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   <div class="book bkISA">
      <div class="chapter ch55" data-usfm="ISA.55">
         <div class="label">55</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Invitation to the Thirsty</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come, all you who are thirsty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">come to the waters;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">and you who have no money,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">come, buy and eat!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">Come, buy wine and milk</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"><span class="content">without money and without cost.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.55.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Why spend money on what is not bread,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="content">and your labor on what does not satisfy?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="content">Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"><span class="content">and you will delight in the richest of fare.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.55.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Give ear and come to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="content">listen, that you may live.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="content">I will make an everlasting covenant with you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"><span class="content">my faithful love promised to David.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.55.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.55.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.55.4"><span class="content">a ruler and commander of the peoples.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.55.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Surely you will summon nations you know not,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">and nations you do not know will come running to you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">because of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">the Holy One of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"><span class="content">for he has endowed you with splendor.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.55.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.55.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Seek the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> while he may be found;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.55.6"><span class="content">call on him while he is near.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.55.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Let the wicked forsake their ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="content">and the unrighteous their thoughts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="content">Let them turn to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and he will have mercy on them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"><span class="content">and to our God, for he will freely pardon.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.55.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.55.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;For my thoughts are not your thoughts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.55.8"><span class="content">neither are your ways my ways,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.55.8"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.55.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.55.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;As the heavens are higher than the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.55.9"><span class="content">so are my ways higher than your ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.55.9"><span class="content">and my thoughts than your thoughts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.55.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">As the rain and the snow</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">come down from heaven,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">and do not return to it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">without watering the earth</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">and making it bud and flourish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"><span class="content">so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.55.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">so is my word that goes out from my mouth:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="content">It will not return to me empty,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="content">but will accomplish what I desire</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"><span class="content">and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.55.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You will go out in joy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">and be led forth in peace;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">the mountains and hills</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">will burst into song before you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">and all the trees of the field</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"><span class="content">will clap their hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.55.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="content">and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="content">This will be for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s renown,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="content">for an everlasting sign,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.55.13"><span class="content">that will endure forever.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkDAN">
      <div class="chapter ch1" data-usfm="DAN.1">
         <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Daniel&#8217;s Training in Babylon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DAN.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DAN.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the articles from the temple of God. These he carried off to the temple of his god in Babylonia</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:2 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Shinar</span></span></span><span class="content"> and put in the treasure house of his god.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DAN.1.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DAN.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, chief of his court officials, to bring into the king&#8217;s service some of the Israelites from the royal family and the nobility&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DAN.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of learning, well informed, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king&#8217;s palace. He was to teach them the language and literature of the Babylonians.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DAN.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The king assigned them a daily amount of food and wine from the king&#8217;s table. They were to be trained for three years, and after that they were to enter the king&#8217;s service.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DAN.1.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DAN.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Among those who were chosen were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DAN.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The chief official gave them new names: to Daniel, the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DAN.1.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DAN.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DAN.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Now God had caused the official to show favor and compassion to Daniel, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DAN.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">but the official told Daniel, &#8220;I am afraid of my lord the king, who has assigned your</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:10 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">your </span><span class="ft">and </span><span class="fq">you </span><span class="ft">in this verse is plural.</span></span></span><span class="content"> food and drink. Why should he see you looking worse than the other young men your age? The king would then have my head because of you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DAN.1.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DAN.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Daniel then said to the guard whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DAN.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DAN.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DAN.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So he agreed to this and tested them for ten days.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DAN.1.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DAN.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">At the end of the ten days they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DAN.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DAN.1.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DAN.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DAN.1.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DAN.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">At the end of the time set by the king to bring them into his service, the chief official presented them to Nebuchadnezzar. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DAN.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The king talked with them, and he found none equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah; so they entered the king&#8217;s service. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DAN.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king questioned them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DAN.1.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">And Daniel remained there until the first year of King Cyrus.</span></span></div>
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