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         <div class="label">15</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Covenant With Abram</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After this, the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to Abram in a vision:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.15.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not be afraid, Abram.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.15.1"><span class="content">I am your shield,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">sovereign</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.15.1"><span class="content">your very great reward.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">shield; / your reward will be very great</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.15.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But Abram said, &#8220;Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:2 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And Abram said, &#8220;You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.15.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to him: &#8220;This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He took him outside and said, &#8220;Look up at the sky and count the stars&#8212;if indeed you can count them.&#8221; Then he said to him, &#8220;So shall your offspring</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seed</span></span></span><span class="content"> be.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.15.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Abram believed the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and he credited it to him as righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.15.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He also said to him, &#8220;I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.15.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But Abram said, &#8220;Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.15.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to him, &#8220;Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.15.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.15.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to him, &#8220;Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.15.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.15.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.15.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.15.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">On that day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> made a covenant with Abram and said, &#8220;To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">river</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.15.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.15.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.15.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph&#8217;s firstborn, that is, for Makir, Manasseh&#8217;s firstborn. Makir was the ancestor of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because the Makirites were great soldiers. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So this allotment was for the rest of the people of Manasseh&#8212;the clans of Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher and Shemida. These are the other male descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph by their clans.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons but only daughters, whose names were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milkah and Tirzah. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They went to Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our relatives.&#8221; So Joshua gave them an inheritance along with the brothers of their father, according to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s command. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Manasseh&#8217;s share consisted of ten tracts of land besides Gilead and Bashan east of the Jordan, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">because the daughters of the tribe of Manasseh received an inheritance among the sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the descendants of Manasseh.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The territory of Manasseh extended from Asher to Mikmethath east of Shechem. The boundary ran southward from there to include the people living at En Tappuah. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">(Manasseh had the land of Tappuah, but Tappuah itself, on the boundary of Manasseh, belonged to the Ephraimites.) </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then the boundary continued south to the Kanah Ravine. There were towns belonging to Ephraim lying among the towns of Manasseh, but the boundary of Manasseh was the northern side of the ravine and ended at the Mediterranean Sea. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">On the south the land belonged to Ephraim, on the north to Manasseh. The territory of Manasseh reached the Mediterranean Sea and bordered Asher on the north and Issachar on the east.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Within Issachar and Asher, Manasseh also had Beth Shan, Ibleam and the people of Dor, Endor, Taanach and Megiddo, together with their surrounding settlements (the third in the list is Naphoth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:11 </span><span class="ft">That is, Naphoth Dor</span></span></span><span class="content">).</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Yet the Manassites were not able to occupy these towns, for the Canaanites were determined to live in that region. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they subjected the Canaanites to forced labor but did not drive them out completely.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The people of Joseph said to Joshua, &#8220;Why have you given us only one allotment and one portion for an inheritance? We are a numerous people, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has blessed us abundantly.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you are so numerous,&#8221; Joshua answered, &#8220;and if the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go up into the forest and clear land for yourselves there in the land of the Perizzites and Rephaites.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.17.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The people of Joseph replied, &#8220;The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who live in the plain have chariots fitted with iron, both those in Beth Shan and its settlements and those in the Valley of Jezreel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.17.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But Joshua said to the tribes of Joseph&#8212;to Ephraim and Manasseh&#8212;&#8220;You are numerous and very powerful. You will have not only one allotment </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">but the forested hill country as well. Clear it, and its farthest limits will be yours; though the Canaanites have chariots fitted with iron and though they are strong, you can drive them out.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.22.1"><span class="content">Why are you so far from saving me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.22.1"><span class="content">so far from my cries of anguish?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.22.2"><span class="content">by night, but I find no rest.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">night, and am not silent</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.22.3"><span class="content">you are the one Israel praises.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Yet you are holy, / enthroned on the praises of Israel</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.22.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In you our ancestors put their trust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.22.4"><span class="content">they trusted and you delivered them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">To you they cried out and were saved;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.22.5"><span class="content">in you they trusted and were not put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But I am a worm and not a man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.22.6"><span class="content">scorned by everyone, despised by the people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.22.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All who see me mock me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.22.7"><span class="content">they hurl insults, shaking their heads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;He trusts in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,&#8221; they say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"><span class="content">&#8220;let the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> rescue him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"><span class="content">Let him deliver him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"><span class="content">since he delights in him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Yet you brought me out of the womb;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.22.9"><span class="content">you made me trust in you, even at my mother&#8217;s breast.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">From birth I was cast on you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.22.10"><span class="content">from my mother&#8217;s womb you have been my God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Do not be far from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.22.11"><span class="content">for trouble is near</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.22.11"><span class="content">and there is no one to help.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Many bulls surround me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.22.12"><span class="content">strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Roaring lions that tear their prey</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.22.13"><span class="content">open their mouths wide against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I am poured out like water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"><span class="content">and all my bones are out of joint.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"><span class="content">My heart has turned to wax;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"><span class="content">it has melted within me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My mouth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:15 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">strength</span></span></span><span class="content"> is dried up like a potsherd,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.22.15"><span class="content">and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.22.15"><span class="content">you lay me in the dust of death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.22.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Dogs surround me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.22.16"><span class="content">a pack of villains encircles me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.22.16"><span class="content">they pierce</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:16 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls and some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Septuagint and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">me, / like a lion</span></span></span><span class="content"> my hands and my feet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">All my bones are on display;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.22.17"><span class="content">people stare and gloat over me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They divide my clothes among them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.22.18"><span class="content">and cast lots for my garment.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">15</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Moab</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prophecy against Moab:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.15.1"><span class="content">Ar in Moab is ruined,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.15.1"><span class="content">destroyed in a night!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.15.1"><span class="content">Kir in Moab is ruined,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.15.1"><span class="content">destroyed in a night!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.15.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Dibon goes up to its temple,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.15.2"><span class="content">to its high places to weep;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.15.2"><span class="content">Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.15.2"><span class="content">Every head is shaved</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.15.2"><span class="content">and every beard cut off.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.15.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">In the streets they wear sackcloth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.15.3"><span class="content">on the roofs and in the public squares</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.15.3"><span class="content">they all wail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.15.3"><span class="content">prostrate with weeping.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.15.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Heshbon and Elealeh cry out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.15.4"><span class="content">their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.15.4"><span class="content">Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.15.4"><span class="content">and their hearts are faint.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.15.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My heart cries out over Moab;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.15.5"><span class="content">her fugitives flee as far as Zoar,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.15.5"><span class="content">as far as Eglath Shelishiyah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.15.5"><span class="content">They go up the hill to Luhith,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.15.5"><span class="content">weeping as they go;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.15.5"><span class="content">on the road to Horonaim</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.15.5"><span class="content">they lament their destruction.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.15.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The waters of Nimrim are dried up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.15.6"><span class="content">and the grass is withered;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.15.6"><span class="content">the vegetation is gone</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.15.6"><span class="content">and nothing green is left.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.15.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So the wealth they have acquired and stored up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.15.7"><span class="content">they carry away over the Ravine of the Poplars.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.15.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.15.8"><span class="content">their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.15.8"><span class="content">their lamentation as far as Beer Elim.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.15.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The waters of Dimon</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:9 </span><span class="fq">Dimon</span><span class="ft">, a wordplay on </span><span class="fq">Dibon </span><span class="ft">(see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">blood</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> are full of blood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.15.9"><span class="content">but I will bring still more upon Dimon</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:9 </span><span class="fq">Dimon</span><span class="ft">, a wordplay on </span><span class="fq">Dibon </span><span class="ft">(see verse 2), sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">blood</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.15.9"><span class="content">a lion upon the fugitives of Moab</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.15.9"><span class="content">and upon those who remain in the land.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch16" data-usfm="ISA.16">
         <div class="label">16</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Send lambs as tribute</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.16.1"><span class="content">to the ruler of the land,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.16.1"><span class="content">from Sela, across the desert,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.16.1"><span class="content">to the mount of Daughter Zion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.16.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Like fluttering birds</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.16.2"><span class="content">pushed from the nest,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.16.2"><span class="content">so are the women of Moab</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.16.2"><span class="content">at the fords of the Arnon.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.16.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Make up your mind,&#8221; Moab says.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Render a decision.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="content">Make your shadow like night&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="content">at high noon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="content">Hide the fugitives,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="content">do not betray the refugees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"><span class="content">be their shelter from the destroyer.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"><span class="content">The oppressor will come to an end,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"><span class="content">and destruction will cease;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"><span class="content">the aggressor will vanish from the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">In love a throne will be established;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"><span class="content">in faithfulness a man will sit on it&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"><span class="content">one from the house</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:5 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">tent</span></span></span><span class="content"> of David&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"><span class="content">one who in judging seeks justice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"><span class="content">and speeds the cause of righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">We have heard of Moab&#8217;s pride&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"><span class="content">how great is her arrogance!&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"><span class="content">of her conceit, her pride and her insolence;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"><span class="content">but her boasts are empty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Therefore the Moabites wail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"><span class="content">they wail together for Moab.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"><span class="content">Lament and grieve</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"><span class="content">for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The fields of Heshbon wither,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">the vines of Sibmah also.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">The rulers of the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">have trampled down the choicest vines,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">which once reached Jazer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">and spread toward the desert.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">Their shoots spread out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">and went as far as the sea.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:8 </span><span class="ft">Probably the Dead Sea</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So I weep, as Jazer weeps,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">for the vines of Sibmah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">Heshbon and Elealeh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">I drench you with tears!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">The shouts of joy over your ripened fruit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">and over your harvests have been stilled.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"><span class="content">no one sings or shouts in the vineyards;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"><span class="content">no one treads out wine at the presses,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"><span class="content">for I have put an end to the shouting.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My heart laments for Moab like a harp,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.16.11"><span class="content">my inmost being for Kir Hareseth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.16.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When Moab appears at her high place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"><span class="content">she only wears herself out;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"><span class="content">when she goes to her shrine to pray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"><span class="content">it is to no avail.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">This is the word the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has already spoken concerning Moab. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8220;Within three years, as a servant bound by contract would count them, Moab&#8217;s splendor and all her many people will be despised, and her survivors will be very few and feeble.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkMAT">
      <div class="chapter ch8" data-usfm="MAT.8.23+MAT.8.24+MAT.8.25+MAT.8.26+MAT.8.27+MAT.8.28+MAT.8.29+MAT.8.30+MAT.8.31+MAT.8.32+MAT.8.33+MAT.8.34">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.8.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then he got into the boat and his disciples followed him. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.8.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Suddenly a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.8.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The disciples went and woke him, saying, &#8220;Lord, save us! We&#8217;re going to drown!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.8.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.8.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You of little faith, why are you so afraid?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.8.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.8.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The men were amazed and asked, &#8220;What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Restores Two Demon-Possessed Men</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.8.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.8.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">When he arrived at the other side in the region of the Gadarenes,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:28 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Gergesenes</span><span class="ft">; other manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Gerasenes</span></span></span><span class="content"> two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs met him. They were so violent that no one could pass that way. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.8.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;What do you want with us, Son of God?&#8221; they shouted. &#8220;Have you come here to torture us before the appointed time?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.8.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.8.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Some distance from them a large herd of pigs was feeding. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.8.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">The demons begged Jesus, &#8220;If you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.8.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.8.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">He said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go!&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> So they came out and went into the pigs, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and died in the water. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.8.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Those tending the pigs ran off, went into the town and reported all this, including what had happened to the demon-possessed men. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MAT.8.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Then the whole town went out to meet Jesus. And when they saw him, they pleaded with him to leave their region.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch7" data-usfm="ROM.7.7+ROM.7.8+ROM.7.9+ROM.7.10+ROM.7.11+ROM.7.12+ROM.7.13">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, &#8220;You shall not covet.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:7 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 20:17; Deut. 5:21</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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