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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Zebah and Zalmunna</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now the Ephraimites asked Gideon, &#8220;Why have you treated us like this? Why didn&#8217;t you call us when you went to fight Midian?&#8221; And they challenged him vigorously.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.8.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But he answered them, &#8220;What have I accomplished compared to you? Aren&#8217;t the gleanings of Ephraim&#8217;s grapes better than the full grape harvest of Abiezer? </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">God gave Oreb and Zeeb, the Midianite leaders, into your hands. What was I able to do compared to you?&#8221; At this, their resentment against him subsided.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.8.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Gideon and his three hundred men, exhausted yet keeping up the pursuit, came to the Jordan and crossed it. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He said to the men of Sukkoth, &#8220;Give my troops some bread; they are worn out, and I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But the officials of Sukkoth said, &#8220;Do you already have the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna in your possession? Why should we give bread to your troops?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then Gideon replied, &#8220;Just for that, when the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with desert thorns and briers.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">From there he went up to Peniel</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:8 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Penuel, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Peniel</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 9 and 17</span></span></span><span class="content"> and made the same request of them, but they answered as the men of Sukkoth had. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So he said to the men of Peniel, &#8220;When I return in triumph, I will tear down this tower.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with a force of about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of the armies of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had fallen. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Gideon went up by the route of the nomads east of Nobah and Jogbehah and attacked the unsuspecting army. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Zebah and Zalmunna, the two kings of Midian, fled, but he pursued them and captured them, routing their entire army.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Gideon son of Joash then returned from the battle by the Pass of Heres. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He caught a young man of Sukkoth and questioned him, and the young man wrote down for him the names of the seventy-seven officials of Sukkoth, the elders of the town. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then Gideon came and said to the men of Sukkoth, &#8220;Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me by saying, &#8216;Do you already have the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna in your possession? Why should we give bread to your exhausted men?&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He took the elders of the town and taught the men of Sukkoth a lesson by punishing them with desert thorns and briers. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He also pulled down the tower of Peniel and killed the men of the town.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.8.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then he asked Zebah and Zalmunna, &#8220;What kind of men did you kill at Tabor?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.8.18"><span class="content">&#8220;Men like you,&#8221; they answered, &#8220;each one with the bearing of a prince.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.8.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Gideon replied, &#8220;Those were my brothers, the sons of my own mother. As surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives, if you had spared their lives, I would not kill you.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Turning to Jether, his oldest son, he said, &#8220;Kill them!&#8221; But Jether did not draw his sword, because he was only a boy and was afraid.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.8.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Zebah and Zalmunna said, &#8220;Come, do it yourself. &#8216;As is the man, so is his strength.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; So Gideon stepped forward and killed them, and took the ornaments off their camels&#8217; necks.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Gideon&#8217;s Ephod</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.8.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The Israelites said to Gideon, &#8220;Rule over us&#8212;you, your son and your grandson&#8212;because you have saved us from the hand of Midian.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.8.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.8.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But Gideon told them, &#8220;I will not rule over you, nor will my son rule over you. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will rule over you.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.8.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And he said, &#8220;I do have one request, that each of you give me an earring from your share of the plunder.&#8221; (It was the custom of the Ishmaelites to wear gold earrings.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.8.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.8.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">They answered, &#8220;We&#8217;ll be glad to give them.&#8221; So they spread out a garment, and each of them threw a ring from his plunder onto it. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.8.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The weight of the gold rings he asked for came to seventeen hundred shekels,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:26 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 43 pounds or about 20 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> not counting the ornaments, the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian or the chains that were on their camels&#8217; necks. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.8.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Gideon made the gold into an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his town. All Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his family.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Gideon&#8217;s Death</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.8.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.8.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Thus Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. During Gideon&#8217;s lifetime, the land had peace forty years.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.8.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.8.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Jerub-Baal son of Joash went back home to live. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.8.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He had seventy sons of his own, for he had many wives. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.8.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">His concubine, who lived in Shechem, also bore him a son, whom he named Abimelek. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JDG.8.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Gideon son of Joash died at a good old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JDG.8.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JDG.8.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">No sooner had Gideon died than the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They set up Baal-Berith as their god </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JDG.8.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">and did not remember the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> their God, who had rescued them from the hands of all their enemies on every side. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JDG.8.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">They also failed to show any loyalty to the family of Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) in spite of all the good things he had done for them.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Abimelek</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Abimelek son of Jerub-Baal went to his mother&#8217;s brothers in Shechem and said to them and to all his mother&#8217;s clan, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Ask all the citizens of Shechem, &#8216;Which is better for you: to have all seventy of Jerub-Baal&#8217;s sons rule over you, or just one man?&#8217; Remember, I am your flesh and blood.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When the brothers repeated all this to the citizens of Shechem, they were inclined to follow Abimelek, for they said, &#8220;He is related to us.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They gave him seventy shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:4 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 1 3/4 pounds or about 800 grams</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith, and Abimelek used it to hire reckless scoundrels, who became his followers. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He went to his father&#8217;s home in Ophrah and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerub-Baal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerub-Baal, escaped by hiding. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then all the citizens of Shechem and Beth Millo gathered beside the great tree at the pillar in Shechem to crown Abimelek king.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When Jotham was told about this, he climbed up on the top of Mount Gerizim and shouted to them, &#8220;Listen to me, citizens of Shechem, so that God may listen to you. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">One day the trees went out to anoint a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, &#8216;Be our king.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;But the olive tree answered, &#8216;Should I give up my oil, by which both gods and humans are honored, to hold sway over the trees?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Next, the trees said to the fig tree, &#8216;Come and be our king.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;But the fig tree replied, &#8216;Should I give up my fruit, so good and sweet, to hold sway over the trees?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then the trees said to the vine, &#8216;Come and be our king.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;But the vine answered, &#8216;Should I give up my wine, which cheers both gods and humans, to hold sway over the trees?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.9.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Finally all the trees said to the thornbush, &#8216;Come and be our king.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.9.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;The thornbush said to the trees, &#8216;If you really want to anoint me king over you, come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, then let fire come out of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.9.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Have you acted honorably and in good faith by making Abimelek king? Have you been fair to Jerub-Baal and his family? Have you treated him as he deserves? </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Remember that my father fought for you and risked his life to rescue you from the hand of Midian. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But today you have revolted against my father&#8217;s family. You have murdered his seventy sons on a single stone and have made Abimelek, the son of his female slave, king over the citizens of Shechem because he is related to you. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So have you acted honorably and in good faith toward Jerub-Baal and his family today? If you have, may Abimelek be your joy, and may you be his, too! </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But if you have not, let fire come out from Abimelek and consume you, the citizens of Shechem and Beth Millo, and let fire come out from you, the citizens of Shechem and Beth Millo, and consume Abimelek!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.9.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then Jotham fled, escaping to Beer, and he lived there because he was afraid of his brother Abimelek.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.9.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">After Abimelek had governed Israel three years, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">God stirred up animosity between Abimelek and the citizens of Shechem so that they acted treacherously against Abimelek. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">God did this in order that the crime against Jerub-Baal&#8217;s seventy sons, the shedding of their blood, might be avenged on their brother Abimelek and on the citizens of Shechem, who had helped him murder his brothers. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">In opposition to him these citizens of Shechem set men on the hilltops to ambush and rob everyone who passed by, and this was reported to Abimelek.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.9.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Now Gaal son of Ebed moved with his clan into Shechem, and its citizens put their confidence in him. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">After they had gone out into the fields and gathered the grapes and trodden them, they held a festival in the temple of their god. While they were eating and drinking, they cursed Abimelek. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.9.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then Gaal son of Ebed said, &#8220;Who is Abimelek, and why should we Shechemites be subject to him? Isn&#8217;t he Jerub-Baal&#8217;s son, and isn&#8217;t Zebul his deputy? Serve the family of Hamor, Shechem&#8217;s father! Why should we serve Abimelek? </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.9.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">If only this people were under my command! Then I would get rid of him. I would say to Abimelek, &#8216;Call out your whole army!&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:29 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">him.&#8221; Then he said to Abimelek, &#8220;Call out your whole army!&#8221;</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.9.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.9.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">When Zebul the governor of the city heard what Gaal son of Ebed said, he was very angry. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.9.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Under cover he sent messengers to Abimelek, saying, &#8220;Gaal son of Ebed and his clan have come to Shechem and are stirring up the city against you. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JDG.9.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Now then, during the night you and your men should come and lie in wait in the fields. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JDG.9.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">In the morning at sunrise, advance against the city. When Gaal and his men come out against you, seize the opportunity to attack them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JDG.9.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JDG.9.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">So Abimelek and all his troops set out by night and took up concealed positions near Shechem in four companies. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JDG.9.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Now Gaal son of Ebed had gone out and was standing at the entrance of the city gate just as Abimelek and his troops came out from their hiding place.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JDG.9.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JDG.9.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">When Gaal saw them, he said to Zebul, &#8220;Look, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JDG.9.36"><span class="content">Zebul replied, &#8220;You mistake the shadows of the mountains for men.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JDG.9.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JDG.9.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">But Gaal spoke up again: &#8220;Look, people are coming down from the central hill,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:37 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew for this phrase means </span><span class="fqa">the navel of the earth.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and a company is coming from the direction of the diviners&#8217; tree.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JDG.9.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JDG.9.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Then Zebul said to him, &#8220;Where is your big talk now, you who said, &#8216;Who is Abimelek that we should be subject to him?&#8217; Aren&#8217;t these the men you ridiculed? Go out and fight them!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JDG.9.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JDG.9.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">So Gaal led out</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:39 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Gaal went out in the sight of</span></span></span><span class="content"> the citizens of Shechem and fought Abimelek. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JDG.9.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Abimelek chased him all the way to the entrance of the gate, and many were killed as they fled. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JDG.9.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Then Abimelek stayed in Arumah, and Zebul drove Gaal and his clan out of Shechem.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JDG.9.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JDG.9.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">The next day the people of Shechem went out to the fields, and this was reported to Abimelek. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="JDG.9.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">So he took his men, divided them into three companies and set an ambush in the fields. When he saw the people coming out of the city, he rose to attack them. </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="JDG.9.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">Abimelek and the companies with him rushed forward to a position at the entrance of the city gate. Then two companies attacked those in the fields and struck them down. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JDG.9.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">All that day Abimelek pressed his attack against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he destroyed the city and scattered salt over it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JDG.9.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="JDG.9.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">On hearing this, the citizens in the tower of Shechem went into the stronghold of the temple of El-Berith. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="JDG.9.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">When Abimelek heard that they had assembled there, </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="JDG.9.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">he and all his men went up Mount Zalmon. He took an ax and cut off some branches, which he lifted to his shoulders. He ordered the men with him, &#8220;Quick! Do what you have seen me do!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="JDG.9.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">So all the men cut branches and followed Abimelek. They piled them against the stronghold and set it on fire with the people still inside. So all the people in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women, also died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="JDG.9.49"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="JDG.9.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">Next Abimelek went to Thebez and besieged it and captured it. </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="JDG.9.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">Inside the city, however, was a strong tower, to which all the men and women&#8212;all the people of the city&#8212;had fled. They had locked themselves in and climbed up on the tower roof. </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="JDG.9.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">Abimelek went to the tower and attacked it. But as he approached the entrance to the tower to set it on fire, </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="JDG.9.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">a woman dropped an upper millstone on his head and cracked his skull.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="JDG.9.53"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="JDG.9.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">Hurriedly he called to his armor-bearer, &#8220;Draw your sword and kill me, so that they can&#8217;t say, &#8216;A woman killed him.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; So his servant ran him through, and he died. </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="JDG.9.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">When the Israelites saw that Abimelek was dead, they went home.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="JDG.9.55"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="JDG.9.56"><span class="label">56</span><span class="content">Thus God repaid the wickedness that Abimelek had done to his father by murdering his seventy brothers. </span></span><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="JDG.9.57"><span class="label">57</span><span class="content">God also made the people of Shechem pay for all their wickedness. The curse of Jotham son of Jerub-Baal came on them.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Tola</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After the time of Abimelek, a man of Issachar named Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He led</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:2 </span><span class="ft">Traditionally </span><span class="fqa">judged</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 3</span></span></span><span class="content"> Israel twenty-three years; then he died, and was buried in Shamir.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jair</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.10.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He was followed by Jair of Gilead, who led Israel twenty-two years. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He had thirty sons, who rode thirty donkeys. They controlled thirty towns in Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth Jair.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">called the settlements of Jair</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jephthah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.10.6"><span class="label">6</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">. They served the Baals and the Ashtoreths, and the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites and the gods of the Philistines. And because the Israelites forsook the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and no longer served him, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">he became angry with them. He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and the Ammonites, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">who that year shattered and crushed them. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites on the east side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin and Ephraim; Israel was in great distress. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then the Israelites cried out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;We have sinned against you, forsaking our God and serving the Baals.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.10.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> replied, &#8220;When the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">the Sidonians, the Amalekites and the Maonites</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:12 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Midianites</span></span></span><span class="content"> oppressed you and you cried to me for help, did I not save you from their hands? </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But you have forsaken me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you when you are in trouble!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.10.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But the Israelites said to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;We have sinned. Do with us whatever you think best, but please rescue us now.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then they got rid of the foreign gods among them and served the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. And he could bear Israel&#8217;s misery no longer.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.10.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When the Ammonites were called to arms and camped in Gilead, the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The leaders of the people of Gilead said to each other, &#8220;Whoever will take the lead in attacking the Ammonites will be head over all who live in Gilead.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was Gilead; his mother was a prostitute. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Gilead&#8217;s wife also bore him sons, and when they were grown up, they drove Jephthah away. &#8220;You are not going to get any inheritance in our family,&#8221; they said, &#8220;because you are the son of another woman.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So Jephthah fled from his brothers and settled in the land of Tob, where a gang of scoundrels gathered around him and followed him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.11.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Some time later, when the Ammonites were fighting against Israel, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come,&#8221; they said, &#8220;be our commander, so we can fight the Ammonites.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Jephthah said to them, &#8220;Didn&#8217;t you hate me and drive me from my father&#8217;s house? Why do you come to me now, when you&#8217;re in trouble?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.11.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The elders of Gilead said to him, &#8220;Nevertheless, we are turning to you now; come with us to fight the Ammonites, and you will be head over all of us who live in Gilead.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.11.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Jephthah answered, &#8220;Suppose you take me back to fight the Ammonites and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gives them to me&#8212;will I really be your head?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.11.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The elders of Gilead replied, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is our witness; we will certainly do as you say.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and commander over them. And he repeated all his words before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in Mizpah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.11.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then Jephthah sent messengers to the Ammonite king with the question: &#8220;What do you have against me that you have attacked my country?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.11.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah&#8217;s messengers, &#8220;When Israel came up out of Egypt, they took away my land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, all the way to the Jordan. Now give it back peaceably.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.11.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Jephthah sent back messengers to the Ammonite king, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">saying:</span></span></div><div class="pmo"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.11.15"><span class="content">&#8220;This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But when they came up out of Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the Sea of Reeds</span></span></span><span class="content"> and on to Kadesh. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, &#8216;Give us permission to go through your country,&#8217; but the king of Edom would not listen. They sent also to the king of Moab, and he refused. So Israel stayed at Kadesh.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.11.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Next they traveled through the wilderness, skirted the lands of Edom and Moab, passed along the eastern side of the country of Moab, and camped on the other side of the Arnon. They did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was its border.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.11.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, &#8216;Let us pass through your country to our own place.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Sihon, however, did not trust Israel</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">however, would not make an agreement for Israel</span></span></span><span class="content"> to pass through his territory. He mustered all his troops and encamped at Jahaz and fought with Israel.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.11.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and his whole army into Israel&#8217;s hands, and they defeated them. Israel took over all the land of the Amorites who lived in that country, </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">capturing all of it from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the desert to the Jordan.</span></span></div><div class="pm"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.11.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now since the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, has driven the Amorites out before his people Israel, what right have you to take it over? </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.11.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Will you not take what your god Chemosh gives you? Likewise, whatever the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God has given us, we will possess. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.11.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Are you any better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever quarrel with Israel or fight with them? </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.11.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For three hundred years Israel occupied Heshbon, Aroer, the surrounding settlements and all the towns along the Arnon. Why didn&#8217;t you retake them during that time? </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.11.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">I have not wronged you, but you are doing me wrong by waging war against me. Let the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the Judge, decide the dispute this day between the Israelites and the Ammonites.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.11.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.11.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">The king of Ammon, however, paid no attention to the message Jephthah sent him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.11.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.11.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Then the Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came on Jephthah. He crossed Gilead and Manasseh, passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from there he advanced against the Ammonites. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.11.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">And Jephthah made a vow to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: &#8220;If you give the Ammonites into my hands, </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.11.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.11.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JDG.11.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Then Jephthah went over to fight the Ammonites, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave them into his hands. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JDG.11.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">He devastated twenty towns from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel Keramim. Thus Israel subdued Ammon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JDG.11.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JDG.11.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should come out to meet him but his daughter, dancing to the sound of timbrels! She was an only child. Except for her he had neither son nor daughter. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JDG.11.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">When he saw her, he tore his clothes and cried, &#8220;Oh no, my daughter! You have brought me down and I am devastated. I have made a vow to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> that I cannot break.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JDG.11.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JDG.11.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">&#8220;My father,&#8221; she replied, &#8220;you have given your word to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. Do to me just as you promised, now that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JDG.11.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">But grant me this one request,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Give me two months to roam the hills and weep with my friends, because I will never marry.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JDG.11.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JDG.11.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">&#8220;You may go,&#8221; he said. And he let her go for two months. She and her friends went into the hills and wept because she would never marry. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JDG.11.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">After the two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she was a virgin.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JDG.11.39"><span class="content">From this comes the Israelite tradition </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JDG.11.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jephthah and Ephraim</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The Ephraimite forces were called out, and they crossed over to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, &#8220;Why did you go to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We&#8217;re going to burn down your house over your head.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.12.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Jephthah answered, &#8220;I and my people were engaged in a great struggle with the Ammonites, and although I called, you didn&#8217;t save me out of their hands. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When I saw that you wouldn&#8217;t help, I took my life in my hands and crossed over to fight the Ammonites, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave me the victory over them. Now why have you come up today to fight me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.12.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Jephthah then called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, &#8220;You Gileadites are renegades from Ephraim and Manasseh.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a survivor of Ephraim said, &#8220;Let me cross over,&#8221; the men of Gilead asked him, &#8220;Are you an Ephraimite?&#8221; If he replied, &#8220;No,&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">they said, &#8220;All right, say &#8216;Shibboleth.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; If he said, &#8220;Sibboleth,&#8221; because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that time.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Jephthah led</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:7 </span><span class="ft">Traditionally </span><span class="fqa">judged</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 8-14</span></span></span><span class="content"> Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in a town in Gilead.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ibzan, Elon and Abdon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.12.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">After him, Ibzan of Bethlehem led Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He gave his daughters away in marriage to those outside his clan, and for his sons he brought in thirty young women as wives from outside his clan. Ibzan led Israel seven years. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then Ibzan died and was buried in Bethlehem.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.12.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">After him, Elon the Zebulunite led Israel ten years. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then Elon died and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.12.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">After him, Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, led Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. He led Israel eight years. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then Abdon son of Hillel died and was buried at Pirathon in Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Birth of Samson</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.13.1"><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">, so the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.13.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">A certain man of Zorah, named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, had a wife who was childless, unable to give birth. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to her and said, &#8220;You are barren and childless, but you are going to become pregnant and give birth to a son. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Now see to it that you drink no wine or other fermented drink and that you do not eat anything unclean. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You will become pregnant and have a son whose head is never to be touched by a razor because the boy is to be a Nazirite, dedicated to God from the womb. He will take the lead in delivering Israel from the hands of the Philistines.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then the woman went to her husband and told him, &#8220;A man of God came to me. He looked like an angel of God, very awesome. I didn&#8217;t ask him where he came from, and he didn&#8217;t tell me his name. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But he said to me, &#8216;You will become pregnant and have a son. Now then, drink no wine or other fermented drink and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite of God from the womb until the day of his death.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then Manoah prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: &#8220;Pardon your servant, Lord. I beg you to let the man of God you sent to us come again to teach us how to bring up the boy who is to be born.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.13.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">God heard Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman while she was out in the field; but her husband Manoah was not with her. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The woman hurried to tell her husband, &#8220;He&#8217;s here! The man who appeared to me the other day!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.13.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he said, &#8220;Are you the man who talked to my wife?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.13.11"><span class="content">&#8220;I am,&#8221; he said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.13.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So Manoah asked him, &#8220;When your words are fulfilled, what is to be the rule that governs the boy&#8217;s life and work?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.13.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> answered, &#8220;Your wife must do all that I have told her. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">She must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine, nor drink any wine or other fermented drink nor eat anything unclean. She must do everything I have commanded her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.13.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Manoah said to the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;We would like you to stay until we prepare a young goat for you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.13.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> replied, &#8220;Even though you detain me, I will not eat any of your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221; (Manoah did not realize that it was the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.13.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Manoah inquired of the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;What is your name, so that we may honor you when your word comes true?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.13.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He replied, &#8220;Why do you ask my name? It is beyond understanding.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">is wonderful</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then Manoah took a young goat, together with the grain offering, and sacrificed it on a rock to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> did an amazing thing while Manoah and his wife watched: </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">As the flame blazed up from the altar toward heaven, the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> ascended in the flame. Seeing this, Manoah and his wife fell with their faces to the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> did not show himself again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it was the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.13.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;We are doomed to die!&#8221; he said to his wife. &#8220;We have seen God!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.13.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But his wife answered, &#8220;If the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and grain offering from our hands, nor shown us all these things or now told us this.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.13.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The woman gave birth to a boy and named him Samson. He grew and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> blessed him, </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">and the Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> began to stir him while he was in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">14</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Samson&#8217;s Marriage</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When he returned, he said to his father and mother, &#8220;I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.14.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">His father and mother replied, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t there an acceptable woman among your relatives or among all our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.14.3"><span class="content">But Samson said to his father, &#8220;Get her for me. She&#8217;s the right one for me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">(His parents did not know that this was from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who was seeking an occasion to confront the Philistines; for at that time they were ruling over Israel.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.14.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Samson went down to Timnah together with his father and mother. As they approached the vineyards of Timnah, suddenly a young lion came roaring toward him. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came powerfully upon him so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he told neither his father nor his mother what he had done. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then he went down and talked with the woman, and he liked her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.14.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion&#8217;s carcass, and in it he saw a swarm of bees and some honey. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He scooped out the honey with his hands and ate as he went along. When he rejoined his parents, he gave them some, and they too ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion&#8217;s carcass.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.14.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Now his father went down to see the woman. And there Samson held a feast, as was customary for young men. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When the people saw him, they chose thirty men to be his companions.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.14.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Let me tell you a riddle,&#8221; Samson said to them. &#8220;If you can give me the answer within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If you can&#8217;t tell me the answer, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.14.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Tell us your riddle,&#8221; they said. &#8220;Let&#8217;s hear it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.14.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He replied,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="content">&#8220;Out of the eater, something to eat;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="content">out of the strong, something sweet.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="content">For three days they could not give the answer.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">On the fourth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:15 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">seventh</span></span></span><span class="content"> day, they said to Samson&#8217;s wife, &#8220;Coax your husband into explaining the riddle for us, or we will burn you and your father&#8217;s household to death. Did you invite us here to steal our property?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.14.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then Samson&#8217;s wife threw herself on him, sobbing, &#8220;You hate me! You don&#8217;t really love me. You&#8217;ve given my people a riddle, but you haven&#8217;t told me the answer.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.14.16"><span class="content">&#8220;I haven&#8217;t even explained it to my father or mother,&#8221; he replied, &#8220;so why should I explain it to you?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">She cried the whole seven days of the feast. So on the seventh day he finally told her, because she continued to press him. She in turn explained the riddle to her people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.14.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Before sunset on the seventh day the men of the town said to him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">&#8220;What is sweeter than honey?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">What is stronger than a lion?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">Samson said to them,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">&#8220;If you had not plowed with my heifer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">you would not have solved my riddle.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then the Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came powerfully upon him. He went down to Ashkelon, struck down thirty of their men, stripped them of everything and gave their clothes to those who had explained the riddle. Burning with anger, he returned to his father&#8217;s home. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And Samson&#8217;s wife was given to one of his companions who had attended him at the feast.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">74</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 74</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Asaph.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.74.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">O God, why have you rejected us forever?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.74.1"><span class="content">Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.74.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.74.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Remember the nation you purchased long ago,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.74.2"><span class="content">the people of your inheritance, whom you redeemed&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.74.2"><span class="content">Mount Zion, where you dwelt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.74.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.74.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.74.3"><span class="content">all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.74.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.74.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Your foes roared in the place where you met with us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.74.4"><span class="content">they set up their standards as signs.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.74.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.74.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They behaved like men wielding axes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.74.5"><span class="content">to cut through a thicket of trees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.74.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.74.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They smashed all the carved paneling</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.74.6"><span class="content">with their axes and hatchets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.74.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.74.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They burned your sanctuary to the ground;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.74.7"><span class="content">they defiled the dwelling place of your Name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.74.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.74.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They said in their hearts, &#8220;We will crush them completely!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.74.8"><span class="content">They burned every place where God was worshiped in the land.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.74.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.74.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">We are given no signs from God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.74.9"><span class="content">no prophets are left,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.74.9"><span class="content">and none of us knows how long this will be.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.74.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.74.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">How long will the enemy mock you, God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.74.10"><span class="content">Will the foe revile your name forever?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.74.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.74.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.74.11"><span class="content">Take it from the folds of your garment and destroy them!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.74.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.74.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But God is my King from long ago;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.74.12"><span class="content">he brings salvation on the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.74.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.74.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">It was you who split open the sea by your power;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.74.13"><span class="content">you broke the heads of the monster in the waters.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.74.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.74.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">It was you who crushed the heads of Leviathan</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.74.14"><span class="content">and gave it as food to the creatures of the desert.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.74.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.74.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">It was you who opened up springs and streams;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.74.15"><span class="content">you dried up the ever-flowing rivers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.74.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.74.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The day is yours, and yours also the night;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.74.16"><span class="content">you established the sun and moon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.74.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.74.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">It was you who set all the boundaries of the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.74.17"><span class="content">you made both summer and winter.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.74.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.74.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Remember how the enemy has mocked you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.74.18"><span class="content">how foolish people have reviled your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.74.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.74.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Do not hand over the life of your dove to wild beasts;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.74.19"><span class="content">do not forget the lives of your afflicted people forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.74.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.74.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Have regard for your covenant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.74.20"><span class="content">because haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.74.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.74.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Do not let the oppressed retreat in disgrace;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.74.21"><span class="content">may the poor and needy praise your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.74.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.74.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Rise up, O God, and defend your cause;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.74.22"><span class="content">remember how fools mock you all day long.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.74.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.74.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Do not ignore the clamor of your adversaries,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.74.23"><span class="content">the uproar of your enemies, which rises continually.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">75</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 75</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 75:1-10 is numbered 75:2-11.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. To the tune of &#8220;Do Not Destroy.&#8221; A psalm of Asaph. A song.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.75.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">We praise you, God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.75.1"><span class="content">we praise you, for your Name is near;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.75.1"><span class="content">people tell of your wonderful deeds.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.75.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.75.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You say, &#8220;I choose the appointed time;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.75.2"><span class="content">it is I who judge with equity.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.75.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.75.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When the earth and all its people quake,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.75.3"><span class="content">it is I who hold its pillars firm.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">75:3 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.75.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.75.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">To the arrogant I say, &#8216;Boast no more,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.75.4"><span class="content">and to the wicked, &#8216;Do not lift up your horns.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">75:4 </span><span class="fq">Horns </span><span class="ft">here symbolize strength; also in verses 5 and 10.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.75.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.75.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Do not lift your horns against heaven;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.75.5"><span class="content">do not speak so defiantly.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.75.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.75.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">No one from the east or the west</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.75.6"><span class="content">or from the desert can exalt themselves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.75.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.75.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">It is God who judges:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.75.7"><span class="content">He brings one down, he exalts another.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.75.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.75.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In the hand of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is a cup</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.75.8"><span class="content">full of foaming wine mixed with spices;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.75.8"><span class="content">he pours it out, and all the wicked of the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.75.8"><span class="content">drink it down to its very dregs.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.75.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.75.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">As for me, I will declare this forever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.75.9"><span class="content">I will sing praise to the God of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.75.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.75.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">who says, &#8220;I will cut off the horns of all the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.75.10"><span class="content">but the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">76</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 76</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 76:1-12 is numbered 76:2-13.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph. A song.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.76.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">God is renowned in Judah;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.76.1"><span class="content">in Israel his name is great.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.76.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.76.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">His tent is in Salem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.76.2"><span class="content">his dwelling place in Zion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.76.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.76.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">There he broke the flashing arrows,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.76.3"><span class="content">the shields and the swords, the weapons of war.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">76:3 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 9.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.76.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.76.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You are radiant with light,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.76.4"><span class="content">more majestic than mountains rich with game.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.76.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.76.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The valiant lie plundered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.76.5"><span class="content">they sleep their last sleep;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.76.5"><span class="content">not one of the warriors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.76.5"><span class="content">can lift his hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.76.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.76.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">At your rebuke, God of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.76.6"><span class="content">both horse and chariot lie still.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.76.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.76.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">It is you alone who are to be feared.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.76.7"><span class="content">Who can stand before you when you are angry?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.76.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.76.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">From heaven you pronounced judgment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.76.8"><span class="content">and the land feared and was quiet&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.76.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.76.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">when you, God, rose up to judge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.76.9"><span class="content">to save all the afflicted of the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.76.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.76.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Surely your wrath against mankind brings you praise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.76.10"><span class="content">and the survivors of your wrath are restrained.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">76:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Surely the wrath of mankind brings you praise, / and with the remainder of wrath you arm yourself</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.76.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.76.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Make vows to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God and fulfill them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.76.11"><span class="content">let all the neighboring lands</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.76.11"><span class="content">bring gifts to the One to be feared.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.76.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.76.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He breaks the spirit of rulers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.76.12"><span class="content">he is feared by the kings of the earth.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">77</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 77</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 77:1-20 is numbered 77:2-21.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. For Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.77.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I cried out to God for help;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.77.1"><span class="content">I cried out to God to hear me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.77.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.77.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When I was in distress, I sought the Lord;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.77.2"><span class="content">at night I stretched out untiring hands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.77.2"><span class="content">and I would not be comforted.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.77.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.77.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I remembered you, God, and I groaned;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.77.3"><span class="content">I meditated, and my spirit grew faint.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">77:3 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 9 and 15.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.77.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.77.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You kept my eyes from closing;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.77.4"><span class="content">I was too troubled to speak.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.77.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.77.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I thought about the former days,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.77.5"><span class="content">the years of long ago;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.77.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.77.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I remembered my songs in the night.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.77.6"><span class="content">My heart meditated and my spirit asked:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.77.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.77.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Will the Lord reject forever?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.77.7"><span class="content">Will he never show his favor again?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.77.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.77.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Has his unfailing love vanished forever?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.77.8"><span class="content">Has his promise failed for all time?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.77.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.77.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Has God forgotten to be merciful?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.77.9"><span class="content">Has he in anger withheld his compassion?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.77.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.77.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then I thought, &#8220;To this I will appeal:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.77.10"><span class="content">the years when the Most High stretched out his right hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.77.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.77.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I will remember the deeds of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.77.11"><span class="content">yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.77.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.77.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I will consider all your works</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.77.12"><span class="content">and meditate on all your mighty deeds.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.77.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.77.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Your ways, God, are holy.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.77.13"><span class="content">What god is as great as our God?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.77.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.77.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">You are the God who performs miracles;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.77.14"><span class="content">you display your power among the peoples.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.77.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.77.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">With your mighty arm you redeemed your people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.77.15"><span class="content">the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.77.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.77.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The waters saw you, God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.77.16"><span class="content">the waters saw you and writhed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.77.16"><span class="content">the very depths were convulsed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.77.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.77.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The clouds poured down water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.77.17"><span class="content">the heavens resounded with thunder;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.77.17"><span class="content">your arrows flashed back and forth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.77.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.77.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.77.18"><span class="content">your lightning lit up the world;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.77.18"><span class="content">the earth trembled and quaked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.77.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.77.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Your path led through the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.77.19"><span class="content">your way through the mighty waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.77.19"><span class="content">though your footprints were not seen.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.77.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.77.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You led your people like a flock</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.77.20"><span class="content">by the hand of Moses and Aaron.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">79</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 79</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.79.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.79.1"><span class="content">they have defiled your holy temple,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.79.1"><span class="content">they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.79.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.79.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">They have left the dead bodies of your servants</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.79.2"><span class="content">as food for the birds of the sky,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.79.2"><span class="content">the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.79.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.79.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They have poured out blood like water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.79.3"><span class="content">all around Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.79.3"><span class="content">and there is no one to bury the dead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.79.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.79.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">We are objects of contempt to our neighbors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.79.4"><span class="content">of scorn and derision to those around us.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.79.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.79.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">How long, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">? Will you be angry forever?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.79.5"><span class="content">How long will your jealousy burn like fire?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.79.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.79.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Pour out your wrath on the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.79.6"><span class="content">that do not acknowledge you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.79.6"><span class="content">on the kingdoms</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.79.6"><span class="content">that do not call on your name;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.79.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.79.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">for they have devoured Jacob</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.79.7"><span class="content">and devastated his homeland.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.79.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.79.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Do not hold against us the sins of past generations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.79.8"><span class="content">may your mercy come quickly to meet us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.79.8"><span class="content">for we are in desperate need.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.79.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.79.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Help us, God our Savior,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.79.9"><span class="content">for the glory of your name;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.79.9"><span class="content">deliver us and forgive our sins</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.79.9"><span class="content">for your name&#8217;s sake.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.79.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.79.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Why should the nations say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.79.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is their God?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.79.10"><span class="content">Before our eyes, make known among the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.79.10"><span class="content">that you avenge the outpoured blood of your servants.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.79.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.79.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">May the groans of the prisoners come before you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.79.11"><span class="content">with your strong arm preserve those condemned to die.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.79.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.79.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Pay back into the laps of our neighbors seven times</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.79.12"><span class="content">the contempt they have hurled at you, Lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.79.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.79.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.79.13"><span class="content">will praise you forever;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.79.13"><span class="content">from generation to generation</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.79.13"><span class="content">we will proclaim your praise.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">80</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 80</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 80:1-19 is numbered 80:2-20.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. To the tune of &#8220;The Lilies of the Covenant.&#8221; Of Asaph. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.80.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear us, Shepherd of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.80.1"><span class="content">you who lead Joseph like a flock.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.80.1"><span class="content">You who sit enthroned between the cherubim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.80.1"><span class="content">shine forth </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.80.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.80.2"><span class="content">Awaken your might;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.80.2"><span class="content">come and save us.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.80.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.80.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Restore us, O God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.80.3"><span class="content">make your face shine on us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.80.3"><span class="content">that we may be saved.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.80.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.80.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">How long, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.80.4"><span class="content">will your anger smolder</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.80.4"><span class="content">against the prayers of your people?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.80.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.80.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You have fed them with the bread of tears;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.80.5"><span class="content">you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.80.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.80.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You have made us an object of derision</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">80:6 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">contention</span></span></span><span class="content"> to our neighbors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.80.6"><span class="content">and our enemies mock us.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.80.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.80.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Restore us, God Almighty;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.80.7"><span class="content">make your face shine on us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.80.7"><span class="content">that we may be saved.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.80.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.80.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You transplanted a vine from Egypt;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.80.8"><span class="content">you drove out the nations and planted it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.80.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.80.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You cleared the ground for it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.80.9"><span class="content">and it took root and filled the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.80.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.80.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The mountains were covered with its shade,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.80.10"><span class="content">the mighty cedars with its branches.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.80.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.80.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Its branches reached as far as the Sea,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">80:11 </span><span class="ft">Probably the Mediterranean</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.80.11"><span class="content">its shoots as far as the River.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">80:11 </span><span class="ft">That is, the Euphrates</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.80.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.80.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Why have you broken down its walls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.80.12"><span class="content">so that all who pass by pick its grapes?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.80.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.80.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Boars from the forest ravage it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.80.13"><span class="content">and insects from the fields feed on it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.80.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.80.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Return to us, God Almighty!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.80.14"><span class="content">Look down from heaven and see!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.80.14"><span class="content">Watch over this vine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.80.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.80.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">the root your right hand has planted,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.80.15"><span class="content">the son</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">80:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">branch</span></span></span><span class="content"> you have raised up for yourself.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.80.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.80.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Your vine is cut down, it is burned with fire;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.80.16"><span class="content">at your rebuke your people perish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.80.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.80.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Let your hand rest on the man at your right hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.80.17"><span class="content">the son of man you have raised up for yourself.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.80.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.80.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then we will not turn away from you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.80.18"><span class="content">revive us, and we will call on your name.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.80.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.80.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Restore us, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.80.19"><span class="content">make your face shine on us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.80.19"><span class="content">that we may be saved.</span></span></div>
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