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            <div class="label">147</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 147</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.147.1"><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">147:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Hallelu Yah</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 20</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.147.1"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.147.1"><span class="content">How good it is to sing praises to our God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.147.1"><span class="content">how pleasant and fitting to praise him!</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.147.1"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.147.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.147.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> builds up Jerusalem;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.147.2"><span class="content">he gathers the exiles of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.147.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.147.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He heals the brokenhearted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.147.3"><span class="content">and binds up their wounds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.147.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.147.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He determines the number of the stars</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.147.4"><span class="content">and calls them each by name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.147.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.147.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Great is our Lord and mighty in power;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.147.5"><span class="content">his understanding has no limit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.147.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.147.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sustains the humble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.147.6"><span class="content">but casts the wicked to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.147.6"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.147.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.147.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Sing to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> with grateful praise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.147.7"><span class="content">make music to our God on the harp.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.147.7"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.147.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.147.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">He covers the sky with clouds;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.147.8"><span class="content">he supplies the earth with rain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.147.8"><span class="content">and makes grass grow on the hills.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.147.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.147.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He provides food for the cattle</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.147.9"><span class="content">and for the young ravens when they call.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.147.9"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.147.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.147.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.147.10"><span class="content">nor his delight in the legs of the warrior;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.147.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.147.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> delights in those who fear him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.147.11"><span class="content">who put their hope in his unfailing love.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.147.11"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.147.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.147.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Extol the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, Jerusalem;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.147.12"><span class="content">praise your God, Zion.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.147.12"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.147.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.147.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He strengthens the bars of your gates</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.147.13"><span class="content">and blesses your people within you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.147.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.147.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He grants peace to your borders</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.147.14"><span class="content">and satisfies you with the finest of wheat.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.147.14"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.147.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.147.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He sends his command to the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.147.15"><span class="content">his word runs swiftly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.147.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.147.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He spreads the snow like wool</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.147.16"><span class="content">and scatters the frost like ashes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.147.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.147.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He hurls down his hail like pebbles.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.147.17"><span class="content">Who can withstand his icy blast?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.147.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.147.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He sends his word and melts them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.147.18"><span class="content">he stirs up his breezes, and the waters flow.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.147.18"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.147.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.147.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He has revealed his word to Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.147.19"><span class="content">his laws and decrees to Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.147.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.147.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He has done this for no other nation;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.147.20"><span class="content">they do not know his laws.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">147:20 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">nation; / he has not made his laws known to them</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.147.20"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.147.20"><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="chapter ch1" data-usfm="EZK.1">
            <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ezekiel&#8217;s Inaugural Vision</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In my thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.1.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">On the fifth of the month&#8212;it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, by the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span></span></span><span class="content"> There the hand of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was on him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.1.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north&#8212;an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was human, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">but each of them had four faces and four wings. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. All four of them had faces and wings, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">and the wings of one touched the wings of another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.1.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a human being, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EZK.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Such were their faces. They each had two wings spreading out upward, each wing touching that of the creature on either side; and each had two other wings covering its body. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EZK.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Each one went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they went. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EZK.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches. Fire moved back and forth among the creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The creatures sped back and forth like flashes of lightning.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EZK.1.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EZK.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EZK.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="EZK.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not change direction as the creatures went. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="EZK.1.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EZK.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EZK.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When the creatures moved, they also moved; when the creatures stood still, they also stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZK.1.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZK.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was what looked something like a vault, sparkling like crystal, and awesome. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZK.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Under the vault their wings were stretched out one toward the other, and each had two wings covering its body. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When the creatures moved, I heard the sound of their wings, like the roar of rushing waters, like the voice of the Almighty,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:24 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Shaddai</span></span></span><span class="content"> like the tumult of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="EZK.1.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="EZK.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Then there came a voice from above the vault over their heads as they stood with lowered wings. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="EZK.1.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Above the vault over their heads was what looked like a throne of lapis lazuli, and high above on the throne was a figure like that of a man. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EZK.1.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">I saw that from what appeared to be his waist up he looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire, and that from there down he looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded him. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.1.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EZK.1.28"><span class="content">This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. When I saw it, I fell facedown, and I heard the voice of one speaking.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ezekiel&#8217;s Call to Be a Prophet</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EZK.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">He said to me, &#8220;Son of man,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:1 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew phrase <span class="tl">ben adam</span> means </span><span class="fqa">human being. </span><span class="ft">The phrase </span><span class="fqa">son of man </span><span class="ft">is retained as a form of address here and throughout Ezekiel because of its possible association with &#8220;Son of Man&#8221; in the New Testament.</span></span></span><span class="content"> stand up on your feet and I will speak to you.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">As he spoke, the Spirit came into me and raised me to my feet, and I heard him speaking to me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EZK.2.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EZK.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He said: &#8220;Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me; they and their ancestors have been in revolt against me to this very day. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EZK.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The people to whom I am sending you are obstinate and stubborn. Say to them, &#8216;This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EZK.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And whether they listen or fail to listen&#8212;for they are a rebellious people&#8212;they will know that a prophet has been among them. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EZK.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns are all around you and you live among scorpions. Do not be afraid of what they say or be terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EZK.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You must speak my words to them, whether they listen or fail to listen, for they are rebellious. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But you, son of man, listen to what I say to you. Do not rebel like that rebellious people; open your mouth and eat what I give you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EZK.2.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EZK.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then I looked, and I saw a hand stretched out to me. In it was a scroll, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EZK.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">which he unrolled before me. On both sides of it were written words of lament and mourning and woe.</span></span></div>
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