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   <div class="book bkPSA">
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         <div class="label">103</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 103</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.103.1"><span class="label">1</span><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="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.103.1"><span class="content">all my inmost being, praise his holy name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.103.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.103.2"><span class="label">2</span><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="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.103.2"><span class="content">and forget not all his benefits&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.103.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.103.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">who forgives all your sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.103.3"><span class="content">and heals all your diseases,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.103.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.103.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">who redeems your life from the pit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.103.4"><span class="content">and crowns you with love and compassion,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.103.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.103.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">who satisfies your desires with good things</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.103.5"><span class="content">so that your youth is renewed like the eagle&#8217;s.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.103.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.103.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> works righteousness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.103.6"><span class="content">and justice for all the oppressed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.103.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.103.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He made known his ways to Moses,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.103.7"><span class="content">his deeds to the people of Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.103.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.103.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is compassionate and gracious,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.103.8"><span class="content">slow to anger, abounding in love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.103.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.103.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He will not always accuse,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.103.9"><span class="content">nor will he harbor his anger forever;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.103.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.103.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">he does not treat us as our sins deserve</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.103.10"><span class="content">or repay us according to our iniquities.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.103.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.103.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For as high as the heavens are above the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.103.11"><span class="content">so great is his love for those who fear him;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.103.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.103.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">as far as the east is from the west,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.103.12"><span class="content">so far has he removed our transgressions from us.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.103.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.103.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">As a father has compassion on his children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.103.13"><span class="content">so the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has compassion on those who fear him;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.103.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.103.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">for he knows how we are formed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.103.14"><span class="content">he remembers that we are dust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.103.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.103.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The life of mortals is like grass,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.103.15"><span class="content">they flourish like a flower of the field;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.103.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.103.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">the wind blows over it and it is gone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.103.16"><span class="content">and its place remembers it no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.103.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.103.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But from everlasting to everlasting</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.103.17"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s love is with those who fear him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.103.17"><span class="content">and his righteousness with their children&#8217;s children&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.103.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.103.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">with those who keep his covenant</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.103.18"><span class="content">and remember to obey his precepts.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.103.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.103.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has established his throne in heaven,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.103.19"><span class="content">and his kingdom rules over all.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.103.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.103.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, you his angels,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.103.20"><span class="content">you mighty ones who do his bidding,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.103.20"><span class="content">who obey his word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.103.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.103.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, all his heavenly hosts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.103.21"><span class="content">you his servants who do his will.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.103.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.103.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, all his works</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.103.22"><span class="content">everywhere in his dominion.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.103.22"><span class="content">Praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my soul.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkISA">
      <div class="chapter ch57" data-usfm="ISA.57">
         <div class="label">57</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><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 class="content">  </span></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"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.57.2"><span class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.57.10"><span class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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="book bkISA">
      <div class="chapter ch58" data-usfm="ISA.58">
         <div class="label">58</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">True Fasting</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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"></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.58.5"><span class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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"></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.58.12"><span class="content">  </span></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 class="content">  </span></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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      <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="1CO.12">
         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Concerning Spiritual Gifts</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, &#8220;Jesus be cursed,&#8221; and no one can say, &#8220;Jesus is Lord,&#8221; except by the Holy Spirit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.12.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">languages</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 28</span></span></span><span class="content"> and to still another the interpretation of tongues.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">languages</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 28</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Unity and Diversity in the Body</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.12.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For we were all baptized by</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">with</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">in</span></span></span><span class="content"> one Spirit so as to form one body&#8212;whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free&#8212;and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.12.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Now if the foot should say, &#8220;Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,&#8221; it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">And if the ear should say, &#8220;Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,&#8221; it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CO.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CO.12.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CO.12.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">If they were all one part, where would the body be? </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CO.12.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">As it is, there are many parts, but one body.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CO.12.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CO.12.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The eye cannot say to the hand, &#8220;I don&#8217;t need you!&#8221; And the head cannot say to the feet, &#8220;I don&#8217;t need you!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1CO.12.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1CO.12.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1CO.12.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1CO.12.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1CO.12.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1CO.12.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1CO.12.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1CO.12.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1CO.12.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1CO.12.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:30 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">other languages</span></span></span><span class="content">? Do all interpret? </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1CO.12.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Now eagerly desire the greater gifts.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Love Is Indispensable</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1CO.12.31"><span class="content">And yet I will show you the most excellent way.</span></span></div>
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