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         <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Tola</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After the time of Abimelek, a man of Issachar named Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He led</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">10:2 </span><span class="ft">Traditionally </span><span class="fqa">judged</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 3</span></span></span><span class="content"> Israel twenty-three years; then he died, and was buried in Shamir.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jair</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.10.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He was followed by Jair of Gilead, who led Israel twenty-two years. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He had thirty sons, who rode thirty donkeys. They controlled thirty towns in Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth Jair.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">10:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">called the settlements of Jair</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jephthah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.10.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. They served the Baals and the Ashtoreths, and the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites and the gods of the Philistines. And because the Israelites forsook the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and no longer served him, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">he became angry with them. He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and the Ammonites, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">who that year shattered and crushed them. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites on the east side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin and Ephraim; Israel was in great distress. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then the Israelites cried out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;We have sinned against you, forsaking our God and serving the Baals.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.10.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> replied, &#8220;When the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">the Sidonians, the Amalekites and the Maonites</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">10:12 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Midianites</span></span></span><span class="content"> oppressed you and you cried to me for help, did I not save you from their hands? </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But you have forsaken me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you when you are in trouble!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.10.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But the Israelites said to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;We have sinned. Do with us whatever you think best, but please rescue us now.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then they got rid of the foreign gods among them and served the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. And he could bear Israel&#8217;s misery no longer.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.10.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When the Ammonites were called to arms and camped in Gilead, the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The leaders of the people of Gilead said to each other, &#8220;Whoever will take the lead in attacking the Ammonites will be head over all who live in Gilead.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was Gilead; his mother was a prostitute. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Gilead&#8217;s wife also bore him sons, and when they were grown up, they drove Jephthah away. &#8220;You are not going to get any inheritance in our family,&#8221; they said, &#8220;because you are the son of another woman.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where a gang of scoundrels gathered around him and followed him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.11.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Some time later, when the Ammonites were fighting against Israel, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come,&#8221; they said, &#8220;be our commander, so we can fight the Ammonites.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.11.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Jephthah said to them, &#8220;Didn&#8217;t you hate me and drive me from my father&#8217;s house? Why do you come to me now, when you&#8217;re in trouble?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.11.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The elders of Gilead said to him, &#8220;Nevertheless, we are turning to you now; come with us to fight the Ammonites, and you will be head over all of us who live in Gilead.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.11.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Jephthah answered, &#8220;Suppose you take me back to fight the Ammonites and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gives them to me&#8212;will I really be your head?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.11.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The elders of Gilead replied, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is our witness; we will certainly do as you say.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and commander over them. And he repeated all his words before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in Mizpah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.11.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then Jephthah sent messengers to the Ammonite king with the question: &#8220;What do you have against me that you have attacked my country?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.11.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah&#8217;s messengers, &#8220;When Israel came up out of Egypt, they took away my land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, all the way to the Jordan. Now give it back peaceably.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.11.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Jephthah sent back messengers to the Ammonite king, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">saying:</span></span></div><div class="pmo"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.11.15"><span class="content">&#8220;This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But when they came up out of Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">11:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the Sea of Reeds</span></span></span><span class="content"> and on to Kadesh. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, &#8216;Give us permission to go through your country,&#8217; but the king of Edom would not listen. They sent also to the king of Moab, and he refused. So Israel stayed at Kadesh.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.11.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Next they traveled through the wilderness, skirted the lands of Edom and Moab, passed along the eastern side of the country of Moab, and camped on the other side of the Arnon. They did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was its border.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.11.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, &#8216;Let us pass through your country to our own place.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Sihon, however, did not trust Israel</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">11:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">however, would not make an agreement for Israel</span></span></span><span class="content"> to pass through his territory. He mustered all his troops and encamped at Jahaz and fought with Israel.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.11.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and his whole army into Israel&#8217;s hands, and they defeated them. Israel took over all the land of the Amorites who lived in that country, </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">capturing all of it from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the desert to the Jordan.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.11.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now since the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, has driven the Amorites out before his people Israel, what right have you to take it over? </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.11.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Will you not take what your god Chemosh gives you? Likewise, whatever the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God has given us, we will possess. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.11.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Are you any better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever quarrel with Israel or fight with them? </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.11.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For three hundred years Israel occupied Heshbon, Aroer, the surrounding settlements and all the towns along the Arnon. Why didn&#8217;t you retake them during that time? </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.11.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">I have not wronged you, but you are doing me wrong by waging war against me. Let the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the Judge, decide the dispute this day between the Israelites and the Ammonites.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.11.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.11.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">The king of Ammon, however, paid no attention to the message Jephthah sent him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.11.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.11.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Then the Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came on Jephthah. He crossed Gilead and Manasseh, passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from there he advanced against the Ammonites. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.11.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">And Jephthah made a vow to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: &#8220;If you give the Ammonites into my hands, </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.11.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.11.31"></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JDG.11.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Then Jephthah went over to fight the Ammonites, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave them into his hands. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JDG.11.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">He devastated twenty towns from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel Keramim. Thus Israel subdued Ammon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JDG.11.33"></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JDG.11.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should come out to meet him but his daughter, dancing to the sound of timbrels! She was an only child. Except for her he had neither son nor daughter. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JDG.11.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">When he saw her, he tore his clothes and cried, &#8220;Oh no, my daughter! You have brought me down and I am devastated. I have made a vow to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> that I cannot break.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JDG.11.35"></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JDG.11.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">&#8220;My father,&#8221; she replied, &#8220;you have given your word to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. Do to me just as you promised, now that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JDG.11.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">But grant me this one request,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Give me two months to roam the hills and weep with my friends, because I will never marry.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JDG.11.37"></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JDG.11.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">&#8220;You may go,&#8221; he said. And he let her go for two months. She and her friends went into the hills and wept because she would never marry. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JDG.11.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">After the two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she was a virgin.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JDG.11.39"><span class="content">From this comes the Israelite tradition </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JDG.11.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jephthah and Ephraim</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The Ephraimite forces were called out, and they crossed over to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, &#8220;Why did you go to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We&#8217;re going to burn down your house over your head.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.12.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Jephthah answered, &#8220;I and my people were engaged in a great struggle with the Ammonites, and although I called, you didn&#8217;t save me out of their hands. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When I saw that you wouldn&#8217;t help, I took my life in my hands and crossed over to fight the Ammonites, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave me the victory over them. Now why have you come up today to fight me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.12.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Jephthah then called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, &#8220;You Gileadites are renegades from Ephraim and Manasseh.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said, &#8220;Let me cross over,&#8221; the men of Gilead asked him, &#8220;Are you an Ephraimite?&#8221; If he replied, &#8220;No,&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">they said, &#8220;All right, say &#8216;Shibboleth.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; If he said, &#8220;Sibboleth,&#8221; because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that time.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.12.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Jephthah led</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">12:7 </span><span class="ft">Traditionally </span><span class="fqa">judged</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 8-14</span></span></span><span class="content"> Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in a town in Gilead.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ibzan, Elon and Abdon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.12.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">After him, Ibzan of Bethlehem led Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He gave his daughters away in marriage to those outside his clan, and for his sons he brought in thirty young women as wives from outside his clan. Ibzan led Israel seven years. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then Ibzan died and was buried in Bethlehem.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.12.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">After him, Elon the Zebulunite led Israel ten years. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then Elon died and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.12.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">After him, Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, led Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. He led Israel eight years. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then Abdon son of Hillel died and was buried at Pirathon in Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">71</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 71</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.71.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I have taken refuge;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.71.1"><span class="content">let me never be put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.71.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.71.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">In your righteousness, rescue me and deliver me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.71.2"><span class="content">turn your ear to me and save me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.71.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.71.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Be my rock of refuge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.71.3"><span class="content">to which I can always go;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.71.3"><span class="content">give the command to save me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.71.3"><span class="content">for you are my rock and my fortress.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.71.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.71.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Deliver me, my God, from the hand of the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.71.4"><span class="content">from the grasp of those who are evil and cruel.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.71.4"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.71.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.71.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For you have been my hope, Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.71.5"><span class="content">my confidence since my youth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.71.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.71.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">From birth I have relied on you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.71.6"><span class="content">you brought me forth from my mother&#8217;s womb.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.71.6"><span class="content">I will ever praise you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.71.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.71.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I have become a sign to many;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.71.7"><span class="content">you are my strong refuge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.71.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.71.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">My mouth is filled with your praise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.71.8"><span class="content">declaring your splendor all day long.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.71.8"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.71.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.71.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Do not cast me away when I am old;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.71.9"><span class="content">do not forsake me when my strength is gone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.71.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.71.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For my enemies speak against me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.71.10"><span class="content">those who wait to kill me conspire together.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.71.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.71.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They say, &#8220;God has forsaken him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.71.11"><span class="content">pursue him and seize him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.71.11"><span class="content">for no one will rescue him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.71.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.71.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Do not be far from me, my God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.71.12"><span class="content">come quickly, God, to help me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.71.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.71.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">May my accusers perish in shame;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.71.13"><span class="content">may those who want to harm me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.71.13"><span class="content">be covered with scorn and disgrace.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.71.13"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.71.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.71.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">As for me, I will always have hope;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.71.14"><span class="content">I will praise you more and more.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.71.14"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.71.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.71.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My mouth will tell of your righteous deeds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.71.15"><span class="content">of your saving acts all day long&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.71.15"><span class="content">though I know not how to relate them all.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.71.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.71.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I will come and proclaim your mighty acts, Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.71.16"><span class="content">I will proclaim your righteous deeds, yours alone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.71.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.71.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Since my youth, God, you have taught me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.71.17"><span class="content">and to this day I declare your marvelous deeds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.71.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.71.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Even when I am old and gray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.71.18"><span class="content">do not forsake me, my God,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.71.18"><span class="content">till I declare your power to the next generation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.71.18"><span class="content">your mighty acts to all who are to come.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.71.18"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.71.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.71.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Your righteousness, God, reaches to the heavens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.71.19"><span class="content">you who have done great things.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.71.19"><span class="content">Who is like you, God?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.71.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.71.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Though you have made me see troubles,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.71.20"><span class="content">many and bitter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.71.20"><span class="content">you will restore my life again;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.71.20"><span class="content">from the depths of the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.71.20"><span class="content">you will again bring me up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.71.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.71.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">You will increase my honor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.71.21"><span class="content">and comfort me once more.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.71.21"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.71.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.71.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I will praise you with the harp</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.71.22"><span class="content">for your faithfulness, my God;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.71.22"><span class="content">I will sing praise to you with the lyre,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.71.22"><span class="content">Holy One of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.71.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.71.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">My lips will shout for joy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.71.23"><span class="content">when I sing praise to you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.71.23"><span class="content">I whom you have delivered.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.71.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.71.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">My tongue will tell of your righteous acts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.71.24"><span class="content">all day long,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.71.24"><span class="content">for those who wanted to harm me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.71.24"><span class="content">have been put to shame and confusion.</span></span></div>
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