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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Abraham Tested</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, &#8220;Abraham!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.22.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Here I am,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Then God said, &#8220;Take your son, your only son, whom you love&#8212;Isaac&#8212;and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He said to his servants, &#8220;Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, &#8220;Father?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.22.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, my son?&#8221; Abraham replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.22.7"><span class="content">&#8220;The fire and wood are here,&#8221; Isaac said, &#8220;but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Abraham answered, &#8220;God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.&#8221; And the two of them went on together.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> called out to him from heaven, &#8220;Abraham! Abraham!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.22.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Here I am,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not lay a hand on the boy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:13 </span><span class="ft">Many manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">a ram behind him</span></span></span><span class="content"> caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So Abraham called that place The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Will Provide. And to this day it is said, &#8220;On the mountain of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> it will be provided.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> called to Abraham from heaven a second time </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">and said, &#8220;I swear by myself, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">and through your offspring</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">seed</span></span></span><span class="content"> all nations on earth will be blessed,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and all nations on earth will use the name of your offspring in blessings </span><span class="ft">(see 48:20)</span></span></span><span class="content"> because you have obeyed me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Nahor&#8217;s Sons</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Some time later Abraham was told, &#8220;Milkah is also a mother; she has borne sons to your brother Nahor: </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Uz the firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel (the father of Aram), </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph and Bethuel.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milkah bore these eight sons to Abraham&#8217;s brother Nahor. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also had sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maakah.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch24" data-usfm="JOS.24.1+JOS.24.2+JOS.24.3+JOS.24.4+JOS.24.5+JOS.24.6+JOS.24.7+JOS.24.8+JOS.24.9+JOS.24.10+JOS.24.11+JOS.24.12+JOS.24.13+JOS.24.14+JOS.24.15+JOS.24.16+JOS.24.17+JOS.24.18+JOS.24.19+JOS.24.20+JOS.24.21+JOS.24.22+JOS.24.23+JOS.24.24+JOS.24.25+JOS.24.26+JOS.24.27">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.24.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges and officials of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.24.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.24.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Joshua said to all the people, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: &#8216;Long ago your ancestors, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates River and worshiped other gods. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.24.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But I took your father Abraham from the land beyond the Euphrates and led him throughout Canaan and gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.24.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I assigned the hill country of Seir to Esau, but Jacob and his family went down to Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.24.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.24.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I afflicted the Egyptians by what I did there, and I brought you out. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.24.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When I brought your people out of Egypt, you came to the sea, and the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and horsemen</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">charioteers</span></span></span><span class="content"> as far as the Red Sea.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">24:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the Sea of Reeds</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.24.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But they cried to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> for help, and he put darkness between you and the Egyptians; he brought the sea over them and covered them. You saw with your own eyes what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.24.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.24.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought against you, but I gave them into your hands. I destroyed them from before you, and you took possession of their land. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.24.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When Balak son of Zippor, the king of Moab, prepared to fight against Israel, he sent for Balaam son of Beor to put a curse on you. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.24.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But I would not listen to Balaam, so he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you out of his hand.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.24.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.24.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Then you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The citizens of Jericho fought against you, as did also the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites and Jebusites, but I gave them into your hands. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.24.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I sent the hornet ahead of you, which drove them out before you&#8212;also the two Amorite kings. You did not do it with your own sword and bow. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.24.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities you did not build; and you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.24.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.24.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.24.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But if serving the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.24.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.24.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then the people answered, &#8220;Far be it from us to forsake the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to serve other gods! </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.24.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">It was the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God himself who brought us and our parents up out of Egypt, from that land of slavery, and performed those great signs before our eyes. He protected us on our entire journey and among all the nations through which we traveled. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.24.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> drove out before us all the nations, including the Amorites, who lived in the land. We too will serve the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, because he is our God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.24.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.24.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Joshua said to the people, &#8220;You are not able to serve the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. He is a holy God; he is a jealous God. He will not forgive your rebellion and your sins. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.24.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">If you forsake the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and serve foreign gods, he will turn and bring disaster on you and make an end of you, after he has been good to you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.24.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.24.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But the people said to Joshua, &#8220;No! We will serve the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.24.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.24.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then Joshua said, &#8220;You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.24.22"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, we are witnesses,&#8221; they replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.24.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.24.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now then,&#8221; said Joshua, &#8220;throw away the foreign gods that are among you and yield your hearts to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.24.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.24.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And the people said to Joshua, &#8220;We will serve the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God and obey him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.24.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOS.24.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he reaffirmed for them decrees and laws. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOS.24.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">And Joshua recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak near the holy place of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOS.24.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.24.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;See!&#8221; he said to all the people. &#8220;This stone will be a witness against us. It has heard all the words the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has said to us. It will be a witness against you if you are untrue to your God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.24.27"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">32</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 32</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">Of David. A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.32.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Blessed is the one</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.32.1"><span class="content">whose transgressions are forgiven,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.32.1"><span class="content">whose sins are covered.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.32.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.32.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Blessed is the one</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.32.2"><span class="content">whose sin the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> does not count against them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.32.2"><span class="content">and in whose spirit is no deceit.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.32.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.32.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When I kept silent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.32.3"><span class="content">my bones wasted away</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.32.3"><span class="content">through my groaning all day long.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.32.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.32.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For day and night</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.32.4"><span class="content">your hand was heavy on me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.32.4"><span class="content">my strength was sapped</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.32.4"><span class="content">as in the heat of summer.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:4 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 5 and 7.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.32.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.32.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then I acknowledged my sin to you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.32.5"><span class="content">and did not cover up my iniquity.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.32.5"><span class="content">I said, &#8220;I will confess</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.32.5"><span class="content">my transgressions to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.32.5"><span class="content">And you forgave</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.32.5"><span class="content">the guilt of my sin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.32.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.32.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Therefore let all the faithful pray to you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.32.6"><span class="content">while you may be found;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.32.6"><span class="content">surely the rising of the mighty waters</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.32.6"><span class="content">will not reach them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.32.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.32.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You are my hiding place;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.32.7"><span class="content">you will protect me from trouble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.32.7"><span class="content">and surround me with songs of deliverance.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.32.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.32.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.32.8"><span class="content">I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.32.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.32.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Do not be like the horse or the mule,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.32.9"><span class="content">which have no understanding</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.32.9"><span class="content">but must be controlled by bit and bridle</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.32.9"><span class="content">or they will not come to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.32.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.32.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Many are the woes of the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.32.10"><span class="content">but the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s unfailing love</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.32.10"><span class="content">surrounds the one who trusts in him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.32.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.32.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Rejoice in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and be glad, you righteous;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.32.11"><span class="content">sing, all you who are upright in heart!</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.28.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Woe to that wreath, the pride of Ephraim&#8217;s drunkards,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.28.1"><span class="content">to the fading flower, his glorious beauty,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.28.1"><span class="content">set on the head of a fertile valley&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.28.1"><span class="content">to that city, the pride of those laid low by wine!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.28.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.28.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">See, the Lord has one who is powerful and strong.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.28.2"><span class="content">Like a hailstorm and a destructive wind,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.28.2"><span class="content">like a driving rain and a flooding downpour,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.28.2"><span class="content">he will throw it forcefully to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.28.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.28.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">That wreath, the pride of Ephraim&#8217;s drunkards,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.28.3"><span class="content">will be trampled underfoot.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.28.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.28.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">That fading flower, his glorious beauty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.28.4"><span class="content">set on the head of a fertile valley,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.28.4"><span class="content">will be like figs ripe before harvest&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.28.4"><span class="content">as soon as people see them and take them in hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.28.4"><span class="content">they swallow them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.28.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.28.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">In that day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.28.5"><span class="content">will be a glorious crown,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.28.5"><span class="content">a beautiful wreath</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.28.5"><span class="content">for the remnant of his people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.28.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.28.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He will be a spirit of justice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.28.6"><span class="content">to the one who sits in judgment,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.28.6"><span class="content">a source of strength</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.28.6"><span class="content">to those who turn back the battle at the gate.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.28.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.28.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And these also stagger from wine</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.28.7"><span class="content">and reel from beer:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.28.7"><span class="content">Priests and prophets stagger from beer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.28.7"><span class="content">and are befuddled with wine;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.28.7"><span class="content">they reel from beer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.28.7"><span class="content">they stagger when seeing visions,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.28.7"><span class="content">they stumble when rendering decisions.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.28.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.28.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">All the tables are covered with vomit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.28.8"><span class="content">and there is not a spot without filth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.28.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.28.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Who is it he is trying to teach?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.28.9"><span class="content">To whom is he explaining his message?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.28.9"><span class="content">To children weaned from their milk,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.28.9"><span class="content">to those just taken from the breast?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.28.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.28.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For it is:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.28.10"><span class="content">Do this, do that,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.28.10"><span class="content">a rule for this, a rule for that</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:10 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">/ sav lasav sav lasav / kav lakav kav lakav </span><span class="ft">(probably meaningless sounds mimicking the prophet&#8217;s words); also in verse 13</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.28.10"><span class="content">a little here, a little there.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.28.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.28.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Very well then, with foreign lips and strange tongues</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.28.11"><span class="content">God will speak to this people,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.28.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.28.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">to whom he said,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.28.12"><span class="content">&#8220;This is the resting place, let the weary rest&#8221;;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.28.12"><span class="content">and, &#8220;This is the place of repose&#8221;&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.28.12"><span class="content">but they would not listen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.28.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.28.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So then, the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to them will become:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.28.13"><span class="content">Do this, do that,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.28.13"><span class="content">a rule for this, a rule for that;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.28.13"><span class="content">a little here, a little there&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.28.13"><span class="content">so that as they go they will fall backward;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.28.13"><span class="content">they will be injured and snared and captured.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.28.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.28.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Therefore hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you scoffers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.28.14"><span class="content">who rule this people in Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.28.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.28.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You boast, &#8220;We have entered into a covenant with death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.28.15"><span class="content">with the realm of the dead we have made an agreement.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.28.15"><span class="content">When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.28.15"><span class="content">it cannot touch us,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.28.15"><span class="content">for we have made a lie our refuge</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.28.15"><span class="content">and falsehood</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">false gods</span></span></span><span class="content"> our hiding place.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.28.15"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.12.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then they brought him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute, and Jesus healed him, so that he could both talk and see. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.12.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">All the people were astonished and said, &#8220;Could this be the Son of David?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.12.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.12.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, &#8220;It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this fellow drives out demons.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.12.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.12.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.12.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then can his kingdom stand?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.12.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your people drive them out? So then, they will be your judges.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.12.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But if it is by the Spirit of God that I drive out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.12.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.12.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man&#8217;s house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.12.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.12.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.12.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.12.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.12.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.12.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MAT.12.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MAT.12.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MAT.12.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MAT.12.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ROM.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ROM.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don&#8217;t you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah&#8212;how he appealed to God against Israel: </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ROM.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:3 </span><span class="ft">1 Kings 19:10,14</span></span></span><span class="content">? </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ROM.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And what was God&#8217;s answer to him? &#8220;I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:4 </span><span class="ft">1 Kings 19:18</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ROM.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ROM.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ROM.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">What then? What the people of Israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain. The elect among them did, but the others were hardened, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">as it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.11.8"><span class="content">&#8220;God gave them a spirit of stupor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.11.8"><span class="content">eyes that could not see</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.11.8"><span class="content">and ears that could not hear,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.11.8"><span class="content">to this very day.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:8 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 29:4; Isaiah 29:10</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ROM.11.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And David says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.11.9"><span class="content">&#8220;May their table become a snare and a trap,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.11.9"><span class="content">a stumbling block and a retribution for them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.11.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.11.10"><span class="content">and their backs be bent forever.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:10 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 69:22,23</span></span></span></span></div>
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