span class="content">they will not see prosperity when it comes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.17.6"><span class="content">They will dwell in the parched places of the desert,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.17.6"><span class="content">in a salt land where no one lives.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.17.6"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.17.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;But blessed is the one who trusts in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.17.7"><span class="content">whose confidence is in him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.17.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They will be like a tree planted by the water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.17.8"><span class="content">that sends out its roots by the stream.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.17.8"><span class="content">It does not fear when heat comes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.17.8"><span class="content">its leaves are always green.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.17.8"><span class="content">It has no worries in a year of drought</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.17.8"><span class="content">and never fails to bear fruit.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.17.8"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.17.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The heart is deceitful above all things</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.17.9"><span class="content">and beyond cure.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.17.9"><span class="content">Who can understand it?</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.17.9"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.17.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> search the heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.17.10"><span class="content">and examine the mind,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.17.10"><span class="content">to reward each person according to their conduct,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.17.10"><span class="content">according to what their deeds deserve.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.17.10"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.17.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.17.11"><span class="content">are those who gain riches by unjust means.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.17.11"><span class="content">When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.17.11"><span class="content">and in the end they will prove to be fools.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.17.11"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.17.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.17.12"><span class="content">is the place of our sanctuary.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.17.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you are the hope of Israel;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.17.13"><span class="content">all who forsake you will be put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.17.13"><span class="content">Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.17.13"><span class="content">because they have forsaken the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.17.13"><span class="content">the spring of living water.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.17.13"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.17.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Heal me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and I will be healed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.17.14"><span class="content">save me and I will be saved,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.17.14"><span class="content">for you are the one I praise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.17.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">They keep saying to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.17.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.17.15"><span class="content">Let it now be fulfilled!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.17.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I have not run away from being your shepherd;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.17.16"><span class="content">you know I have not desired the day of despair.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.17.16"><span class="content">What passes my lips is open before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.17.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Do not be a terror to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.17.17"><span class="content">you are my refuge in the day of disaster.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.17.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Let my persecutors be put to shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.17.18"><span class="content">but keep me from shame;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.17.18"><span class="content">let them be terrified,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.17.18"><span class="content">but keep me from terror.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.17.18"><span class="content">Bring on them the day of disaster;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.17.18"><span class="content">destroy them with double destruction.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.17.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me: &#8220;Go and stand at the Gate of the People,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">17:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Army</span></span></span><span class="content"> through which the kings of Judah go in and out; stand also at all the other gates of Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.17.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Say to them, &#8216;Hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you kings of Judah and all people of Judah and everyone living in Jerusalem who come through these gates. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.17.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Be careful not to carry a load on the Sabbath day or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.17.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Do not bring a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.17.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Yet they did not listen or pay attention; they were stiff-necked and would not listen or respond to discipline. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.17.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But if you are careful to obey me, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy by not doing any work on it, </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.17.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">then kings who sit on David&#8217;s throne will come through the gates of this city with their officials. They and their officials will come riding in chariots and on horses, accompanied by the men of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.17.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">People will come from the towns of Judah and the villages around Jerusalem, from the territory of Benjamin and the western foothills, from the hill country and the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and incense, and bringing thank offerings to the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JER.17.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But if you do not obey me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying any load as you come through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in the gates of Jerusalem that will consume her fortresses.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch18" data-usfm="JER.18">
         <div class="label">18</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">At the Potter&#8217;s House</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go down to the potter&#8217;s house, and there I will give you my message.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So I went down to the potter&#8217;s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.18.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;Can I not do with you, Israel, as this potter does?&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. &#8220;Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.18.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But they will reply, &#8216;It&#8217;s no use. We will continue with our own plans; we will all follow the stubbornness of our evil hearts.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.18.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.18.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Inquire among the nations:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.18.13"><span class="content">Who has ever heard anything like this?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.18.13"><span class="content">A most horrible thing has been done</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.18.13"><span class="content">by Virgin Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.18.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Does the snow of Lebanon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.18.14"><span class="content">ever vanish from its rocky slopes?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.18.14"><span class="content">Do its cool waters from distant sources</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.18.14"><span class="content">ever stop flowing?</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">18:14 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.18.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Yet my people have forgotten me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="content">they burn incense to worthless idols,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="content">which made them stumble in their ways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="content">in the ancient paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="content">They made them walk in byways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"><span class="content">on roads not built up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.18.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Their land will be an object of horror</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.18.16"><span class="content">and of lasting scorn;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.18.16"><span class="content">all who pass by will be appalled</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.18.16"><span class="content">and will shake their heads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.18.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Like a wind from the east,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.18.17"><span class="content">I will scatter them before their enemies;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.18.17"><span class="content">I will show them my back and not my face</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.18.17"><span class="content">in the day of their disaster.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.18.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.18.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They said, &#8220;Come, let&#8217;s make plans against Jeremiah; for the teaching of the law by the priest will not cease, nor will counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets. So come, let&#8217;s attack him with our tongues and pay no attention to anything he says.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.18.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.18.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Listen to me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.18.19"><span class="content">hear what my accusers are saying!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.18.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.18.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Should good be repaid with evil?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.18.20"><span class="content">Yet they have dug a pit for me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.18.20"><span class="content">Remember that I stood before you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.18.20"><span class="content">and spoke in their behalf</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.18.20"><span class="content">to turn your wrath away from them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.18.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So give their children over to famine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.18.21"><span class="content">hand them over to the power of the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.18.21"><span class="content">Let their wives be made childless and widows;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.18.21"><span class="content">let their men be put to death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.18.21"><span class="content">their young men slain by the sword in battle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.18.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.18.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Let a cry be heard from their houses</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.18.22"><span class="content">when you suddenly bring invaders against them,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.18.22"><span class="content">for they have dug a pit to capture me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.18.22"><span class="content">and have hidden snares for my feet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.18.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.18.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, know</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.18.23"><span class="content">all their plots to kill me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.18.23"><span class="content">Do not forgive their crimes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.18.23"><span class="content">or blot out their sins from your sight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.18.23"><span class="content">Let them be overthrown before you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.18.23"><span class="content">deal with them in the time of your anger.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">There is no need for me to write to you about this service to the Lord&#8217;s people. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting about it to the Macedonians, telling them that since last year you in Achaia were ready to give; and your enthusiasm has stirred most of them to action. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove hollow, but that you may be ready, as I said you would be. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we&#8212;not to say anything about you&#8212;would be ashamed of having been so confident. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to visit you in advance and finish the arrangements for the generous gift you had promised. Then it will be ready as a generous gift, not as one grudgingly given.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Generosity Encouraged</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.9.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CO.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">As it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.9.9"><span class="content">&#8220;They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.9.9"><span class="content">their righteousness endures forever.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:9 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="PSA.112.9">Psalm 112:9</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.9.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.9.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of the Lord&#8217;s people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, others will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And in their prayers for you their hearts will go out to you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!</span></span></div>
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