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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus and John the Baptist</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in the towns of Galilee.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">11:1 </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="fqa">in their towns</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MAT.11.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MAT.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When John, who was in prison, heard about the deeds of the Messiah, he sent his disciples </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">to ask him, &#8220;Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MAT.11.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MAT.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go back and report to John what you hear and see:</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MAT.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">11:5 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word traditionally translated </span><span class="fq">leprosy </span><span class="ft">was used for various diseases affecting the skin.</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MAT.11.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MAT.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">As John&#8217;s disciples were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swayed by the wind?</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MAT.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If not, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? No, those who wear fine clothes are in kings&#8217; palaces.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MAT.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Then what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">This is the one about whom it is written:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.11.10"><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I will send my messenger ahead of you,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.11.10"><span class="wj"><span class="content">who will prepare your way before you.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">11:10 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="MAL.3.1">Mal. 3:1</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MAT.11.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MAT.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet whoever is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MAT.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been subjected to violence,</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">11:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">been forcefully advancing</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and violent people have been raiding it.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever has ears, let them hear.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.11.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.11.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;We played the pipe for you,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.11.17"><span class="wj"><span class="content">and you did not dance;</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.11.17"><span class="wj"><span class="content">we sang a dirge,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.11.17"><span class="wj"><span class="content">and you did not mourn.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.11.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, &#8216;He has a demon.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, &#8216;Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.&#8217; But wisdom is proved right by her deeds.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Woe on Unrepentant Towns</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.11.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then Jesus began to denounce the towns in which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">11:23 </span><span class="ft">That is, the realm of the dead</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.11.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Father Revealed in the Son</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.11.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MAT.11.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">At that time Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.11.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MAT.11.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.11.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MAT.11.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MAT.11.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MAT.11.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MAT.11.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to him in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">and through the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, down to the fifth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of Jerusalem went into exile.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.1.3"></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Call of Jeremiah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.1.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.1.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Before I formed you in the womb I knew</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">chose</span></span></span><span class="content"> you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.1.5"><span class="content">before you were born I set you apart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.1.5"><span class="content">I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.1.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Alas, Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,&#8221; I said, &#8220;I do not know how to speak; I am too young.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.1.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Do not say, &#8216;I am too young.&#8217; You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.1.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, &#8220;I have put my words in your mouth. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.1.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: &#8220;What do you see, Jeremiah?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.1.11"><span class="content">&#8220;I see the branch of an almond tree,&#8221; I replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.1.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;You have seen correctly, for I am watching</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:12 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">watching </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">almond tree</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> to see that my word is fulfilled.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.1.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me again: &#8220;What do you see?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.1.13"><span class="content">&#8220;I see a pot that is boiling,&#8221; I answered. &#8220;It is tilting toward us from the north.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.1.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;From the north disaster will be poured out on all who live in the land. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I am about to summon all the peoples of the northern kingdoms,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.1.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Their kings will come and set up their thrones</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.1.15"><span class="content">in the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.1.15"><span class="content">they will come against all her surrounding walls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.1.15"><span class="content">and against all the towns of Judah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.1.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I will pronounce my judgments on my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.1.16"><span class="content">because of their wickedness in forsaking me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.1.16"><span class="content">in burning incense to other gods</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.1.16"><span class="content">and in worshiping what their hands have made.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.1.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Get yourself ready! Stand up and say to them whatever I command you. Do not be terrified by them, or I will terrify you before them. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar and a bronze wall to stand against the whole land&#8212;against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests and the people of the land. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you and will rescue you,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch78" data-usfm="PSA.78.21+PSA.78.22+PSA.78.23+PSA.78.24+PSA.78.25+PSA.78.26+PSA.78.27+PSA.78.28+PSA.78.29+PSA.78.30+PSA.78.31+PSA.78.32+PSA.78.33+PSA.78.34+PSA.78.35+PSA.78.36+PSA.78.37+PSA.78.38+PSA.78.39+PSA.78.40+PSA.78.41+PSA.78.42+PSA.78.43+PSA.78.44+PSA.78.45+PSA.78.46+PSA.78.47+PSA.78.48+PSA.78.49+PSA.78.50">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.78.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> heard them, he was furious;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.78.21"><span class="content">his fire broke out against Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.78.21"><span class="content">and his wrath rose against Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.78.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.78.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">for they did not believe in God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.78.22"><span class="content">or trust in his deliverance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.78.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.78.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Yet he gave a command to the skies above</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.78.23"><span class="content">and opened the doors of the heavens;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.78.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.78.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">he rained down manna for the people to eat,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.78.24"><span class="content">he gave them the grain of heaven.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.78.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.78.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Human beings ate the bread of angels;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.78.25"><span class="content">he sent them all the food they could eat.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.78.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.78.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">He let loose the east wind from the heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.78.26"><span class="content">and by his power made the south wind blow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.78.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.78.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">He rained meat down on them like dust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.78.27"><span class="content">birds like sand on the seashore.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.78.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.78.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">He made them come down inside their camp,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.78.28"><span class="content">all around their tents.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.78.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.78.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">They ate till they were gorged&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.78.29"><span class="content">he had given them what they craved.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.78.29"></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.78.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">But before they turned from what they craved,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.78.30"><span class="content">even while the food was still in their mouths,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.78.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.78.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">God&#8217;s anger rose against them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.78.31"><span class="content">he put to death the sturdiest among them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.78.31"><span class="content">cutting down the young men of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.78.31"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.78.31"></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.78.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">In spite of all this, they kept on sinning;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.78.32"><span class="content">in spite of his wonders, they did not believe.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.78.32"></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.78.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">So he ended their days in futility</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.78.33"><span class="content">and their years in terror.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.78.33"></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.78.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Whenever God slew them, they would seek him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.78.34"><span class="content">they eagerly turned to him again.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.78.34"></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.78.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">They remembered that God was their Rock,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.78.35"><span class="content">that God Most High was their Redeemer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.78.35"></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PSA.78.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">But then they would flatter him with their mouths,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PSA.78.36"><span class="content">lying to him with their tongues;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PSA.78.36"></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="PSA.78.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">their hearts were not loyal to him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="PSA.78.37"><span class="content">they were not faithful to his covenant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="PSA.78.37"></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="PSA.78.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Yet he was merciful;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="PSA.78.38"><span class="content">he forgave their iniquities</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="PSA.78.38"><span class="content">and did not destroy them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="PSA.78.38"><span class="content">Time after time he restrained his anger</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="PSA.78.38"><span class="content">and did not stir up his full wrath.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="PSA.78.38"></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="PSA.78.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">He remembered that they were but flesh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="PSA.78.39"><span class="content">a passing breeze that does not return.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="PSA.78.39"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="PSA.78.39"></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="PSA.78.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="PSA.78.40"><span class="content">and grieved him in the wasteland!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="PSA.78.40"></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="PSA.78.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Again and again they put God to the test;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="PSA.78.41"><span class="content">they vexed the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="PSA.78.41"></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="PSA.78.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">They did not remember his power&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="PSA.78.42"><span class="content">the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="PSA.78.42"></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="PSA.78.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">the day he displayed his signs in Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="PSA.78.43"><span class="content">his wonders in the region of Zoan.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="PSA.78.43"></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="PSA.78.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">He turned their river into blood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="PSA.78.44"><span class="content">they could not drink from their streams.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="PSA.78.44"></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="PSA.78.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">He sent swarms of flies that devoured them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="PSA.78.45"><span class="content">and frogs that devastated them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="PSA.78.45"></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="PSA.78.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">He gave their crops to the grasshopper,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="PSA.78.46"><span class="content">their produce to the locust.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="PSA.78.46"></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="PSA.78.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">He destroyed their vines with hail</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="PSA.78.47"><span class="content">and their sycamore-figs with sleet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="PSA.78.47"></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="PSA.78.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">He gave over their cattle to the hail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="PSA.78.48"><span class="content">their livestock to bolts of lightning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="PSA.78.48"></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="PSA.78.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">He unleashed against them his hot anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="PSA.78.49"><span class="content">his wrath, indignation and hostility&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="PSA.78.49"><span class="content">a band of destroying angels.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="PSA.78.49"></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="PSA.78.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">He prepared a path for his anger;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="PSA.78.50"><span class="content">he did not spare them from death</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="PSA.78.50"><span class="content">but gave them over to the plague.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="PSA.78.50"></span></div>
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