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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 5</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 5:1-12 is numbered 5:2-13.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. For pipes. A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Listen to my words, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.5.1"><span class="content">consider my lament.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.5.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Hear my cry for help,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.5.2"><span class="content">my King and my God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.5.2"><span class="content">for to you I pray.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">In the morning, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you hear my voice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.5.3"><span class="content">in the morning I lay my requests before you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.5.3"><span class="content">and wait expectantly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For you are not a God who is pleased with wickedness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.5.4"><span class="content">with you, evil people are not welcome.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.5.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The arrogant cannot stand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.5.5"><span class="content">in your presence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.5.5"><span class="content">You hate all who do wrong;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.5.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">you destroy those who tell lies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.5.6"><span class="content">The bloodthirsty and deceitful</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.5.6"><span class="content">you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, detest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But I, by your great love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.5.7"><span class="content">can come into your house;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.5.7"><span class="content">in reverence I bow down</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.5.7"><span class="content">toward your holy temple.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.5.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Lead me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, in your righteousness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.5.8"><span class="content">because of my enemies&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.5.8"><span class="content">make your way straight before me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Not a word from their mouth can be trusted;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.5.9"><span class="content">their heart is filled with malice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.5.9"><span class="content">Their throat is an open grave;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.5.9"><span class="content">with their tongues they tell lies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Declare them guilty, O God!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.5.10"><span class="content">Let their intrigues be their downfall.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.5.10"><span class="content">Banish them for their many sins,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.5.10"><span class="content">for they have rebelled against you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.5.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But let all who take refuge in you be glad;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.5.11"><span class="content">let them ever sing for joy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.5.11"><span class="content">Spread your protection over them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.5.11"><span class="content">that those who love your name may rejoice in you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Surely, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you bless the righteous;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.5.12"><span class="content">you surround them with your favor as with a shield.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Wickedness in the World</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;My Spirit will not contend with</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">My spirit will not remain in</span></span></span><span class="content"> humans forever, for they are mortal</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">corrupt</span></span></span><span class="content">; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.6.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The Nephilim were on the earth in those days&#8212;and also afterward&#8212;when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.6.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created&#8212;and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground&#8212;for I regret that I have made them.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But Noah found favor in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Noah and the Flood</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.6.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">This is the account of Noah and his family.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.6.9"><span class="content">Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now the earth was corrupt in God&#8217;s sight and was full of violence. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So God said to Noah, &#8220;I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So make yourself an ark of cypress</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:14 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:15 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high or about 135 meters long, 23 meters wide and 14 meters high</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:16 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 18 inches or about 45 centimeters</span></span></span><span class="content"> high all around.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:16 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark&#8212;you and your sons and your wife and your sons&#8217; wives with you. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.6.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Noah did everything just as God commanded him.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar&#8212;when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">during the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.3.4"><span class="content">&#8220;A voice of one calling in the wilderness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.3.4"><span class="content">&#8216;Prepare the way for the Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.3.4"><span class="content">make straight paths for him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Every valley shall be filled in,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.3.5"><span class="content">every mountain and hill made low.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.3.5"><span class="content">The crooked roads shall become straight,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.3.5"><span class="content">the rough ways smooth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And all people will see God&#8217;s salvation.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:6 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 40:3-5</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, &#8220;You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, &#8216;We have Abraham as our father.&#8217; For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.3.9"><span class="label">9</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.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;What should we do then?&#8221; the crowd asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">John answered, &#8220;Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Even tax collectors came to be baptized. &#8220;Teacher,&#8221; they asked, &#8220;what should we do?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t collect any more than you are required to,&#8221; he told them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then some soldiers asked him, &#8220;And what should we do?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.3.14"><span class="content">He replied, &#8220;Don&#8217;t extort money and don&#8217;t accuse people falsely&#8212;be content with your pay.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John might possibly be the Messiah. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">John answered them all, &#8220;I baptize you with</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in</span></span></span><span class="content"> water. But one who is more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:16 </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 v17" data-usfm="LUK.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And with many other words John exhorted the people and proclaimed the good news to them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of his marriage to Herodias, his brother&#8217;s wife, and all the other evil things he had done, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Herod added this to them all: He locked John up in prison.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Baptism and Genealogy of Jesus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: &#8220;You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.3.22"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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