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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;My lords,&#8221; he said, &#8220;please turn aside to your servant&#8217;s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.19.2"><span class="content">&#8220;No,&#8221; they answered, &#8220;we will spend the night in the square.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.19.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom&#8212;both young and old&#8212;surrounded the house. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They called to Lot, &#8220;Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.19.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and said, &#8220;No, my friends. Don&#8217;t do this wicked thing. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don&#8217;t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.19.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Get out of our way,&#8221; they replied. &#8220;This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We&#8217;ll treat you worse than them.&#8221; They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.19.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.19.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The two men said to Lot, &#8220;Do you have anyone else here&#8212;sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.19.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">19:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">were married to</span></span></span><span class="content"> his daughters. He said, &#8220;Hurry and get out of this place, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is about to destroy the city!&#8221; But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.19.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, &#8220;Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.19.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was merciful to them. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, &#8220;Flee for your lives! Don&#8217;t look back, and don&#8217;t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.19.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But Lot said to them, &#8220;No, my lords,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">19:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">No, Lord</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">No, my lord</span></span></span><span class="content"> please! </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Your</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">19:19 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is singular.</span></span></span><span class="content"> servant has found favor in your</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">19:19 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is singular.</span></span></span><span class="content"> eyes, and you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">19:19 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is singular.</span></span></span><span class="content"> have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can&#8217;t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I&#8217;ll die. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it&#8212;it is very small, isn&#8217;t it? Then my life will be spared.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.19.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He said to him, &#8220;Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.&#8221; (That is why the town was called Zoar.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">19:22 </span><span class="fq">Zoar </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">small.</span></span></span><span class="content">)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.19.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah&#8212;from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> out of the heavens. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities&#8212;and also the vegetation in the land. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">But Lot&#8217;s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.19.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.19.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Lot and His Daughters</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.19.29"></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.19.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.19.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">One day the older daughter said to the younger, &#8220;Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children&#8212;as is the custom all over the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.19.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Let&#8217;s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.19.32"></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.19.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="GEN.19.33"></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="GEN.19.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">The next day the older daughter said to the younger, &#8220;Last night I slept with my father. Let&#8217;s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.19.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="GEN.19.35"></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="GEN.19.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">So both of Lot&#8217;s daughters became pregnant by their father. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="GEN.19.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">19:37 </span><span class="fq">Moab </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fqa">from father.</span></span></span><span class="content">; he is the father of the Moabites of today. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="GEN.19.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">19:38 </span><span class="fq">Ben-Ammi </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">son of my father&#8217;s people.</span></span></span><span class="content">; he is the father of the Ammonites</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">19:38 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Bene-Ammon</span></span></span><span class="content"> of today.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 22</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 22:1-31 is numbered 22:2-32.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. To the tune of &#8220;The Doe of the Morning.&#8221; A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.22.1"><span class="content">Why are you so far from saving me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.22.1"><span class="content">so far from my cries of anguish?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.22.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.22.2"><span class="content">by night, but I find no rest.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">22:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">night, and am not silent</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.22.2"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.22.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.22.3"><span class="content">you are the one Israel praises.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">22:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Yet you are holy, / enthroned on the praises of Israel</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.22.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In you our ancestors put their trust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.22.4"><span class="content">they trusted and you delivered them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.22.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">To you they cried out and were saved;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.22.5"><span class="content">in you they trusted and were not put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.22.5"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.22.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But I am a worm and not a man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.22.6"><span class="content">scorned by everyone, despised by the people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.22.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All who see me mock me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.22.7"><span class="content">they hurl insults, shaking their heads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.22.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;He trusts in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,&#8221; they say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"><span class="content">&#8220;let the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> rescue him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"><span class="content">Let him deliver him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"><span class="content">since he delights in him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.22.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Yet you brought me out of the womb;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.22.9"><span class="content">you made me trust in you, even at my mother&#8217;s breast.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.22.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">From birth I was cast on you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.22.10"><span class="content">from my mother&#8217;s womb you have been my God.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.22.10"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.22.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Do not be far from me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.22.11"><span class="content">for trouble is near</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.22.11"><span class="content">and there is no one to help.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.22.11"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.22.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Many bulls surround me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.22.12"><span class="content">strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.22.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Roaring lions that tear their prey</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.22.13"><span class="content">open their mouths wide against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.22.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I am poured out like water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"><span class="content">and all my bones are out of joint.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"><span class="content">My heart has turned to wax;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"><span class="content">it has melted within me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.22.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My mouth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">22:15 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">strength</span></span></span><span class="content"> is dried up like a potsherd,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.22.15"><span class="content">and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.22.15"><span class="content">you lay me in the dust of death.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.22.15"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.22.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Dogs surround me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.22.16"><span class="content">a pack of villains encircles me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.22.16"><span class="content">they pierce</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">22:16 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls and some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Septuagint and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">me, / like a lion</span></span></span><span class="content"> my hands and my feet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.22.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">All my bones are on display;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.22.17"><span class="content">people stare and gloat over me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.22.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They divide my clothes among them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.22.18"><span class="content">and cast lots for my garment.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.22.18"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.22.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do not be far from me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.22.19"><span class="content">You are my strength; come quickly to help me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.22.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Deliver me from the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.22.20"><span class="content">my precious life from the power of the dogs.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.22.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Rescue me from the mouth of the lions;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.22.21"><span class="content">save me from the horns of the wild oxen.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.22.21"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.22.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I will declare your name to my people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.22.22"><span class="content">in the assembly I will praise you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.22.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">You who fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, praise him!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.22.23"><span class="content">All you descendants of Jacob, honor him!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.22.23"><span class="content">Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.22.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For he has not despised or scorned</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.22.24"><span class="content">the suffering of the afflicted one;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.22.24"><span class="content">he has not hidden his face from him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.22.24"><span class="content">but has listened to his cry for help.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.22.24"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.22.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.22.25"><span class="content">before those who fear you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">22:25 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">him</span></span></span><span class="content"> I will fulfill my vows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.22.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The poor will eat and be satisfied;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.22.26"><span class="content">those who seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will praise him&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.22.26"><span class="content">may your hearts live forever!</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.22.26"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.22.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">All the ends of the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.22.27"><span class="content">will remember and turn to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.22.27"><span class="content">and all the families of the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.22.27"><span class="content">will bow down before him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.22.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">for dominion belongs to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.22.28"><span class="content">and he rules over the nations.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.22.28"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.22.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">All the rich of the earth will feast and worship;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.22.29"><span class="content">all who go down to the dust will kneel before him&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.22.29"><span class="content">those who cannot keep themselves alive.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.22.29"></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Posterity will serve him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.22.30"><span class="content">future generations will be told about the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.22.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.22.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">They will proclaim his righteousness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.22.31"><span class="content">declaring to a people yet unborn:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.22.31"><span class="content">He has done 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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, &#8220;Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.12.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Haven&#8217;t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread&#8212;which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Or haven&#8217;t you read in the Law that the priests on Sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are innocent?</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If you had known what these words mean, &#8216;I desire mercy, not sacrifice,&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">12:7 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="HOS.6.6">Hosea 6:6</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">you would not have condemned the innocent.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.12.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Going on from that place, he went into their synagogue, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and a man with a shriveled hand was there. Looking for a reason to bring charges against Jesus, they asked him, &#8220;Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.12.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out?</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.12.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then he said to the man, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Stretch out your hand.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> So he stretched it out and it was completely restored, just as sound as the other. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Chosen Servant</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.12.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Aware of this, Jesus withdrew from that place. A large crowd followed him, and he healed all who were ill. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He warned them not to tell others about him. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.12.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.12.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Here is my servant whom I have chosen,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.12.18"><span class="content">the one I love, in whom I delight;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.12.18"><span class="content">I will put my Spirit on him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.12.18"><span class="content">and he will proclaim justice to the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.12.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.12.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He will not quarrel or cry out;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.12.19"><span class="content">no one will hear his voice in the streets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.12.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.12.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">A bruised reed he will not break,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.12.20"><span class="content">and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.12.20"><span class="content">till he has brought justice through to victory.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.12.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.12.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">In his name the nations will put their hope.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">12:21 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="ISA.42.1+ISA.42.2+ISA.42.3+ISA.42.4">Isaiah 42:1-4</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus and Beelzebul</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.12.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.12.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then they brought him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute, and Jesus healed him, so that he could both talk and see. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.12.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">All the people were astonished and said, &#8220;Could this be the Son of David?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.12.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.12.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, &#8220;It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this fellow drives out demons.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.12.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.12.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.12.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then can his kingdom stand?</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.12.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your people drive them out? So then, they will be your judges.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.12.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But if it is by the Spirit of God that I drive out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.12.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.12.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man&#8217;s house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.12.29"></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.12.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MAT.12.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.12.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MAT.12.32"></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MAT.12.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MAT.12.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MAT.12.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MAT.12.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MAT.12.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Sign of Jonah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MAT.12.37"></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MAT.12.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, &#8220;Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MAT.12.38"></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="MAT.12.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">He answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MAT.12.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="MAT.12.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now something greater than Jonah is here.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MAT.12.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon&#8217;s wisdom, and now something greater than Solomon is here.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MAT.12.42"></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="MAT.12.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.12.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Then it says, &#8216;I will return to the house I left.&#8217; When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="MAT.12.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus&#8217; Mother and Brothers</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="MAT.12.45"></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="MAT.12.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="MAT.12.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">Someone told him, &#8220;Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="MAT.12.47"></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="MAT.12.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">He replied to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="MAT.12.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">Pointing to his disciples, he said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Here are my mother and my brothers.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="MAT.12.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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