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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, &#8220;My son.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.27.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Here I am,&#8221; he answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.27.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Isaac said, &#8220;I am now an old man and don&#8217;t know the day of my death. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now then, get your equipment&#8212;your quiver and bow&#8212;and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.27.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Rebekah said to her son Jacob, &#8220;Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8216;Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> before I die.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Now, my son, listen carefully and do what I tell you: </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.27.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.27.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.27.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, &#8220;But my brother Esau is a hairy man while I have smooth skin. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.27.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">What if my father touches me? I would appear to be tricking him and would bring down a curse on myself rather than a blessing.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.27.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.27.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">His mother said to him, &#8220;My son, let the curse fall on me. Just do what I say; go and get them for me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.27.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.27.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and she prepared some tasty food, just the way his father liked it. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.27.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then Rebekah took the best clothes of Esau her older son, which she had in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.27.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">She also covered his hands and the smooth part of his neck with the goatskins. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.27.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then she handed to her son Jacob the tasty food and the bread she had made.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.27.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.27.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He went to his father and said, &#8220;My father.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.27.18"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, my son,&#8221; he answered. &#8220;Who is it?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.27.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.27.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Jacob said to his father, &#8220;I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may give me your blessing.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.27.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.27.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Isaac asked his son, &#8220;How did you find it so quickly, my son?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.27.20"><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God gave me success,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.27.20"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Gideon Defeats the Midianites</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Early in the morning, Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and all his men camped at the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Gideon, &#8220;You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, &#8216;My own strength has saved me.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now announce to the army, &#8216;Anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; So twenty-two thousand men left, while ten thousand remained.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Gideon, &#8220;There are still too many men. Take them down to the water, and I will thin them out for you there. If I say, &#8216;This one shall go with you,&#8217; he shall go; but if I say, &#8216;This one shall not go with you,&#8217; he shall not go.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So Gideon took the men down to the water. There the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> told him, &#8220;Separate those who lap the water with their tongues as a dog laps from those who kneel down to drink.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Three hundred of them drank from cupped hands, lapping like dogs. All the rest got down on their knees to drink.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Gideon, &#8220;With the three hundred men that lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hands. Let all the others go home.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites home but kept the three hundred, who took over the provisions and trumpets of the others.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.7.8"><span class="content">Now the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">During that night the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Gideon, &#8220;Get up, go down against the camp, because I am going to give it into your hands. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">If you are afraid to attack, go down to the camp with your servant Purah </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and listen to what they are saying. Afterward, you will be encouraged to attack the camp.&#8221; So he and Purah his servant went down to the outposts of the camp. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The Midianites, the Amalekites and all the other eastern peoples had settled in the valley, thick as locusts. Their camels could no more be counted than the sand on the seashore.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Gideon arrived just as a man was telling a friend his dream. &#8220;I had a dream,&#8221; he was saying. &#8220;A round loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent with such force that the tent overturned and collapsed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">His friend responded, &#8220;This can be nothing other than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has given the Midianites and the whole camp into his hands.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down and worshiped. He returned to the camp of Israel and called out, &#8220;Get up! The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given the Midianite camp into your hands.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Dividing the three hundred men into three companies, he placed trumpets and empty jars in the hands of all of them, with torches inside.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Watch me,&#8221; he told them. &#8220;Follow my lead. When I get to the edge of the camp, do exactly as I do. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, then from all around the camp blow yours and shout, &#8216;For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and for Gideon.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.7.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guard. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars that were in their hands. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The three companies blew the trumpets and smashed the jars. Grasping the torches in their left hands and holding in their right hands the trumpets they were to blow, they shouted, &#8220;A sword for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and for Gideon!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">While each man held his position around the camp, all the Midianites ran, crying out as they fled.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.7.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When the three hundred trumpets sounded, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other with their swords. The army fled to Beth Shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Israelites from Naphtali, Asher and all Manasseh were called out, and they pursued the Midianites. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim, saying, &#8220;Come down against the Midianites and seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth Barah.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.7.24"><span class="content">So all the men of Ephraim were called out and they seized the waters of the Jordan as far as Beth Barah. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">They also captured two of the Midianite leaders, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was by the Jordan.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch37" data-usfm="PSA.37.27+PSA.37.28+PSA.37.29+PSA.37.30+PSA.37.31+PSA.37.32+PSA.37.33+PSA.37.34+PSA.37.35+PSA.37.36+PSA.37.37+PSA.37.38+PSA.37.39+PSA.37.40">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.37.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Turn from evil and do good;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.37.27"><span class="content">then you will dwell in the land forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.37.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.37.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> loves the just</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.37.28"><span class="content">and will not forsake his faithful ones.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.37.28"><span class="content">Wrongdoers will be completely destroyed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">37:28 </span><span class="ft">See Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">They will be protected forever</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.37.28"><span class="content">the offspring of the wicked will perish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.37.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.37.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">The righteous will inherit the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.37.29"><span class="content">and dwell in it forever.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.37.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.37.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The mouths of the righteous utter wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.37.30"><span class="content">and their tongues speak what is just.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.37.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.37.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">The law of their God is in their hearts;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.37.31"><span class="content">their feet do not slip.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.37.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.37.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The wicked lie in wait for the righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.37.32"><span class="content">intent on putting them to death;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.37.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.37.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">but the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will not leave them in the power of the wicked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.37.33"><span class="content">or let them be condemned when brought to trial.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.37.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.37.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Hope in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.37.34"><span class="content">and keep his way.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.37.34"><span class="content">He will exalt you to inherit the land;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.37.34"><span class="content">when the wicked are destroyed, you will see it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.37.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.37.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">I have seen a wicked and ruthless man</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.37.35"><span class="content">flourishing like a luxuriant native tree,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.37.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PSA.37.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">but he soon passed away and was no more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PSA.37.36"><span class="content">though I looked for him, he could not be found.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PSA.37.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="PSA.37.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Consider the blameless, observe the upright;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="PSA.37.37"><span class="content">a future awaits those who seek peace.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">37:37 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">upright; / those who seek peace will have posterity</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="PSA.37.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="PSA.37.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">But all sinners will be destroyed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="PSA.37.38"><span class="content">there will be no future</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">37:38 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">posterity</span></span></span><span class="content"> for the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="PSA.37.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="PSA.37.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">The salvation of the righteous comes from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="PSA.37.39"><span class="content">he is their stronghold in time of trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="PSA.37.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="PSA.37.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> helps them and delivers them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="PSA.37.40"><span class="content">he delivers them from the wicked and saves them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="PSA.37.40"><span class="content">because they take refuge in him.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">34</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judgment Against the Nations</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.34.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Come near, you nations, and listen;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.34.1"><span class="content">pay attention, you peoples!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.34.1"><span class="content">Let the earth hear, and all that is in it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.34.1"><span class="content">the world, and all that comes out of it!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.34.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.34.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is angry with all nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.34.2"><span class="content">his wrath is on all their armies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.34.2"><span class="content">He will totally destroy</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">34:2 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, often by totally destroying them; also in verse 5.</span></span></span><span class="content"> them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.34.2"><span class="content">he will give them over to slaughter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.34.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.34.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Their slain will be thrown out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.34.3"><span class="content">their dead bodies will stink;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.34.3"><span class="content">the mountains will be soaked with their blood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.34.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.34.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">All the stars in the sky will be dissolved</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.34.4"><span class="content">and the heavens rolled up like a scroll;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.34.4"><span class="content">all the starry host will fall</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.34.4"><span class="content">like withered leaves from the vine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.34.4"><span class="content">like shriveled figs from the fig tree.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.34.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.34.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.34.5"><span class="content">see, it descends in judgment on Edom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.34.5"><span class="content">the people I have totally destroyed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.34.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.34.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The sword of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is bathed in blood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.34.6"><span class="content">it is covered with fat&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.34.6"><span class="content">the blood of lambs and goats,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.34.6"><span class="content">fat from the kidneys of rams.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.34.6"><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has a sacrifice in Bozrah</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.34.6"><span class="content">and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.34.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.34.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And the wild oxen will fall with them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.34.7"><span class="content">the bull calves and the great bulls.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.34.7"><span class="content">Their land will be drenched with blood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.34.7"><span class="content">and the dust will be soaked with fat.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.34.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.34.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has a day of vengeance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.34.8"><span class="content">a year of retribution, to uphold Zion&#8217;s cause.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.34.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.34.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Edom&#8217;s streams will be turned into pitch,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.34.9"><span class="content">her dust into burning sulfur;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.34.9"><span class="content">her land will become blazing pitch!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.34.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.34.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">It will not be quenched night or day;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.34.10"><span class="content">its smoke will rise forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.34.10"><span class="content">From generation to generation it will lie desolate;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.34.10"><span class="content">no one will ever pass through it again.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.34.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.34.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The desert owl</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">34:11 </span><span class="ft">The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and screech owl</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">34:11 </span><span class="ft">The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> will possess it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.34.11"><span class="content">the great owl</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">34:11 </span><span class="ft">The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and the raven will nest there.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.34.11"><span class="content">God will stretch out over Edom</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.34.11"><span class="content">the measuring line of chaos</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.34.11"><span class="content">and the plumb line of desolation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.34.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.34.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Her nobles will have nothing there to be called a kingdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.34.12"><span class="content">all her princes will vanish away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.34.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.34.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Thorns will overrun her citadels,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.34.13"><span class="content">nettles and brambles her strongholds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.34.13"><span class="content">She will become a haunt for jackals,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.34.13"><span class="content">a home for owls.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.34.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.34.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Desert creatures will meet with hyenas,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.34.14"><span class="content">and wild goats will bleat to each other;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.34.14"><span class="content">there the night creatures will also lie down</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.34.14"><span class="content">and find for themselves places of rest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.34.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.34.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The owl will nest there and lay eggs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.34.15"><span class="content">she will hatch them, and care for her young</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.34.15"><span class="content">under the shadow of her wings;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.34.15"><span class="content">there also the falcons will gather,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.34.15"><span class="content">each with its mate.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.34.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.34.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Look in the scroll of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and read:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.34.16"><span class="content">None of these will be missing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.34.16"><span class="content">not one will lack her mate.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.34.16"><span class="content">For it is his mouth that has given the order,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.34.16"><span class="content">and his Spirit will gather them together.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.34.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.34.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He allots their portions;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.34.17"><span class="content">his hand distributes them by measure.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.34.17"><span class="content">They will possess it forever</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.34.17"><span class="content">and dwell there from generation to generation.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="MAT.15.1+MAT.15.2+MAT.15.3+MAT.15.4+MAT.15.5+MAT.15.6+MAT.15.7+MAT.15.8+MAT.15.9+MAT.15.10+MAT.15.11+MAT.15.12+MAT.15.13+MAT.15.14+MAT.15.15+MAT.15.16+MAT.15.17+MAT.15.18+MAT.15.19+MAT.15.20">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don&#8217;t wash their hands before they eat!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.15.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For God said, &#8216;Honor your father and mother&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:4 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 20:12; Deut. 5:16</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and &#8216;Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:4 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 21:17; Lev. 20:9</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is &#8216;devoted to God,&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">they are not to &#8216;honor their father or mother&#8217; with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.15.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;These people honor me with their lips,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.15.8"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">but their hearts are far from me.</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.15.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">They worship me in vain;</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.15.9"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">their teachings are merely human rules.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">15:9 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Isaiah 29:13
          </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.15.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Jesus called the crowd to him and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Listen and understand.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">What goes into someone&#8217;s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.15.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then the disciples came to him and asked, &#8220;Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.15.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Leave them; they are blind guides.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:14 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">blind guides of the blind</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.15.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Peter said, &#8220;Explain the parable to us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.15.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.15.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Are you still so dull?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus asked them. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.15.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.15.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But the things that come out of a person&#8217;s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.15.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For out of the heart come evil thoughts&#8212;murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.15.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch14" data-usfm="ROM.14.9+ROM.14.10+ROM.14.11+ROM.14.12+ROM.14.13+ROM.14.14+ROM.14.15+ROM.14.16+ROM.14.17+ROM.14.18">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ROM.14.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ROM.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:10 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brother or sister </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphos</span>) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in verses 13, 15 and 21.</span></span></span><span class="content">? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God&#8217;s judgment seat. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">It is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.14.11"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;As surely as I live,&#8217; says the Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.14.11"><span class="content">&#8216;every knee will bow before me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.14.11"><span class="content">every tongue will acknowledge God.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:11 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 45:23</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ROM.14.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ROM.14.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ROM.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ROM.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ROM.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Therefore do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">because anyone who serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and receives human approval.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.14.18"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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