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When God Says No!

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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.24.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">So the man went to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and fodder were brought for the camels, and water for him and his men to wash their feet. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.24.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Then food was set before him, but he said, &#8220;I will not eat until I have told you what I have to say.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.24.33"><span class="content">&#8220;Then tell us,&#8221; Laban said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.24.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.24.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">So he said, &#8220;I am Abraham&#8217;s servant. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.24.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has blessed my master abundantly, and he has become wealthy. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.24.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">My master&#8217;s wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and he has given him everything he owns. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.24.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">And my master made me swear an oath, and said, &#8216;You must not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live, </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.24.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">but go to my father&#8217;s family and to my own clan, and get a wife for my son.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.24.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.24.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then I asked my master, &#8216;What if the woman will not come back with me?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="GEN.24.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="GEN.24.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">&#8220;He replied, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, before whom I have walked faithfully, will send his angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you can get a wife for my son from my own clan and from my father&#8217;s family. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="GEN.24.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">You will be released from my oath if, when you go to my clan, they refuse to give her to you&#8212;then you will be released from my oath.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="GEN.24.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="GEN.24.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">&#8220;When I came to the spring today, I said, &#8216;</span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, God of my master Abraham, if you will, please grant success to the journey on which I have come. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="GEN.24.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">See, I am standing beside this spring. If a young woman comes out to draw water and I say to her, &#8220;Please let me drink a little water from your jar,&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="GEN.24.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">and if she says to me, &#8220;Drink, and I&#8217;ll draw water for your camels too,&#8221; let her be the one the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has chosen for my master&#8217;s son.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="GEN.24.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="GEN.24.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">&#8220;Before I finished praying in my heart, Rebekah came out, with her jar on her shoulder. She went down to the spring and drew water, and I said to her, &#8216;Please give me a drink.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="GEN.24.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="GEN.24.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">&#8220;She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, &#8216;Drink, and I&#8217;ll water your camels too.&#8217; So I drank, and she watered the camels also.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="GEN.24.46"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="GEN.24.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">&#8220;I asked her, &#8216;Whose daughter are you?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="GEN.24.47"><span class="content">&#8220;She said, &#8216;The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milkah bore to him.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="GEN.24.47"><span class="content">&#8220;Then I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her arms, </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="GEN.24.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">and I bowed down and worshiped the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. I praised the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right road to get the granddaughter of my master&#8217;s brother for his son. </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="GEN.24.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">Now if you will show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me; and if not, tell me, so I may know which way to turn.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="GEN.24.49"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading"> at Bokim</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, &#8220;I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land I swore to give to your ancestors. I said, &#8216;I will never break my covenant with you, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and you shall not make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall break down their altars.&#8217; Yet you have disobeyed me. Why have you done this? </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And I have also said, &#8216;I will not drive them out before you; they will become traps for you, and their gods will become snares to you.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had spoken these things to all the Israelites, the people wept aloud, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">and they called that place Bokim.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:5 </span><span class="fq">Bokim </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">weepers.</span></span></span><span class="content"> There they offered sacrifices to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Disobedience and Defeat</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">After Joshua had dismissed the Israelites, they went to take possession of the land, each to their own inheritance. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The people served the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had seen all the great things the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had done for Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, died at the age of a hundred and ten. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath Heres</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:9 </span><span class="ft">Also known as </span><span class="fqa">Timnath Serah </span><span class="ft">(see Joshua 19:50 and 24:30)</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> nor what he had done for Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and served the Baals. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They forsook the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed and worshiped various gods of the peoples around them. They aroused the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anger </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">because they forsook him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">In his anger against Israel the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Whenever Israel went out to fight, the hand of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was against them to defeat them, just as he had sworn to them. They were in great distress.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.2.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> raised up judges,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">leaders</span><span class="ft">; similarly in verses 17-19</span></span></span><span class="content"> who saved them out of the hands of these raiders. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Yet they would not listen to their judges but prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. They quickly turned from the ways of their ancestors, who had been obedient to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s commands. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Whenever the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> raised up a judge for them, he was with the judge and saved them out of the hands of their enemies as long as the judge lived; for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> relented because of their groaning under those who oppressed and afflicted them. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But when the judge died, the people returned to ways even more corrupt than those of their ancestors, following other gods and serving and worshiping them. They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.2.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Therefore the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was very angry with Israel and said, &#8220;Because this nation has violated the covenant I ordained for their ancestors and has not listened to me, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I will use them to test Israel and see whether they will keep the way of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and walk in it as their ancestors did.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had allowed those nations to remain; he did not drive them out at once by giving them into the hands of Joshua.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">These are the nations the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> left to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">(he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience): </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living in the Lebanon mountains from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo Hamath. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They were left to test the Israelites to see whether they would obey the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s commands, which he had given their ancestors through Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They took their daughters in marriage and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch34" data-usfm="PSA.34.11+PSA.34.12+PSA.34.13+PSA.34.14+PSA.34.15+PSA.34.16+PSA.34.17+PSA.34.18+PSA.34.19+PSA.34.20+PSA.34.21+PSA.34.22">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.34.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Come, my children, listen to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.34.11"><span class="content">I will teach you the fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.34.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.34.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Whoever of you loves life</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.34.12"><span class="content">and desires to see many good days,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.34.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.34.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">keep your tongue from evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.34.13"><span class="content">and your lips from telling lies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.34.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.34.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Turn from evil and do good;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.34.14"><span class="content">seek peace and pursue it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.34.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.34.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> are on the righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.34.15"><span class="content">and his ears are attentive to their cry;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.34.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.34.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">but the face of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is against those who do evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.34.16"><span class="content">to blot out their name from the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.34.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.34.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The righteous cry out, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> hears them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.34.17"><span class="content">he delivers them from all their troubles.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.34.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.34.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is close to the brokenhearted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.34.18"><span class="content">and saves those who are crushed in spirit.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.34.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.34.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The righteous person may have many troubles,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.34.19"><span class="content">but the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> delivers him from them all;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.34.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.34.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">he protects all his bones,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.34.20"><span class="content">not one of them will be broken.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.34.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.34.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Evil will slay the wicked;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.34.21"><span class="content">the foes of the righteous will be condemned.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.34.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.34.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will rescue his servants;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.34.22"><span class="content">no one who takes refuge in him will be condemned.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch30" data-usfm="ISA.30.1+ISA.30.2+ISA.30.3+ISA.30.4+ISA.30.5+ISA.30.6+ISA.30.7+ISA.30.8+ISA.30.9+ISA.30.10+ISA.30.11+ISA.30.12+ISA.30.13+ISA.30.14">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.30.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Woe to the obstinate children,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.30.1"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.30.1"><span class="content">&#8220;to those who carry out plans that are not mine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.30.1"><span class="content">forming an alliance, but not by my Spirit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.30.1"><span class="content">heaping sin upon sin;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.30.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.30.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">who go down to Egypt</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.30.2"><span class="content">without consulting me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.30.2"><span class="content">who look for help to Pharaoh&#8217;s protection,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.30.2"><span class="content">to Egypt&#8217;s shade for refuge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.30.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.30.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But Pharaoh&#8217;s protection will be to your shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.30.3"><span class="content">Egypt&#8217;s shade will bring you disgrace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.30.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.30.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Though they have officials in Zoan</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.30.4"><span class="content">and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.30.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.30.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">everyone will be put to shame</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.30.5"><span class="content">because of a people useless to them,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.30.5"><span class="content">who bring neither help nor advantage,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.30.5"><span class="content">but only shame and disgrace.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.30.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.30.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">A prophecy concerning the animals of the Negev:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.30.6"><span class="content">Through a land of hardship and distress,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.30.6"><span class="content">of lions and lionesses,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.30.6"><span class="content">of adders and darting snakes,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.30.6"><span class="content">the envoys carry their riches on donkeys&#8217; backs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.30.6"><span class="content">their treasures on the humps of camels,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.30.6"><span class="content">to that unprofitable nation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.30.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.30.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">to Egypt, whose help is utterly useless.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.30.7"><span class="content">Therefore I call her</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.30.7"><span class="content">Rahab the Do-Nothing.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.30.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.30.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Go now, write it on a tablet for them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.30.8"><span class="content">inscribe it on a scroll,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.30.8"><span class="content">that for the days to come</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.30.8"><span class="content">it may be an everlasting witness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.30.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.30.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For these are rebellious people, deceitful children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.30.9"><span class="content">children unwilling to listen to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s instruction.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.30.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.30.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They say to the seers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.30.10"><span class="content">&#8220;See no more visions!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.30.10"><span class="content">and to the prophets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.30.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Give us no more visions of what is right!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.30.10"><span class="content">Tell us pleasant things,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.30.10"><span class="content">prophesy illusions.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.30.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.30.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Leave this way,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.30.11"><span class="content">get off this path,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.30.11"><span class="content">and stop confronting us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.30.11"><span class="content">with the Holy One of Israel!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.30.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.30.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.30.12"><span class="content">&#8220;Because you have rejected this message,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.30.12"><span class="content">relied on oppression</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.30.12"><span class="content">and depended on deceit,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.30.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.30.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">this sin will become for you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.30.13"><span class="content">like a high wall, cracked and bulging,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.30.13"><span class="content">that collapses suddenly, in an instant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.30.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.30.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">It will break in pieces like pottery,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.30.14"><span class="content">shattered so mercilessly</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.30.14"><span class="content">that among its pieces not a fragment will be found</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.30.14"><span class="content">for taking coals from a hearth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.30.14"><span class="content">or scooping water out of a cistern.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.30.14"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch13" data-usfm="MAT.13.24+MAT.13.25+MAT.13.26+MAT.13.27+MAT.13.28+MAT.13.29+MAT.13.30+MAT.13.31+MAT.13.32+MAT.13.33+MAT.13.34+MAT.13.35">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Jesus told them another parable: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.13.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The owner&#8217;s servants came to him and said, &#8216;Sir, didn&#8217;t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.13.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.13.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;An enemy did this,&#8217; he replied.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.13.28"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The servants asked him, &#8216;Do you want us to go and pull them up?&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.13.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.13.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;No,&#8217; he answered, &#8216;because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.13.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.13.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.13.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">He told them another parable: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.13.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.13.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.13.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">He told them still another parable: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:33 </span><span class="ft">Or about 27 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">of flour until it worked all through the dough.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.13.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MAT.13.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MAT.13.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">So was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MAT.13.35"><span class="content">&#8220;I will open my mouth in parables,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MAT.13.35"><span class="content">I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:35 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 78:2</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.11.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:33 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">riches and the wisdom and the</span></span></span><span class="content"> knowledge of God!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.11.33"><span class="content">How unsearchable his judgments,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.11.33"><span class="content">and his paths beyond tracing out!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.11.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ROM.11.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">&#8220;Who has known the mind of the Lord?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ROM.11.34"><span class="content">Or who has been his counselor?&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:34 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 40:13</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ROM.11.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ROM.11.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">&#8220;Who has ever given to God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ROM.11.35"><span class="content">that God should repay them?&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:35 </span><span class="ft">Job 41:11</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ROM.11.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ROM.11.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">For from him and through him and for him are all things.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ROM.11.36"><span class="content">To him be the glory forever! Amen.</span></span></div>
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