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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">His Victories</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Jerubbaal, who </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> Gideon, and all the people that </span><span class="add"><span class="content">were</span></span><span class="content"> with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> said unto Gideon, The people that </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> with thee </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> said unto Gideon, The people </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> yet </span><span class="add"><span class="content">too</span></span><span class="content"> many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So he brought down the people unto the water: and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And the number of them that lapped, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">putting</span></span><span class="content"> their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the </span><span class="add"><span class="content">other</span></span><span class="content"> people go every man unto his place. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all </span><span class="add"><span class="content">the rest of</span></span><span class="content"> Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And it came to pass the same night, that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host: </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that </span><span class="add"><span class="content">were</span></span><span class="content"> in the host. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels </span><span class="add"><span class="content">were</span></span><span class="content"> without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And when Gideon was come, behold, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there was</span></span><span class="content"> a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And his fellow answered and said, This </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: </span><span class="add"><span class="content">for</span></span><span class="content"> into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And it was </span><span class="add"><span class="content">so</span></span><span class="content">, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And he divided the three hundred men </span><span class="add"><span class="content">into</span></span><span class="content"> three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content">, as I do, so shall ye do. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">The sword</span></span><span class="content"> of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, and of Gideon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.7.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So Gideon, and the hundred men that </span><span class="add"><span class="content">were</span></span><span class="content"> with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that </span><span class="add"><span class="content">were</span></span><span class="content"> in their hands. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow </span><span class="add"><span class="content">withal:</span></span><span class="content"> and they cried, The sword of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content">, and of Gideon. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Beth-shittah in Zererath, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> to the border of Abel-meholah, unto Tabbath. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.7.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">How is the gold become dim!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">How</span></span><span class="content"> is the most fine gold changed!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="content">The stones of the sanctuary are poured out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="content">In the top of every street.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LAM.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The precious sons of Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="content">Comparable to fine gold,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="content">How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="content">The work of the hands of the potter!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LAM.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Even the sea monsters draw out the breast,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="content">They give suck to their young ones:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="content">The daughter of my people </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is become</span></span><span class="content"> cruel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="content">Like the ostriches in the wilderness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LAM.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="content">To the roof of his mouth for thirst:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="content">The young children ask bread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> no man breaketh </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it</span></span><span class="content"> unto them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LAM.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They that did feed delicately</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="content">Are desolate in the streets:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="content">They that were brought up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="content">In scarlet embrace dunghills.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LAM.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="content">Than the punishment of the sin of Sodom,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="content">That was overthrown as in a moment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="content">And no hands stayed on her.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LAM.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Her Nazarites were purer than snow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="content">They were whiter than milk,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="content">They were more ruddy in body than rubies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="content">Their polishing </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> of sapphire:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LAM.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Their visage is blacker than a coal;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="content">They are not known in the streets:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="content">Their skin cleaveth to their bones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="content">It is withered, it is become like a stick.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LAM.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">They that be</span></span><span class="content"> slain with the sword</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="content">Are better than </span><span class="add"><span class="content">they that be</span></span><span class="content"> slain with hunger:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="content">For these pine away, stricken</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="content">Through for </span><span class="add"><span class="content">want of</span></span><span class="content"> the fruits of the field.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LAM.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The hands of the pitiful women</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="content">Have sodden their own children:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="content">They were their meat</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="content">In the destruction of the daughter of my people.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LAM.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> hath accomplished his fury;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="content">He hath poured out his fierce anger,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="content">And hath kindled a fire in Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="content">And it hath devoured the foundations thereof.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LAM.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The kings of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="content">And all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="content">That the adversary and the enemy should have entered</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="content">Into the gates of Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LAM.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For the sins of her prophets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> the iniquities of her priests,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="content">That have shed the blood</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="content">Of the just in the midst of her,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LAM.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They have wandered </span><span class="add"><span class="content">as</span></span><span class="content"> blind </span><span class="add"><span class="content">men</span></span><span class="content"> in the streets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="content">They have polluted themselves with blood,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="content">So that men could not touch</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="content">Their garments.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LAM.4.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">They cried unto them, Depart ye; </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it is</span></span><span class="content"> unclean;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">Depart, depart, touch not:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">When they fled away and wandered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">They said among the heathen,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">They shall no more sojourn </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LAM.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The anger of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">LORD</span></span><span class="content"> hath divided them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="content">He will no more regard them:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="content">They respected not the persons of the priests,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="content">They favoured not the elders.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LAM.4.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">As for us, our eyes as yet failed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="content">For our vain help:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="content">In our watching we have watched</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="content">For a nation </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> could not save </span><span class="add"><span class="content">us</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LAM.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They hunt our steps,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="content">That we cannot go in our streets:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="content">Our end is near, our days are fulfilled;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="content">For our end is come.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LAM.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Our persecutors are swifter</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="content">Than the eagles of the heaven:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="content">They pursued us upon the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="content">They laid wait for us in the wilderness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LAM.4.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The breath of our nostrils, the anointed 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="LAM.4.20"><span class="content">Was taken in their pits,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="content">Of whom we said, Under his shadow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="content">We shall live among the heathen.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LAM.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="content">That dwellest in the land of Uz;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="content">The cup also shall pass through unto thee:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="content">Thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LAM.4.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"><span class="content">He will no more carry thee away into captivity:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"><span class="content">He will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LAM.4.22"><span class="content">He will discover thy sins.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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   <div class="book bkACT">
      <div class="chapter ch26" data-usfm="ACT.26">
         <div class="label">26</div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">Paul's Speech</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.26.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.26.1"><span class="content">Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself: </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.26.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews: </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.26.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">especially </span><span class="add"><span class="content">because I know</span></span><span class="content"> thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.26.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.26.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.26.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.26.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">unto which </span><span class="add"><span class="content">promise</span></span><span class="content"> our twelve tribes, instantly serving </span><span class="add"><span class="content">God</span></span><span class="content"> day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.26.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead? </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.26.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.26.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against </span><span class="add"><span class="content">them</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.26.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled </span><span class="add"><span class="content">them</span></span><span class="content"> to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted </span><span class="add"><span class="content">them</span></span><span class="content"> even unto strange cities.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.26.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.26.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.26.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">at midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.26.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it is</span></span><span class="content"> hard for thee to kick against the pricks.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.26.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.26.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.26.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">delivering thee from the people, and </span><span class="add"><span class="content">from</span></span><span class="content"> the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.26.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">to open their eyes, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> to turn </span><span class="add"><span class="content">them</span></span><span class="content"> from darkness to light, and </span><span class="add"><span class="content">from</span></span><span class="content"> the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.26.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.26.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision: </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.26.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">but shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Jud&#230;a, and </span><span class="add"><span class="content">then</span></span><span class="content"> to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.26.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill </span><span class="add"><span class="content">me</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.26.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come: </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.26.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">that Christ should suffer, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.26.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.26.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.26.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.26.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.26.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.26.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.26.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.26.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.26.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.26.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.26.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.26.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them: </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.26.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">and when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.26.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto C&#230;sar.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bk2JN">
      <div class="chapter ch1" data-usfm="2JN.1">
         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2JN.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2JN.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">for the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2JN.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Grace be with you, mercy, </span><span class="add"><span class="content">and</span></span><span class="content"> peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2JN.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2JN.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2JN.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2JN.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2JN.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2JN.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2JN.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2JN.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into </span><span class="add"><span class="content">your</span></span><span class="content"> house, neither bid him God speed: </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2JN.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">for he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2JN.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2JN.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Having many things to write unto you, I would not </span><span class="add"><span class="content">write</span></span><span class="content"> with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2JN.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bk3JN">
      <div class="chapter ch1" data-usfm="3JN.1">
         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="3JN.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="3JN.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="3JN.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="3JN.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="3JN.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="3JN.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="3JN.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="3JN.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well: </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="3JN.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="3JN.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="3JN.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="3JN.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="3JN.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">them</span></span><span class="content"> out of the church.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="3JN.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="3JN.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="3JN.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="3JN.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Demetrius hath good report of all </span><span class="add"><span class="content">men</span></span><span class="content">, and of the truth itself: yea, and we </span><span class="add"><span class="content">also</span></span><span class="content"> bear record; and ye know that our record is true.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="3JN.1.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="3JN.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee: </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="3JN.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">but I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face. Peace </span><span class="add"><span class="content">be</span></span><span class="content"> to thee. </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Our</span></span><span class="content"> friends salute thee. Greet the friends by name.</span></span></div>
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