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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 ch38" data-usfm="PSA.38">
         <div class="label">38</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 38</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 38:1-22 is numbered 38:2-23.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of David. A petition.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.38.1"><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.38.1"><span class="content">or discipline me in your wrath.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.38.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.38.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Your arrows have pierced me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.38.2"><span class="content">and your hand has come down on me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.38.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.38.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Because of your wrath there is no health in my body;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.38.3"><span class="content">there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.38.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.38.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">My guilt has overwhelmed me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.38.4"><span class="content">like a burden too heavy to bear.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.38.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.38.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My wounds fester and are loathsome</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.38.5"><span class="content">because of my sinful folly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.38.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.38.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I am bowed down and brought very low;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.38.6"><span class="content">all day long I go about mourning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.38.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.38.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">My back is filled with searing pain;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.38.7"><span class="content">there is no health in my body.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.38.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.38.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I am feeble and utterly crushed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.38.8"><span class="content">I groan in anguish of heart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.38.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.38.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">All my longings lie open before you, Lord;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.38.9"><span class="content">my sighing is not hidden from you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.38.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.38.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">My heart pounds, my strength fails me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.38.10"><span class="content">even the light has gone from my eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.38.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.38.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.38.11"><span class="content">my neighbors stay far away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.38.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.38.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Those who want to kill me set their traps,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.38.12"><span class="content">those who would harm me talk of my ruin;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.38.12"><span class="content">all day long they scheme and lie.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.38.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.38.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I am like the deaf, who cannot hear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.38.13"><span class="content">like the mute, who cannot speak;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.38.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.38.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I have become like one who does not hear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.38.14"><span class="content">whose mouth can offer no reply.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.38.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.38.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I wait for you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.38.15"><span class="content">you will answer, Lord my God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.38.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.38.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For I said, &#8220;Do not let them gloat</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.38.16"><span class="content">or exalt themselves over me when my feet slip.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.38.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.38.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For I am about to fall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.38.17"><span class="content">and my pain is ever with me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.38.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.38.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I confess my iniquity;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.38.18"><span class="content">I am troubled by my sin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.38.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.38.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Many have become my enemies without cause</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">38:19 </span><span class="ft">One Dead Sea Scrolls manuscript; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">my vigorous enemies</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.38.19"><span class="content">those who hate me without reason are numerous.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.38.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.38.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Those who repay my good with evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.38.20"><span class="content">lodge accusations against me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.38.20"><span class="content">though I seek only to do what is good.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.38.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.38.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do not forsake me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.38.21"><span class="content">do not be far from me, my God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.38.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.38.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Come quickly to help me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.38.22"><span class="content">my Lord and my Savior.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">39</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 39</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 39:1-13 is numbered 39:2-14.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.39.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I said, &#8220;I will watch my ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.39.1"><span class="content">and keep my tongue from sin;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.39.1"><span class="content">I will put a muzzle on my mouth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.39.1"><span class="content">while in the presence of the wicked.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.39.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.39.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So I remained utterly silent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.39.2"><span class="content">not even saying anything good.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.39.2"><span class="content">But my anguish increased;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.39.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.39.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">my heart grew hot within me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.39.3"><span class="content">While I meditated, the fire burned;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.39.3"><span class="content">then I spoke with my tongue:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.39.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.39.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Show me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my life&#8217;s end</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.39.4"><span class="content">and the number of my days;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.39.4"><span class="content">let me know how fleeting my life is.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.39.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.39.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You have made my days a mere handbreadth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.39.5"><span class="content">the span of my years is as nothing before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.39.5"><span class="content">Everyone is but a breath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.39.5"><span class="content">even those who seem secure.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">39:5 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 11.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.39.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.39.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.39.6"><span class="content">in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.39.6"><span class="content">without knowing whose it will finally be.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.39.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.39.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;But now, Lord, what do I look for?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.39.7"><span class="content">My hope is in you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.39.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.39.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Save me from all my transgressions;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.39.8"><span class="content">do not make me the scorn of fools.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.39.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.39.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I was silent; I would not open my mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.39.9"><span class="content">for you are the one who has done this.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.39.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.39.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Remove your scourge from me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.39.10"><span class="content">I am overcome by the blow of your hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.39.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.39.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When you rebuke and discipline anyone for their sin,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.39.11"><span class="content">you consume their wealth like a moth&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.39.11"><span class="content">surely everyone is but a breath.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.39.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.39.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Hear my prayer, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.39.12"><span class="content">listen to my cry for help;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.39.12"><span class="content">do not be deaf to my weeping.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.39.12"><span class="content">I dwell with you as a foreigner,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.39.12"><span class="content">a stranger, as all my ancestors were.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.39.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.39.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Look away from me, that I may enjoy life again</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.39.13"><span class="content">before I depart and am no more.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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