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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.44.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then Judah went up to him and said: &#8220;Pardon your servant, my lord, let me speak a word to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, though you are equal to Pharaoh himself. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.44.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">My lord asked his servants, &#8216;Do you have a father or a brother?&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.44.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And we answered, &#8216;We have an aged father, and there is a young son born to him in his old age. His brother is dead, and he is the only one of his mother&#8217;s sons left, and his father loves him.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.44.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.44.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then you said to your servants, &#8216;Bring him down to me so I can see him for myself.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.44.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">And we said to my lord, &#8216;The boy cannot leave his father; if he leaves him, his father will die.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.44.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But you told your servants, &#8216;Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.44.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When we went back to your servant my father, we told him what my lord had said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.44.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.44.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then our father said, &#8216;Go back and buy a little more food.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.44.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">But we said, &#8216;We cannot go down. Only if our youngest brother is with us will we go. We cannot see the man&#8217;s face unless our youngest brother is with us.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.44.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.44.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;Your servant my father said to us, &#8216;You know that my wife bore me two sons. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.44.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">One of them went away from me, and I said, &#8220;He has surely been torn to pieces.&#8221; And I have not seen him since. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.44.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">If you take this one from me too and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray head down to the grave in misery.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.44.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.44.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;So now, if the boy is not with us when I go back to your servant my father, and if my father, whose life is closely bound up with the boy&#8217;s life, </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.44.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">sees that the boy isn&#8217;t there, he will die. Your servants will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave in sorrow. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.44.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Your servant guaranteed the boy&#8217;s safety to my father. I said, &#8216;If I do not bring him back to you, I will bear the blame before you, my father, all my life!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.44.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.44.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now then, please let your servant remain here as my lord&#8217;s slave in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.44.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">How can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? No! Do not let me see the misery that would come on my father.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Saul Rescues the City of Jabesh</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Nahash</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:1 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls </span><span class="fqa">gifts. Now Nahash king of the Ammonites oppressed the Gadites and Reubenites severely. He gouged out all their right eyes and struck terror and dread in Israel. Not a man remained among the Israelites beyond the Jordan whose right eye was not gouged out by Nahash king of the Ammonites, except that seven thousand men fled from the Ammonites and entered Jabesh Gilead. About a month later, </span><span class="fv">1 </span><span class="fqa">Nahash</span></span></span><span class="content"> the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh Gilead. And all the men of Jabesh said to him, &#8220;Make a treaty with us, and we will be subject to you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.11.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But Nahash the Ammonite replied, &#8220;I will make a treaty with you only on the condition that I gouge out the right eye of every one of you and so bring disgrace on all Israel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.11.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The elders of Jabesh said to him, &#8220;Give us seven days so we can send messengers throughout Israel; if no one comes to rescue us, we will surrender to you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.11.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and reported these terms to the people, they all wept aloud. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Just then Saul was returning from the fields, behind his oxen, and he asked, &#8220;What is wrong with everyone? Why are they weeping?&#8221; Then they repeated to him what the men of Jabesh had said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.11.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When Saul heard their words, the Spirit of God came powerfully upon him, and he burned with anger. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He took a pair of oxen, cut them into pieces, and sent the pieces by messengers throughout Israel, proclaiming, &#8220;This is what will be done to the oxen of anyone who does not follow Saul and Samuel.&#8221; Then the terror of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> fell on the people, and they came out together as one. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When Saul mustered them at Bezek, the men of Israel numbered three hundred thousand and those of Judah thirty thousand.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.11.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">They told the messengers who had come, &#8220;Say to the men of Jabesh Gilead, &#8216;By the time the sun is hot tomorrow, you will be rescued.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; When the messengers went and reported this to the men of Jabesh, they were elated. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They said to the Ammonites, &#8220;Tomorrow we will surrender to you, and you can do to us whatever you like.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.11.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The next day Saul separated his men into three divisions; during the last watch of the night they broke into the camp of the Ammonites and slaughtered them until the heat of the day. Those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Saul Confirmed as King</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.11.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The people then said to Samuel, &#8220;Who was it that asked, &#8216;Shall Saul reign over us?&#8217; Turn these men over to us so that we may put them to death.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.11.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But Saul said, &#8220;No one will be put to death today, for this day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has rescued Israel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.11.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then Samuel said to the people, &#8220;Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingship.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So all the people went to Gilgal and made Saul king in the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. There they sacrificed fellowship offerings before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and Saul and all the Israelites held a great celebration.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;He has alienated my family from me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.19.13"><span class="content">my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">My relatives have gone away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.19.14"><span class="content">my closest friends have forgotten me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.19.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.19.15"><span class="content">they look on me as on a stranger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.19.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I summon my servant, but he does not answer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.19.16"><span class="content">though I beg him with my own mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.19.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">My breath is offensive to my wife;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.19.17"><span class="content">I am loathsome to my own family.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.19.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Even the little boys scorn me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.19.18"><span class="content">when I appear, they ridicule me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.19.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">All my intimate friends detest me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.19.19"><span class="content">those I love have turned against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.19.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I am nothing but skin and bones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.19.20"><span class="content">I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">only by my gums</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.19.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Have pity on me, my friends, have pity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.19.21"><span class="content">for the hand of God has struck me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.19.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Why do you pursue me as God does?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.19.22"><span class="content">Will you never get enough of my flesh?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;Oh, that my words were recorded,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.19.23"><span class="content">that they were written on a scroll,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.19.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">that they were inscribed with an iron tool on</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:24 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and</span></span></span><span class="content"> lead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.19.24"><span class="content">or engraved in rock forever!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.19.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I know that my redeemer</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">vindicator</span></span></span><span class="content"> lives,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.19.25"><span class="content">and that in the end he will stand on the earth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">on my grave</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.19.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">And after my skin has been destroyed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.19.26"><span class="content">yet</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">And after I awake, / though this body has been destroyed, / then</span></span></span><span class="content"> in</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">destroyed, / apart from</span></span></span><span class="content"> my flesh I will see God;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.19.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">I myself will see him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.19.27"><span class="content">with my own eyes&#8212;I, and not another.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.19.27"><span class="content">How my heart yearns within me!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.19.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you say, &#8216;How we will hound him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.19.28"><span class="content">since the root of the trouble lies in him,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:28 </span><span class="ft">Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Vulgate; most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">me</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.19.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">you should fear the sword yourselves;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.19.29"><span class="content">for wrath will bring punishment by the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.19.29"><span class="content">and then you will know that there is judgment.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:29 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">sword, / that you may come to know the Almighty</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch63" data-usfm="ISA.63.7+ISA.63.8+ISA.63.9+ISA.63.10+ISA.63.11+ISA.63.12+ISA.63.13+ISA.63.14+ISA.63.15+ISA.63.16+ISA.63.17+ISA.63.18+ISA.63.19">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.63.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will tell of the kindnesses of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.63.7"><span class="content">the deeds for which he is to be praised,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.63.7"><span class="content">according to all the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has done for us&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.63.7"><span class="content">yes, the many good things</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.63.7"><span class="content">he has done for Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.63.7"><span class="content">according to his compassion and many kindnesses.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.63.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.63.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;Surely they are my people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.63.8"><span class="content">children who will be true to me&#8221;;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.63.8"><span class="content">and so he became their Savior.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.63.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.63.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">In all their distress he too was distressed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.63.9"><span class="content">and the angel of his presence saved them.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">63:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Savior </span><span class="fv">9 </span><span class="fqa">in their distress. / It was no envoy or angel / but his own presence that saved them</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.63.9"><span class="content">In his love and mercy he redeemed them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.63.9"><span class="content">he lifted them up and carried them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.63.9"><span class="content">all the days of old.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.63.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.63.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Yet they rebelled</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.63.10"><span class="content">and grieved his Holy Spirit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.63.10"><span class="content">So he turned and became their enemy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.63.10"><span class="content">and he himself fought against them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.63.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.63.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then his people recalled</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">63:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">But may he recall</span></span></span><span class="content"> the days of old,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.63.11"><span class="content">the days of Moses and his people&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.63.11"><span class="content">where is he who brought them through the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.63.11"><span class="content">with the shepherd of his flock?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.63.11"><span class="content">Where is he who set</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.63.11"><span class="content">his Holy Spirit among them,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.63.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.63.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">who sent his glorious arm of power</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.63.12"><span class="content">to be at Moses&#8217; right hand,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.63.12"><span class="content">who divided the waters before them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.63.12"><span class="content">to gain for himself everlasting renown,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.63.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.63.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">who led them through the depths?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.63.13"><span class="content">Like a horse in open country,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.63.13"><span class="content">they did not stumble;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.63.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.63.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">like cattle that go down to the plain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.63.14"><span class="content">they were given rest by the Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.63.14"><span class="content">This is how you guided your people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.63.14"><span class="content">to make for yourself a glorious name.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.63.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.63.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Look down from heaven and see,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.63.15"><span class="content">from your lofty throne, holy and glorious.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.63.15"><span class="content">Where are your zeal and your might?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.63.15"><span class="content">Your tenderness and compassion are withheld from us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.63.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.63.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But you are our Father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.63.16"><span class="content">though Abraham does not know us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.63.16"><span class="content">or Israel acknowledge us;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.63.16"><span class="content">you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, are our Father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.63.16"><span class="content">our Redeemer from of old is your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.63.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.63.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Why, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do you make us wander from your ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.63.17"><span class="content">and harden our hearts so we do not revere you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.63.17"><span class="content">Return for the sake of your servants,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.63.17"><span class="content">the tribes that are your inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.63.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.63.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For a little while your people possessed your holy place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.63.18"><span class="content">but now our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.63.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.63.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">We are yours from of old;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.63.19"><span class="content">but you have not ruled over them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.63.19"><span class="content">they have not been called</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">63:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">We are like those you have never ruled, / like those never called</span></span></span><span class="content"> by your name.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v69" data-usfm="MAT.26.69"><span class="label">69</span><span class="content">Now Peter was sitting out in the courtyard, and a servant girl came to him. &#8220;You also were with Jesus of Galilee,&#8221; she said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v69" data-usfm="MAT.26.69"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v70" data-usfm="MAT.26.70"><span class="label">70</span><span class="content">But he denied it before them all. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re talking about,&#8221; he said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v70" data-usfm="MAT.26.70"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v71" data-usfm="MAT.26.71"><span class="label">71</span><span class="content">Then he went out to the gateway, where another servant girl saw him and said to the people there, &#8220;This fellow was with Jesus of Nazareth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v71" data-usfm="MAT.26.71"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v72" data-usfm="MAT.26.72"><span class="label">72</span><span class="content">He denied it again, with an oath: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know the man!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v72" data-usfm="MAT.26.72"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v73" data-usfm="MAT.26.73"><span class="label">73</span><span class="content">After a little while, those standing there went up to Peter and said, &#8220;Surely you are one of them; your accent gives you away.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v73" data-usfm="MAT.26.73"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v74" data-usfm="MAT.26.74"><span class="label">74</span><span class="content">Then he began to call down curses, and he swore to them, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know the man!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v74" data-usfm="MAT.26.74"><span class="content">Immediately a rooster crowed. </span></span><span class="verse v75" data-usfm="MAT.26.75"><span class="label">75</span><span class="content">Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> And he went outside and wept bitterly.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch27" data-usfm="MAT.27.1+MAT.27.2+MAT.27.3+MAT.27.4+MAT.27.5+MAT.27.6+MAT.27.7+MAT.27.8+MAT.27.9+MAT.27.10">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people made their plans how to have Jesus executed. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So they bound him, led him away and handed him over to Pilate the governor.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.27.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have sinned,&#8221; he said, &#8220;for I have betrayed innocent blood.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.27.4"><span class="content">&#8220;What is that to us?&#8221; they replied. &#8220;That&#8217;s your responsibility.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.27.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.27.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The chief priests picked up the coins and said, &#8220;It is against the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So they decided to use the money to buy the potter&#8217;s field as a burial place for foreigners. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: &#8220;They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price set on him by the people of Israel, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.27.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and they used them to buy the potter&#8217;s field, as the Lord commanded me.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:10 </span><span class="ft">See Zech. 11:12,13; Jer. 19:1-13; 32:6-9.</span></span></span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1CO.12.1+1CO.12.2+1CO.12.3+1CO.12.4+1CO.12.5+1CO.12.6+1CO.12.7+1CO.12.8+1CO.12.9+1CO.12.10+1CO.12.11">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, &#8220;Jesus be cursed,&#8221; and no one can say, &#8220;Jesus is Lord,&#8221; except by the Holy Spirit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.12.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">languages</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 28</span></span></span><span class="content"> and to still another the interpretation of tongues.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">languages</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 28</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.</span></span></div>
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