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         <div class="label">33</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jacob Meets Esau</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.33.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men; so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two female servants. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.33.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He put the female servants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in the rear. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.33.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He himself went on ahead and bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.33.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.33.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him; he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him. And they wept. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.33.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. &#8220;Who are these with you?&#8221; he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.33.5"><span class="content">Jacob answered, &#8220;They are the children God has graciously given your servant.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.33.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.33.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then the female servants and their children approached and bowed down. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.33.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Next, Leah and her children came and bowed down. Last of all came Joseph and Rachel, and they too bowed down.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.33.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.33.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Esau asked, &#8220;What&#8217;s the meaning of all these flocks and herds I met?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.33.8"><span class="content">&#8220;To find favor in your eyes, my lord,&#8221; he said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.33.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.33.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But Esau said, &#8220;I already have plenty, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.33.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.33.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;No, please!&#8221; said Jacob. &#8220;If I have found favor in your eyes, accept this gift from me. For to see your face is like seeing the face of God, now that you have received me favorably. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.33.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Please accept the present that was brought to you, for God has been gracious to me and I have all I need.&#8221; And because Jacob insisted, Esau accepted it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.33.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.33.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then Esau said, &#8220;Let us be on our way; I&#8217;ll accompany you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.33.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.33.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But Jacob said to him, &#8220;My lord knows that the children are tender and that I must care for the ewes and cows that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard just one day, all the animals will die. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.33.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So let my lord go on ahead of his servant, while I move along slowly at the pace of the flocks and herds before me and the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.33.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.33.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Esau said, &#8220;Then let me leave some of my men with you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.33.15"><span class="content">&#8220;But why do that?&#8221; Jacob asked. &#8220;Just let me find favor in the eyes of my lord.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.33.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.33.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.33.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Jacob, however, went to Sukkoth, where he built a place for himself and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place is called Sukkoth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">33:17 </span><span class="fq">Sukkoth </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fq">shelters</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.33.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.33.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">After Jacob came from Paddan Aram,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">33:18 </span><span class="ft">That is, Northwest Mesopotamia</span></span></span><span class="content"> he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in Canaan and camped within sight of the city. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.33.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For a hundred pieces of silver,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">33:19 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">hundred kesitahs</span><span class="ft">; a kesitah was a unit of money of unknown weight and value.</span></span></span><span class="content"> he bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, the plot of ground where he pitched his tent. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.33.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">There he set up an altar and called it El Elohe Israel.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">33:20 </span><span class="fq">El Elohe Israel </span><span class="ft">can mean </span><span class="fqa">El is the God of Israel </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">mighty is the God of Israel.</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">18</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Danites Settle in Laish</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In those days Israel had no king.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.18.1"><span class="content">And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking a place of their own where they might settle, because they had not yet come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So the Danites sent five of their leading men from Zorah and Eshtaol to spy out the land and explore it. These men represented all the Danites. They told them, &#8220;Go, explore the land.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.18.2"><span class="content">So they entered the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah, where they spent the night. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When they were near Micah&#8217;s house, they recognized the voice of the young Levite; so they turned in there and asked him, &#8220;Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? Why are you here?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.18.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He told them what Micah had done for him, and said, &#8220;He has hired me and I am his priest.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.18.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then they said to him, &#8220;Please inquire of God to learn whether our journey will be successful.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.18.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The priest answered them, &#8220;Go in peace. Your journey has the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s approval.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.18.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So the five men left and came to Laish, where they saw that the people were living in safety, like the Sidonians, at peace and secure. And since their land lacked nothing, they were prosperous.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:7 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> Also, they lived a long way from the Sidonians and had no relationship with anyone else.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:7 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">with the Arameans</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.18.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When they returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their fellow Danites asked them, &#8220;How did you find things?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.18.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">They answered, &#8220;Come on, let&#8217;s attack them! We have seen the land, and it is very good. Aren&#8217;t you going to do something? Don&#8217;t hesitate to go there and take it over. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When you get there, you will find an unsuspecting people and a spacious land that God has put into your hands, a land that lacks nothing whatever.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.18.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then six hundred men of the Danites, armed for battle, set out from Zorah and Eshtaol. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">On their way they set up camp near Kiriath Jearim in Judah. This is why the place west of Kiriath Jearim is called Mahaneh Dan</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:12 </span><span class="fq">Mahaneh Dan </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">Dan&#8217;s camp.</span></span></span><span class="content"> to this day. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">From there they went on to the hill country of Ephraim and came to Micah&#8217;s house.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.18.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then the five men who had spied out the land of Laish said to their fellow Danites, &#8220;Do you know that one of these houses has an ephod, some household gods and an image overlaid with silver? Now you know what to do.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So they turned in there and went to the house of the young Levite at Micah&#8217;s place and greeted him. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The six hundred Danites, armed for battle, stood at the entrance of the gate. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The five men who had spied out the land went inside and took the idol, the ephod and the household gods while the priest and the six hundred armed men stood at the entrance of the gate.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.18.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.18.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When the five men went into Micah&#8217;s house and took the idol, the ephod and the household gods, the priest said to them, &#8220;What are you doing?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.18.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.18.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">They answered him, &#8220;Be quiet! Don&#8217;t say a word. Come with us, and be our father and priest. Isn&#8217;t it better that you serve a tribe and clan in Israel as priest rather than just one man&#8217;s household?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.18.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The priest was very pleased. He took the ephod, the household gods and the idol and went along with the people. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Putting their little children, their livestock and their possessions in front of them, they turned away and left.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.18.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.18.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When they had gone some distance from Micah&#8217;s house, the men who lived near Micah were called together and overtook the Danites. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.18.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">As they shouted after them, the Danites turned and said to Micah, &#8220;What&#8217;s the matter with you that you called out your men to fight?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.18.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.18.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">He replied, &#8220;You took the gods I made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you ask, &#8216;What&#8217;s the matter with you?&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.18.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.18.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The Danites answered, &#8220;Don&#8217;t argue with us, or some of the men may get angry and attack you, and you and your family will lose your lives.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.18.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">So the Danites went their way, and Micah, seeing that they were too strong for him, turned around and went back home.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.18.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.18.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Then they took what Micah had made, and his priest, and went on to Laish, against a people at peace and secure. They attacked them with the sword and burned down their city. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.18.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">There was no one to rescue them because they lived a long way from Sidon and had no relationship with anyone else. The city was in a valley near Beth Rehob.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.18.28"><span class="content">The Danites rebuilt the city and settled there. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.18.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">They named it Dan after their ancestor Dan, who was born to Israel&#8212;though the city used to be called Laish. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.18.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">There the Danites set up for themselves the idol, and Jonathan son of Gershom, the son of Moses,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:30 </span><span class="ft">Many Hebrew manuscripts, some Septuagint manuscripts and Vulgate; many other Hebrew manuscripts and some other Septuagint manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Manasseh</span></span></span><span class="content"> and his sons were priests for the tribe of Dan until the time of the captivity of the land. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.18.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">They continued to use the idol Micah had made, all the time the house of God was in Shiloh.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Job replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.6.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;If only my anguish could be weighed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.6.2"><span class="content">and all my misery be placed on the scales!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">It would surely outweigh the sand of the seas&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.6.3"><span class="content">no wonder my words have been impetuous.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The arrows of the Almighty are in me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.6.4"><span class="content">my spirit drinks in their poison;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.6.4"><span class="content">God&#8217;s terrors are marshaled against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Does a wild donkey bray when it has grass,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.6.5"><span class="content">or an ox bellow when it has fodder?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Is tasteless food eaten without salt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.6.6"><span class="content">or is there flavor in the sap of the mallow</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:6 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I refuse to touch it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.6.7"><span class="content">such food makes me ill.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Oh, that I might have my request,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.6.8"><span class="content">that God would grant what I hope for,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">that God would be willing to crush me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.6.9"><span class="content">to let loose his hand and cut off my life!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then I would still have this consolation&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.6.10"><span class="content">my joy in unrelenting pain&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.6.10"><span class="content">that I had not denied the words of the Holy One.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;What strength do I have, that I should still hope?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.6.11"><span class="content">What prospects, that I should be patient?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.6.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Do I have the strength of stone?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.6.12"><span class="content">Is my flesh bronze?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Do I have any power to help myself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.6.13"><span class="content">now that success has been driven from me?</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.43.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.43.14"><span class="content">your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.43.14"><span class="content">&#8220;For your sake I will send to Babylon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.43.14"><span class="content">and bring down as fugitives all the Babylonians,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">43:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.43.14"><span class="content">in the ships in which they took pride.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.43.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.43.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, your Holy One,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.43.15"><span class="content">Israel&#8217;s Creator, your King.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.43.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.43.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.43.16"><span class="content">he who made a way through the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.43.16"><span class="content">a path through the mighty waters,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.43.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.43.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">who drew out the chariots and horses,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.43.17"><span class="content">the army and reinforcements together,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.43.17"><span class="content">and they lay there, never to rise again,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.43.17"><span class="content">extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.43.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.43.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Forget the former things;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.43.18"><span class="content">do not dwell on the past.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.43.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.43.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">See, I am doing a new thing!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.43.19"><span class="content">Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.43.19"><span class="content">I am making a way in the wilderness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.43.19"><span class="content">and streams in the wasteland.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.43.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.43.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The wild animals honor me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.43.20"><span class="content">the jackals and the owls,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.43.20"><span class="content">because I provide water in the wilderness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.43.20"><span class="content">and streams in the wasteland,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.43.20"><span class="content">to give drink to my people, my chosen,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.43.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.43.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">the people I formed for myself</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.43.21"><span class="content">that they may proclaim my praise.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.43.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.43.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yet you have not called on me, Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.43.22"><span class="content">you have not wearied yourselves for</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">43:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Jacob; / surely you have grown weary of</span></span></span><span class="content"> me, Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.43.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.43.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">You have not brought me sheep for burnt offerings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.43.23"><span class="content">nor honored me with your sacrifices.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.43.23"><span class="content">I have not burdened you with grain offerings</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.43.23"><span class="content">nor wearied you with demands for incense.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.43.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.43.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">You have not bought any fragrant calamus for me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.43.24"><span class="content">or lavished on me the fat of your sacrifices.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.43.24"><span class="content">But you have burdened me with your sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.43.24"><span class="content">and wearied me with your offenses.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.43.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.43.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;I, even I, am he who blots out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.43.25"><span class="content">your transgressions, for my own sake,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.43.25"><span class="content">and remembers your sins no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.43.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.43.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Review the past for me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.43.26"><span class="content">let us argue the matter together;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.43.26"><span class="content">state the case for your innocence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.43.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.43.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Your first father sinned;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.43.27"><span class="content">those I sent to teach you rebelled against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.43.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.43.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">So I disgraced the dignitaries of your temple;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.43.28"><span class="content">I consigned Jacob to destruction</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">43:28 </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.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.43.28"><span class="content">and Israel to scorn.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch44" data-usfm="ISA.44.1+ISA.44.2+ISA.44.3+ISA.44.4+ISA.44.5">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.44.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;But now listen, Jacob, my servant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.44.1"><span class="content">Israel, whom I have chosen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.44.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.44.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.44.2"><span class="content">he who made you, who formed you in the womb,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.44.2"><span class="content">and who will help you:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.44.2"><span class="content">Do not be afraid, Jacob, my servant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.44.2"><span class="content">Jeshurun,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">44:2 </span><span class="fq">Jeshurun </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">the upright one, </span><span class="ft">that is, Israel.</span></span></span><span class="content"> whom I have chosen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.44.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.44.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For I will pour water on the thirsty land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.44.3"><span class="content">and streams on the dry ground;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.44.3"><span class="content">I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.44.3"><span class="content">and my blessing on your descendants.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.44.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.44.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They will spring up like grass in a meadow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.44.4"><span class="content">like poplar trees by flowing streams.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.44.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.44.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Some will say, &#8216;I belong to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.44.5"><span class="content">others will call themselves by the name of Jacob;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.44.5"><span class="content">still others will write on their hand, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.44.5"><span class="content">and will take the name Israel.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch20" data-usfm="MAT.20.17+MAT.20.18+MAT.20.19+MAT.20.20+MAT.20.21+MAT.20.22+MAT.20.23+MAT.20.24+MAT.20.25+MAT.20.26+MAT.20.27+MAT.20.28">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Now Jesus was going up to Jerusalem. On the way, he took the Twelve aside and said to them, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the teachers of the law. They will condemn him to death</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.20.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. On the third day he will be raised to life!&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Mother&#8217;s Request</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.20.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.20.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then the mother of Zebedee&#8217;s sons came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down, asked a favor of him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.20.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.20.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What is it you want?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.20.21"><span class="content">She said, &#8220;Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in your kingdom.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.20.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.20.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You don&#8217;t know what you are asking,&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Jesus said to them. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.20.22"><span class="content">&#8220;We can,&#8221; they answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.20.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.20.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You will indeed drink from my cup, but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.20.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.20.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When the ten heard about this, they were indignant with the two brothers. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.20.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Jesus called them together and said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.20.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.20.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and whoever wants to be first must be your slave&#8212;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.20.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch3" data-usfm="1CO.3.1+1CO.3.2+1CO.3.3+1CO.3.4+1CO.3.5+1CO.3.6+1CO.3.7+1CO.3.8+1CO.3.9">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly&#8212;mere infants in Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans? </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For when one says, &#8220;I follow Paul,&#8221; and another, &#8220;I follow Apollos,&#8221; are you not mere human beings?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe&#8212;as the Lord has assigned to each his task. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For we are co-workers in God&#8217;s service; you are God&#8217;s field, God&#8217;s building.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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