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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ai Destroyed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Joshua, &#8220;Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. For I have delivered into your hands the king of Ai, his people, his city and his land. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the city.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.8.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So Joshua and the whole army moved out to attack Ai. He chose thirty thousand of his best fighting men and sent them out at night </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">with these orders: &#8220;Listen carefully. You are to set an ambush behind the city. Don&#8217;t go very far from it. All of you be on the alert. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I and all those with me will advance on the city, and when the men come out against us, as they did before, we will flee from them. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They will pursue us until we have lured them away from the city, for they will say, &#8216;They are running away from us as they did before.&#8217; So when we flee from them, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">you are to rise up from ambush and take the city. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will give it into your hand. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When you have taken the city, set it on fire. Do what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has commanded. See to it; you have my orders.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then Joshua sent them off, and they went to the place of ambush and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai&#8212;but Joshua spent that night with the people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Early the next morning Joshua mustered his army, and he and the leaders of Israel marched before them to Ai. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The entire force that was with him marched up and approached the city and arrived in front of it. They set up camp north of Ai, with the valley between them and the city. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So the soldiers took up their positions&#8212;with the main camp to the north of the city and the ambush to the west of it. That night Joshua went into the valley.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When the king of Ai saw this, he and all the men of the city hurried out early in the morning to meet Israel in battle at a certain place overlooking the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush had been set against him behind the city. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Joshua and all Israel let themselves be driven back before them, and they fled toward the wilderness. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">All the men of Ai were called to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were lured away from the city. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Not a man remained in Ai or Bethel who did not go after Israel. They left the city open and went in pursuit of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.8.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Joshua, &#8220;Hold out toward Ai the javelin that is in your hand, for into your hand I will deliver the city.&#8221; So Joshua held out toward the city the javelin that was in his hand. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">As soon as he did this, the men in the ambush rose quickly from their position and rushed forward. They entered the city and captured it and quickly set it on fire.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.8.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The men of Ai looked back and saw the smoke of the city rising up into the sky, but they had no chance to escape in any direction; the Israelites who had been fleeing toward the wilderness had turned back against their pursuers. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that smoke was going up from it, they turned around and attacked the men of Ai. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Those in the ambush also came out of the city against them, so that they were caught in the middle, with Israelites on both sides. Israel cut them down, leaving them neither survivors nor fugitives. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.8.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.8.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.8.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai in the fields and in the wilderness where they had chased them, and when every one of them had been put to the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and killed those who were in it. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOS.8.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Twelve thousand men and women fell that day&#8212;all the people of Ai. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOS.8.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For Joshua did not draw back the hand that held out his javelin until he had destroyed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:26 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, often by totally destroying them.</span></span></span><span class="content"> all who lived in Ai. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.8.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But Israel did carry off for themselves the livestock and plunder of this city, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had instructed Joshua.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.8.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOS.8.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">So Joshua burned Ai</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:28 </span><span class="fq">Ai </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">the ruin.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolate place to this day. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOS.8.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">He impaled the body of the king of Ai on a pole and left it there until evening. At sunset, Joshua ordered them to take the body from the pole and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And they raised a large pile of rocks over it, which remains to this day.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Covenant Renewed at Mount Ebal</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOS.8.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOS.8.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Then Joshua built on Mount Ebal an altar to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOS.8.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">as Moses the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses&#8212;an altar of uncut stones, on which no iron tool had been used. On it they offered to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> burnt offerings and sacrificed fellowship offerings. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOS.8.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">There, in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua wrote on stones a copy of the law of Moses. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOS.8.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">All the Israelites, with their elders, officials and judges, were standing on both sides of the ark of the covenant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, facing the Levitical priests who carried it. Both the foreigners living among them and the native-born were there. Half of the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had formerly commanded when he gave instructions to bless the people of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOS.8.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOS.8.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Afterward, Joshua read all the words of the law&#8212;the blessings and the curses&#8212;just as it is written in the Book of the Law. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOS.8.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua did not read to the whole assembly of Israel, including the women and children, and the foreigners who lived among them.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Gibeonite Deception</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now when all the kings west of the Jordan heard about these things&#8212;the kings in the hill country, in the western foothills, and along the entire coast of the Mediterranean Sea as far as Lebanon (the kings of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites)&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">they came together to wage war against Joshua and Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">However, when the people of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">they resorted to a ruse: They went as a delegation whose donkeys were loaded</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:4 </span><span class="ft">Most Hebrew manuscripts; some Hebrew manuscripts, Vulgate and Syriac (see also Septuagint) </span><span class="fqa">They prepared provisions and loaded their donkeys</span></span></span><span class="content"> with worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They put worn and patched sandals on their feet and wore old clothes. All the bread of their food supply was dry and moldy. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then they went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the Israelites, &#8220;We have come from a distant country; make a treaty with us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The Israelites said to the Hivites, &#8220;But perhaps you live near us, so how can we make a treaty with you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;We are your servants,&#8221; they said to Joshua.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.9.8"><span class="content">But Joshua asked, &#8220;Who are you and where do you come from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">They answered: &#8220;Your servants have come from a very distant country because of the fame of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. For we have heard reports of him: all that he did in Egypt, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites east of the Jordan&#8212;Sihon king of Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And our elders and all those living in our country said to us, &#8216;Take provisions for your journey; go and meet them and say to them, &#8220;We are your servants; make a treaty with us.&#8221;&#8198;&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">This bread of ours was warm when we packed it at home on the day we left to come to you. But now see how dry and moldy it is. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And these wineskins that we filled were new, but see how cracked they are. And our clothes and sandals are worn out by the very long journey.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.9.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The Israelites sampled their provisions but did not inquire of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the assembly ratified it by oath.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.9.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Three days after they made the treaty with the Gibeonites, the Israelites heard that they were neighbors, living near them. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">So the Israelites set out and on the third day came to their cities: Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth and Kiriath Jearim. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But the Israelites did not attack them, because the leaders of the assembly had sworn an oath to them by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.9.18"><span class="content">The whole assembly grumbled against the leaders, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">but all the leaders answered, &#8220;We have given them our oath by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, and we cannot touch them now. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">This is what we will do to them: We will let them live, so that God&#8217;s wrath will not fall on us for breaking the oath we swore to them.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They continued, &#8220;Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water carriers in the service of the whole assembly.&#8221; So the leaders&#8217; promise to them was kept.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.9.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said, &#8220;Why did you deceive us by saying, &#8216;We live a long way from you,&#8217; while actually you live near us? </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">You are now under a curse: You will never be released from service as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.9.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">They answered Joshua, &#8220;Your servants were clearly told how the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you the whole land and to wipe out all its inhabitants from before you. So we feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we did this. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOS.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">We are now in your hands. Do to us whatever seems good and right to you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOS.9.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOS.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">So Joshua saved them from the Israelites, and they did not kill them. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">That day he made the Gibeonites woodcutters and water carriers for the assembly, to provide for the needs of the altar of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> at the place the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> would choose. And that is what they are to this day.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Sun Stands Still</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Ai and totally destroyed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:1 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, often by totally destroying them; also in verses 28, 35, 37, 39 and 40.</span></span></span><span class="content"> it, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and that the people of Gibeon had made a treaty of peace with Israel and had become their allies. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He and his people were very much alarmed at this, because Gibeon was an important city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were good fighters. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem appealed to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish and Debir king of Eglon. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come up and help me attack Gibeon,&#8221; he said, &#8220;because it has made peace with Joshua and the Israelites.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.10.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then the five kings of the Amorites&#8212;the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish and Eglon&#8212;joined forces. They moved up with all their troops and took up positions against Gibeon and attacked it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The Gibeonites then sent word to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal: &#8220;Do not abandon your servants. Come up to us quickly and save us! Help us, because all the Amorite kings from the hill country have joined forces against us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So Joshua marched up from Gilgal with his entire army, including all the best fighting men. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Joshua, &#8220;Do not be afraid of them; I have given them into your hand. Not one of them will be able to withstand you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.10.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">After an all-night march from Gilgal, Joshua took them by surprise. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> threw them into confusion before Israel, so Joshua and the Israelites defeated them completely at Gibeon. Israel pursued them along the road going up to Beth Horon and cut them down all the way to Azekah and Makkedah. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">As they fled before Israel on the road down from Beth Horon to Azekah, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> hurled large hailstones down on them, and more of them died from the hail than were killed by the swords of the Israelites.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.10.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">On the day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave the Amorites over to Israel, Joshua said to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in the presence of Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.10.12"><span class="content">&#8220;Sun, stand still over Gibeon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.10.12"><span class="content">and you, moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.10.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So the sun stood still,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.10.13"><span class="content">and the moon stopped,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.10.13"><span class="content">till the nation avenged itself on</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">nation triumphed over</span></span></span><span class="content"> its enemies,</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.10.13"><span class="content">as it is written in the Book of Jashar.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.10.13"><span class="content">The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">There has never been a day like it before or since, a day when the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> listened to a human being. Surely the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was fighting for Israel!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.10.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then Joshua returned with all Israel to the camp at Gilgal.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Five Amorite Kings Killed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.10.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Now the five kings had fled and hidden in the cave at Makkedah. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When Joshua was told that the five kings had been found hiding in the cave at Makkedah, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">he said, &#8220;Roll large rocks up to the mouth of the cave, and post some men there to guard it. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But don&#8217;t stop; pursue your enemies! Attack them from the rear and don&#8217;t let them reach their cities, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has given them into your hand.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.10.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.10.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So Joshua and the Israelites defeated them completely, but a few survivors managed to reach their fortified cities. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.10.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The whole army then returned safely to Joshua in the camp at Makkedah, and no one uttered a word against the Israelites.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.10.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.10.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Joshua said, &#8220;Open the mouth of the cave and bring those five kings out to me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.10.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So they brought the five kings out of the cave&#8212;the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish and Eglon. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.10.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When they had brought these kings to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the army commanders who had come with him, &#8220;Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.&#8221; So they came forward and placed their feet on their necks.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.10.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOS.10.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Joshua said to them, &#8220;Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Be strong and courageous. This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will do to all the enemies you are going to fight.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOS.10.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Then Joshua put the kings to death and exposed their bodies on five poles, and they were left hanging on the poles until evening.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOS.10.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.10.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">At sunset Joshua gave the order and they took them down from the poles and threw them into the cave where they had been hiding. At the mouth of the cave they placed large rocks, which are there to this day.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Southern Cities Conquered</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.10.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOS.10.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">That day Joshua took Makkedah. He put the city and its king to the sword and totally destroyed everyone in it. He left no survivors. And he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOS.10.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOS.10.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Then Joshua and all Israel with him moved on from Makkedah to Libnah and attacked it. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOS.10.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> also gave that city and its king into Israel&#8217;s hand. The city and everyone in it Joshua put to the sword. He left no survivors there. And he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOS.10.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOS.10.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Then Joshua and all Israel with him moved on from Libnah to Lachish; he took up positions against it and attacked it. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOS.10.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave Lachish into Israel&#8217;s hands, and Joshua took it on the second day. The city and everyone in it he put to the sword, just as he had done to Libnah. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOS.10.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Meanwhile, Horam king of Gezer had come up to help Lachish, but Joshua defeated him and his army&#8212;until no survivors were left.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOS.10.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOS.10.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Then Joshua and all Israel with him moved on from Lachish to Eglon; they took up positions against it and attacked it. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOS.10.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">They captured it that same day and put it to the sword and totally destroyed everyone in it, just as they had done to Lachish.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOS.10.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JOS.10.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Then Joshua and all Israel with him went up from Eglon to Hebron and attacked it. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JOS.10.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">They took the city and put it to the sword, together with its king, its villages and everyone in it. They left no survivors. Just as at Eglon, they totally destroyed it and everyone in it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JOS.10.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JOS.10.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Then Joshua and all Israel with him turned around and attacked Debir. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JOS.10.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">They took the city, its king and its villages, and put them to the sword. Everyone in it they totally destroyed. They left no survivors. They did to Debir and its king as they had done to Libnah and its king and to Hebron.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JOS.10.39"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JOS.10.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">So Joshua subdued the whole region, including the hill country, the Negev, the western foothills and the mountain slopes, together with all their kings. He left no survivors. He totally destroyed all who breathed, just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, had commanded. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JOS.10.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Joshua subdued them from Kadesh Barnea to Gaza and from the whole region of Goshen to Gibeon. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JOS.10.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">All these kings and their lands Joshua conquered in one campaign, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JOS.10.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="JOS.10.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">Then Joshua returned with all Israel to the camp at Gilgal.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Northern Kings Defeated</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Jabin king of Hazor heard of this, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon, to the kings of Shimron and Akshaph, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and to the northern kings who were in the mountains, in the Arabah south of Kinnereth, in the western foothills and in Naphoth Dor on the west; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">to the Canaanites in the east and west; to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites and Jebusites in the hill country; and to the Hivites below Hermon in the region of Mizpah. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They came out with all their troops and a large number of horses and chariots&#8212;a huge army, as numerous as the sand on the seashore. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">All these kings joined forces and made camp together at the Waters of Merom to fight against Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.11.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Joshua, &#8220;Do not be afraid of them, because by this time tomorrow I will hand all of them, slain, over to Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn their chariots.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So Joshua and his whole army came against them suddenly at the Waters of Merom and attacked them, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave them into the hand of Israel. They defeated them and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon, to Misrephoth Maim, and to the Valley of Mizpah on the east, until no survivors were left. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Joshua did to them as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had directed: He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.11.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">At that time Joshua turned back and captured Hazor and put its king to the sword. (Hazor had been the head of all these kingdoms.) </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Everyone in it they put to the sword. They totally destroyed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:11 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, often by totally destroying them; also in verses 12, 20 and 21.</span></span></span><span class="content"> them, not sparing anyone that breathed, and he burned Hazor itself.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.11.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Joshua took all these royal cities and their kings and put them to the sword. He totally destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds&#8212;except Hazor, which Joshua burned. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The Israelites carried off for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but all the people they put to the sword until they completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">As the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded his servant Moses, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua did it; he left nothing undone of all that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.11.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So Joshua took this entire land: the hill country, all the Negev, the whole region of Goshen, the western foothills, the Arabah and the mountains of Israel with their foothills, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, to Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and put them to death. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Joshua waged war against all these kings for a long time. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Except for the Hivites living in Gibeon, not one city made a treaty of peace with the Israelites, who took them all in battle. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">For it was the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.11.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">At that time Joshua went and destroyed the Anakites from the hill country: from Hebron, Debir and Anab, from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua totally destroyed them and their towns. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">No Anakites were left in Israelite territory; only in Gaza, Gath and Ashdod did any survive.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.11.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So Joshua took the entire land, just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had directed Moses, and he gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal divisions. Then the land had rest from war.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
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      <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="JOS.12">
         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">List of Defeated Kings</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">These are the kings of the land whom the Israelites had defeated and whose territory they took over east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge to Mount Hermon, including all the eastern side of the Arabah:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.12.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.</span></span></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.12.2"><span class="content">He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge&#8212;from the middle of the gorge&#8212;to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites. This included half of Gilead. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He also ruled over the eastern Arabah from the Sea of Galilee</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:3 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Kinnereth</span></span></span><span class="content"> to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea), to Beth Jeshimoth, and then southward below the slopes of Pisgah.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.12.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And the territory of Og king of Bashan, one of the last of the Rephaites, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei.</span></span></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.12.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salekah, all of Bashan to the border of the people of Geshur and Maakah, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.12.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Moses, the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and the Israelites conquered them. And Moses the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave their land to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh to be their possession.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Here is a list of the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir. Joshua gave their lands as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel according to their tribal divisions. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The lands included the hill country, the western foothills, the Arabah, the mountain slopes, the wilderness and the Negev. These were the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. These were the kings:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><table class="table">
            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">the king of Jericho</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.12.9"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
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            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.12.9"><span class="content">the king of Ai (near Bethel)</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.12.9"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
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            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">the king of Jerusalem</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.12.10"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
</tr>
            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.12.10"><span class="content">the king of Hebron</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.12.10"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
</tr>
            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">the king of Jarmuth</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.12.11"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
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            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.12.11"><span class="content">the king of Lachish</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.12.11"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
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            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">the king of Eglon</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.12.12"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
</tr>
            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.12.12"><span class="content">the king of Gezer</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.12.12"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
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            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">the king of Debir</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.12.13"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
</tr>
            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.12.13"><span class="content">the king of Geder</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.12.13"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
</tr>
            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">the king of Hormah</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.12.14"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
</tr>
            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.12.14"><span class="content">the king of Arad</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.12.14"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
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            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">the king of Libnah</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.12.15"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
</tr>
            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.12.15"><span class="content">the king of Adullam</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.12.15"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
</tr>
            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">the king of Makkedah</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.12.16"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
</tr>
            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.12.16"><span class="content">the king of Bethel</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.12.16"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
</tr>
            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">the king of Tappuah</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.12.17"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
</tr>
            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.12.17"><span class="content">the king of Hepher</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.12.17"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
</tr>
            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.12.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">the king of Aphek</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.12.18"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
</tr>
            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.12.18"><span class="content">the king of Lasharon</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.12.18"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
</tr>
            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.12.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">the king of Madon</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.12.19"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
</tr>
            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.12.19"><span class="content">the king of Hazor</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.12.19"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
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            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.12.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">the king of Shimron Meron</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.12.20"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
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            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.12.20"><span class="content">the king of Akshaph</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.12.20"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
</tr>
            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.12.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">the king of Taanach</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.12.21"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
</tr>
            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.12.21"><span class="content">the king of Megiddo</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.12.21"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
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            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.12.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">the king of Kedesh</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.12.22"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
</tr>
            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.12.22"><span class="content">the king of Jokneam in Carmel</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.12.22"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
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            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.12.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">the king of Dor (in Naphoth Dor)</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.12.23"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
</tr>
            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.12.23"><span class="content">the king of Goyim in Gilgal</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.12.23"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
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            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.12.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">the king of Tirzah</span></span></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.12.24"><span class="content">one</span></span></td>
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            <tr class="row">
               <td class="cell"></td>
               <td class="cell"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.12.24"><span class="content">thirty-one kings in all.</span></span></td>
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      <div class="chapter ch13" data-usfm="JOS.13">
         <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Land Still to Be Taken</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Joshua had grown old, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to him, &#8220;You are now very old, and there are still very large areas of land to be taken over.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.13.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is the land that remains: All the regions of the Philistines and Geshurites, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">from the Shihor River on the east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north, all of it counted as Canaanite though held by the five Philistine rulers in Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath and Ekron; the territory of the Avvites </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, from Arah of the Sidonians as far as Aphek and the border of the Amorites; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">the area of Byblos; and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo Hamath.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;As for all the inhabitants of the mountain regions from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, that is, all the Sidonians, I myself will drive them out before the Israelites. Be sure to allocate this land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have instructed you, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and divide it as an inheritance among the nine tribes and half of the tribe of Manasseh.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Division of the Land East of the Jordan</span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The other half of Manasseh,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:8 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">With it </span><span class="ft">(that is, with the other half of Manasseh)</span></span></span><span class="content"> the Reubenites and the Gadites had received the inheritance that Moses had given them east of the Jordan, as he, the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, had assigned it to them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.13.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">It extended from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the middle of the gorge, and included the whole plateau of Medeba as far as Dibon, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and all the towns of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, out to the border of the Ammonites. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">It also included Gilead, the territory of the people of Geshur and Maakah, all of Mount Hermon and all Bashan as far as Salekah&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">that is, the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan, who had reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei. (He was the last of the Rephaites.) Moses had defeated them and taken over their land. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But the Israelites did not drive out the people of Geshur and Maakah, so they continue to live among the Israelites to this day.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.13.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance, since the food offerings presented to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, are their inheritance, as he promised them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.13.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">This is what Moses had given to the tribe of Reuben, according to its clans:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.13.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The territory from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the middle of the gorge, and the whole plateau past Medeba </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">to Heshbon and all its towns on the plateau, including Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar on the hill in the valley, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">all the towns on the plateau and the entire realm of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled at Heshbon. Moses had defeated him and the Midianite chiefs, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba&#8212;princes allied with Sihon&#8212;who lived in that country. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">In addition to those slain in battle, the Israelites had put to the sword Balaam son of Beor, who practiced divination. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The boundary of the Reubenites was the bank of the Jordan. These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the Reubenites, according to their clans.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.13.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">This is what Moses had given to the tribe of Gad, according to its clans:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.13.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOS.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The territory of Jazer, all the towns of Gilead and half the Ammonite country as far as Aroer, near Rabbah; </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOS.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpah and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the territory of Debir; </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Sukkoth and Zaphon with the rest of the realm of Sihon king of Heshbon (the east side of the Jordan, the territory up to the end of the Sea of Galilee</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:27 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Kinnereth</span></span></span><span class="content">). </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOS.13.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the Gadites, according to their clans.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOS.13.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOS.13.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">This is what Moses had given to the half-tribe of Manasseh, that is, to half the family of the descendants of Manasseh, according to its clans:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="mi"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOS.13.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOS.13.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The territory extending from Mahanaim and including all of Bashan, the entire realm of Og king of Bashan&#8212;all the settlements of Jair in Bashan, sixty towns, </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOS.13.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">half of Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei (the royal cities of Og in Bashan). This was for the descendants of Makir son of Manasseh&#8212;for half of the sons of Makir, according to their clans.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOS.13.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOS.13.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">This is the inheritance Moses had given when he was in the plains of Moab across the Jordan east of Jericho. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOS.13.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">But to the tribe of Levi, Moses had given no inheritance; the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as he promised them.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkJOS">
      <div class="chapter ch14" data-usfm="JOS.14">
         <div class="label">14</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Division of the Land West of the Jordan</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now these are the areas the Israelites received as an inheritance in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the tribal clans of Israel allotted to them. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Their inheritances were assigned by lot to the nine-and-a-half tribes, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded through Moses. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Moses had granted the two-and-a-half tribes their inheritance east of the Jordan but had not granted the Levites an inheritance among the rest, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">for Joseph&#8217;s descendants had become two tribes&#8212;Manasseh and Ephraim. The Levites received no share of the land but only towns to live in, with pasturelands for their flocks and herds. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So the Israelites divided the land, just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded Moses.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Allotment for Caleb</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.14.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Now the people of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, &#8220;You know what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea about you and me. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sent me from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land. And I brought him back a report according to my convictions, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">but my fellow Israelites who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt in fear. I, however, followed the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God wholeheartedly. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So on that day Moses swore to me, &#8216;The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have followed the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God wholeheartedly.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:9 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 1:36</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.14.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now then, just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old! </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I&#8217;m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Now give me this hill country that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakites were there and their cities were large and fortified, but, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.14.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So Hebron has belonged to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite ever since, because he followed the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, wholeheartedly. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">(Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba after Arba, who was the greatest man among the Anakites.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.14.15"><span class="content">Then the land had rest from war.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">43</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 43</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In many Hebrew manuscripts Psalms </span><span class="heading">42</span><span class="heading"> and </span><span class="heading">43</span><span class="heading"> constitute one psalm.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.43.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Vindicate me, my God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.43.1"><span class="content">and plead my cause</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.43.1"><span class="content">against an unfaithful nation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.43.1"><span class="content">Rescue me from those who are</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.43.1"><span class="content">deceitful and wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.43.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.43.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You are God my stronghold.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.43.2"><span class="content">Why have you rejected me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.43.2"><span class="content">Why must I go about mourning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.43.2"><span class="content">oppressed by the enemy?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.43.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.43.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Send me your light and your faithful care,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.43.3"><span class="content">let them lead me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.43.3"><span class="content">let them bring me to your holy mountain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.43.3"><span class="content">to the place where you dwell.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.43.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.43.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then I will go to the altar of God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.43.4"><span class="content">to God, my joy and my delight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.43.4"><span class="content">I will praise you with the lyre,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.43.4"><span class="content">O God, my God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.43.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.43.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Why, my soul, are you downcast?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.43.5"><span class="content">Why so disturbed within me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.43.5"><span class="content">Put your hope in God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.43.5"><span class="content">for I will yet praise him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.43.5"><span class="content">my Savior and my God.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">44</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 44</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 44:1-26 is numbered 44:2-27.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.44.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">We have heard it with our ears, O God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.44.1"><span class="content">our ancestors have told us</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.44.1"><span class="content">what you did in their days,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.44.1"><span class="content">in days long ago.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.44.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.44.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">With your hand you drove out the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.44.2"><span class="content">and planted our ancestors;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.44.2"><span class="content">you crushed the peoples</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.44.2"><span class="content">and made our ancestors flourish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.44.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.44.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">It was not by their sword that they won the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.44.3"><span class="content">nor did their arm bring them victory;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.44.3"><span class="content">it was your right hand, your arm,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.44.3"><span class="content">and the light of your face, for you loved them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.44.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.44.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You are my King and my God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.44.4"><span class="content">who decrees</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">44:4 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint, Aquila and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">King, O God; / command</span></span></span><span class="content"> victories for Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.44.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.44.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Through you we push back our enemies;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.44.5"><span class="content">through your name we trample our foes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.44.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.44.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I put no trust in my bow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.44.6"><span class="content">my sword does not bring me victory;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.44.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.44.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">but you give us victory over our enemies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.44.7"><span class="content">you put our adversaries to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.44.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.44.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In God we make our boast all day long,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.44.8"><span class="content">and we will praise your name forever.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">44:8 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.44.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.44.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But now you have rejected and humbled us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.44.9"><span class="content">you no longer go out with our armies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.44.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.44.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You made us retreat before the enemy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.44.10"><span class="content">and our adversaries have plundered us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.44.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.44.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You gave us up to be devoured like sheep</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.44.11"><span class="content">and have scattered us among the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.44.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.44.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You sold your people for a pittance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.44.12"><span class="content">gaining nothing from their sale.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.44.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.44.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You have made us a reproach to our neighbors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.44.13"><span class="content">the scorn and derision of those around us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.44.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.44.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">You have made us a byword among the nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.44.14"><span class="content">the peoples shake their heads at us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.44.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.44.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I live in disgrace all day long,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.44.15"><span class="content">and my face is covered with shame</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.44.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.44.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">at the taunts of those who reproach and revile me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.44.16"><span class="content">because of the enemy, who is bent on revenge.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.44.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.44.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">All this came upon us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.44.17"><span class="content">though we had not forgotten you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.44.17"><span class="content">we had not been false to your covenant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.44.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.44.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Our hearts had not turned back;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.44.18"><span class="content">our feet had not strayed from your path.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.44.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.44.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.44.19"><span class="content">you covered us over with deep darkness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.44.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.44.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">If we had forgotten the name of our God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.44.20"><span class="content">or spread out our hands to a foreign god,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.44.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.44.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">would not God have discovered it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.44.21"><span class="content">since he knows the secrets of the heart?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.44.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.44.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Yet for your sake we face death all day long;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.44.22"><span class="content">we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.44.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.44.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Awake, Lord! Why do you sleep?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.44.23"><span class="content">Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.44.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.44.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Why do you hide your face</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.44.24"><span class="content">and forget our misery and oppression?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.44.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.44.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">We are brought down to the dust;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.44.25"><span class="content">our bodies cling to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.44.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.44.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Rise up and help us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.44.26"><span class="content">rescue us because of your unfailing love.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">45</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 45</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 45:1-17 is numbered 45:2-18.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. To the tune of &#8220;Lilies.&#8221; Of the Sons of Korah. A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> A wedding song.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.45.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My heart is stirred by a noble theme</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.45.1"><span class="content">as I recite my verses for the king;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.45.1"><span class="content">my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.45.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.45.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You are the most excellent of men</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.45.2"><span class="content">and your lips have been anointed with grace,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.45.2"><span class="content">since God has blessed you forever.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.45.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.45.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Gird your sword on your side, you mighty one;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.45.3"><span class="content">clothe yourself with splendor and majesty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.45.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.45.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In your majesty ride forth victoriously</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.45.4"><span class="content">in the cause of truth, humility and justice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.45.4"><span class="content">let your right hand achieve awesome deeds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.45.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.45.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Let your sharp arrows pierce the hearts of the king&#8217;s enemies;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.45.5"><span class="content">let the nations fall beneath your feet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.45.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.45.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Your throne, O God,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">45:6 </span><span class="ft">Here the king is addressed as God&#8217;s representative.</span></span></span><span class="content"> will last for ever and ever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.45.6"><span class="content">a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.45.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.45.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You love righteousness and hate wickedness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.45.7"><span class="content">therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.45.7"><span class="content">by anointing you with the oil of joy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.45.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.45.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">All your robes are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.45.8"><span class="content">from palaces adorned with ivory</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.45.8"><span class="content">the music of the strings makes you glad.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.45.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.45.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Daughters of kings are among your honored women;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.45.9"><span class="content">at your right hand is the royal bride in gold of Ophir.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.45.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.45.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Listen, daughter, and pay careful attention:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.45.10"><span class="content">Forget your people and your father&#8217;s house.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.45.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.45.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Let the king be enthralled by your beauty;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.45.11"><span class="content">honor him, for he is your lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.45.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.45.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The city of Tyre will come with a gift,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">45:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">A Tyrian robe is among the gifts</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.45.12"><span class="content">people of wealth will seek your favor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.45.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.45.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">All glorious is the princess within her chamber;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.45.13"><span class="content">her gown is interwoven with gold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.45.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.45.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">In embroidered garments she is led to the king;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.45.14"><span class="content">her virgin companions follow her&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.45.14"><span class="content">those brought to be with her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.45.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.45.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Led in with joy and gladness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.45.15"><span class="content">they enter the palace of the king.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.45.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.45.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Your sons will take the place of your fathers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.45.16"><span class="content">you will make them princes throughout the land.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.45.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.45.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I will perpetuate your memory through all generations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.45.17"><span class="content">therefore the nations will praise you for ever and ever.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">46</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 46</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 46:1-11 is numbered 46:2-12.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. According to </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">alamoth.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> A song.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.46.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">God is our refuge and strength,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.46.1"><span class="content">an ever-present help in trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.46.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.46.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.46.2"><span class="content">and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.46.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.46.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">though its waters roar and foam</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.46.3"><span class="content">and the mountains quake with their surging.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">46:3 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 7 and 11.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.46.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.46.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.46.4"><span class="content">the holy place where the Most High dwells.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.46.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.46.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">God is within her, she will not fall;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.46.5"><span class="content">God will help her at break of day.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.46.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.46.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.46.6"><span class="content">he lifts his voice, the earth melts.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.46.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.46.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty is with us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.46.7"><span class="content">the God of Jacob is our fortress.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.46.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.46.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Come and see what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has done,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.46.8"><span class="content">the desolations he has brought on the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.46.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.46.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He makes wars cease</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.46.9"><span class="content">to the ends of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.46.9"><span class="content">He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.46.9"><span class="content">he burns the shields</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">46:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">chariots</span></span></span><span class="content"> with fire.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.46.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.46.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He says, &#8220;Be still, and know that I am God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.46.10"><span class="content">I will be exalted among the nations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.46.10"><span class="content">I will be exalted in the earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.46.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.46.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty is with us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.46.11"><span class="content">the God of Jacob is our fortress.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">47</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 47</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 47:1-9 is numbered 47:2-10.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.47.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Clap your hands, all you nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.47.1"><span class="content">shout to God with cries of joy.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.47.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.47.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Most High is awesome,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.47.2"><span class="content">the great King over all the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.47.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.47.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He subdued nations under us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.47.3"><span class="content">peoples under our feet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.47.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.47.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He chose our inheritance for us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.47.4"><span class="content">the pride of Jacob, whom he loved.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">47:4 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.47.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.47.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">God has ascended amid shouts of joy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.47.5"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> amid the sounding of trumpets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.47.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.47.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Sing praises to God, sing praises;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.47.6"><span class="content">sing praises to our King, sing praises.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.47.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.47.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For God is the King of all the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.47.7"><span class="content">sing to him a psalm of praise.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.47.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.47.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">God reigns over the nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.47.8"><span class="content">God is seated on his holy throne.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.47.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.47.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The nobles of the nations assemble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.47.9"><span class="content">as the people of the God of Abraham,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.47.9"><span class="content">for the kings</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">47:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">shields</span></span></span><span class="content"> of the earth belong to God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.47.9"><span class="content">he is greatly exalted.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">48</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 48</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 48:1-14 is numbered 48:2-15.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.48.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Great is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and most worthy of praise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.48.1"><span class="content">in the city of our God, his holy mountain.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.48.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.48.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Beautiful in its loftiness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.48.2"><span class="content">the joy of the whole earth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.48.2"><span class="content">like the heights of Zaphon</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">48:2 </span><span class="fq">Zaphon </span><span class="ft">was the most sacred mountain of the Canaanites.</span></span></span><span class="content"> is Mount Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.48.2"><span class="content">the city of the Great King.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.48.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.48.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">God is in her citadels;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.48.3"><span class="content">he has shown himself to be her fortress.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.48.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.48.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When the kings joined forces,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.48.4"><span class="content">when they advanced together,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.48.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.48.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">they saw her and were astounded;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.48.5"><span class="content">they fled in terror.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.48.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.48.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Trembling seized them there,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.48.6"><span class="content">pain like that of a woman in labor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.48.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.48.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You destroyed them like ships of Tarshish</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.48.7"><span class="content">shattered by an east wind.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.48.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.48.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">As we have heard,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.48.8"><span class="content">so we have seen</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.48.8"><span class="content">in the city of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.48.8"><span class="content">in the city of our God:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.48.8"><span class="content">God makes her secure</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.48.8"><span class="content">forever.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">48:8 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.48.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.48.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Within your temple, O God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.48.9"><span class="content">we meditate on your unfailing love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.48.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.48.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Like your name, O God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.48.10"><span class="content">your praise reaches to the ends of the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.48.10"><span class="content">your right hand is filled with righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.48.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.48.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Mount Zion rejoices,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.48.11"><span class="content">the villages of Judah are glad</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.48.11"><span class="content">because of your judgments.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.48.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.48.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Walk about Zion, go around her,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.48.12"><span class="content">count her towers,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.48.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.48.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">consider well her ramparts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.48.13"><span class="content">view her citadels,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.48.13"><span class="content">that you may tell of them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.48.13"><span class="content">to the next generation.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.48.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.48.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For this God is our God for ever and ever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.48.14"><span class="content">he will be our guide even to the end.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">49</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 49</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 49:1-20 is numbered 49:2-21.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.49.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear this, all you peoples;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.49.1"><span class="content">listen, all who live in this world,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.49.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.49.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">both low and high,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.49.2"><span class="content">rich and poor alike:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.49.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.49.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">My mouth will speak words of wisdom;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.49.3"><span class="content">the meditation of my heart will give you understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.49.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.49.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I will turn my ear to a proverb;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.49.4"><span class="content">with the harp I will expound my riddle:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.49.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.49.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Why should I fear when evil days come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.49.5"><span class="content">when wicked deceivers surround me&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.49.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.49.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">those who trust in their wealth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.49.6"><span class="content">and boast of their great riches?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.49.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.49.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">No one can redeem the life of another</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.49.7"><span class="content">or give to God a ransom for them&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.49.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.49.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">the ransom for a life is costly,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.49.8"><span class="content">no payment is ever enough&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.49.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.49.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">so that they should live on forever</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.49.9"><span class="content">and not see decay.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.49.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.49.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For all can see that the wise die,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.49.10"><span class="content">that the foolish and the senseless also perish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.49.10"><span class="content">leaving their wealth to others.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.49.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.49.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Their tombs will remain their houses</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:11 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">In their thoughts their houses will remain</span></span></span><span class="content"> forever,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.49.11"><span class="content">their dwellings for endless generations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.49.11"><span class="content">though they had</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">generations, / for they have</span></span></span><span class="content"> named lands after themselves.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.49.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.49.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">People, despite their wealth, do not endure;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.49.12"><span class="content">they are like the beasts that perish.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.49.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.49.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">This is the fate of those who trust in themselves,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.49.13"><span class="content">and of their followers, who approve their sayings.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:13 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 15.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.49.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.49.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They are like sheep and are destined to die;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.49.14"><span class="content">death will be their shepherd</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.49.14"><span class="content">(but the upright will prevail over them in the morning).</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.49.14"><span class="content">Their forms will decay in the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.49.14"><span class="content">far from their princely mansions.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.49.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.49.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But God will redeem me from the realm of the dead;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.49.15"><span class="content">he will surely take me to himself.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.49.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.49.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Do not be overawed when others grow rich,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.49.16"><span class="content">when the splendor of their houses increases;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.49.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.49.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">for they will take nothing with them when they die,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.49.17"><span class="content">their splendor will not descend with them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.49.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.49.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Though while they live they count themselves blessed&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.49.18"><span class="content">and people praise you when you prosper&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.49.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.49.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">they will join those who have gone before them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.49.19"><span class="content">who will never again see the light of life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.49.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.49.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">People who have wealth but lack understanding</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.49.20"><span class="content">are like the beasts that perish.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">50</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 50</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of Asaph.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The Mighty One, God, the </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.50.1"><span class="content">speaks and summons the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="content">from the rising of the sun to where it sets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.50.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.50.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">From Zion, perfect in beauty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.50.2"><span class="content">God shines forth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.50.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Our God comes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">and will not be silent;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">a fire devours before him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">and around him a tempest rages.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.50.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.50.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He summons the heavens above,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.50.4"><span class="content">and the earth, that he may judge his people:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.50.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.50.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Gather to me this consecrated people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.50.5"><span class="content">who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.50.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.50.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And the heavens proclaim his righteousness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.50.6"><span class="content">for he is a God of justice.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:6 </span><span class="ft">With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">for God himself is judge</span></span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:6 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.50.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Listen, my people, and I will speak;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="content">I will testify against you, Israel:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="content">I am God, your God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.50.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.50.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I bring no charges against you concerning your sacrifices</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.50.8"><span class="content">or concerning your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.50.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.50.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I have no need of a bull from your stall</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.50.9"><span class="content">or of goats from your pens,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.50.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.50.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">for every animal of the forest is mine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.50.10"><span class="content">and the cattle on a thousand hills.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.50.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.50.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I know every bird in the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.50.11"><span class="content">and the insects in the fields are mine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.50.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.50.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">If I were hungry I would not tell you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.50.12"><span class="content">for the world is mine, and all that is in it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.50.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.50.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Do I eat the flesh of bulls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.50.13"><span class="content">or drink the blood of goats?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.50.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.50.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Sacrifice thank offerings to God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.50.14"><span class="content">fulfill your vows to the Most High,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.50.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.50.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and call on me in the day of trouble;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.50.15"><span class="content">I will deliver you, and you will honor me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.50.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But to the wicked person, God says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="content">&#8220;What right have you to recite my laws</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="content">or take my covenant on your lips?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.50.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.50.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">You hate my instruction</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.50.17"><span class="content">and cast my words behind you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.50.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.50.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When you see a thief, you join with him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.50.18"><span class="content">you throw in your lot with adulterers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.50.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.50.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You use your mouth for evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.50.19"><span class="content">and harness your tongue to deceit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.50.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.50.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You sit and testify against your brother</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.50.20"><span class="content">and slander your own mother&#8217;s son.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.50.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When you did these things and I kept silent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">you thought I was exactly</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">thought the &#8216;<span class="nd">I am</span>&#8217; was</span></span></span><span class="content"> like you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">But I now arraign you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">and set my accusations before you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.50.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.50.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Consider this, you who forget God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.50.22"><span class="content">or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.50.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.50.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Those who sacrifice thank offerings honor me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.50.23"><span class="content">and to the blameless</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">50:23 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; the meaning of the Masoretic Text for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> I will show my salvation.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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