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 <div class="pm">22I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one&#8212; </div>
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 <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1">Jesus Prays to Be Glorified</div><div class="p"> 1After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed:</div><div class="pm"> &#8220;Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. 2For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. 3Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. 4I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. 5And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.</div><div class="s1">Jesus Prays for His Disciples</div><div class="pm"> 6 &#8220;I have revealed you # 17:6 Greek your name to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. 7Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. 8For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. 9I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. 10All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. 11I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of#17:11 Or Father, keep them faithful to your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. 12While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by#17:12 Or kept them faithful to that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.</div><div class="pm"> 13 &#8220;I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. 14I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. 15My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. 16They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. 17Sanctify them by#17:17 Or them to live in accordance with the truth; your word is truth. 18As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. 19For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.</div><div class="s1">Jesus Prays for All Believers</div><div class="pm"> 20 &#8220;My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one&#8212; 23I in them and you in me&#8212;so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.</div><div class="pm"> 24 &#8220;Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.</div><div class="pm"> 25 &#8220;Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26I have made you#17:26 Greek your name known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.&#8221;</div>
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 <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1">The Lord Promises to Bless Jerusalem</div><div class="p"> 1The word of the Lord Almighty came to me.</div><div class="p"> 2This is what the Lord Almighty says: &#8220;I am very jealous for Zion; I am burning with jealousy for her.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 3This is what the Lord says: &#8220;I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the Faithful City, and the mountain of the Lord Almighty will be called the Holy Mountain.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 4This is what the Lord Almighty says: &#8220;Once again men and women of ripe old age will sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each of them with cane in hand because of their age. 5The city streets will be filled with boys and girls playing there.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 6This is what the Lord Almighty says: &#8220;It may seem marvelous to the remnant of this people at that time, but will it seem marvelous to me?&#8221; declares the Lord Almighty.</div><div class="p"> 7This is what the Lord Almighty says: &#8220;I will save my people from the countries of the east and the west. 8I will bring them back to live in Jerusalem; they will be my people, and I will be faithful and righteous to them as their God.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 9This is what the Lord Almighty says: &#8220;Now hear these words, &#8216;Let your hands be strong so that the temple may be built.&#8217; This is also what the prophets said who were present when the foundation was laid for the house of the Lord Almighty. 10Before that time there were no wages for people or hire for animals. No one could go about their business safely because of their enemies, since I had turned everyone against their neighbor. 11But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people as I did in the past,&#8221; declares the Lord Almighty.</div><div class="p"> 12&#8220;The seed will grow well, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will produce its crops, and the heavens will drop their dew. I will give all these things as an inheritance to the remnant of this people. 13Just as you, Judah and Israel, have been a curse#8:13 That is, your name has been used in cursing (see Jer. 29:22); or, you have been regarded as under a curse. among the nations, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing.#8:13 Or and your name will be used in blessings (see Gen. 48:20); or and you will be seen as blessed Do not be afraid, but let your hands be strong.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 14This is what the Lord Almighty says: &#8220;Just as I had determined to bring disaster on you and showed no pity when your ancestors angered me,&#8221; says the Lord Almighty, 15&#8220;so now I have determined to do good again to Jerusalem and Judah. Do not be afraid. 16These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other, and render true and sound judgment in your courts; 17do not plot evil against each other, and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,&#8221; declares the Lord.</div><div class="p"> 18The word of the Lord Almighty came to me.</div><div class="p"> 19This is what the Lord Almighty says: &#8220;The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months will become joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for Judah. Therefore love truth and peace.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 20This is what the Lord Almighty says: &#8220;Many peoples and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come, 21and the inhabitants of one city will go to another and say, &#8216;Let us go at once to entreat the Lord and seek the Lord Almighty. I myself am going.&#8217; 22And many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the Lord Almighty and to entreat him.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 23This is what the Lord Almighty says: &#8220;In those days ten people from all languages and nations will take firm hold of one Jew by the hem of his robe and say, &#8216;Let us go with you, because we have heard that God is with you.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</div>
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 <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1">Judgment on Israel&#8217;s Enemies</div><div class="p"> 1A prophecy:</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">The word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrak</div><div class="q2">and will come to rest on Damascus&#8212;</div><div class="q1">for the eyes of all people and all the tribes of Israel</div><div class="q2">are on the Lord&#8212;#9:1 Or Damascus. / For the eye of the Lord is on all people, / as well as on the tribes of Israel,</div><div class="q1"> 2and on Hamath too, which borders on it,</div><div class="q2">and on Tyre and Sidon, though they are very skillful.</div><div class="q1"> 3Tyre has built herself a stronghold;</div><div class="q2">she has heaped up silver like dust,</div><div class="q2">and gold like the dirt of the streets.</div><div class="q1"> 4But the Lord will take away her possessions</div><div class="q2">and destroy her power on the sea,</div><div class="q2">and she will be consumed by fire.</div><div class="q1"> 5Ashkelon will see it and fear;</div><div class="q2">Gaza will writhe in agony,</div><div class="q2">and Ekron too, for her hope will wither.</div><div class="q1">Gaza will lose her king</div><div class="q2">and Ashkelon will be deserted.</div><div class="q1"> 6A mongrel people will occupy Ashdod,</div><div class="q2">and I will put an end to the pride of the Philistines.</div><div class="q1"> 7I will take the blood from their mouths,</div><div class="q2">the forbidden food from between their teeth.</div><div class="q1">Those who are left will belong to our God</div><div class="q2">and become a clan in Judah,</div><div class="q2">and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.</div><div class="q1"> 8But I will encamp at my temple</div><div class="q2">to guard it against marauding forces.</div><div class="q1">Never again will an oppressor overrun my people,</div><div class="q2">for now I am keeping watch.</div><div class="s1">The Coming of Zion&#8217;s King</div><div class="q1"> 9Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion!</div><div class="q2">Shout, Daughter Jerusalem!</div><div class="q1">See, your king comes to you,</div><div class="q2">righteous and victorious,</div><div class="q1">lowly and riding on a donkey,</div><div class="q2">on a colt, the foal of a donkey.</div><div class="q1"> 10I will take away the chariots from Ephraim</div><div class="q2">and the warhorses from Jerusalem,</div><div class="q2">and the battle bow will be broken.</div><div class="q1">He will proclaim peace to the nations.</div><div class="q2">His rule will extend from sea to sea</div><div class="q2">and from the River#9:10 That is, the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.</div><div class="q1"> 11As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you,</div><div class="q2">I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit.</div><div class="q1"> 12Return to your fortress, you prisoners of hope;</div><div class="q2">even now I announce that I will restore twice as much to you.</div><div class="q1"> 13I will bend Judah as I bend my bow</div><div class="q2">and fill it with Ephraim.</div><div class="q1">I will rouse your sons, Zion,</div><div class="q2">against your sons, Greece,</div><div class="q2">and make you like a warrior&#8217;s sword.</div><div class="s1">The Lord Will Appear</div><div class="q1"> 14Then the Lord will appear over them;</div><div class="q2">his arrow will flash like lightning.</div><div class="q1">The Sovereign Lord will sound the trumpet;</div><div class="q2">he will march in the storms of the south,</div><div class="q2"> 15and the Lord Almighty will shield them.</div><div class="q1">They will destroy</div><div class="q2">and overcome with slingstones.</div><div class="q1">They will drink and roar as with wine;</div><div class="q2">they will be full like a bowl</div><div class="q2">used for sprinkling#9:15 Or bowl, / like the corners of the altar.</div><div class="q1"> 16The Lord their God will save his people on that day</div><div class="q2">as a shepherd saves his flock.</div><div class="q1">They will sparkle in his land</div><div class="q2">like jewels in a crown.</div><div class="q1"> 17How attractive and beautiful they will be!</div><div class="q2">Grain will make the young men thrive,</div><div class="q2">and new wine the young women.</div>
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 <div class="label">146</div><div class="cl">Psalm 146</div><div class="q1"> 1Praise the Lord.#146:1 Hebrew Hallelu Yah; also in verse 10</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">Praise the Lord, my soul.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 2I will praise the Lord all my life;</div><div class="q2">I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.</div><div class="q1"> 3Do not put your trust in princes,</div><div class="q2">in human beings, who cannot save.</div><div class="q1"> 4When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;</div><div class="q2">on that very day their plans come to nothing.</div><div class="q1"> 5Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob,</div><div class="q2">whose hope is in the Lord their God.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 6He is the Maker of heaven and earth,</div><div class="q2">the sea, and everything in them&#8212;</div><div class="q2">he remains faithful forever.</div><div class="q1"> 7He upholds the cause of the oppressed</div><div class="q2">and gives food to the hungry.</div><div class="q1">The Lord sets prisoners free,</div><div class="q2"> 8the Lord gives sight to the blind,</div><div class="q1">the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down,</div><div class="q2">the Lord loves the righteous.</div><div class="q1"> 9The Lord watches over the foreigner</div><div class="q2">and sustains the fatherless and the widow,</div><div class="q2">but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 10The Lord reigns forever,</div><div class="q2">your God, O Zion, for all generations.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1">Praise the Lord.</div>
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