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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, they answered the king:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.12.16"><span class="content">&#8220;What share do we have in David,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.12.16"><span class="content">what part in Jesse&#8217;s son?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.12.16"><span class="content">To your tents, Israel!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.12.16"><span class="content">Look after your own house, David!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.12.16"><span class="content">So the Israelites went home. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1KI.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But as for the Israelites who were living in the towns of Judah, Rehoboam still ruled over them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1KI.12.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1KI.12.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">King Rehoboam sent out Adoniram,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">12:18 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac (see also 4:6 and 5:14); Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Adoram</span></span></span><span class="content"> who was in charge of forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam, however, managed to get into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1KI.12.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1KI.12.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1KI.12.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">When all the Israelites heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the house of David.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1KI.12.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1KI.12.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mustered all Judah and the tribe of Benjamin&#8212;a hundred and eighty thousand able young men&#8212;to go to war against Israel and to regain the kingdom for Rehoboam son of Solomon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1KI.12.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1KI.12.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But this word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God: </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1KI.12.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah, to all Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1KI.12.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Do not go up to fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Go home, every one of you, for this is my doing.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; So they obeyed the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and went home again, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had ordered.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Golden Calves at Bethel and Dan</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1KI.12.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1KI.12.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Then Jeroboam fortified Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. From there he went out and built up Peniel.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">12:25 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Penuel, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Peniel</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1KI.12.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1KI.12.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Jeroboam thought to himself, &#8220;The kingdom will now likely revert to the house of David. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1KI.12.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">If these people go up to offer sacrifices at the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in Jerusalem, they will again give their allegiance to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah. They will kill me and return to King Rehoboam.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1KI.12.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1KI.12.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves. He said to the people, &#8220;It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1KI.12.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">One he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1KI.12.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">And this thing became a sin; the people came to worship the one at Bethel and went as far as Dan to worship the other.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">12:30 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">people went to the one as far as Dan</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1KI.12.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1KI.12.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Jeroboam built shrines on high places and appointed priests from all sorts of people, even though they were not Levites. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1KI.12.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">He instituted a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival held in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. This he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves he had made. And at Bethel he also installed priests at the high places he had made. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="1KI.12.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, he offered sacrifices on the altar he had built at Bethel. So he instituted the festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to make offerings.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, they answered the king:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.10.16"><span class="content">&#8220;What share do we have in David,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.10.16"><span class="content">what part in Jesse&#8217;s son?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.10.16"><span class="content">To your tents, Israel!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.10.16"><span class="content">Look after your own house, David!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.10.16"><span class="content">So all the Israelites went home. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But as for the Israelites who were living in the towns of Judah, Rehoboam still ruled over them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.10.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">King Rehoboam sent out Adoniram,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">10:18 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Hadoram, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Adoniram</span></span></span><span class="content"> who was in charge of forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. King Rehoboam, however, managed to get into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mustered Judah and Benjamin&#8212;a hundred and eighty thousand able young men&#8212;to go to war against Israel and to regain the kingdom for Rehoboam.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.11.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But this word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to Shemaiah the man of God: </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Do not go up to fight against your fellow Israelites. Go home, every one of you, for this is my doing.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; So they obeyed the words of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and turned back from marching against Jeroboam.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Man of God From Judah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1KI.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">By the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> a man of God came from Judah to Bethel, as Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make an offering. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1KI.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">By the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> he cried out against the altar: &#8220;Altar, altar! This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who make offerings here, and human bones will be burned on you.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1KI.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">That same day the man of God gave a sign: &#8220;This is the sign the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has declared: The altar will be split apart and the ashes on it will be poured out.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1KI.13.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1KI.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When King Jeroboam heard what the man of God cried out against the altar at Bethel, he stretched out his hand from the altar and said, &#8220;Seize him!&#8221; But the hand he stretched out toward the man shriveled up, so that he could not pull it back. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1KI.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Also, the altar was split apart and its ashes poured out according to the sign given by the man of God by the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1KI.13.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1KI.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then the king said to the man of God, &#8220;Intercede with the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored.&#8221; So the man of God interceded with the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and the king&#8217;s hand was restored and became as it was before.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1KI.13.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1KI.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The king said to the man of God, &#8220;Come home with me for a meal, and I will give you a gift.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1KI.13.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1KI.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But the man of God answered the king, &#8220;Even if you were to give me half your possessions, I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water here. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1KI.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For I was commanded by the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: &#8216;You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1KI.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So he took another road and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1KI.13.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1KI.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now there was a certain old prophet living in Bethel, whose sons came and told him all that the man of God had done there that day. They also told their father what he had said to the king. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1KI.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Their father asked them, &#8220;Which way did he go?&#8221; And his sons showed him which road the man of God from Judah had taken. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1KI.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So he said to his sons, &#8220;Saddle the donkey for me.&#8221; And when they had saddled the donkey for him, he mounted it </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1KI.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and rode after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked, &#8220;Are you the man of God who came from Judah?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1KI.13.14"><span class="content">&#8220;I am,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1KI.13.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1KI.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So the prophet said to him, &#8220;Come home with me and eat.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1KI.13.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The man of God said, &#8220;I cannot turn back and go with you, nor can I eat bread or drink water with you in this place. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1KI.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I have been told by the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: &#8216;You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1KI.13.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1KI.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The old prophet answered, &#8220;I too am a prophet, as you are. And an angel said to me by the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: &#8216;Bring him back with you to your house so that he may eat bread and drink water.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; (But he was lying to him.) </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1KI.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So the man of God returned with him and ate and drank in his house.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1KI.13.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1KI.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">While they were sitting at the table, the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to the old prophet who had brought him back. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1KI.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">He cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8216;You have defied the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and have not kept the command the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God gave you. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1KI.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">You came back and ate bread and drank water in the place where he told you not to eat or drink. Therefore your body will not be buried in the tomb of your ancestors.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1KI.13.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1KI.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the prophet who had brought him back saddled his donkey for him. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1KI.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying on the road, with both the donkey and the lion standing beside it. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1KI.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Some people who passed by saw the body lying there, with the lion standing beside the body, and they went and reported it in the city where the old prophet lived.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1KI.13.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1KI.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard of it, he said, &#8220;It is the man of God who defied the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given him over to the lion, which has mauled him and killed him, as the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had warned him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1KI.13.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1KI.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The prophet said to his sons, &#8220;Saddle the donkey for me,&#8221; and they did so. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1KI.13.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then he went out and found the body lying on the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it. The lion had neither eaten the body nor mauled the donkey. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1KI.13.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">So the prophet picked up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back to his own city to mourn for him and bury him. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1KI.13.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Then he laid the body in his own tomb, and they mourned over him and said, &#8220;Alas, my brother!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1KI.13.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1KI.13.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">After burying him, he said to his sons, &#8220;When I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1KI.13.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">For the message he declared by the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the towns of Samaria will certainly come true.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1KI.13.32"></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="1KI.13.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Even after this, Jeroboam did not change his evil ways, but once more appointed priests for the high places from all sorts of people. Anyone who wanted to become a priest he consecrated for the high places. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="1KI.13.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">This was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that led to its downfall and to its destruction from the face of the earth.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">88</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 88</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 88:1-18 is numbered 88:2-19.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah. For the director of music. According to </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">mahalath leannoth.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft">Title: Possibly a tune, &#8220;The Suffering of Affliction&#8221;</span></span></span><span class="content"> A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Heman the Ezrahite.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.88.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you are the God who saves me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.88.1"><span class="content">day and night I cry out to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.88.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.88.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">May my prayer come before you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.88.2"><span class="content">turn your ear to my cry.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.88.2"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.88.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.88.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I am overwhelmed with troubles</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.88.3"><span class="content">and my life draws near to death.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.88.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.88.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I am counted among those who go down to the pit;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.88.4"><span class="content">I am like one without strength.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.88.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I am set apart with the dead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"><span class="content">like the slain who lie in the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"><span class="content">whom you remember no more,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"><span class="content">who are cut off from your care.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.88.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.88.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You have put me in the lowest pit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.88.6"><span class="content">in the darkest depths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.88.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.88.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Your wrath lies heavily on me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.88.7"><span class="content">you have overwhelmed me with all your waves.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">88:7 </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 10.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.88.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.88.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You have taken from me my closest friends</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.88.8"><span class="content">and have made me repulsive to them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.88.8"><span class="content">I am confined and cannot escape;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.88.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.88.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">my eyes are dim with grief.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.88.9"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.88.9"><span class="content">I call to you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, every day;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.88.9"><span class="content">I spread out my hands to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.88.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.88.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Do you show your wonders to the dead?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.88.10"><span class="content">Do their spirits rise up and praise you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.88.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.88.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Is your love declared in the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.88.11"><span class="content">your faithfulness in Destruction</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">88:11 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Abaddon</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.88.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.88.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Are your wonders known in the place of darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.88.12"><span class="content">or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.88.12"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.88.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.88.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But I cry to you for help, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.88.13"><span class="content">in the morning my prayer comes before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.88.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.88.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Why, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do you reject me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.88.14"><span class="content">and hide your face from me?</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.88.14"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.88.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.88.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">From my youth I have suffered and been close to death;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.88.15"><span class="content">I have borne your terrors and am in despair.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.88.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.88.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Your wrath has swept over me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.88.16"><span class="content">your terrors have destroyed me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.88.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.88.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">All day long they surround me like a flood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.88.17"><span class="content">they have completely engulfed me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.88.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.88.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">You have taken from me friend and neighbor&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.88.18"><span class="content">darkness is my closest friend.</span></span></div>
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