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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The river Kishon swept them away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.5.21"><span class="content">the age-old river, the river Kishon.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.5.21"><span class="content">March on, my soul; be strong!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JDG.5.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then thundered the horses&#8217; hooves&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.5.22"><span class="content">galloping, galloping go his mighty steeds.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.5.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8216;Curse Meroz,&#8217; said the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.5.23"><span class="content">&#8216;Curse its people bitterly,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.5.23"><span class="content">because they did not come to help the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.5.23"><span class="content">to help the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> against the mighty.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.5.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.5.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Most blessed of women be Jael,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.5.24"><span class="content">the wife of Heber the Kenite,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.5.24"><span class="content">most blessed of tent-dwelling women.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.5.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.5.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He asked for water, and she gave him milk;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.5.25"><span class="content">in a bowl fit for nobles she brought him curdled milk.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.5.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.5.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Her hand reached for the tent peg,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.5.26"><span class="content">her right hand for the workman&#8217;s hammer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.5.26"><span class="content">She struck Sisera, she crushed his head,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.5.26"><span class="content">she shattered and pierced his temple.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.5.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.5.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">At her feet he sank,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.5.27"><span class="content">he fell; there he lay.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.5.27"><span class="content">At her feet he sank, he fell;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.5.27"><span class="content">where he sank, there he fell&#8212;dead.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.5.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.5.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;Through the window peered Sisera&#8217;s mother;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.5.28"><span class="content">behind the lattice she cried out,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.5.28"><span class="content">&#8216;Why is his chariot so long in coming?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.5.28"><span class="content">Why is the clatter of his chariots delayed?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.5.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.5.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">The wisest of her ladies answer her;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.5.29"><span class="content">indeed, she keeps saying to herself,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.5.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.5.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8216;Are they not finding and dividing the spoils:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.5.30"><span class="content">a woman or two for each man,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.5.30"><span class="content">colorful garments as plunder for Sisera,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.5.30"><span class="content">colorful garments embroidered,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.5.30"><span class="content">highly embroidered garments for my neck&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.5.30"><span class="content">all this as plunder?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.5.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.5.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;So may all your enemies perish, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.5.31"><span class="content">But may all who love you be like the sun</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.5.31"><span class="content">when it rises in its strength.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.5.31"><span class="content">Then the land had peace forty years.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves and strongholds. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples invaded the country. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They camped on the land and ruined the crops all the way to Gaza and did not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts. It was impossible to count them or their camels; they invaded the land to ravage it. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> for help.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.6.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When the Israelites cried out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> because of Midian, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">he sent them a prophet, who said, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians. And I delivered you from the hand of all your oppressors; I drove them out before you and gave you their land. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I said to you, &#8216;I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God; do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live.&#8217; But you have not listened to me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.6.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> appeared to Gideon, he said, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is with you, mighty warrior.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.6.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Pardon me, my lord,&#8221; Gideon replied, &#8220;but if the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, &#8216;Did not the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> bring us up out of Egypt?&#8217; But now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.6.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> turned to him and said, &#8220;Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian&#8217;s hand. Am I not sending you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.6.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Pardon me, my lord,&#8221; Gideon replied, &#8220;but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.6.15"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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