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         <div class="label">20</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Punishments for Sin</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LEV.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LEV.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say to the Israelites: &#8216;Any Israelite or any foreigner residing in Israel who sacrifices any of his children to Molek is to be put to death. The members of the community are to stone him. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LEV.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I myself will set my face against him and will cut him off from his people; for by sacrificing his children to Molek, he has defiled my sanctuary and profaned my holy name. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LEV.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">If the members of the community close their eyes when that man sacrifices one of his children to Molek and if they fail to put him to death, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LEV.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I myself will set my face against him and his family and will cut them off from their people together with all who follow him in prostituting themselves to Molek.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LEV.20.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LEV.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I will set my face against anyone who turns to mediums and spiritists to prostitute themselves by following them, and I will cut them off from their people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LEV.20.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LEV.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LEV.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Keep my decrees and follow them. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who makes you holy.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LEV.20.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LEV.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death. Because they have cursed their father or mother, their blood will be on their own head.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LEV.20.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LEV.20.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a man commits adultery with another man&#8217;s wife&#8212;with the wife of his neighbor&#8212;both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LEV.20.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LEV.20.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a man has sexual relations with his father&#8217;s wife, he has dishonored his father. Both the man and the woman are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LEV.20.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LEV.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a man has sexual relations with his daughter-in-law, both of them are to be put to death. What they have done is a perversion; their blood will be on their own heads.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LEV.20.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LEV.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LEV.20.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LEV.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is wicked. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that no wickedness will be among you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LEV.20.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LEV.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he is to be put to death, and you must kill the animal.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LEV.20.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LEV.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a woman approaches an animal to have sexual relations with it, kill both the woman and the animal. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LEV.20.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LEV.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They are to be publicly removed from their people. He has dishonored his sister and will be held responsible.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LEV.20.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LEV.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a man has sexual relations with a woman during her monthly period, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has also uncovered it. Both of them are to be cut off from their people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LEV.20.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LEV.20.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not have sexual relations with the sister of either your mother or your father, for that would dishonor a close relative; both of you would be held responsible.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LEV.20.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LEV.20.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a man has sexual relations with his aunt, he has dishonored his uncle. They will be held responsible; they will die childless.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LEV.20.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LEV.20.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a man marries his brother&#8217;s wife, it is an act of impurity; he has dishonored his brother. They will be childless.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LEV.20.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LEV.20.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Keep all my decrees and laws and follow them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LEV.20.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">You must not live according to the customs of the nations I am going to drive out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LEV.20.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But I said to you, &#8220;You will possess their land; I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey.&#8221; I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, who has set you apart from the nations.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LEV.20.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LEV.20.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;You must therefore make a distinction between clean and unclean animals and between unclean and clean birds. Do not defile yourselves by any animal or bird or anything that moves along the ground&#8212;those that I have set apart as unclean for you. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LEV.20.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">You are to be holy to me because I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LEV.20.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LEV.20.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death. You are to stone them; their blood will be on their own heads.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch21" data-usfm="LEV.21">
         <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Rules for Priests</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LEV.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: &#8216;A priest must not make himself ceremonially unclean for any of his people who die, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LEV.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">except for a close relative, such as his mother or father, his son or daughter, his brother, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LEV.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">or an unmarried sister who is dependent on him since she has no husband&#8212;for her he may make himself unclean. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LEV.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He must not make himself unclean for people related to him by marriage,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">unclean as a leader among his people</span></span></span><span class="content"> and so defile himself.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LEV.21.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LEV.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Priests must not shave their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or cut their bodies. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LEV.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They must be holy to their God and must not profane the name of their God. Because they present the food offerings to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the food of their God, they are to be holy.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LEV.21.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LEV.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands, because priests are holy to their God. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LEV.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Regard them as holy, because they offer up the food of your God. Consider them holy, because I the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> am holy&#8212;I who make you holy.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LEV.21.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LEV.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;If a priest&#8217;s daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she must be burned in the fire.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LEV.21.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LEV.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The high priest, the one among his brothers who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and who has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his hair become unkempt</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">not uncover his head</span></span></span><span class="content"> or tear his clothes. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LEV.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">He must not enter a place where there is a dead body. He must not make himself unclean, even for his father or mother, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LEV.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">nor leave the sanctuary of his God or desecrate it, because he has been dedicated by the anointing oil of his God. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LEV.21.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LEV.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The woman he marries must be a virgin. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LEV.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin from his own people, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LEV.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">so that he will not defile his offspring among his people. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who makes him holy.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LEV.21.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LEV.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LEV.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say to Aaron: &#8216;For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LEV.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">No man who has any defect may come near: no man who is blind or lame, disfigured or deformed; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LEV.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">no man with a crippled foot or hand, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LEV.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">or who is a hunchback or a dwarf, or who has any eye defect, or who has festering or running sores or damaged testicles. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LEV.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">No descendant of Aaron the priest who has any defect is to come near to present the food offerings to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. He has a defect; he must not come near to offer the food of his God. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LEV.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He may eat the most holy food of his God, as well as the holy food; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LEV.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">yet because of his defect, he must not go near the curtain or approach the altar, and so desecrate my sanctuary. I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who makes them holy.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LEV.21.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LEV.21.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">So Moses told this to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkPSA">
      <div class="chapter ch49" data-usfm="PSA.49">
         <div class="label">49</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 49</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 49:1-20 is numbered 49:2-21.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.49.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear this, all you peoples;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.49.1"><span class="content">listen, all who live in this world,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.49.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.49.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">both low and high,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.49.2"><span class="content">rich and poor alike:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.49.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.49.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">My mouth will speak words of wisdom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.49.3"><span class="content">the meditation of my heart will give you understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.49.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.49.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I will turn my ear to a proverb;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.49.4"><span class="content">with the harp I will expound my riddle:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.49.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.49.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Why should I fear when evil days come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.49.5"><span class="content">when wicked deceivers surround me&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.49.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.49.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">those who trust in their wealth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.49.6"><span class="content">and boast of their great riches?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.49.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.49.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">No one can redeem the life of another</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.49.7"><span class="content">or give to God a ransom for them&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.49.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.49.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">the ransom for a life is costly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.49.8"><span class="content">no payment is ever enough&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.49.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.49.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">so that they should live on forever</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.49.9"><span class="content">and not see decay.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.49.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.49.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For all can see that the wise die,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.49.10"><span class="content">that the foolish and the senseless also perish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.49.10"><span class="content">leaving their wealth to others.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.49.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.49.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Their tombs will remain their houses</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:11 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">In their thoughts their houses will remain</span></span></span><span class="content"> forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.49.11"><span class="content">their dwellings for endless generations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.49.11"><span class="content">though they had</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">generations, / for they have</span></span></span><span class="content"> named lands after themselves.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.49.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.49.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">People, despite their wealth, do not endure;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.49.12"><span class="content">they are like the beasts that perish.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.49.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.49.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">This is the fate of those who trust in themselves,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.49.13"><span class="content">and of their followers, who approve their sayings.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:13 </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 15.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.49.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.49.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They are like sheep and are destined to die;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.49.14"><span class="content">death will be their shepherd</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.49.14"><span class="content">(but the upright will prevail over them in the morning).</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.49.14"><span class="content">Their forms will decay in the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.49.14"><span class="content">far from their princely mansions.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.49.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.49.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But God will redeem me from the realm of the dead;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.49.15"><span class="content">he will surely take me to himself.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.49.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.49.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Do not be overawed when others grow rich,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.49.16"><span class="content">when the splendor of their houses increases;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.49.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.49.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">for they will take nothing with them when they die,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.49.17"><span class="content">their splendor will not descend with them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.49.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.49.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Though while they live they count themselves blessed&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.49.18"><span class="content">and people praise you when you prosper&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.49.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.49.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">they will join those who have gone before them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.49.19"><span class="content">who will never again see the light of life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.49.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.49.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">People who have wealth but lack understanding</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.49.20"><span class="content">are like the beasts that perish.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">50</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 50</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of Asaph.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The Mighty One, God, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="content">speaks and summons the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="content">from the rising of the sun to where it sets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.50.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">From Zion, perfect in beauty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.50.2"><span class="content">God shines forth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.50.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Our God comes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">and will not be silent;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">a fire devours before him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">and around him a tempest rages.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.50.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He summons the heavens above,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.50.4"><span class="content">and the earth, that he may judge his people:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.50.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.50.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Gather to me this consecrated people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.50.5"><span class="content">who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.50.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.50.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And the heavens proclaim his righteousness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.50.6"><span class="content">for he is a God of justice.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:6 </span><span class="ft">With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">for God himself is judge</span></span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:6 </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 v6" data-usfm="PSA.50.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen, my people, and I will speak;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="content">I will testify against you, Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="content">I am God, your God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.50.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I bring no charges against you concerning your sacrifices</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.50.8"><span class="content">or concerning your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.50.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.50.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I have no need of a bull from your stall</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.50.9"><span class="content">or of goats from your pens,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.50.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.50.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">for every animal of the forest is mine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.50.10"><span class="content">and the cattle on a thousand hills.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.50.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.50.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I know every bird in the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.50.11"><span class="content">and the insects in the fields are mine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.50.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.50.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If I were hungry I would not tell you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.50.12"><span class="content">for the world is mine, and all that is in it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.50.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.50.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Do I eat the flesh of bulls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.50.13"><span class="content">or drink the blood of goats?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.50.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.50.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Sacrifice thank offerings to God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.50.14"><span class="content">fulfill your vows to the Most High,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.50.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.50.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and call on me in the day of trouble;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.50.15"><span class="content">I will deliver you, and you will honor me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.50.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But to the wicked person, God says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="content">&#8220;What right have you to recite my laws</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="content">or take my covenant on your lips?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.50.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">You hate my instruction</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.50.17"><span class="content">and cast my words behind you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.50.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.50.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When you see a thief, you join with him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.50.18"><span class="content">you throw in your lot with adulterers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.50.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.50.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You use your mouth for evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.50.19"><span class="content">and harness your tongue to deceit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.50.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.50.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You sit and testify against your brother</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.50.20"><span class="content">and slander your own mother&#8217;s son.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.50.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When you did these things and I kept silent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">you thought I was exactly</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">thought the &#8216;<span class="nd">I am</span>&#8217; was</span></span></span><span class="content"> like you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">But I now arraign you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">and set my accusations before you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.50.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Consider this, you who forget God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.50.22"><span class="content">or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.50.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.50.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Those who sacrifice thank offerings honor me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.50.23"><span class="content">and to the blameless</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:23 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; the meaning of the Masoretic Text for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> I will show my salvation.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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