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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.35.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.35.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, &#8220;Don&#8217;t despair, for you have another son.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.35.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">As she breathed her last&#8212;for she was dying&#8212;she named her son Ben-Oni.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:18 </span><span class="fq">Ben-Oni </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">son of my trouble.</span></span></span><span class="content"> But his father named him Benjamin.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">35:18 </span><span class="fq">Benjamin </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">son of my right hand.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.35.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.35.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.35.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Over her tomb Jacob set up a pillar, and to this day that pillar marks Rachel&#8217;s tomb.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.35.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.35.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Israel moved on again and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.35.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father&#8217;s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard of it.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.35.22"><span class="content">Jacob had twelve sons:</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.35.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.35.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The sons of Leah:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.35.23"><span class="content">Reuben the firstborn of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.35.23"><span class="content">Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.35.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.35.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The sons of Rachel:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.35.24"><span class="content">Joseph and Benjamin.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.35.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.35.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The sons of Rachel&#8217;s servant Bilhah:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.35.25"><span class="content">Dan and Naphtali.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.35.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.35.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The sons of Leah&#8217;s servant Zilpah:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.35.26"><span class="content">Gad and Asher.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.35.26"><span class="content">These were the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.35.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.35.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Jacob came home to his father Isaac in Mamre, near Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.35.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Isaac lived a hundred and eighty years. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.35.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Wives for the Benjamites</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The men of Israel had taken an oath at Mizpah: &#8220;Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.21.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The people went to Bethel,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">to the house of God</span></span></span><span class="content"> where they sat before God until evening, raising their voices and weeping bitterly. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;</span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, God of Israel,&#8221; they cried, &#8220;why has this happened to Israel? Why should one tribe be missing from Israel today?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.21.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Early the next day the people built an altar and presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.21.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then the Israelites asked, &#8220;Who from all the tribes of Israel has failed to assemble before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?&#8221; For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to assemble before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> at Mizpah was to be put to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.21.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now the Israelites grieved for the tribe of Benjamin, their fellow Israelites. &#8220;Today one tribe is cut off from Israel,&#8221; they said. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;How can we provide wives for those who are left, since we have taken an oath by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> not to give them any of our daughters in marriage?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then they asked, &#8220;Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to assemble before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> at Mizpah?&#8221; They discovered that no one from Jabesh Gilead had come to the camp for the assembly. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For when they counted the people, they found that none of the people of Jabesh Gilead were there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.21.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So the assembly sent twelve thousand fighting men with instructions to go to Jabesh Gilead and put to the sword those living there, including the women and children. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is what you are to do,&#8221; they said. &#8220;Kill every male and every woman who is not a virgin.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They found among the people living in Jabesh Gilead four hundred young women who had never slept with a man, and they took them to the camp at Shiloh in Canaan.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.21.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then the whole assembly sent an offer of peace to the Benjamites at the rock of Rimmon. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So the Benjamites returned at that time and were given the women of Jabesh Gilead who had been spared. But there were not enough for all of them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.21.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The people grieved for Benjamin, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had made a gap in the tribes of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And the elders of the assembly said, &#8220;With the women of Benjamin destroyed, how shall we provide wives for the men who are left? </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The Benjamite survivors must have heirs,&#8221; they said, &#8220;so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">We can&#8217;t give them our daughters as wives, since we Israelites have taken this oath: &#8216;Cursed be anyone who gives a wife to a Benjamite.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But look, there is the annual festival of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in Shiloh, which lies north of Bethel, east of the road that goes from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.21.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So they instructed the Benjamites, saying, &#8220;Go and hide in the vineyards </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">and watch. When the young women of Shiloh come out to join in the dancing, rush from the vineyards and each of you seize one of them to be your wife. Then return to the land of Benjamin. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When their fathers or brothers complain to us, we will say to them, &#8216;Do us the favor of helping them, because we did not get wives for them during the war. You will not be guilty of breaking your oath because you did not give your daughters to them.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.21.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So that is what the Benjamites did. While the young women were dancing, each man caught one and carried her off to be his wife. Then they returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the towns and settled in them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.21.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.21.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">At that time the Israelites left that place and went home to their tribes and clans, each to his own inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.21.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.21.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch8" data-usfm="JOB.8.8+JOB.8.9+JOB.8.10+JOB.8.11+JOB.8.12+JOB.8.13+JOB.8.14+JOB.8.15+JOB.8.16+JOB.8.17+JOB.8.18+JOB.8.19+JOB.8.20+JOB.8.21+JOB.8.22">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Ask the former generation</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.8.8"><span class="content">and find out what their ancestors learned,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">for we were born only yesterday and know nothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.8.9"><span class="content">and our days on earth are but a shadow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Will they not instruct you and tell you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.8.10"><span class="content">Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.8.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Can papyrus grow tall where there is no marsh?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.8.11"><span class="content">Can reeds thrive without water?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">While still growing and uncut,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.8.12"><span class="content">they wither more quickly than grass.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Such is the destiny of all who forget God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.8.13"><span class="content">so perishes the hope of the godless.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">What they trust in is fragile</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:14 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.8.14"><span class="content">what they rely on is a spider&#8217;s web.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.8.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">They lean on the web, but it gives way;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.8.15"><span class="content">they cling to it, but it does not hold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.8.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They are like a well-watered plant in the sunshine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.8.16"><span class="content">spreading its shoots over the garden;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.8.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">it entwines its roots around a pile of rocks</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.8.17"><span class="content">and looks for a place among the stones.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.8.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But when it is torn from its spot,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.8.18"><span class="content">that place disowns it and says, &#8216;I never saw you.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.8.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Surely its life withers away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.8.19"><span class="content">and</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Surely all the joy it has / is that</span></span></span><span class="content"> from the soil other plants grow.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.8.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely God does not reject one who is blameless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.8.20"><span class="content">or strengthen the hands of evildoers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.8.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He will yet fill your mouth with laughter</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.8.21"><span class="content">and your lips with shouts of joy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.8.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Your enemies will be clothed in shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.8.22"><span class="content">and the tents of the wicked will be no more.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">46</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Gods of Babylon</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.46.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Bel bows down, Nebo stoops low;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.46.1"><span class="content">their idols are borne by beasts of burden.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">46:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">are but beasts and cattle</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.46.1"><span class="content">The images that are carried about are burdensome,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.46.1"><span class="content">a burden for the weary.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.46.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.46.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">They stoop and bow down together;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.46.2"><span class="content">unable to rescue the burden,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.46.2"><span class="content">they themselves go off into captivity.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.46.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.46.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to me, you descendants of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.46.3"><span class="content">all the remnant of the people of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.46.3"><span class="content">you whom I have upheld since your birth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.46.3"><span class="content">and have carried since you were born.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.46.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.46.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Even to your old age and gray hairs</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.46.4"><span class="content">I am he, I am he who will sustain you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.46.4"><span class="content">I have made you and I will carry you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.46.4"><span class="content">I will sustain you and I will rescue you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.46.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.46.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;With whom will you compare me or count me equal?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.46.5"><span class="content">To whom will you liken me that we may be compared?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.46.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.46.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Some pour out gold from their bags</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.46.6"><span class="content">and weigh out silver on the scales;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.46.6"><span class="content">they hire a goldsmith to make it into a god,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.46.6"><span class="content">and they bow down and worship it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.46.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.46.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They lift it to their shoulders and carry it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.46.7"><span class="content">they set it up in its place, and there it stands.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.46.7"><span class="content">From that spot it cannot move.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.46.7"><span class="content">Even though someone cries out to it, it cannot answer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.46.7"><span class="content">it cannot save them from their troubles.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.46.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.46.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Remember this, keep it in mind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.46.8"><span class="content">take it to heart, you rebels.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.46.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.46.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Remember the former things, those of long ago;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.46.9"><span class="content">I am God, and there is no other;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.46.9"><span class="content">I am God, and there is none like me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.46.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.46.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I make known the end from the beginning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.46.10"><span class="content">from ancient times, what is still to come.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.46.10"><span class="content">I say, &#8216;My purpose will stand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.46.10"><span class="content">and I will do all that I please.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.46.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.46.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">From the east I summon a bird of prey;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.46.11"><span class="content">from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.46.11"><span class="content">What I have said, that I will bring about;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.46.11"><span class="content">what I have planned, that I will do.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.46.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.46.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.46.12"><span class="content">you who are now far from my righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.46.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.46.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I am bringing my righteousness near,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.46.13"><span class="content">it is not far away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.46.13"><span class="content">and my salvation will not be delayed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.46.13"><span class="content">I will grant salvation to Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.46.13"><span class="content">my splendor to Israel.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.21.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MAT.21.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MAT.21.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MAT.21.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MAT.21.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MAT.21.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Last of all, he sent his son to them. &#8216;They will respect my son,&#8217; he said.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MAT.21.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MAT.21.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, &#8216;This is the heir. Come, let&#8217;s kill him and take his inheritance.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="MAT.21.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="MAT.21.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MAT.21.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MAT.21.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="MAT.21.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">&#8220;He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,&#8221; they replied, &#8220;and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="MAT.21.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MAT.21.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Have you never read in the Scriptures:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MAT.21.42"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The stone the builders rejected</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MAT.21.42"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">has become the cornerstone;</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MAT.21.42"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">the Lord has done this,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MAT.21.42"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and it is marvelous in our eyes&#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">21:42 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Psalm 118:22,23  </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">?</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MAT.21.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="MAT.21.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.21.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.&#8221;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:44 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts do not have verse 44.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.21.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="MAT.21.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus&#8217; parables, they knew he was talking about them. </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="MAT.21.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd because the people held that he was a prophet.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch4" data-usfm="1CO.4.14+1CO.4.15+1CO.4.16+1CO.4.17+1CO.4.18+1CO.4.19+1CO.4.20+1CO.4.21">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I am writing this not to shame you but to warn you as my dear children. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Therefore I urge you to imitate me. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, my son whom I love, who is faithful in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which agrees with what I teach everywhere in every church.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CO.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But I will come to you very soon, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only how these arrogant people are talking, but what power they have. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CO.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CO.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod of discipline, or shall I come in love and with a gentle spirit?</span></span></div>
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