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   <div class="book bkLEV">
      <div class="chapter ch9" data-usfm="LEV.9">
         <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Priests Begin Their Ministry</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LEV.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LEV.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He said to Aaron, &#8220;Take a bull calf for your sin offering</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">purification offering</span><span class="ft">; here and throughout this chapter</span></span></span><span class="content"> and a ram for your burnt offering, both without defect, and present them before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LEV.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then say to the Israelites: &#8216;Take a male goat for a sin offering, a calf and a lamb&#8212;both a year old and without defect&#8212;for a burnt offering, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LEV.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">and an ox</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:4 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word can refer to either male or female; also in verses 18 and 19.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and a ram for a fellowship offering to sacrifice before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, together with a grain offering mixed with olive oil. For today the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will appear to you.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LEV.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LEV.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They took the things Moses commanded to the front of the tent of meeting, and the entire assembly came near and stood before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LEV.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then Moses said, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has commanded you to do, so that the glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> may appear to you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LEV.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LEV.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Moses said to Aaron, &#8220;Come to the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering and make atonement for yourself and the people; sacrifice the offering that is for the people and make atonement for them, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has commanded.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LEV.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LEV.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So Aaron came to the altar and slaughtered the calf as a sin offering for himself. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LEV.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">His sons brought the blood to him, and he dipped his finger into the blood and put it on the horns of the altar; the rest of the blood he poured out at the base of the altar. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LEV.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">On the altar he burned the fat, the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver from the sin offering, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LEV.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">the flesh and the hide he burned up outside the camp.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LEV.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LEV.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then he slaughtered the burnt offering. His sons handed him the blood, and he splashed it against the sides of the altar. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LEV.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They handed him the burnt offering piece by piece, including the head, and he burned them on the altar. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LEV.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He washed the internal organs and the legs and burned them on top of the burnt offering on the altar.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LEV.9.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LEV.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Aaron then brought the offering that was for the people. He took the goat for the people&#8217;s sin offering and slaughtered it and offered it for a sin offering as he did with the first one.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LEV.9.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LEV.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He brought the burnt offering and offered it in the prescribed way. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LEV.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He also brought the grain offering, took a handful of it and burned it on the altar in addition to the morning&#8217;s burnt offering.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LEV.9.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LEV.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He slaughtered the ox and the ram as the fellowship offering for the people. His sons handed him the blood, and he splashed it against the sides of the altar. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LEV.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But the fat portions of the ox and the ram&#8212;the fat tail, the layer of fat, the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LEV.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">these they laid on the breasts, and then Aaron burned the fat on the altar. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LEV.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Aaron waved the breasts and the right thigh before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> as a wave offering, as Moses commanded.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LEV.9.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LEV.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then Aaron lifted his hands toward the people and blessed them. And having sacrificed the sin offering, the burnt offering and the fellowship offering, he stepped down.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LEV.9.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LEV.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Moses and Aaron then went into the tent of meeting. When they came out, they blessed the people; and the glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to all the people. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LEV.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Fire came out from the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted for joy and fell facedown.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkLEV">
      <div class="chapter ch10" data-usfm="LEV.10">
         <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Death of Nadab and Abihu</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LEV.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Aaron&#8217;s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense; and they offered unauthorized fire before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, contrary to his command. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LEV.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So fire came out from the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and consumed them, and they died before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LEV.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Moses then said to Aaron, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke of when he said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LEV.10.3"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Among those who approach me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LEV.10.3"><span class="content">I will be proved holy;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LEV.10.3"><span class="content">in the sight of all the people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LEV.10.3"><span class="content">I will be honored.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LEV.10.3"><span class="content">Aaron remained silent.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LEV.10.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LEV.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaron&#8217;s uncle Uzziel, and said to them, &#8220;Come here; carry your cousins outside the camp, away from the front of the sanctuary.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LEV.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So they came and carried them, still in their tunics, outside the camp, as Moses ordered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LEV.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LEV.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, &#8220;Do not let your hair become unkempt</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Do not uncover your heads</span></span></span><span class="content"> and do not tear your clothes, or you will die and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will be angry with the whole community. But your relatives, all the Israelites, may mourn for those the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has destroyed by fire. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LEV.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Do not leave the entrance to the tent of meeting or you will die, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anointing oil is on you.&#8221; So they did as Moses said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LEV.10.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LEV.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Aaron, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LEV.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;You and your sons are not to drink wine or other fermented drink whenever you go into the tent of meeting, or you will die. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LEV.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">so that you can distinguish between the holy and the common, between the unclean and the clean, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LEV.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and so you can teach the Israelites all the decrees the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given them through Moses.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LEV.10.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LEV.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Moses said to Aaron and his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, &#8220;Take the grain offering left over from the food offerings prepared without yeast and presented to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and eat it beside the altar, for it is most holy. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LEV.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Eat it in the sanctuary area, because it is your share and your sons&#8217; share of the food offerings presented to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; for so I have been commanded. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LEV.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But you and your sons and your daughters may eat the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented. Eat them in a ceremonially clean place; they have been given to you and your children as your share of the Israelites&#8217; fellowship offerings. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LEV.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The thigh that was presented and the breast that was waved must be brought with the fat portions of the food offerings, to be waved before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> as a wave offering. This will be the perpetual share for you and your children, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has commanded.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LEV.10.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LEV.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When Moses inquired about the goat of the sin offering</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">purification offering</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 17 and 19</span></span></span><span class="content"> and found that it had been burned up, he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron&#8217;s remaining sons, and asked, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LEV.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why didn&#8217;t you eat the sin offering in the sanctuary area? It is most holy; it was given to you to take away the guilt of the community by making atonement for them before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LEV.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Since its blood was not taken into the Holy Place, you should have eaten the goat in the sanctuary area, as I commanded.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LEV.10.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LEV.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Aaron replied to Moses, &#8220;Today they sacrificed their sin offering and their burnt offering before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, but such things as this have happened to me. Would the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> have been pleased if I had eaten the sin offering today?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LEV.10.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">When Moses heard this, he was satisfied.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkPSA">
      <div class="chapter ch108" data-usfm="PSA.108">
         <div class="label">108</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 108</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 108:1-13 is numbered 108:2-14.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A song. A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.108.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My heart, O God, is steadfast;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.108.1"><span class="content">I will sing and make music with all my soul.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.108.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.108.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Awake, harp and lyre!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.108.2"><span class="content">I will awaken the dawn.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.108.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.108.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I will praise you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, among the nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.108.3"><span class="content">I will sing of you among the peoples.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.108.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.108.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For great is your love, higher than the heavens;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.108.4"><span class="content">your faithfulness reaches to the skies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.108.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.108.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.108.5"><span class="content">let your glory be over all the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.108.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.108.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Save us and help us with your right hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.108.6"><span class="content">that those you love may be delivered.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.108.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.108.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">God has spoken from his sanctuary:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.108.7"><span class="content">&#8220;In triumph I will parcel out Shechem</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.108.7"><span class="content">and measure off the Valley of Sukkoth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.108.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.108.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.108.8"><span class="content">Ephraim is my helmet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.108.8"><span class="content">Judah is my scepter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.108.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.108.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Moab is my washbasin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.108.9"><span class="content">on Edom I toss my sandal;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.108.9"><span class="content">over Philistia I shout in triumph.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.108.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.108.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Who will bring me to the fortified city?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.108.10"><span class="content">Who will lead me to Edom?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.108.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.108.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Is it not you, God, you who have rejected us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.108.11"><span class="content">and no longer go out with our armies?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.108.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.108.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Give us aid against the enemy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.108.12"><span class="content">for human help is worthless.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.108.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.108.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">With God we will gain the victory,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.108.13"><span class="content">and he will trample down our enemies.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch109" data-usfm="PSA.109">
         <div class="label">109</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 109</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.109.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My God, whom I praise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.109.1"><span class="content">do not remain silent,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.109.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.109.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">for people who are wicked and deceitful</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.109.2"><span class="content">have opened their mouths against me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.109.2"><span class="content">they have spoken against me with lying tongues.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.109.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.109.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">With words of hatred they surround me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.109.3"><span class="content">they attack me without cause.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.109.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.109.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In return for my friendship they accuse me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.109.4"><span class="content">but I am a man of prayer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.109.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.109.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They repay me evil for good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.109.5"><span class="content">and hatred for my friendship.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.109.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.109.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Appoint someone evil to oppose my enemy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.109.6"><span class="content">let an accuser stand at his right hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.109.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.109.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When he is tried, let him be found guilty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.109.7"><span class="content">and may his prayers condemn him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.109.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.109.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">May his days be few;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.109.8"><span class="content">may another take his place of leadership.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.109.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.109.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">May his children be fatherless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.109.9"><span class="content">and his wife a widow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.109.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.109.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">May his children be wandering beggars;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.109.10"><span class="content">may they be driven</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">109:10 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">sought</span></span></span><span class="content"> from their ruined homes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.109.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.109.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">May a creditor seize all he has;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.109.11"><span class="content">may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.109.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.109.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">May no one extend kindness to him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.109.12"><span class="content">or take pity on his fatherless children.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.109.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.109.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">May his descendants be cut off,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.109.13"><span class="content">their names blotted out from the next generation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.109.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.109.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.109.14"><span class="content">may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.109.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.109.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">May their sins always remain before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.109.15"><span class="content">that he may blot out their name from the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.109.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.109.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For he never thought of doing a kindness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.109.16"><span class="content">but hounded to death the poor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.109.16"><span class="content">and the needy and the brokenhearted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.109.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.109.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He loved to pronounce a curse&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.109.17"><span class="content">may it come back on him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.109.17"><span class="content">He found no pleasure in blessing&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.109.17"><span class="content">may it be far from him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.109.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.109.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He wore cursing as his garment;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.109.18"><span class="content">it entered into his body like water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.109.18"><span class="content">into his bones like oil.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.109.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.109.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">May it be like a cloak wrapped about him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.109.19"><span class="content">like a belt tied forever around him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.109.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.109.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">May this be the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s payment to my accusers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.109.20"><span class="content">to those who speak evil of me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.109.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.109.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But you, Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.109.21"><span class="content">help me for your name&#8217;s sake;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.109.21"><span class="content">out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.109.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.109.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">For I am poor and needy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.109.22"><span class="content">and my heart is wounded within me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.109.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.109.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I fade away like an evening shadow;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.109.23"><span class="content">I am shaken off like a locust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.109.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.109.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">My knees give way from fasting;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.109.24"><span class="content">my body is thin and gaunt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.109.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.109.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I am an object of scorn to my accusers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.109.25"><span class="content">when they see me, they shake their heads.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.109.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.109.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Help me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.109.26"><span class="content">save me according to your unfailing love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.109.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.109.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Let them know that it is your hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.109.27"><span class="content">that you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, have done it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.109.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.109.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">While they curse, may you bless;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.109.28"><span class="content">may those who attack me be put to shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.109.28"><span class="content">but may your servant rejoice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.109.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.109.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">May my accusers be clothed with disgrace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.109.29"><span class="content">and wrapped in shame as in a cloak.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.109.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.109.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">With my mouth I will greatly extol the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.109.30"><span class="content">in the great throng of worshipers I will praise him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.109.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.109.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">For he stands at the right hand of the needy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.109.31"><span class="content">to save their lives from those who would condemn them.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.1.1"><span class="content">To the church of God in Corinth, together with all his holy people throughout Achaia:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Praise to the God of All Comfort</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CO.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:8 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family; also in 8:1; 13:11.</span></span></span><span class="content"> about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Change of Plans</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, with integrity</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:12 </span><span class="ft">Many manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">holiness</span></span></span><span class="content"> and godly sincerity. We have done so, relying not on worldly wisdom but on God&#8217;s grace. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For we do not write you anything you cannot read or understand. And I hope that, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">as you have understood us in part, you will come to understand fully that you can boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of the Lord Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Because I was confident of this, I wanted to visit you first so that you might benefit twice. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia and to come back to you from Macedonia, and then to have you send me on my way to Judea. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Was I fickle when I intended to do this? Or do I make my plans in a worldly manner so that in the same breath I say both &#8220;Yes, yes&#8221; and &#8220;No, no&#8221;?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.1.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not &#8220;Yes&#8221; and &#8220;No.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CO.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us&#8212;by me and Silas</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:19 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">Silvanus</span><span class="ft">, a variant of </span><span class="fq">Silas</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Timothy&#8212;was not &#8220;Yes&#8221; and &#8220;No,&#8221; but in him it has always been &#8220;Yes.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CO.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">For no matter how many promises God has made, they are &#8220;Yes&#8221; in Christ. And so through him the &#8220;Amen&#8221; is spoken by us to the glory of God. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CO.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CO.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CO.1.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CO.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I call God as my witness&#8212;and I stake my life on it&#8212;that it was in order to spare you that I did not return to Corinth. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CO.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, because it is by faith you stand firm.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="nb"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">So I made up my mind that I would not make another painful visit to you. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For if I grieve you, who is left to make me glad but you whom I have grieved? </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I wrote as I did, so that when I came I would not be distressed by those who should have made me rejoice. I had confidence in all of you, that you would all share my joy. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the depth of my love for you.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Forgiveness for the Offender</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.2.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">If anyone has caused grief, he has not so much grieved me as he has grieved all of you to some extent&#8212;not to put it too severely. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The punishment inflicted on him by the majority is sufficient. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CO.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I urge you, therefore, to reaffirm your love for him. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Another reason I wrote you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Anyone you forgive, I also forgive. And what I have forgiven&#8212;if there was anything to forgive&#8212;I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ministers of the New Covenant</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Now when I went to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ and found that the Lord had opened a door for me, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I still had no peace of mind, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ&#8217;s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task? </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God.</span></span></div>
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