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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Israelites Oppressed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text (see also <span class="ref" usfm="GEN.46.27">Gen. 46:27</span>); Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint (see also <span class="ref" usfm="ACT.7.14">Acts 7:14</span> and note at <span class="ref" usfm="GEN.46.27">Gen. 46:27</span>) </span><span class="fqa">seventy-five</span></span></span><span class="content"> in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.1.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.1.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Look,&#8221; he said to his people, &#8220;the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.1.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and worked them ruthlessly. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.1.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, &#8220;Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.1.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The midwives answered Pharaoh, &#8220;Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.1.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.1.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: &#8220;Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Birth of Moses</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:3 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew can also mean </span><span class="fqa">ark</span><span class="ft">, as in <span class="ref" usfm="GEN.6.14">Gen. 6:14</span>.</span></span></span><span class="content"> for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.2.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. &#8220;This is one of the Hebrew babies,&#8221; she said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.2.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then his sister asked Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter, &#8220;Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.2.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, go,&#8221; she answered. So the girl went and got the baby&#8217;s mother. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter said to her, &#8220;Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.&#8221; So the woman took the baby and nursed him. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:10 </span><span class="fq">Moses </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fqa">draw out.</span></span></span><span class="content"> saying, &#8220;I drew him out of the water.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Moses Flees to Midian</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.2.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, &#8220;Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.2.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The man said, &#8220;Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?&#8221; Then Moses was afraid and thought, &#8220;What I did must have become known.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.2.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father&#8217;s flock. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.2.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, &#8220;Why have you returned so early today?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.2.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">They answered, &#8220;An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.2.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;And where is he?&#8221; Reuel asked his daughters. &#8220;Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.2.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:22 </span><span class="fq">Gershom </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">a foreigner </span><span class="fqa">there.</span></span></span><span class="content"> saying, &#8220;I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.2.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EXO.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EXO.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EXO.2.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Moses and the Burning Bush</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EXO.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EXO.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So Moses thought, &#8220;I will go over and see this strange sight&#8212;why the bush does not burn up.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EXO.3.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, &#8220;Moses! Moses!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.3.4"><span class="content">And Moses said, &#8220;Here I am.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EXO.3.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EXO.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not come any closer,&#8221; God said. &#8220;Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then he said, &#8220;I am the God of your father,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:6 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; Samaritan Pentateuch (see <span class="ref" usfm="ACT.7.32">Acts 7:32</span>) </span><span class="fqa">fathers</span></span></span><span class="content"> the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.&#8221; At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EXO.3.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EXO.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EXO.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey&#8212;the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EXO.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EXO.3.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But Moses said to God, &#8220;Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EXO.3.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And God said, &#8220;I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:12 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is plural.</span></span></span><span class="content"> will worship God on this mountain.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EXO.3.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Moses said to God, &#8220;Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, &#8216;The God of your fathers has sent me to you,&#8217; and they ask me, &#8216;What is his name?&#8217; Then what shall I tell them?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EXO.3.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">God said to Moses, &#8220;</span><span class="nd"><span class="content">I am who I am</span></span><span class="content">.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa"><span class="nd">I will be what I will be</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> This is what you are to say to the Israelites: &#8216;</span><span class="nd"><span class="content">I am</span></span><span class="content"> has sent me to you.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EXO.3.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">God also said to Moses, &#8220;Say to the Israelites, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:15 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew for </span><span class="fq"><span class="nd">Lord</span> </span><span class="ft">sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq"><span class="nd">I am</span> </span><span class="ft">in verse 14.</span></span></span><span class="content"> the God of your fathers&#8212;the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob&#8212;has sent me to you.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.3.15"><span class="content">&#8220;This is my name forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.3.15"><span class="content">the name you shall call me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.3.15"><span class="content">from generation to generation.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EXO.3.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EXO.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of your fathers&#8212;the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob&#8212;appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites&#8212;a land flowing with milk and honey.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EXO.3.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EXO.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;The elders of Israel will listen to you. Then you and the elders are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EXO.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand compels him. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them. After that, he will let you go.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EXO.3.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EXO.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;And I will make the Egyptians favorably disposed toward this people, so that when you leave you will not go empty-handed. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EXO.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver and gold and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will plunder the Egyptians.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">42</div><div class="ms"><span class="heading">BOOK II</span></div><div class="mr"><span class="heading">Psalms 42&#8211;72</span></div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 42</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In many Hebrew manuscripts Psalms </span><span class="ref" usfm="PSA.42"><span class="heading">42</span></span><span class="heading"> and </span><span class="ref" usfm="PSA.43"><span class="heading">43</span></span><span class="heading"> constitute one psalm.</span></span></span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts </span><span class="ref" usfm="PSA.42.1+PSA.42.2+PSA.42.3+PSA.42.4+PSA.42.5+PSA.42.6+PSA.42.7+PSA.42.8+PSA.42.9+PSA.42.10+PSA.42.11"><span class="heading">42:1-11</span></span><span class="heading"> is numbered 42:2-12.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of the Sons of Korah.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.42.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">As the deer pants for streams of water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.42.1"><span class="content">so my soul pants for you, my God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.42.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.42.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.42.2"><span class="content">When can I go and meet with God?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.42.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">My tears have been my food</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="content">day and night,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="content">while people say to me all day long,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is your God?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">These things I remember</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">as I pour out my soul:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">how I used to go to the house of God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">under the protection of the Mighty One</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">42:4 </span><span class="ft">See Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">with shouts of joy and praise</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">among the festive throng.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Why, my soul, are you downcast?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">Why so disturbed within me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">Put your hope in God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">for I will yet praise him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">my Savior and my God.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">My soul is downcast within me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="content">therefore I will remember you</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="content">from the land of the Jordan,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="content">the heights of Hermon&#8212;from Mount Mizar.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Deep calls to deep</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="content">in the roar of your waterfalls;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="content">all your waves and breakers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="content">have swept over me.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.42.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">By day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> directs his love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.42.8"><span class="content">at night his song is with me&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.42.8"><span class="content">a prayer to the God of my life.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.42.8"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.42.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I say to God my Rock,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="content">&#8220;Why have you forgotten me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="content">Why must I go about mourning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="content">oppressed by the enemy?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My bones suffer mortal agony</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="content">as my foes taunt me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="content">saying to me all day long,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is your God?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Why, my soul, are you downcast?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="content">Why so disturbed within me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="content">Put your hope in God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="content">for I will yet praise him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="content">my Savior and my God.</span></span></div>
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