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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="NEH.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I went to Jerusalem, and after staying there three days </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NEH.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I set out during the night with a few others. I had not told anyone what my God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem. There were no mounts with me except the one I was riding on.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="NEH.2.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="NEH.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">By night I went out through the Valley Gate toward the Jackal</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Serpent </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">Fig</span></span></span><span class="content"> Well and the Dung Gate, examining the walls of Jerusalem, which had been broken down, and its gates, which had been destroyed by fire. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="NEH.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then I moved on toward the Fountain Gate and the King&#8217;s Pool, but there was not enough room for my mount to get through; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="NEH.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">so I went up the valley by night, examining the wall. Finally, I turned back and reentered through the Valley Gate. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NEH.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, because as yet I had said nothing to the Jews or the priests or nobles or officials or any others who would be doing the work.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="NEH.2.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="NEH.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then I said to them, &#8220;You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and we will no longer be in disgrace.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NEH.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I also told them about the gracious hand of my God on me and what the king had said to me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NEH.2.18"><span class="content">They replied, &#8220;Let us start rebuilding.&#8221; So they began this good work.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="NEH.2.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NEH.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official and Geshem the Arab heard about it, they mocked and ridiculed us. &#8220;What is this you are doing?&#8221; they asked. &#8220;Are you rebelling against the king?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="NEH.2.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="NEH.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I answered them by saying, &#8220;The God of heaven will give us success. We his servants will start rebuilding, but as for you, you have no share in Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to it.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.62.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has sworn by his right hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.62.8"><span class="content">and by his mighty arm:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.62.8"><span class="content">&#8220;Never again will I give your grain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.62.8"><span class="content">as food for your enemies,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.62.8"><span class="content">and never again will foreigners drink the new wine</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.62.8"><span class="content">for which you have toiled;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.62.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.62.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">but those who harvest it will eat it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.62.9"><span class="content">and praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.62.9"><span class="content">and those who gather the grapes will drink it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.62.9"><span class="content">in the courts of my sanctuary.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.62.9"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.62.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.62.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Pass through, pass through the gates!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.62.10"><span class="content">Prepare the way for the people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.62.10"><span class="content">Build up, build up the highway!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.62.10"><span class="content">Remove the stones.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.62.10"><span class="content">Raise a banner for the nations.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.62.10"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.62.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.62.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has made proclamation</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.62.11"><span class="content">to the ends of the earth:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.62.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Say to Daughter Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.62.11"><span class="content">&#8216;See, your Savior comes!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.62.11"><span class="content">See, his reward is with him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.62.11"><span class="content">and his recompense accompanies him.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.62.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.62.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They will be called the Holy People,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.62.12"><span class="content">the Redeemed of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.62.12"><span class="content">and you will be called Sought After,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.62.12"><span class="content">the City No Longer Deserted.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="EPH.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God&#8217;s people and also members of his household, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="EPH.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EPH.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EPH.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.</span></span></div>
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