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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.18.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;If I have found favor in your eyes, my lord,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">eyes, Lord</span></span></span><span class="content"> do not pass your servant by. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Let a little water be brought, and then you may all wash your feet and rest under this tree. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Let me get you something to eat, so you can be refreshed and then go on your way&#8212;now that you have come to your servant.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.18.5"><span class="content">&#8220;Very well,&#8221; they answered, &#8220;do as you say.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.18.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah. &#8220;Quick,&#8221; he said, &#8220;get three seahs</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:6 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of the finest flour and knead it and bake some bread.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.18.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then he ran to the herd and selected a choice, tender calf and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He then brought some curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and set these before them. While they ate, he stood near them under a tree.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.18.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Where is your wife Sarah?&#8221; they asked him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.18.9"><span class="content">&#8220;There, in the tent,&#8221; he said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.18.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then one of them said, &#8220;I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.18.10"><span class="content">Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, &#8220;After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.18.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.18.13"><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 Abraham, &#8220;Why did Sarah laugh and say, &#8216;Will I really have a child, now that I am old?&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Is anything too hard for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">? I will return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.18.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Sarah was afraid, so she lied and said, &#8220;I did not laugh.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.18.15"><span class="content">But he said, &#8220;Yes, you did laugh.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="m"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The fourth lot came out for Issachar according to its clans. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Their territory included:</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.19.18"><span class="content">Jezreel, Kesulloth, Shunem, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Remeth, En Gannim, En Haddah and Beth Pazzez. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The boundary touched Tabor, Shahazumah and Beth Shemesh, and ended at the Jordan. There were sixteen towns and their villages.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Issachar, according to its clans.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Allotment for Asher</span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.19.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The fifth lot came out for the tribe of Asher according to its clans. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOS.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Their territory included:</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOS.19.25"><span class="content">Helkath, Hali, Beten, Akshaph, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOS.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Allammelek, Amad and Mishal. On the west the boundary touched Carmel and Shihor Libnath. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">It then turned east toward Beth Dagon, touched Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtah El, and went north to Beth Emek and Neiel, passing Kabul on the left. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOS.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">It went to Abdon,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:28 </span><span class="ft">Some Hebrew manuscripts (see also 21:30); most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Ebron</span></span></span><span class="content"> Rehob, Hammon and Kanah, as far as Greater Sidon. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOS.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">The boundary then turned back toward Ramah and went to the fortified city of Tyre, turned toward Hosah and came out at the Mediterranean Sea in the region of Akzib, </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOS.19.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Ummah, Aphek and Rehob. There were twenty-two towns and their villages.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOS.19.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOS.19.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Asher, according to its clans.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">25</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 25</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">This psalm is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.25.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.25.1"><span class="content">I put my trust.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.25.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.25.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I trust in you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.25.2"><span class="content">do not let me be put to shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.25.2"><span class="content">nor let my enemies triumph over me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.25.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.25.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">No one who hopes in you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.25.3"><span class="content">will ever be put to shame,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.25.3"><span class="content">but shame will come on those</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.25.3"><span class="content">who are treacherous without cause.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.25.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.25.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Show me your ways, </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.25.4"><span class="content">teach me your paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.25.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.25.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Guide me in your truth and teach me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.25.5"><span class="content">for you are God my Savior,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.25.5"><span class="content">and my hope is in you all day long.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.25.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.25.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Remember, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, your great mercy and love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.25.6"><span class="content">for they are from of old.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.25.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.25.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Do not remember the sins of my youth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.25.7"><span class="content">and my rebellious ways;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.25.7"><span class="content">according to your love remember me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.25.7"><span class="content">for you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, are good.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.25.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.25.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Good and upright is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.25.8"><span class="content">therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.25.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.25.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He guides the humble in what is right</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.25.9"><span class="content">and teaches them his way.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.25.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.25.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">All the ways of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> are loving and faithful</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.25.10"><span class="content">toward those who keep the demands of his covenant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.25.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.25.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For the sake of your name, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.25.11"><span class="content">forgive my iniquity, though it is great.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.25.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.25.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Who, then, are those who fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.25.12"><span class="content">He will instruct them in the ways they should choose.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">25:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">ways he chooses</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.25.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.25.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They will spend their days in prosperity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.25.13"><span class="content">and their descendants will inherit the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.25.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.25.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> confides in those who fear him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.25.14"><span class="content">he makes his covenant known to them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.25.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.25.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My eyes are ever on 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="PSA.25.15"><span class="content">for only he will release my feet from the snare.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.25.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.25.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Turn to me and be gracious to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.25.16"><span class="content">for I am lonely and afflicted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.25.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.25.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Relieve the troubles of my heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.25.17"><span class="content">and free me from my anguish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.25.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.25.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Look on my affliction and my distress</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.25.18"><span class="content">and take away all my sins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.25.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.25.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">See how numerous are my enemies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.25.19"><span class="content">and how fiercely they hate me!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.25.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.25.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Guard my life and rescue me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.25.20"><span class="content">do not let me be put to shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.25.20"><span class="content">for I take refuge in you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.25.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.25.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">May integrity and uprightness protect me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.25.21"><span class="content">because my hope, </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">25:21 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew does not have </span><span class="fq"><span class="nd">Lord</span></span><span class="ft">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> is in you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.25.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.25.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Deliver Israel, O God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.25.22"><span class="content">from all their troubles!</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">20</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Egypt and Cush</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the year that the supreme commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">at that time the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him, &#8220;Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet.&#8221; And he did so, going around stripped and barefoot.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.20.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;Just as my servant Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years, as a sign and portent against Egypt and Cush,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:3 </span><span class="ft">That is, the upper Nile region; also in verse 5</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">so the king of Assyria will lead away stripped and barefoot the Egyptian captives and Cushite exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared&#8212;to Egypt&#8217;s shame. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Those who trusted in Cush and boasted in Egypt will be dismayed and put to shame. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">In that day the people who live on this coast will say, &#8216;See what has happened to those we relied on, those we fled to for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How then can we escape?&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Babylon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prophecy against the Desert by the Sea:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.21.1"><span class="content">Like whirlwinds sweeping through the southland,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.21.1"><span class="content">an invader comes from the desert,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.21.1"><span class="content">from a land of terror.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.21.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">A dire vision has been shown to me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.21.2"><span class="content">The traitor betrays, the looter takes loot.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.21.2"><span class="content">Elam, attack! Media, lay siege!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.21.2"><span class="content">I will bring to an end all the groaning she caused.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.21.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">At this my body is racked with pain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.21.3"><span class="content">pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.21.3"><span class="content">I am staggered by what I hear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.21.3"><span class="content">I am bewildered by what I see.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.21.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">My heart falters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.21.4"><span class="content">fear makes me tremble;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.21.4"><span class="content">the twilight I longed for</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.21.4"><span class="content">has become a horror to me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.21.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They set the tables,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.21.5"><span class="content">they spread the rugs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.21.5"><span class="content">they eat, they drink!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.21.5"><span class="content">Get up, you officers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.21.5"><span class="content">oil the shields!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.21.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">This is what the Lord says to me:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.21.6"><span class="content">&#8220;Go, post a lookout</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.21.6"><span class="content">and have him report what he sees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.21.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When he sees chariots</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.21.7"><span class="content">with teams of horses,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.21.7"><span class="content">riders on donkeys</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.21.7"><span class="content">or riders on camels,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.21.7"><span class="content">let him be alert,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.21.7"><span class="content">fully alert.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.21.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And the lookout</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:8 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls and Syriac; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">A lion</span></span></span><span class="content"> shouted,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.21.8"><span class="content">&#8220;Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.21.8"><span class="content">every night I stay at my post.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.21.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Look, here comes a man in a chariot</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.21.9"><span class="content">with a team of horses.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.21.9"><span class="content">And he gives back the answer:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.21.9"><span class="content">&#8216;Babylon has fallen, has fallen!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.21.9"><span class="content">All the images of its gods</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.21.9"><span class="content">lie shattered on the ground!&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.21.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My people who are crushed on the threshing floor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.21.10"><span class="content">I tell you what I have heard</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.21.10"><span class="content">from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.21.10"><span class="content">from the God of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Edom</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.21.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">A prophecy against Dumah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:11 </span><span class="fq">Dumah</span><span class="ft">, a wordplay on </span><span class="fq">Edom</span><span class="ft">, means silence or stillness.</span></span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.21.11"><span class="content">Someone calls to me from Seir,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.21.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Watchman, what is left of the night?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.21.11"><span class="content">Watchman, what is left of the night?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.21.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The watchman replies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.21.12"><span class="content">&#8220;Morning is coming, but also the night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.21.12"><span class="content">If you would ask, then ask;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.21.12"><span class="content">and come back yet again.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Arabia</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.21.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">A prophecy against Arabia:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.21.13"><span class="content">You caravans of Dedanites,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.21.13"><span class="content">who camp in the thickets of Arabia,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.21.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">bring water for the thirsty;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.21.14"><span class="content">you who live in Tema,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.21.14"><span class="content">bring food for the fugitives.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.21.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">They flee from the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.21.15"><span class="content">from the drawn sword,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.21.15"><span class="content">from the bent bow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.21.15"><span class="content">and from the heat of battle.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.21.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">This is what the Lord says to me: &#8220;Within one year, as a servant bound by contract would count it, all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The survivors of the archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.&#8221; The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, has spoken.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch9" data-usfm="MAT.9.27+MAT.9.28+MAT.9.29+MAT.9.30+MAT.9.31+MAT.9.32+MAT.9.33+MAT.9.34+MAT.9.35+MAT.9.36+MAT.9.37+MAT.9.38">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, &#8220;Have mercy on us, Son of David!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.9.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.9.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">When he had gone indoors, the blind men came to him, and he asked them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you believe that I am able to do this?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.9.28"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, Lord,&#8221; they replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.9.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.9.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Then he touched their eyes and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;According to your faith let it be done to you&#8221;;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.9.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">and their sight was restored. Jesus warned them sternly, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;See that no one knows about this.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.9.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">But they went out and spread the news about him all over that region.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.9.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.9.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">While they were going out, a man who was demon-possessed and could not talk was brought to Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.9.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">And when the demon was driven out, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowd was amazed and said, &#8220;Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.9.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MAT.9.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">But the Pharisees said, &#8220;It is by the prince of demons that he drives out demons.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Workers Are Few</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MAT.9.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MAT.9.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MAT.9.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MAT.9.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Then he said to his disciples, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MAT.9.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch8" data-usfm="ROM.8.18+ROM.8.19+ROM.8.20+ROM.8.21+ROM.8.22+ROM.8.23+ROM.8.24+ROM.8.25+ROM.8.26+ROM.8.27">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">that</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:20,21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">subjected it in hope. </span><span class="fv">21 </span><span class="fqa">For</span></span></span><span class="content"> the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.8.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.8.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.8.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.8.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.8.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.8.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.8.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God&#8217;s people in accordance with the will of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.8.27"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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