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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">John the Baptist Prepares the Way</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and saying, &#8220;Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.3.3"><span class="content">&#8220;A voice of one calling in the wilderness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.3.3"><span class="content">&#8216;Prepare the way for the Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.3.3"><span class="content">make straight paths for him.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:3 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="ISA.40.3">Isaiah 40:3</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.3.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">John&#8217;s clothes were made of camel&#8217;s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.3.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: &#8220;You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And do not think you can say to yourselves, &#8216;We have Abraham as our father.&#8217; I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.3.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;I baptize you with</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in</span></span></span><span class="content"> water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in</span></span></span><span class="content"> the Holy Spirit and fire. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Baptism of Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.3.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But John tried to deter him, saying, &#8220;I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.3.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Then John consented.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.3.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And a voice from heaven said, &#8220;This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">74</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 74</span></div><div class="d"><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 Asaph.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.74.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">O God, why have you rejected us forever?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.74.1"><span class="content">Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.74.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.74.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Remember the nation you purchased long ago,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.74.2"><span class="content">the people of your inheritance, whom you redeemed&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.74.2"><span class="content">Mount Zion, where you dwelt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.74.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.74.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.74.3"><span class="content">all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.74.3"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.74.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.74.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Your foes roared in the place where you met with us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.74.4"><span class="content">they set up their standards as signs.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.74.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.74.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They behaved like men wielding axes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.74.5"><span class="content">to cut through a thicket of trees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.74.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.74.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They smashed all the carved paneling</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.74.6"><span class="content">with their axes and hatchets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.74.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.74.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They burned your sanctuary to the ground;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.74.7"><span class="content">they defiled the dwelling place of your Name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.74.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.74.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They said in their hearts, &#8220;We will crush them completely!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.74.8"><span class="content">They burned every place where God was worshiped in the land.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.74.8"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.74.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.74.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">We are given no signs from God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.74.9"><span class="content">no prophets are left,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.74.9"><span class="content">and none of us knows how long this will be.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.74.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.74.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">How long will the enemy mock you, God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.74.10"><span class="content">Will the foe revile your name forever?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.74.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.74.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.74.11"><span class="content">Take it from the folds of your garment and destroy them!</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.74.11"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.74.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.74.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But God is my King from long ago;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.74.12"><span class="content">he brings salvation on the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.74.12"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.74.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.74.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">It was you who split open the sea by your power;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.74.13"><span class="content">you broke the heads of the monster in the waters.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.74.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.74.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">It was you who crushed the heads of Leviathan</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.74.14"><span class="content">and gave it as food to the creatures of the desert.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.74.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.74.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">It was you who opened up springs and streams;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.74.15"><span class="content">you dried up the ever-flowing rivers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.74.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.74.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The day is yours, and yours also the night;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.74.16"><span class="content">you established the sun and moon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.74.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.74.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">It was you who set all the boundaries of the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.74.17"><span class="content">you made both summer and winter.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.74.17"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.74.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.74.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Remember how the enemy has mocked you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.74.18"><span class="content">how foolish people have reviled your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.74.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.74.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Do not hand over the life of your dove to wild beasts;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.74.19"><span class="content">do not forget the lives of your afflicted people forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.74.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.74.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Have regard for your covenant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.74.20"><span class="content">because haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.74.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.74.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Do not let the oppressed retreat in disgrace;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.74.21"><span class="content">may the poor and needy praise your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.74.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.74.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Rise up, O God, and defend your cause;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.74.22"><span class="content">remember how fools mock you all day long.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.74.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.74.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Do not ignore the clamor of your adversaries,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.74.23"><span class="content">the uproar of your enemies, which rises continually.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="it"><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span></div>
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