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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">From Adam to Noah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is the written account of Adam&#8217;s family line.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.5.1"><span class="content">When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them &#8220;Mankind&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:2 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">adam</span></span></span><span class="content"> when they were created.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:6 </span><span class="fq">Father </span><span class="ft">may mean </span><span class="fqa">ancestor</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 7-26.</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Enosh. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">After he became the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Altogether, Seth lived a total of 912 years, and then he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When Enosh had lived 90 years, he became the father of Kenan. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">After he became the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Altogether, Enosh lived a total of 905 years, and then he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When Kenan had lived 70 years, he became the father of Mahalalel. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">After he became the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Altogether, Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.5.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he became the father of Jared. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">After he became the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Altogether, Mahalalel lived a total of 895 years, and then he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.5.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">After he became the father of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Altogether, Jared lived a total of 962 years, and then he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.5.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.5.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.5.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.5.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.5.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">After he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.5.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Altogether, Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.5.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.5.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.5.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">He named him Noah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:29 </span><span class="fq">Noah </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">comfort</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and said, &#8220;He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has cursed.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="GEN.5.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">After Noah was born, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.5.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Altogether, Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="GEN.5.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="GEN.5.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Wickedness in the World</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;My Spirit will not contend with</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">My spirit will not remain in</span></span></span><span class="content"> humans forever, for they are mortal</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">corrupt</span></span></span><span class="content">; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The Nephilim were on the earth in those days&#8212;and also afterward&#8212;when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created&#8212;and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground&#8212;for I regret that I have made them.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But Noah found favor in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Noah and the Flood</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">This is the account of Noah and his family.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.6.9"><span class="content">Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now the earth was corrupt in God&#8217;s sight and was full of violence. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So God said to Noah, &#8220;I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So make yourself an ark of cypress</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:14 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:15 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high or about 135 meters long, 23 meters wide and 14 meters high</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:16 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 18 inches or about 45 centimeters</span></span></span><span class="content"> high all around.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:16 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark&#8212;you and your sons and your wife and your sons&#8217; wives with you. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.6.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Noah did everything just as God commanded him.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 6</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 6:1-10 is numbered 6:2-11.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. With stringed instruments. According to </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">sheminith.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do not rebuke me in your anger</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.6.1"><span class="content">or discipline me in your wrath.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.6.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Have mercy on me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, for I am faint;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.6.2"><span class="content">heal me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, for my bones are in agony.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.6.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">My soul is in deep anguish.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.6.3"><span class="content">How long, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, how long?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Turn, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and deliver me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.6.4"><span class="content">save me because of your unfailing love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Among the dead no one proclaims your name.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.6.5"><span class="content">Who praises you from the grave?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.6.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I am worn out from my groaning.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.6.6"><span class="content">All night long I flood my bed with weeping</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.6.6"><span class="content">and drench my couch with tears.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">My eyes grow weak with sorrow;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.6.7"><span class="content">they fail because of all my foes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.6.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Away from me, all you who do evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.6.8"><span class="content">for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has heard my weeping.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has heard my cry for mercy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.6.9"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> accepts my prayer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.6.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">All my enemies will be overwhelmed with shame and anguish;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.6.10"><span class="content">they will turn back and suddenly be put to shame.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 7</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 7:1-17 is numbered 7:2-18.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">shiggaion</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of David, which he sang to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> concerning Cush, a Benjamite.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God, I take refuge in you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.7.1"><span class="content">save and deliver me from all who pursue me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">or they will tear me apart like a lion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.7.2"><span class="content">and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God, if I have done this</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.7.3"><span class="content">and there is guilt on my hands&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">if I have repaid my ally with evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.7.4"><span class="content">or without cause have robbed my foe&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">then let my enemy pursue and overtake me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.7.5"><span class="content">let him trample my life to the ground</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.7.5"><span class="content">and make me sleep in the dust.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:5 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Arise, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, in your anger;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.7.6"><span class="content">rise up against the rage of my enemies.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.7.6"><span class="content">Awake, my God; decree justice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Let the assembled peoples gather around you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.7.7"><span class="content">while you sit enthroned over them on high.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Let the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> judge the peoples.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.7.8"><span class="content">Vindicate me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, according to my righteousness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.7.8"><span class="content">according to my integrity, O Most High.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Bring to an end the violence of the wicked</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.7.9"><span class="content">and make the righteous secure&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.7.9"><span class="content">you, the righteous God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.7.9"><span class="content">who probes minds and hearts.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My shield</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">sovereign</span></span></span><span class="content"> is God Most High,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.7.10"><span class="content">who saves the upright in heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">God is a righteous judge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.7.11"><span class="content">a God who displays his wrath every day.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If he does not relent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.7.12"><span class="content">he</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">If anyone does not repent, / God</span></span></span><span class="content"> will sharpen his sword;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.7.12"><span class="content">he will bend and string his bow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He has prepared his deadly weapons;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.7.13"><span class="content">he makes ready his flaming arrows.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Whoever is pregnant with evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.7.14"><span class="content">conceives trouble and gives birth to disillusionment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Whoever digs a hole and scoops it out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.7.15"><span class="content">falls into the pit they have made.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The trouble they cause recoils on them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.7.16"><span class="content">their violence comes down on their own heads.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I will give thanks to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> because of his righteousness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.7.17"><span class="content">I will sing the praises of the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Most High.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 8</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 8:1-9 is numbered 8:2-10.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. According to </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">gittith.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, our Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.8.1"><span class="content">how majestic is your name in all the earth!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.8.1"><span class="content">You have set your glory</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.8.1"><span class="content">in the heavens.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.8.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Through the praise of children and infants</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.8.2"><span class="content">you have established a stronghold against your enemies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.8.2"><span class="content">to silence the foe and the avenger.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.8.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When I consider your heavens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.8.3"><span class="content">the work of your fingers,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.8.3"><span class="content">the moon and the stars,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.8.3"><span class="content">which you have set in place,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.8.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">what is mankind that you are mindful of them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.8.4"><span class="content">human beings that you care for them?</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">what is a human being that you are mindful of him, / a son of man that you care for him?</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You have made them</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">him</span></span></span><span class="content"> a little lower than the angels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">than God</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.8.5"><span class="content">and crowned them</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">him</span></span></span><span class="content"> with glory and honor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You made them rulers over the works of your hands;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.8.6"><span class="content">you put everything under their</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">made him ruler&#8230;; / &#8230;his</span></span></span><span class="content"> feet:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">all flocks and herds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.8.7"><span class="content">and the animals of the wild,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">the birds in the sky,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.8.8"><span class="content">and the fish in the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.8.8"><span class="content">all that swim the paths of the seas.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, our Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.8.9"><span class="content">how majestic is your name in all the earth!</span></span></div>
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