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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel Fights the Remaining Canaanites</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After the death of Joshua, the Israelites asked the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Canaanites?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> answered, &#8220;Judah shall go up; I have given the land into their hands.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The men of Judah then said to the Simeonites their fellow Israelites, &#8220;Come up with us into the territory allotted to us, to fight against the Canaanites. We in turn will go with you into yours.&#8221; So the Simeonites went with them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When Judah attacked, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down ten thousand men at Bezek. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It was there that they found Adoni-Bezek and fought against him, putting to rout the Canaanites and Perizzites. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Adoni-Bezek fled, but they chased him and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then Adoni-Bezek said, &#8220;Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have picked up scraps under my table. Now God has paid me back for what I did to them.&#8221; They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem also and took it. They put the city to the sword and set it on fire.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">After that, Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites living in the hill country, the Negev and the western foothills. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They advanced against the Canaanites living in Hebron (formerly called Kiriath Arba) and defeated Sheshai, Ahiman and Talmai. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">From there they advanced against the people living in Debir (formerly called Kiriath Sepher).</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">And Caleb said, &#8220;I will give my daughter Aksah in marriage to the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb&#8217;s younger brother, took it; so Caleb gave his daughter Aksah to him in marriage.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.1.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">One day when she came to Othniel, she urged him</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:14 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint and Vulgate </span><span class="fqa">Othniel, he urged her</span></span></span><span class="content"> to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, &#8220;What can I do for you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">She replied, &#8220;Do me a special favor. Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me also springs of water.&#8221; So Caleb gave her the upper and lower springs.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.1.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The descendants of Moses&#8217; father-in-law, the Kenite, went up from the City of Palms</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:16 </span><span class="ft">That is, Jericho</span></span></span><span class="content"> with the people of Judah to live among the inhabitants of the Desert of Judah in the Negev near Arad.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then the men of Judah went with the Simeonites their fellow Israelites and attacked the Canaanites living in Zephath, and they totally destroyed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:17 </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"> the city. Therefore it was called Hormah.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:17 </span><span class="fq">Hormah </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">destruction.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Judah also took</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:18 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">Judah did not take</span></span></span><span class="content"> Gaza, Ashkelon and Ekron&#8212;each city with its territory.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.1.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was with the men of Judah. They took possession of the hill country, but they were unable to drive the people from the plains, because they had chariots fitted with iron. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">As Moses had promised, Hebron was given to Caleb, who drove from it the three sons of Anak. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The Benjamites, however, did not drive out the Jebusites, who were living in Jerusalem; to this day the Jebusites live there with the Benjamites.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.1.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Now the tribes of Joseph attacked Bethel, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was with them. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">When they sent men to spy out Bethel (formerly called Luz), </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">the spies saw a man coming out of the city and they said to him, &#8220;Show us how to get into the city and we will see that you are treated well.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">So he showed them, and they put the city to the sword but spared the man and his whole family. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.1.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">He then went to the land of the Hittites, where he built a city and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.1.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.1.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But Manasseh did not drive out the people of Beth Shan or Taanach or Dor or Ibleam or Megiddo and their surrounding settlements, for the Canaanites were determined to live in that land. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.1.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">When Israel became strong, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor but never drove them out completely. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.1.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Nor did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer, but the Canaanites continued to live there among them. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.1.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Neither did Zebulun drive out the Canaanites living in Kitron or Nahalol, so these Canaanites lived among them, but Zebulun did subject them to forced labor. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.1.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Nor did Asher drive out those living in Akko or Sidon or Ahlab or Akzib or Helbah or Aphek or Rehob. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JDG.1.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The Asherites lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land because they did not drive them out. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JDG.1.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Neither did Naphtali drive out those living in Beth Shemesh or Beth Anath; but the Naphtalites too lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, and those living in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath became forced laborers for them. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JDG.1.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">The Amorites confined the Danites to the hill country, not allowing them to come down into the plain. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JDG.1.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">And the Amorites were determined also to hold out in Mount Heres, Aijalon and Shaalbim, but when the power of the tribes of Joseph increased, they too were pressed into forced labor. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JDG.1.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">The boundary of the Amorites was from Scorpion Pass to Sela and beyond.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading"> at Bokim</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, &#8220;I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land I swore to give to your ancestors. I said, &#8216;I will never break my covenant with you, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and you shall not make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall break down their altars.&#8217; Yet you have disobeyed me. Why have you done this? </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And I have also said, &#8216;I will not drive them out before you; they will become traps for you, and their gods will become snares to you.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.2.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had spoken these things to all the Israelites, the people wept aloud, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">and they called that place Bokim.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:5 </span><span class="fq">Bokim </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">weepers.</span></span></span><span class="content"> There they offered sacrifices to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Disobedience and Defeat</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">After Joshua had dismissed the Israelites, they went to take possession of the land, each to their own inheritance. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The people served the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had seen all the great things the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had done for Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, died at the age of a hundred and ten. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath Heres</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:9 </span><span class="ft">Also known as </span><span class="fqa">Timnath Serah </span><span class="ft">(see Joshua 19:50 and 24:30)</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> nor what he had done for Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and served the Baals. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They forsook the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed and worshiped various gods of the peoples around them. They aroused the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s anger </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">because they forsook him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">In his anger against Israel the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Whenever Israel went out to fight, the hand of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was against them to defeat them, just as he had sworn to them. They were in great distress.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.2.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> raised up judges,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">leaders</span><span class="ft">; similarly in verses 17-19</span></span></span><span class="content"> who saved them out of the hands of these raiders. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Yet they would not listen to their judges but prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. They quickly turned from the ways of their ancestors, who had been obedient to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s commands. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Whenever the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> raised up a judge for them, he was with the judge and saved them out of the hands of their enemies as long as the judge lived; for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> relented because of their groaning under those who oppressed and afflicted them. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But when the judge died, the people returned to ways even more corrupt than those of their ancestors, following other gods and serving and worshiping them. They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.2.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Therefore the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was very angry with Israel and said, &#8220;Because this nation has violated the covenant I ordained for their ancestors and has not listened to me, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I will use them to test Israel and see whether they will keep the way of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and walk in it as their ancestors did.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had allowed those nations to remain; he did not drive them out at once by giving them into the hands of Joshua.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">These are the nations the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> left to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">(he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience): </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living in the Lebanon mountains from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo Hamath. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They were left to test the Israelites to see whether they would obey the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s commands, which he had given their ancestors through Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They took their daughters in marriage and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Othniel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; they forgot the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The anger of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> burned against Israel so that he sold them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:8 </span><span class="ft">That is, Northwest Mesopotamia</span></span></span><span class="content"> to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But when they cried out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, he raised up for them a deliverer, Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb&#8217;s younger brother, who saved them. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came on him, so that he became Israel&#8217;s judge</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">leader</span></span></span><span class="content"> and went to war. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram into the hands of Othniel, who overpowered him. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So the land had peace for forty years, until Othniel son of Kenaz died.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ehud</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and because they did this evil the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave Eglon king of Moab power over Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Getting the Ammonites and Amalekites to join him, Eglon came and attacked Israel, and they took possession of the City of Palms.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:13 </span><span class="ft">That is, Jericho</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The Israelites were subject to Eglon king of Moab for eighteen years.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Again the Israelites cried out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and he gave them a deliverer&#8212;Ehud, a left-handed man, the son of Gera the Benjamite. The Israelites sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Now Ehud had made a double-edged sword about a cubit</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:16 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 18 inches or about 45 centimeters</span></span></span><span class="content"> long, which he strapped to his right thigh under his clothing. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab, who was a very fat man. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">After Ehud had presented the tribute, he sent on their way those who had carried it. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But on reaching the stone images near Gilgal he himself went back to Eglon and said, &#8220;Your Majesty, I have a secret message for you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.3.19"><span class="content">The king said to his attendants, &#8220;Leave us!&#8221; And they all left.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Ehud then approached him while he was sitting alone in the upper room of his palace</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:20 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain; also in verse 24.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and said, &#8220;I have a message from God for you.&#8221; As the king rose from his seat, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Ehud reached with his left hand, drew the sword from his right thigh and plunged it into the king&#8217;s belly. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Even the handle sank in after the blade, and his bowels discharged. Ehud did not pull the sword out, and the fat closed in over it. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.3.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then Ehud went out to the porch</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:23 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content">; he shut the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.3.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.3.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">After he had gone, the servants came and found the doors of the upper room locked. They said, &#8220;He must be relieving himself in the inner room of the palace.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.3.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">They waited to the point of embarrassment, but when he did not open the doors of the room, they took a key and unlocked them. There they saw their lord fallen to the floor, dead.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.3.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.3.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">While they waited, Ehud got away. He passed by the stone images and escaped to Seirah. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.3.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">When he arrived there, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went down with him from the hills, with him leading them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.3.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.3.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;Follow me,&#8221; he ordered, &#8220;for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given Moab, your enemy, into your hands.&#8221; So they followed him down and took possession of the fords of the Jordan that led to Moab; they allowed no one to cross over. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.3.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">At that time they struck down about ten thousand Moabites, all vigorous and strong; not one escaped. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.3.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">That day Moab was made subject to Israel, and the land had peace for eighty years.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Shamgar</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.3.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.3.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath, who struck down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad. He too saved Israel.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Deborah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, now that Ehud was dead. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> sold them into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. Sisera, the commander of his army, was based in Harosheth Haggoyim. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Because he had nine hundred chariots fitted with iron and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, they cried to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> for help.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Traditionally </span><span class="fqa">judging</span></span></span><span class="content"> Israel at that time. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her to have their disputes decided. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, commands you: &#8216;Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead them up to Mount Tabor. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will lead Sisera, the commander of Jabin&#8217;s army, with his chariots and his troops to the Kishon River and give him into your hands.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Barak said to her, &#8220;If you go with me, I will go; but if you don&#8217;t go with me, I won&#8217;t go.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Certainly I will go with you,&#8221; said Deborah. &#8220;But because of the course you are taking, the honor will not be yours, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman.&#8221; So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">There Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali, and ten thousand men went up under his command. Deborah also went up with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now Heber the Kenite had left the other Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, Moses&#8217; brother-in-law,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">father-in-law</span></span></span><span class="content"> and pitched his tent by the great tree in Zaanannim near Kedesh.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When they told Sisera that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Sisera summoned from Harosheth Haggoyim to the Kishon River all his men and his nine hundred chariots fitted with iron.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.4.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then Deborah said to Barak, &#8220;Go! This is the day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given Sisera into your hands. Has not the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gone ahead of you?&#8221; So Barak went down Mount Tabor, with ten thousand men following him. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">At Barak&#8217;s advance, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> routed Sisera and all his chariots and army by the sword, and Sisera got down from his chariot and fled on foot.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.4.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as Harosheth Haggoyim, and all Sisera&#8217;s troops fell by the sword; not a man was left. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Sisera, meanwhile, fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was an alliance between Jabin king of Hazor and the family of Heber the Kenite.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, &#8220;Come, my lord, come right in. Don&#8217;t be afraid.&#8221; So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.4.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;I&#8217;m thirsty,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Please give me some water.&#8221; She opened a skin of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him up.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.4.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Stand in the doorway of the tent,&#8221; he told her. &#8220;If someone comes by and asks you, &#8216;Is anyone in there?&#8217; say &#8216;No.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But Jael, Heber&#8217;s wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.4.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Just then Barak came by in pursuit of Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him. &#8220;Come,&#8221; she said, &#8220;I will show you the man you&#8217;re looking for.&#8221; So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera with the tent peg through his temple&#8212;dead.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.4.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And the hand of the Israelites pressed harder and harder against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Gideon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves and strongholds. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples invaded the country. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They camped on the land and ruined the crops all the way to Gaza and did not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count them or their camels; they invaded the land to ravage it. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> for help.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When the Israelites cried out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> because of Midian, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">he sent them a prophet, who said, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians. And I delivered you from the hand of all your oppressors; I drove them out before you and gave you their land. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I said to you, &#8216;I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God; do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live.&#8217; But you have not listened to me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to Gideon, he said, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is with you, mighty warrior.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Pardon me, my lord,&#8221; Gideon replied, &#8220;but if the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, &#8216;Did not the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> bring us up out of Egypt?&#8217; But now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.6.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> turned to him and said, &#8220;Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian&#8217;s hand. Am I not sending you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.6.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Pardon me, my lord,&#8221; Gideon replied, &#8220;but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.6.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> answered, &#8220;I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.6.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Gideon replied, &#8220;If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to me. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.6.18"><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;I will wait until you return.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.6.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Gideon went inside, prepared a young goat, and from an ephah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:19 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of flour he made bread without yeast. Putting the meat in a basket and its broth in a pot, he brought them out and offered them to him under the oak.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.6.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The angel of God said to him, &#8220;Take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock, and pour out the broth.&#8221; And Gideon did so. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of the staff that was in his hand. Fire flared from the rock, consuming the meat and the bread. And the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> disappeared. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, he exclaimed, &#8220;Alas, Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">! I have seen the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> face to face!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.6.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.6.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to him, &#8220;Peace! Do not be afraid. You are not going to die.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.6.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.6.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">So Gideon built an altar to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> there and called it The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.6.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.6.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">That same night the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to him, &#8220;Take the second bull from your father&#8217;s herd, the one seven years old.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Take a full-grown, mature bull from your father&#8217;s herd</span></span></span><span class="content"> Tear down your father&#8217;s altar to Baal and cut down the Asherah pole</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:25 </span><span class="ft">That is, a wooden symbol of the goddess Asherah; also in verses 26, 28 and 30</span></span></span><span class="content"> beside it. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.6.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Then build a proper kind of</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">build with layers of stone an</span></span></span><span class="content"> altar to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God on the top of this height. Using the wood of the Asherah pole that you cut down, offer the second</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">full-grown</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 28</span></span></span><span class="content"> bull as a burnt offering.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.6.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.6.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> told him. But because he was afraid of his family and the townspeople, he did it at night rather than in the daytime.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.6.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.6.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">In the morning when the people of the town got up, there was Baal&#8217;s altar, demolished, with the Asherah pole beside it cut down and the second bull sacrificed on the newly built altar!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.6.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.6.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">They asked each other, &#8220;Who did this?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.6.29"><span class="content">When they carefully investigated, they were told, &#8220;Gideon son of Joash did it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.6.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.6.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The people of the town demanded of Joash, &#8220;Bring out your son. He must die, because he has broken down Baal&#8217;s altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.6.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.6.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">But Joash replied to the hostile crowd around him, &#8220;Are you going to plead Baal&#8217;s cause? Are you trying to save him? Whoever fights for him shall be put to death by morning! If Baal really is a god, he can defend himself when someone breaks down his altar.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JDG.6.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">So because Gideon broke down Baal&#8217;s altar, they gave him the name Jerub-Baal</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:32 </span><span class="fq">Jerub-Baal </span><span class="ft">probably means </span><span class="fq">let Baal contend</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> that day, saying, &#8220;Let Baal contend with him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JDG.6.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JDG.6.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Now all the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples joined forces and crossed over the Jordan and camped in the Valley of Jezreel. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JDG.6.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Then the Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came on Gideon, and he blew a trumpet, summoning the Abiezrites to follow him. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JDG.6.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">He sent messengers throughout Manasseh, calling them to arms, and also into Asher, Zebulun and Naphtali, so that they too went up to meet them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JDG.6.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JDG.6.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Gideon said to God, &#8220;If you will save Israel by my hand as you have promised&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JDG.6.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">look, I will place a wool fleece on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you said.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JDG.6.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">And that is what happened. Gideon rose early the next day; he squeezed the fleece and wrung out the dew&#8212;a bowlful of water.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JDG.6.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JDG.6.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Then Gideon said to God, &#8220;Do not be angry with me. Let me make just one more request. Allow me one more test with the fleece, but this time make the fleece dry and let the ground be covered with dew.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JDG.6.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">That night God did so. Only the fleece was dry; all the ground was covered with dew.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Gideon Defeats the Midianites</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Early in the morning, Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and all his men camped at the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Gideon, &#8220;You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, &#8216;My own strength has saved me.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now announce to the army, &#8216;Anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; So twenty-two thousand men left, while ten thousand remained.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Gideon, &#8220;There are still too many men. Take them down to the water, and I will thin them out for you there. If I say, &#8216;This one shall go with you,&#8217; he shall go; but if I say, &#8216;This one shall not go with you,&#8217; he shall not go.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So Gideon took the men down to the water. There the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> told him, &#8220;Separate those who lap the water with their tongues as a dog laps from those who kneel down to drink.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Three hundred of them drank from cupped hands, lapping like dogs. All the rest got down on their knees to drink.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Gideon, &#8220;With the three hundred men that lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hands. Let all the others go home.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites home but kept the three hundred, who took over the provisions and trumpets of the others.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.7.8"><span class="content">Now the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">During that night the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Gideon, &#8220;Get up, go down against the camp, because I am going to give it into your hands. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">If you are afraid to attack, go down to the camp with your servant Purah </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and listen to what they are saying. Afterward, you will be encouraged to attack the camp.&#8221; So he and Purah his servant went down to the outposts of the camp. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The Midianites, the Amalekites and all the other eastern peoples had settled in the valley, thick as locusts. Their camels could no more be counted than the sand on the seashore.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Gideon arrived just as a man was telling a friend his dream. &#8220;I had a dream,&#8221; he was saying. &#8220;A round loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent with such force that the tent overturned and collapsed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">His friend responded, &#8220;This can be nothing other than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has given the Midianites and the whole camp into his hands.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down and worshiped. He returned to the camp of Israel and called out, &#8220;Get up! The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given the Midianite camp into your hands.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Dividing the three hundred men into three companies, he placed trumpets and empty jars in the hands of all of them, with torches inside.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Watch me,&#8221; he told them. &#8220;Follow my lead. When I get to the edge of the camp, do exactly as I do. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, then from all around the camp blow yours and shout, &#8216;For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and for Gideon.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.7.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guard. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars that were in their hands. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The three companies blew the trumpets and smashed the jars. Grasping the torches in their left hands and holding in their right hands the trumpets they were to blow, they shouted, &#8220;A sword for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and for Gideon!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">While each man held his position around the camp, all the Midianites ran, crying out as they fled.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.7.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">When the three hundred trumpets sounded, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other with their swords. The army fled to Beth Shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Israelites from Naphtali, Asher and all Manasseh were called out, and they pursued the Midianites. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim, saying, &#8220;Come down against the Midianites and seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth Barah.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.7.24"><span class="content">So all the men of Ephraim were called out and they seized the waters of the Jordan as far as Beth Barah. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">They also captured two of the Midianite leaders, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was by the Jordan.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">66</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 66</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. A song. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.66.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Shout for joy to God, all the earth!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.66.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.66.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Sing the glory of his name;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.66.2"><span class="content">make his praise glorious.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.66.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.66.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Say to God, &#8220;How awesome are your deeds!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.66.3"><span class="content">So great is your power</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.66.3"><span class="content">that your enemies cringe before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.66.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.66.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">All the earth bows down to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.66.4"><span class="content">they sing praise to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.66.4"><span class="content">they sing the praises of your name.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">66:4 </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 15.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.66.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.66.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Come and see what God has done,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.66.5"><span class="content">his awesome deeds for mankind!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.66.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.66.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He turned the sea into dry land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.66.6"><span class="content">they passed through the waters on foot&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.66.6"><span class="content">come, let us rejoice in him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.66.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.66.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He rules forever by his power,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.66.7"><span class="content">his eyes watch the nations&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.66.7"><span class="content">let not the rebellious rise up against him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.66.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.66.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Praise our God, all peoples,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.66.8"><span class="content">let the sound of his praise be heard;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.66.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.66.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">he has preserved our lives</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.66.9"><span class="content">and kept our feet from slipping.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.66.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.66.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For you, God, tested us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.66.10"><span class="content">you refined us like silver.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.66.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.66.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You brought us into prison</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.66.11"><span class="content">and laid burdens on our backs.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.66.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.66.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You let people ride over our heads;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.66.12"><span class="content">we went through fire and water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.66.12"><span class="content">but you brought us to a place of abundance.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.66.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.66.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I will come to your temple with burnt offerings</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.66.13"><span class="content">and fulfill my vows to you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.66.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.66.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">vows my lips promised and my mouth spoke</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.66.14"><span class="content">when I was in trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.66.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.66.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I will sacrifice fat animals to you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.66.15"><span class="content">and an offering of rams;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.66.15"><span class="content">I will offer bulls and goats.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.66.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.66.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Come and hear, all you who fear God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.66.16"><span class="content">let me tell you what he has done for me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.66.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.66.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I cried out to him with my mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.66.17"><span class="content">his praise was on my tongue.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.66.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.66.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">If I had cherished sin in my heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.66.18"><span class="content">the Lord would not have listened;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.66.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.66.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">but God has surely listened</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.66.19"><span class="content">and has heard my prayer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.66.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.66.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Praise be to God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.66.20"><span class="content">who has not rejected my prayer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.66.20"><span class="content">or withheld his love from me!</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">67</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 67</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 67:1-7 is numbered 67:2-8.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm. A song.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.67.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">May God be gracious to us and bless us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.67.1"><span class="content">and make his face shine on us&#8212;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">67:1 </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 4.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.67.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.67.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">so that your ways may be known on earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.67.2"><span class="content">your salvation among all nations.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.67.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.67.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">May the peoples praise you, God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.67.3"><span class="content">may all the peoples praise you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.67.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.67.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">May the nations be glad and sing for joy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.67.4"><span class="content">for you rule the peoples with equity</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.67.4"><span class="content">and guide the nations of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.67.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.67.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">May the peoples praise you, God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.67.5"><span class="content">may all the peoples praise you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.67.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.67.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The land yields its harvest;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.67.6"><span class="content">God, our God, blesses us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.67.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.67.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">May God bless us still,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.67.7"><span class="content">so that all the ends of the earth will fear him.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">68</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 68</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 68:1-35 is numbered 68:2-36.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. A song.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.68.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">May God arise, may his enemies be scattered;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.68.1"><span class="content">may his foes flee before him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.68.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.68.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">May you blow them away like smoke&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.68.2"><span class="content">as wax melts before the fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.68.2"><span class="content">may the wicked perish before God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.68.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.68.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But may the righteous be glad</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.68.3"><span class="content">and rejoice before God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.68.3"><span class="content">may they be happy and joyful.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.68.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.68.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Sing to God, sing in praise of his name,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.68.4"><span class="content">extol him who rides on the clouds</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">68:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">name, / prepare the way for him who rides through the deserts</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.68.4"><span class="content">rejoice before him&#8212;his name is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.68.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.68.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.68.5"><span class="content">is God in his holy dwelling.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.68.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.68.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">God sets the lonely in families,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">68:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the desolate in a homeland</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.68.6"><span class="content">he leads out the prisoners with singing;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.68.6"><span class="content">but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.68.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.68.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When you, God, went out before your people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.68.7"><span class="content">when you marched through the wilderness,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">68:7 </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 19 and 32.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.68.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.68.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">the earth shook, the heavens poured down rain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.68.8"><span class="content">before God, the One of Sinai,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.68.8"><span class="content">before God, the God of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.68.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.68.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You gave abundant showers, O God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.68.9"><span class="content">you refreshed your weary inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.68.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.68.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Your people settled in it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.68.10"><span class="content">and from your bounty, God, you provided for the poor.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.68.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.68.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The Lord announces the word,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.68.11"><span class="content">and the women who proclaim it are a mighty throng:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.68.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.68.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Kings and armies flee in haste;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.68.12"><span class="content">the women at home divide the plunder.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.68.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.68.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Even while you sleep among the sheep pens,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">68:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the campfires; </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">the saddlebags</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.68.13"><span class="content">the wings of my dove are sheathed with silver,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.68.13"><span class="content">its feathers with shining gold.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.68.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.68.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When the Almighty</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">68:14 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Shaddai</span></span></span><span class="content"> scattered the kings in the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.68.14"><span class="content">it was like snow fallen on Mount Zalmon.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.68.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.68.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Mount Bashan, majestic mountain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.68.15"><span class="content">Mount Bashan, rugged mountain,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.68.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.68.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">why gaze in envy, you rugged mountain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.68.16"><span class="content">at the mountain where God chooses to reign,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.68.16"><span class="content">where the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> himself will dwell forever?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.68.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.68.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The chariots of God are tens of thousands</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.68.17"><span class="content">and thousands of thousands;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.68.17"><span class="content">the Lord has come from Sinai into his sanctuary.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">68:17 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">Lord is among them at Sinai in holiness</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.68.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.68.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When you ascended on high,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.68.18"><span class="content">you took many captives;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.68.18"><span class="content">you received gifts from people,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.68.18"><span class="content">even from</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">68:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">gifts for people, / even</span></span></span><span class="content"> the rebellious&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.68.18"><span class="content">that you,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">68:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">they</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God, might dwell there.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.68.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.68.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.68.19"><span class="content">who daily bears our burdens.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.68.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.68.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Our God is a God who saves;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.68.20"><span class="content">from the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> comes escape from death.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.68.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.68.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Surely God will crush the heads of his enemies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.68.21"><span class="content">the hairy crowns of those who go on in their sins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.68.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.68.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The Lord says, &#8220;I will bring them from Bashan;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.68.22"><span class="content">I will bring them from the depths of the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.68.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.68.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">that your feet may wade in the blood of your foes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.68.23"><span class="content">while the tongues of your dogs have their share.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.68.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.68.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Your procession, God, has come into view,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.68.24"><span class="content">the procession of my God and King into the sanctuary.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.68.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.68.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">In front are the singers, after them the musicians;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.68.25"><span class="content">with them are the young women playing the timbrels.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.68.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.68.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Praise God in the great congregation;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.68.26"><span class="content">praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in the assembly of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.68.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.68.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">There is the little tribe of Benjamin, leading them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.68.27"><span class="content">there the great throng of Judah&#8217;s princes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.68.27"><span class="content">and there the princes of Zebulun and of Naphtali.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.68.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.68.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Summon your power, God</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">68:28 </span><span class="ft">Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Your God has summoned power for you</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.68.28"><span class="content">show us your strength, our God, as you have done before.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.68.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.68.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Because of your temple at Jerusalem</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.68.29"><span class="content">kings will bring you gifts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.68.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.68.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Rebuke the beast among the reeds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.68.30"><span class="content">the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.68.30"><span class="content">Humbled, may the beast bring bars of silver.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.68.30"><span class="content">Scatter the nations who delight in war.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.68.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.68.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Envoys will come from Egypt;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.68.31"><span class="content">Cush</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">68:31 </span><span class="ft">That is, the upper Nile region</span></span></span><span class="content"> will submit herself to God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.68.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.68.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.68.32"><span class="content">sing praise to the Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.68.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.68.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">to him who rides across the highest heavens, the ancient heavens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.68.33"><span class="content">who thunders with mighty voice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.68.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.68.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Proclaim the power of God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.68.34"><span class="content">whose majesty is over Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.68.34"><span class="content">whose power is in the heavens.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.68.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.68.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">You, God, are awesome in your sanctuary;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.68.35"><span class="content">the God of Israel gives power and strength to his people.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.68.35"><span class="content">Praise be to God!</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">69</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 69</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 69:1-36 is numbered 69:2-37.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. To the tune of &#8220;Lilies.&#8221; Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.69.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Save me, O God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.69.1"><span class="content">for the waters have come up to my neck.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.69.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.69.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I sink in the miry depths,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.69.2"><span class="content">where there is no foothold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.69.2"><span class="content">I have come into the deep waters;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.69.2"><span class="content">the floods engulf me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.69.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.69.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I am worn out calling for help;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.69.3"><span class="content">my throat is parched.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.69.3"><span class="content">My eyes fail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.69.3"><span class="content">looking for my God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.69.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.69.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Those who hate me without reason</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.69.4"><span class="content">outnumber the hairs of my head;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.69.4"><span class="content">many are my enemies without cause,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.69.4"><span class="content">those who seek to destroy me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.69.4"><span class="content">I am forced to restore</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.69.4"><span class="content">what I did not steal.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.69.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.69.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You, God, know my folly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.69.5"><span class="content">my guilt is not hidden from you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.69.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.69.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.69.6"><span class="content">may those who hope in you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.69.6"><span class="content">not be disgraced because of me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.69.6"><span class="content">God of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.69.6"><span class="content">may those who seek you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.69.6"><span class="content">not be put to shame because of me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.69.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.69.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For I endure scorn for your sake,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.69.7"><span class="content">and shame covers my face.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.69.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.69.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I am a foreigner to my own family,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.69.8"><span class="content">a stranger to my own mother&#8217;s children;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.69.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.69.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">for zeal for your house consumes me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.69.9"><span class="content">and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.69.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.69.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When I weep and fast,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.69.10"><span class="content">I must endure scorn;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.69.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.69.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">when I put on sackcloth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.69.11"><span class="content">people make sport of me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.69.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.69.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Those who sit at the gate mock me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.69.12"><span class="content">and I am the song of the drunkards.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.69.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.69.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But I pray to you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.69.13"><span class="content">in the time of your favor;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.69.13"><span class="content">in your great love, O God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.69.13"><span class="content">answer me with your sure salvation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.69.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.69.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Rescue me from the mire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.69.14"><span class="content">do not let me sink;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.69.14"><span class="content">deliver me from those who hate me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.69.14"><span class="content">from the deep waters.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.69.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.69.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Do not let the floodwaters engulf me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.69.15"><span class="content">or the depths swallow me up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.69.15"><span class="content">or the pit close its mouth over me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.69.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.69.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Answer me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, out of the goodness of your love;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.69.16"><span class="content">in your great mercy turn to me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.69.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.69.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Do not hide your face from your servant;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.69.17"><span class="content">answer me quickly, for I am in trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.69.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.69.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Come near and rescue me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.69.18"><span class="content">deliver me because of my foes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.69.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.69.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You know how I am scorned, disgraced and shamed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.69.19"><span class="content">all my enemies are before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.69.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.69.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Scorn has broken my heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.69.20"><span class="content">and has left me helpless;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.69.20"><span class="content">I looked for sympathy, but there was none,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.69.20"><span class="content">for comforters, but I found none.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.69.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.69.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They put gall in my food</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.69.21"><span class="content">and gave me vinegar for my thirst.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.69.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.69.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">May the table set before them become a snare;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.69.22"><span class="content">may it become retribution and</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">69:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">snare / and their fellowship become</span></span></span><span class="content"> a trap.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.69.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.69.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.69.23"><span class="content">and their backs be bent forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.69.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.69.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Pour out your wrath on them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.69.24"><span class="content">let your fierce anger overtake them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.69.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.69.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">May their place be deserted;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.69.25"><span class="content">let there be no one to dwell in their tents.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.69.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.69.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For they persecute those you wound</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.69.26"><span class="content">and talk about the pain of those you hurt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.69.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.69.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Charge them with crime upon crime;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.69.27"><span class="content">do not let them share in your salvation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.69.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.69.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">May they be blotted out of the book of life</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.69.28"><span class="content">and not be listed with the righteous.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.69.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.69.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">But as for me, afflicted and in pain&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.69.29"><span class="content">may your salvation, God, protect me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.69.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.69.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">I will praise God&#8217;s name in song</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.69.30"><span class="content">and glorify him with thanksgiving.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.69.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.69.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">This will please the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> more than an ox,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.69.31"><span class="content">more than a bull with its horns and hooves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.69.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.69.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The poor will see and be glad&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.69.32"><span class="content">you who seek God, may your hearts live!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.69.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.69.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> hears the needy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.69.33"><span class="content">and does not despise his captive people.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.69.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.69.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Let heaven and earth praise him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.69.34"><span class="content">the seas and all that move in them,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.69.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.69.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">for God will save Zion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.69.35"><span class="content">and rebuild the cities of Judah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.69.35"><span class="content">Then people will settle there and possess it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.69.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PSA.69.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">the children of his servants will inherit it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PSA.69.36"><span class="content">and those who love his name will dwell there.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">70</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 70</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 70:1-5 is numbered 70:2-6.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of David. A petition.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.70.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hasten, O God, to save me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.70.1"><span class="content">come quickly, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, to help me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.70.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.70.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">May those who want to take my life</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.70.2"><span class="content">be put to shame and confusion;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.70.2"><span class="content">may all who desire my ruin</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.70.2"><span class="content">be turned back in disgrace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.70.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.70.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">May those who say to me, &#8220;Aha! Aha!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.70.3"><span class="content">turn back because of their shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.70.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.70.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But may all who seek you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.70.4"><span class="content">rejoice and be glad in you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.70.4"><span class="content">may those who long for your saving help always say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.70.4"><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is great!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.70.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.70.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But as for me, I am poor and needy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.70.5"><span class="content">come quickly to me, O God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.70.5"><span class="content">You are my help and my deliverer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.70.5"><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, do not delay.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">71</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 71</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.71.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I have taken refuge;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.71.1"><span class="content">let me never be put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.71.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.71.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">In your righteousness, rescue me and deliver me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.71.2"><span class="content">turn your ear to me and save me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.71.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.71.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Be my rock of refuge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.71.3"><span class="content">to which I can always go;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.71.3"><span class="content">give the command to save me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.71.3"><span class="content">for you are my rock and my fortress.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.71.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.71.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Deliver me, my God, from the hand of the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.71.4"><span class="content">from the grasp of those who are evil and cruel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.71.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.71.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For you have been my hope, Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.71.5"><span class="content">my confidence since my youth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.71.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.71.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">From birth I have relied on you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.71.6"><span class="content">you brought me forth from my mother&#8217;s womb.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.71.6"><span class="content">I will ever praise you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.71.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.71.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I have become a sign to many;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.71.7"><span class="content">you are my strong refuge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.71.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.71.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">My mouth is filled with your praise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.71.8"><span class="content">declaring your splendor all day long.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.71.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.71.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Do not cast me away when I am old;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.71.9"><span class="content">do not forsake me when my strength is gone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.71.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.71.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For my enemies speak against me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.71.10"><span class="content">those who wait to kill me conspire together.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.71.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.71.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They say, &#8220;God has forsaken him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.71.11"><span class="content">pursue him and seize him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.71.11"><span class="content">for no one will rescue him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.71.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.71.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Do not be far from me, my God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.71.12"><span class="content">come quickly, God, to help me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.71.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.71.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">May my accusers perish in shame;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.71.13"><span class="content">may those who want to harm me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.71.13"><span class="content">be covered with scorn and disgrace.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.71.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.71.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">As for me, I will always have hope;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.71.14"><span class="content">I will praise you more and more.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.71.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.71.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">My mouth will tell of your righteous deeds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.71.15"><span class="content">of your saving acts all day long&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.71.15"><span class="content">though I know not how to relate them all.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.71.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.71.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I will come and proclaim your mighty acts, Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.71.16"><span class="content">I will proclaim your righteous deeds, yours alone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.71.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.71.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Since my youth, God, you have taught me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.71.17"><span class="content">and to this day I declare your marvelous deeds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.71.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.71.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Even when I am old and gray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.71.18"><span class="content">do not forsake me, my God,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.71.18"><span class="content">till I declare your power to the next generation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.71.18"><span class="content">your mighty acts to all who are to come.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.71.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.71.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Your righteousness, God, reaches to the heavens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.71.19"><span class="content">you who have done great things.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.71.19"><span class="content">Who is like you, God?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.71.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.71.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Though you have made me see troubles,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.71.20"><span class="content">many and bitter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.71.20"><span class="content">you will restore my life again;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.71.20"><span class="content">from the depths of the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.71.20"><span class="content">you will again bring me up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.71.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.71.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">You will increase my honor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.71.21"><span class="content">and comfort me once more.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.71.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.71.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I will praise you with the harp</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.71.22"><span class="content">for your faithfulness, my God;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.71.22"><span class="content">I will sing praise to you with the lyre,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.71.22"><span class="content">Holy One of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.71.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.71.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">My lips will shout for joy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.71.23"><span class="content">when I sing praise to you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.71.23"><span class="content">I whom you have delivered.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.71.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.71.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">My tongue will tell of your righteous acts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.71.24"><span class="content">all day long,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.71.24"><span class="content">for those who wanted to harm me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.71.24"><span class="content">have been put to shame and confusion.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">72</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 72</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">Of Solomon.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.72.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Endow the king with your justice, O God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.72.1"><span class="content">the royal son with your righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.72.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.72.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">May he judge your people in righteousness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.72.2"><span class="content">your afflicted ones with justice.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.72.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.72.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">May the mountains bring prosperity to the people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.72.3"><span class="content">the hills the fruit of righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.72.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.72.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">May he defend the afflicted among the people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.72.4"><span class="content">and save the children of the needy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.72.4"><span class="content">may he crush the oppressor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.72.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.72.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">May he endure</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">72:5 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">You will be feared</span></span></span><span class="content"> as long as the sun,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.72.5"><span class="content">as long as the moon, through all generations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.72.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.72.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">May he be like rain falling on a mown field,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.72.6"><span class="content">like showers watering the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.72.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.72.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In his days may the righteous flourish</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.72.7"><span class="content">and prosperity abound till the moon is no more.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.72.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.72.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">May he rule from sea to sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.72.8"><span class="content">and from the River</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">72:8 </span><span class="ft">That is, the Euphrates</span></span></span><span class="content"> to the ends of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.72.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.72.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">May the desert tribes bow before him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.72.9"><span class="content">and his enemies lick the dust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.72.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.72.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">May the kings of Tarshish and of distant shores</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.72.10"><span class="content">bring tribute to him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.72.10"><span class="content">May the kings of Sheba and Seba</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.72.10"><span class="content">present him gifts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.72.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.72.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">May all kings bow down to him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.72.11"><span class="content">and all nations serve him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.72.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.72.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For he will deliver the needy who cry out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.72.12"><span class="content">the afflicted who have no one to help.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.72.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.72.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He will take pity on the weak and the needy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.72.13"><span class="content">and save the needy from death.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.72.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.72.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He will rescue them from oppression and violence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.72.14"><span class="content">for precious is their blood in his sight.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.72.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.72.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Long may he live!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.72.15"><span class="content">May gold from Sheba be given him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.72.15"><span class="content">May people ever pray for him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.72.15"><span class="content">and bless him all day long.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.72.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.72.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">May grain abound throughout the land;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.72.16"><span class="content">on the tops of the hills may it sway.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.72.16"><span class="content">May the crops flourish like Lebanon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.72.16"><span class="content">and thrive</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">72:16 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">Lebanon, / from the city</span></span></span><span class="content"> like the grass of the field.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.72.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.72.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">May his name endure forever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.72.17"><span class="content">may it continue as long as the sun.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.72.17"><span class="content">Then all nations will be blessed through him,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">72:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will use his name in blessings </span><span class="ft">(see Gen. 48:20)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.72.17"><span class="content">and they will call him blessed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.72.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.72.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God, the God of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.72.18"><span class="content">who alone does marvelous deeds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.72.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.72.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Praise be to his glorious name forever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.72.19"><span class="content">may the whole earth be filled with his glory.</span></span></div><div class="qc"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.72.19"><span class="content">Amen and Amen.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.72.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.72.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">This concludes the prayers of David son of Jesse.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">73</div><div class="ms"><span class="heading">BOOK III</span></div><div class="mr"><span class="heading">  </span><span class="heading">Psalms 73&#8211;89</span></div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 73</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.73.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Surely God is good to Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.73.1"><span class="content">to those who are pure in heart.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.73.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.73.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But as for me, my feet had almost slipped;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.73.2"><span class="content">I had nearly lost my foothold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.73.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.73.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For I envied the arrogant</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.73.3"><span class="content">when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.73.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.73.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They have no struggles;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.73.4"><span class="content">their bodies are healthy and strong.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">73:4 </span><span class="ft">With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">struggles at their death; / their bodies are healthy</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.73.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.73.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They are free from common human burdens;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.73.5"><span class="content">they are not plagued by human ills.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.73.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.73.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Therefore pride is their necklace;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.73.6"><span class="content">they clothe themselves with violence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.73.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.73.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">From their callous hearts comes iniquity</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">73:7 </span><span class="ft">Syriac (see also Septuagint); Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Their eyes bulge with fat</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.73.7"><span class="content">their evil imaginations have no limits.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.73.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.73.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They scoff, and speak with malice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.73.8"><span class="content">with arrogance they threaten oppression.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.73.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.73.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Their mouths lay claim to heaven,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.73.9"><span class="content">and their tongues take possession of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.73.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.73.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Therefore their people turn to them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.73.10"><span class="content">and drink up waters in abundance.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">73:10 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.73.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.73.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They say, &#8220;How would God know?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.73.11"><span class="content">Does the Most High know anything?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.73.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.73.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">This is what the wicked are like&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.73.12"><span class="content">always free of care, they go on amassing wealth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.73.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.73.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.73.13"><span class="content">and have washed my hands in innocence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.73.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.73.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">All day long I have been afflicted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.73.14"><span class="content">and every morning brings new punishments.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.73.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.73.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If I had spoken out like that,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.73.15"><span class="content">I would have betrayed your children.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.73.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.73.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When I tried to understand all this,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.73.16"><span class="content">it troubled me deeply</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.73.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.73.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">till I entered the sanctuary of God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.73.17"><span class="content">then I understood their final destiny.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.73.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.73.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Surely you place them on slippery ground;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.73.18"><span class="content">you cast them down to ruin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.73.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.73.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">How suddenly are they destroyed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.73.19"><span class="content">completely swept away by terrors!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.73.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.73.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They are like a dream when one awakes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.73.20"><span class="content">when you arise, Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.73.20"><span class="content">you will despise them as fantasies.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.73.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.73.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When my heart was grieved</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.73.21"><span class="content">and my spirit embittered,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.73.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.73.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I was senseless and ignorant;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.73.22"><span class="content">I was a brute beast before you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.73.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.73.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Yet I am always with you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.73.23"><span class="content">you hold me by my right hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.73.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.73.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">You guide me with your counsel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.73.24"><span class="content">and afterward you will take me into glory.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.73.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.73.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Whom have I in heaven but you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.73.25"><span class="content">And earth has nothing I desire besides you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.73.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.73.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">My flesh and my heart may fail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.73.26"><span class="content">but God is the strength of my heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.73.26"><span class="content">and my portion forever.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.73.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.73.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Those who are far from you will perish;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.73.27"><span class="content">you destroy all who are unfaithful to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.73.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.73.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">But as for me, it is good to be near God.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.73.28"><span class="content">I have made the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my refuge;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.73.28"><span class="content">I will tell of all your deeds.</span></span></div>
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