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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.38.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">At that time, Judah left his brothers and went down to stay with a man of Adullam named Hirah. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.38.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There Judah met the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua. He married her and made love to her; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.38.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">she became pregnant and gave birth to a son, who was named Er. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.38.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">She conceived again and gave birth to a son and named him Onan. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.38.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">She gave birth to still another son and named him Shelah. It was at Kezib that she gave birth to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.38.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.38.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.38.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But Er, Judah&#8217;s firstborn, was wicked in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s sight; so the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> put him to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.38.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.38.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then Judah said to Onan, &#8220;Sleep with your brother&#8217;s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.38.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother&#8217;s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.38.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">What he did was wicked in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s sight; so the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> put him to death also.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.38.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.38.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Judah then said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, &#8220;Live as a widow in your father&#8217;s household until my son Shelah grows up.&#8221; For he thought, &#8220;He may die too, just like his brothers.&#8221; So Tamar went to live in her father&#8217;s household.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.38.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.38.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">After a long time Judah&#8217;s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had recovered from his grief, he went up to Timnah, to the men who were shearing his sheep, and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.38.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.38.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When Tamar was told, &#8220;Your father-in-law is on his way to Timnah to shear his sheep,&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.38.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">she took off her widow&#8217;s clothes, covered herself with a veil to disguise herself, and then sat down at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had now grown up, she had not been given to him as his wife.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.38.14"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Hannah prayed and said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.2.1"><span class="content">&#8220;My heart rejoices in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.2.1"><span class="content">in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my horn</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:1 </span><span class="fq">Horn </span><span class="ft">here symbolizes strength; also in verse 10.</span></span></span><span class="content"> is lifted high.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.2.1"><span class="content">My mouth boasts over my enemies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.2.1"><span class="content">for I delight in your deliverance.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.2.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;There is no one holy like the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.2.2"><span class="content">there is no one besides you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.2.2"><span class="content">there is no Rock like our God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.2.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not keep talking so proudly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.2.3"><span class="content">or let your mouth speak such arrogance,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.2.3"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is a God who knows,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.2.3"><span class="content">and by him deeds are weighed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;The bows of the warriors are broken,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.2.4"><span class="content">but those who stumbled are armed with strength.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Those who were full hire themselves out for food,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.2.5"><span class="content">but those who were hungry are hungry no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.2.5"><span class="content">She who was barren has borne seven children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.2.5"><span class="content">but she who has had many sons pines away.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> brings death and makes alive;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.2.6"><span class="content">he brings down to the grave and raises up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.2.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sends poverty and wealth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.2.7"><span class="content">he humbles and he exalts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He raises the poor from the dust</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.2.8"><span class="content">and lifts the needy from the ash heap;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.2.8"><span class="content">he seats them with princes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.2.8"><span class="content">and has them inherit a throne of honor.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.2.8"><span class="content">&#8220;For the foundations of the earth are the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.2.8"><span class="content">on them he has set the world.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.2.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He will guard the feet of his faithful servants,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.2.9"><span class="content">but the wicked will be silenced in the place of darkness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.2.9"><span class="content">&#8220;It is not by strength that one prevails;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">those who oppose the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will be broken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.2.10"><span class="content">The Most High will thunder from heaven;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.2.10"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will judge the ends of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.2.10"><span class="content">&#8220;He will give strength to his king</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.2.10"><span class="content">and exalt the horn of his anointed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy ministered before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> under Eli the priest.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Eli&#8217;s Wicked Sons</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Eli&#8217;s sons were scoundrels; they had no regard for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Now it was the practice of the priests that, whenever any of the people offered a sacrifice, the priest&#8217;s servant would come with a three-pronged fork in his hand while the meat was being boiled </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and would plunge the fork into the pan or kettle or caldron or pot. Whatever the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But even before the fat was burned, the priest&#8217;s servant would come and say to the person who was sacrificing, &#8220;Give the priest some meat to roast; he won&#8217;t accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.2.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">If the person said to him, &#8220;Let the fat be burned first, and then take whatever you want,&#8221; the servant would answer, &#8220;No, hand it over now; if you don&#8217;t, I&#8217;ll take it by force.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">This sin of the young men was very great in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s sight, for they</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:17 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">people</span></span></span><span class="content"> were treating the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s offering with contempt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.2.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But Samuel was ministering before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;a boy wearing a linen ephod. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Each year his mother made him a little robe and took it to him when she went up with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, &#8220;May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> give you children by this woman to take the place of the one she prayed for and gave to</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:20 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">and asked from</span></span></span><span class="content"> the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221; Then they would go home. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was gracious to Hannah; she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.2.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Now Eli, who was very old, heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they slept with the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So he said to them, &#8220;Why do you do such things? I hear from all the people about these wicked deeds of yours. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1SA.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">No, my sons; the report I hear spreading among the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s people is not good. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1SA.2.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">If one person sins against another, God</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the judges</span></span></span><span class="content"> may mediate for the offender; but if anyone sins against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who will intercede for them?&#8221; His sons, however, did not listen to their father&#8217;s rebuke, for it was the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s will to put them to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1SA.2.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1SA.2.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">And the boy Samuel continued to grow in stature and in favor with the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and with people.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;To God belong wisdom and power;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.12.13"><span class="content">counsel and understanding are his.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.12.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">What he tears down cannot be rebuilt;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.12.14"><span class="content">those he imprisons cannot be released.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.12.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If he holds back the waters, there is drought;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.12.15"><span class="content">if he lets them loose, they devastate the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.12.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">To him belong strength and insight;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.12.16"><span class="content">both deceived and deceiver are his.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.12.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He leads rulers away stripped</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.12.17"><span class="content">and makes fools of judges.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.12.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.12.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He takes off the shackles put on by kings</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.12.18"><span class="content">and ties a loincloth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">shackles of kings / and ties a belt</span></span></span><span class="content"> around their waist.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.12.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.12.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He leads priests away stripped</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.12.19"><span class="content">and overthrows officials long established.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.12.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.12.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He silences the lips of trusted advisers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.12.20"><span class="content">and takes away the discernment of elders.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.12.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.12.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He pours contempt on nobles</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.12.21"><span class="content">and disarms the mighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.12.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.12.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He reveals the deep things of darkness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.12.22"><span class="content">and brings utter darkness into the light.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.12.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.12.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He makes nations great, and destroys them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.12.23"><span class="content">he enlarges nations, and disperses them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.12.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.12.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">He deprives the leaders of the earth of their reason;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.12.24"><span class="content">he makes them wander in a trackless waste.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.12.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.12.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">They grope in darkness with no light;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.12.25"><span class="content">he makes them stagger like drunkards.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch51" data-usfm="ISA.51.17+ISA.51.18+ISA.51.19+ISA.51.20+ISA.51.21+ISA.51.22+ISA.51.23">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Awake, awake!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">Rise up, Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">you who have drunk from the hand of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">the cup of his wrath,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">you who have drained to its dregs</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">the goblet that makes people stagger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.51.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Among all the children she bore</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="content">there was none to guide her;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="content">among all the children she reared</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="content">there was none to take her by the hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.51.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">These double calamities have come upon you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="content">who can comfort you?&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="content">ruin and destruction, famine and sword&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="content">who can</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">51:19 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">/ how can I</span></span></span><span class="content"> console you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.51.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Your children have fainted;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">they lie at every street corner,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">like antelope caught in a net.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">They are filled with the wrath of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">with the rebuke of your God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.51.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.51.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Therefore hear this, you afflicted one,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.51.21"><span class="content">made drunk, but not with wine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.51.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">This is what your Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">your God, who defends his people:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">&#8220;See, I have taken out of your hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">the cup that made you stagger;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">from that cup, the goblet of my wrath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">you will never drink again.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.51.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I will put it into the hands of your tormentors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="content">who said to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="content">&#8216;Fall prostrate that we may walk on you.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="content">And you made your back like the ground,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.51.23"><span class="content">like a street to be walked on.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch52" data-usfm="ISA.52.1+ISA.52.2+ISA.52.3+ISA.52.4+ISA.52.5+ISA.52.6+ISA.52.7+ISA.52.8+ISA.52.9+ISA.52.10+ISA.52.11+ISA.52.12">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Awake, awake, Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="content">clothe yourself with strength!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="content">Put on your garments of splendor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="content">Jerusalem, the holy city.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="content">The uncircumcised and defiled</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="content">will not enter you again.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.52.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.52.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Shake off your dust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.52.2"><span class="content">rise up, sit enthroned, Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.52.2"><span class="content">Free yourself from the chains on your neck,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.52.2"><span class="content">Daughter Zion, now a captive.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.52.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.52.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.52.3"><span class="content">&#8220;You were sold for nothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.52.3"><span class="content">and without money you will be redeemed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.52.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.52.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.52.4"><span class="content">&#8220;At first my people went down to Egypt to live;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.52.4"><span class="content">lately, Assyria has oppressed them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.52.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.52.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;And now what do I have here?&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.52.5"><span class="content">&#8220;For my people have been taken away for nothing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.52.5"><span class="content">and those who rule them mock,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">52:5 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls and Vulgate; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">wail</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.52.5"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.52.5"><span class="content">&#8220;And all day long</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.52.5"><span class="content">my name is constantly blasphemed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.52.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.52.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Therefore my people will know my name;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.52.6"><span class="content">therefore in that day they will know</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.52.6"><span class="content">that it is I who foretold it.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.52.6"><span class="content">Yes, it is I.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.52.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">How beautiful on the mountains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">are the feet of those who bring good news,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">who proclaim peace,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">who bring good tidings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">who proclaim salvation,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">who say to Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Your God reigns!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.52.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.52.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.52.8"><span class="content">together they shout for joy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.52.8"><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> returns to Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.52.8"><span class="content">they will see it with their own eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.52.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.52.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Burst into songs of joy together,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.52.9"><span class="content">you ruins of Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.52.9"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has comforted his people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.52.9"><span class="content">he has redeemed Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.52.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.52.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will lay bare his holy arm</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.52.10"><span class="content">in the sight of all the nations,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.52.10"><span class="content">and all the ends of the earth will see</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.52.10"><span class="content">the salvation of our God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.52.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.52.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Depart, depart, go out from there!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.52.11"><span class="content">Touch no unclean thing!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.52.11"><span class="content">Come out from it and be pure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.52.11"><span class="content">you who carry the articles of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s house.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.52.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.52.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But you will not leave in haste</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.52.12"><span class="content">or go in flight;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.52.12"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will go before you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.52.12"><span class="content">the God of Israel will be your rear guard.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch23" data-usfm="MAT.23.27+MAT.23.28+MAT.23.29+MAT.23.30+MAT.23.31+MAT.23.32+MAT.23.33+MAT.23.34+MAT.23.35+MAT.23.36+MAT.23.37+MAT.23.38+MAT.23.39">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.23.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.23.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.23.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.23.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.23.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And you say, &#8216;If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.23.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.23.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started!</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.23.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.23.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MAT.23.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MAT.23.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MAT.23.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MAT.23.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MAT.23.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MAT.23.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Look, your house is left to you desolate.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="MAT.23.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, &#8216;Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">23:39 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 118:26</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch7" data-usfm="1CO.7.32+1CO.7.33+1CO.7.34+1CO.7.35+1CO.7.36+1CO.7.37+1CO.7.38+1CO.7.39+1CO.7.40">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1CO.7.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord&#8217;s affairs&#8212;how he can please the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="1CO.7.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world&#8212;how he can please his wife&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="1CO.7.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the Lord&#8217;s affairs: Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world&#8212;how she can please her husband. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="1CO.7.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="1CO.7.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="1CO.7.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">If anyone is worried that he might not be acting honorably toward the virgin he is engaged to, and if his passions are too strong</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:36 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">if she is getting beyond the usual age for marriage</span></span></span><span class="content"> and he feels he ought to marry, he should do as he wants. He is not sinning. They should get married. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="1CO.7.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">But the man who has settled the matter in his own mind, who is under no compulsion but has control over his own will, and who has made up his mind not to marry the virgin&#8212;this man also does the right thing. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="1CO.7.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">So then, he who marries the virgin does right, but he who does not marry her does better.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:36-38 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fv">36 </span><span class="fqa">If anyone thinks he is not treating his daughter properly, and if she is getting along in years </span><span class="ft">(or </span><span class="fqa">if her passions are too strong</span><span class="ft">)</span><span class="fqa">, and he feels she ought to marry, he should do as he wants. He is not sinning. He should let her get married. </span><span class="fv">37 </span><span class="fqa">But the man who has settled the matter in his own mind, who is under no compulsion but has control over his own will, and who has made up his mind to keep the virgin unmarried&#8212;this man also does the right thing. </span><span class="fv">38 </span><span class="fqa">So then, he who gives his virgin in marriage does right, but he who does not give her in marriage does better.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="1CO.7.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="1CO.7.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">A woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, but he must belong to the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="1CO.7.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">In my judgment, she is happier if she stays as she is&#8212;and I think that I too have the Spirit of God.</span></span></div>
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