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 <div class="label">116</div><div class="cl">Psalm 116</div><div class="q1"> 1I love the Lord, for he heard my voice;</div><div class="q2">he heard my cry for mercy.</div><div class="q1"> 2Because he turned his ear to me,</div><div class="q2">I will call on him as long as I live.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 3The cords of death entangled me,</div><div class="q2">the anguish of the grave came over me;</div><div class="q2">I was overcome by distress and sorrow.</div><div class="q1"> 4Then I called on the name of the Lord:</div><div class="q2">&#8220;Lord, save me!&#8221;</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 5The Lord is gracious and righteous;</div><div class="q2">our God is full of compassion.</div><div class="q1"> 6The Lord protects the unwary;</div><div class="q2">when I was brought low, he saved me.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 7Return to your rest, my soul,</div><div class="q2">for the Lord has been good to you.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 8For you, Lord, have delivered me from death,</div><div class="q2">my eyes from tears,</div><div class="q2">my feet from stumbling,</div><div class="q1"> 9that I may walk before the Lord</div><div class="q2">in the land of the living.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 10I trusted in the Lord when I said,</div><div class="q2">&#8220;I am greatly afflicted&#8221;;</div><div class="q1"> 11in my alarm I said,</div><div class="q2">&#8220;Everyone is a liar.&#8221;</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 12What shall I return to the Lord</div><div class="q2">for all his goodness to me?</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 13I will lift up the cup of salvation</div><div class="q2">and call on the name of the Lord.</div><div class="q1"> 14I will fulfill my vows to the Lord</div><div class="q2">in the presence of all his people.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 15Precious in the sight of the Lord</div><div class="q2">is the death of his faithful servants.</div><div class="q1"> 16Truly I am your servant, Lord;</div><div class="q2">I serve you just as my mother did;</div><div class="q2">you have freed me from my chains.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 17I will sacrifice a thank offering to you</div><div class="q2">and call on the name of the Lord.</div><div class="q1"> 18I will fulfill my vows to the Lord</div><div class="q2">in the presence of all his people,</div><div class="q1"> 19in the courts of the house of the Lord&#8212;</div><div class="q2">in your midst, Jerusalem.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">Praise the Lord.#116:19 Hebrew Hallelu Yah</div>
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 <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1">Jerusalem&#8217;s Enemies to Be Destroyed</div><div class="p"> 1A prophecy: The word of the Lord concerning Israel.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="p">The Lord, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the human spirit within a person, declares: 2&#8220;I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. 3On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves. 4On that day I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness,&#8221; declares the Lord. &#8220;I will keep a watchful eye over Judah, but I will blind all the horses of the nations. 5Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, &#8216;The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the Lord Almighty is their God.&#8217;</div><div class="p"> 6&#8220;On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume all the surrounding peoples right and left, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place.</div><div class="p"> 7&#8220;The Lord will save the dwellings of Judah first, so that the honor of the house of David and of Jerusalem&#8217;s inhabitants may not be greater than that of Judah. 8On that day the Lord will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the Lord going before them. 9On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem.</div><div class="s1">Mourning for the One They Pierced</div><div class="p"> 10&#8220;And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit#12:10 Or the Spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on#12:10 Or to me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son. 11On that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be as great as the weeping of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. 12The land will mourn, each clan by itself, with their wives by themselves: the clan of the house of David and their wives, the clan of the house of Nathan and their wives, 13the clan of the house of Levi and their wives, the clan of Shimei and their wives, 14and all the rest of the clans and their wives.</div>
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 <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1">Cleansing From Sin</div><div class="p"> 1&#8220;On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.</div><div class="p"> 2&#8220;On that day, I will banish the names of the idols from the land, and they will be remembered no more,&#8221; declares the Lord Almighty. &#8220;I will remove both the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land. 3And if anyone still prophesies, their father and mother, to whom they were born, will say to them, &#8216;You must die, because you have told lies in the Lord&#8217;s name.&#8217; Then their own parents will stab the one who prophesies.</div><div class="p"> 4&#8220;On that day every prophet will be ashamed of their prophetic vision. They will not put on a prophet&#8217;s garment of hair in order to deceive. 5Each will say, &#8216;I am not a prophet. I am a farmer; the land has been my livelihood since my youth.#13:5 Or farmer; a man sold me in my youth&#8217; 6If someone asks, &#8216;What are these wounds on your body#13:6 Or wounds between your hands?&#8217; they will answer, &#8216;The wounds I was given at the house of my friends.&#8217;</div><div class="s1">The Shepherd Struck, the Sheep Scattered</div><div class="q1"> 7&#8220;Awake, sword, against my shepherd,</div><div class="q2">against the man who is close to me!&#8221;</div><div class="q2">declares the Lord Almighty.</div><div class="q1">&#8220;Strike the shepherd,</div><div class="q2">and the sheep will be scattered,</div><div class="q2">and I will turn my hand against the little ones.</div><div class="q1"> 8In the whole land,&#8221; declares the Lord,</div><div class="q2">&#8220;two-thirds will be struck down and perish;</div><div class="q2">yet one-third will be left in it.</div><div class="q1"> 9This third I will put into the fire;</div><div class="q2">I will refine them like silver</div><div class="q2">and test them like gold.</div><div class="q1">They will call on my name</div><div class="q2">and I will answer them;</div><div class="q1">I will say, &#8216;They are my people,&#8217;</div><div class="q2">and they will say, &#8216;The Lord is our God.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</div>
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 <div class="label">14</div><div class="s1">The Lord Comes and Reigns</div><div class="p"> 1A day of the Lord is coming, Jerusalem, when your possessions will be plundered and divided up within your very walls.</div><div class="p"> 2I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city. 3Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights on a day of battle. 4On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south. 5You will flee by my mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake#14:5 Or 5 My mountain valley will be blocked and will extend to Azel. It will be blocked as it was blocked because of the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.</div><div class="p"> 6On that day there will be neither sunlight nor cold, frosty darkness. 7It will be a unique day&#8212;a day known only to the Lord&#8212;with no distinction between day and night. When evening comes, there will be light.</div><div class="p"> 8On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it east to the Dead Sea and half of it west to the Mediterranean Sea, in summer and in winter.</div><div class="p"> 9The Lord will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one Lord, and his name the only name.</div><div class="p"> 10The whole land, from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem, will become like the Arabah. But Jerusalem will be raised up high from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses, and will remain in its place. 11It will be inhabited; never again will it be destroyed. Jerusalem will be secure.</div><div class="p"> 12This is the plague with which the Lord will strike all the nations that fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. 13On that day people will be stricken by the Lord with great panic. They will seize each other by the hand and attack one another. 14Judah too will fight at Jerusalem. The wealth of all the surrounding nations will be collected&#8212;great quantities of gold and silver and clothing. 15A similar plague will strike the horses and mules, the camels and donkeys, and all the animals in those camps.</div><div class="p"> 16Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. 17If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, they will have no rain. 18If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. The Lord#14:18 Or part, then the Lord will bring on them the plague he inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. 19This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.</div><div class="p"> 20On that day Holy to the Lord will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the Lord&#8217;s house will be like the sacred bowls in front of the altar. 21Every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the Lord Almighty, and all who come to sacrifice will take some of the pots and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite#14:21 Or merchant in the house of the Lord Almighty.</div>
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 <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1">Haman&#8217;s Plot to Destroy the Jews</div><div class="p"> 1After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him and giving him a seat of honor higher than that of all the other nobles. 2All the royal officials at the king&#8217;s gate knelt down and paid honor to Haman, for the king had commanded this concerning him. But Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor.</div><div class="p"> 3Then the royal officials at the king&#8217;s gate asked Mordecai, &#8220;Why do you disobey the king&#8217;s command?&#8221; 4Day after day they spoke to him but he refused to comply. Therefore they told Haman about it to see whether Mordecai&#8217;s behavior would be tolerated, for he had told them he was a Jew.</div><div class="p"> 5When Haman saw that Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor, he was enraged. 6Yet having learned who Mordecai&#8217;s people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai&#8217;s people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes.</div><div class="p"> 7In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the pur (that is, the lot) was cast in the presence of Haman to select a day and month. And the lot fell on#3:7 Septuagint; Hebrew does not have And the lot fell on. the twelfth month, the month of Adar.</div><div class="p"> 8Then Haman said to King Xerxes, &#8220;There is a certain people dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom who keep themselves separate. Their customs are different from those of all other people, and they do not obey the king&#8217;s laws; it is not in the king&#8217;s best interest to tolerate them. 9If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will give ten thousand talents#3:9 That is, about 375 tons or about 340 metric tons of silver to the king&#8217;s administrators for the royal treasury.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 10So the king took his signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews. 11&#8220;Keep the money,&#8221; the king said to Haman, &#8220;and do with the people as you please.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 12Then on the thirteenth day of the first month the royal secretaries were summoned. They wrote out in the script of each province and in the language of each people all Haman&#8217;s orders to the king&#8217;s satraps, the governors of the various provinces and the nobles of the various peoples. These were written in the name of King Xerxes himself and sealed with his own ring. 13Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the king&#8217;s provinces with the order to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews&#8212;young and old, women and children&#8212;on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods. 14A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued as law in every province and made known to the people of every nationality so they would be ready for that day.</div><div class="p"> 15The couriers went out, spurred on by the king&#8217;s command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was bewildered.</div>
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