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         <div class="label">146</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 146</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.146.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">146:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Hallelu Yah</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 10</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.146.1"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.146.1"><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my soul.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.146.1"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.146.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.146.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I will praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> all my life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.146.2"><span class="content">I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.146.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.146.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Do not put your trust in princes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.146.3"><span class="content">in human beings, who cannot save.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.146.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.146.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.146.4"><span class="content">on that very day their plans come to nothing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.146.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.146.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.146.5"><span class="content">whose hope is in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> their God.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.146.5"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.146.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.146.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He is the Maker of heaven and earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.146.6"><span class="content">the sea, and everything in them&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.146.6"><span class="content">he remains faithful forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.146.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.146.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He upholds the cause of the oppressed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.146.7"><span class="content">and gives food to the hungry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.146.7"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sets prisoners free,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.146.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.146.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gives sight to the blind,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.146.8"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lifts up those who are bowed down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.146.8"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> loves the righteous.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.146.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.146.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> watches over the foreigner</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.146.9"><span class="content">and sustains the fatherless and the widow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.146.9"><span class="content">but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.146.9"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.146.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.146.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> reigns forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.146.10"><span class="content">your God, O Zion, for all generations.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.146.10"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.146.10"><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Worship in the Earthly Tabernacle</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HEB.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HEB.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">A tabernacle was set up. In its first room were the lampstand and the table with its consecrated bread; this was called the Holy Place. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron&#8217;s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Above the ark were the cherubim of the Glory, overshadowing the atonement cover. But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.9.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When everything had been arranged like this, the priests entered regularly into the outer room to carry on their ministry. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But only the high priest entered the inner room, and that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The Holy Spirit was showing by this that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still functioning. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">This is an illustration for the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered were not able to clear the conscience of the worshiper. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings&#8212;external regulations applying until the time of the new order.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Blood of Christ</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.9.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that are now already here,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:11 </span><span class="ft">Some early manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">are to come</span></span></span><span class="content"> he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made with human hands, that is to say, is not a part of this creation. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">blood, having obtained</span></span></span><span class="content"> eternal redemption. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HEB.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">from useless rituals</span></span></span><span class="content"> so that we may serve the living God!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HEB.9.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance&#8212;now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.9.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HEB.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">In the case of a will,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:16 </span><span class="ft">Same Greek word as </span><span class="fqa">covenant</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 17</span></span></span><span class="content"> it is necessary to prove the death of the one who made it, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HEB.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">because a will is in force only when somebody has died; it never takes effect while the one who made it is living. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HEB.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HEB.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When Moses had proclaimed every command of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves, together with water, scarlet wool and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="HEB.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:20 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="EXO.24.8">Exodus 24:8</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="HEB.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">In the same way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="HEB.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="HEB.9.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="HEB.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="HEB.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God&#8217;s presence. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="HEB.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="HEB.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="HEB.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="HEB.9.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">57</div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The righteous perish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"><span class="content">and no one takes it to heart;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"><span class="content">the devout are taken away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"><span class="content">and no one understands</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"><span class="content">that the righteous are taken away</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"><span class="content">to be spared from evil.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.57.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.57.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Those who walk uprightly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.57.2"><span class="content">enter into peace;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.57.2"><span class="content">they find rest as they lie in death.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.57.2"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.57.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.57.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;But you&#8212;come here, you children of a sorceress,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.57.3"><span class="content">you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.57.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.57.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Who are you mocking?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.57.4"><span class="content">At whom do you sneer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.57.4"><span class="content">and stick out your tongue?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.57.4"><span class="content">Are you not a brood of rebels,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.57.4"><span class="content">the offspring of liars?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.57.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.57.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You burn with lust among the oaks</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.57.5"><span class="content">and under every spreading tree;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.57.5"><span class="content">you sacrifice your children in the ravines</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.57.5"><span class="content">and under the overhanging crags.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.57.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.57.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The idols among the smooth stones of the ravines are your portion;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.57.6"><span class="content">indeed, they are your lot.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.57.6"><span class="content">Yes, to them you have poured out drink offerings</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.57.6"><span class="content">and offered grain offerings.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.57.6"><span class="content">In view of all this, should I relent?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.57.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.57.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You have made your bed on a high and lofty hill;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.57.7"><span class="content">there you went up to offer your sacrifices.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.57.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Behind your doors and your doorposts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="content">you have put your pagan symbols.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="content">Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="content">you climbed into it and opened it wide;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="content">you made a pact with those whose beds you love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"><span class="content">and you looked with lust on their naked bodies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.57.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.57.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You went to Molek</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">57:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">to the king</span></span></span><span class="content"> with olive oil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.57.9"><span class="content">and increased your perfumes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.57.9"><span class="content">You sent your ambassadors</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">57:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">idols</span></span></span><span class="content"> far away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.57.9"><span class="content">you descended to the very realm of the dead!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.57.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.57.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You wearied yourself by such going about,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.57.10"><span class="content">but you would not say, &#8216;It is hopeless.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.57.10"><span class="content">You found renewal of your strength,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.57.10"><span class="content">and so you did not faint.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.57.10"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.57.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Whom have you so dreaded and feared</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="content">that you have not been true to me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="content">and have neither remembered me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="content">nor taken this to heart?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="content">Is it not because I have long been silent</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"><span class="content">that you do not fear me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.57.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.57.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I will expose your righteousness and your works,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.57.12"><span class="content">and they will not benefit you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.57.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When you cry out for help,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">let your collection of idols save you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">The wind will carry all of them off,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">a mere breath will blow them away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">But whoever takes refuge in me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">will inherit the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"><span class="content">and possess my holy mountain.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Comfort for the Contrite</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.57.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.57.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">And it will be said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.57.14"><span class="content">&#8220;Build up, build up, prepare the road!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.57.14"><span class="content">Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.57.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">For this is what the high and exalted One says&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">he who lives forever, whose name is holy:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">&#8220;I live in a high and holy place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">to revive the spirit of the lowly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"><span class="content">and to revive the heart of the contrite.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.57.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I will not accuse them forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"><span class="content">nor will I always be angry,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"><span class="content">for then they would faint away because of me&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"><span class="content">the very people I have created.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.57.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.57.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I was enraged by their sinful greed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.57.17"><span class="content">I punished them, and hid my face in anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.57.17"><span class="content">yet they kept on in their willful ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.57.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.57.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I have seen their ways, but I will heal them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.57.18"><span class="content">I will guide them and restore comfort to Israel&#8217;s mourners,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.57.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.57.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">creating praise on their lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.57.19"><span class="content">Peace, peace, to those far and near,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.57.19"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. &#8220;And I will heal them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.57.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.57.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But the wicked are like the tossing sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.57.20"><span class="content">which cannot rest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.57.20"><span class="content">whose waves cast up mire and mud.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.57.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.57.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;There is no peace,&#8221; says my God, &#8220;for the wicked.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">58</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">True Fasting</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.58.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Shout it aloud, do not hold back.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.58.1"><span class="content">Raise your voice like a trumpet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.58.1"><span class="content">Declare to my people their rebellion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.58.1"><span class="content">and to the descendants of Jacob their sins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.58.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.58.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For day after day they seek me out;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.58.2"><span class="content">they seem eager to know my ways,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.58.2"><span class="content">as if they were a nation that does what is right</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.58.2"><span class="content">and has not forsaken the commands of its God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.58.2"><span class="content">They ask me for just decisions</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.58.2"><span class="content">and seem eager for God to come near them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.58.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.58.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8216;Why have we fasted,&#8217; they say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.58.3"><span class="content">&#8216;and you have not seen it?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.58.3"><span class="content">Why have we humbled ourselves,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.58.3"><span class="content">and you have not noticed?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.58.3"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.58.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.58.3"><span class="content">and exploit all your workers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.58.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.58.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.58.4"><span class="content">and in striking each other with wicked fists.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.58.4"><span class="content">You cannot fast as you do today</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.58.4"><span class="content">and expect your voice to be heard on high.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.58.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.58.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Is this the kind of fast I have chosen,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.58.5"><span class="content">only a day for people to humble themselves?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.58.5"><span class="content">Is it only for bowing one&#8217;s head like a reed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.58.5"><span class="content">and for lying in sackcloth and ashes?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.58.5"><span class="content">Is that what you call a fast,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.58.5"><span class="content">a day acceptable to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.58.5"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.58.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.58.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.58.6"><span class="content">to loose the chains of injustice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.58.6"><span class="content">and untie the cords of the yoke,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.58.6"><span class="content">to set the oppressed free</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.58.6"><span class="content">and break every yoke?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.58.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.58.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Is it not to share your food with the hungry</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.58.7"><span class="content">and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.58.7"><span class="content">when you see the naked, to clothe them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.58.7"><span class="content">and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.58.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.58.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then your light will break forth like the dawn,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.58.8"><span class="content">and your healing will quickly appear;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.58.8"><span class="content">then your righteousness</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">58:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">your righteous One</span></span></span><span class="content"> will go before you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.58.8"><span class="content">and the glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will be your rear guard.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.58.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.58.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then you will call, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will answer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.58.9"><span class="content">you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.58.9"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.58.9"><span class="content">&#8220;If you do away with the yoke of oppression,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.58.9"><span class="content">with the pointing finger and malicious talk,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.58.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.58.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.58.10"><span class="content">and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.58.10"><span class="content">then your light will rise in the darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.58.10"><span class="content">and your night will become like the noonday.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.58.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.58.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will guide you always;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.58.11"><span class="content">he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.58.11"><span class="content">and will strengthen your frame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.58.11"><span class="content">You will be like a well-watered garden,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.58.11"><span class="content">like a spring whose waters never fail.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.58.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.58.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.58.12"><span class="content">and will raise up the age-old foundations;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.58.12"><span class="content">you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.58.12"><span class="content">Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.58.12"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.58.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.58.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.58.13"><span class="content">and from doing as you please on my holy day,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.58.13"><span class="content">if you call the Sabbath a delight</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.58.13"><span class="content">and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s holy day honorable,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.58.13"><span class="content">and if you honor it by not going your own way</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.58.13"><span class="content">and not doing as you please or speaking idle words,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.58.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.58.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">then you will find your joy in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.58.14"><span class="content">and I will cause you to ride in triumph on the heights of the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.58.14"><span class="content">and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.58.14"><span class="content">The mouth of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken.</span></span></div>
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