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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.9.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">soil, was the first</span></span></span><span class="content"> to plant a vineyard. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father&#8217;s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.9.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">he said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.9.25"><span class="content">&#8220;Cursed be Canaan!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.9.25"><span class="content">The lowest of slaves</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.9.25"><span class="content">will he be to his brothers.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.9.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">He also said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.9.26"><span class="content">&#8220;Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Shem!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.9.26"><span class="content">May Canaan be the slave of Shem.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.9.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">May God extend Japheth&#8217;s</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:27 </span><span class="fq">Japheth </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">extend</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> territory;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.9.27"><span class="content">may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.9.27"><span class="content">and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.9.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.9.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">After the flood Noah lived 350 years. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="GEN.9.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah&#8217;s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.</span></span></div><div class="s2"><span class="heading">The Japhethites</span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.10.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The sons</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:2 </span><span class="fq">Sons </span><span class="ft">may mean </span><span class="fqa">descendants </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">successors </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">nations</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 3, 4, 6, 7, 20-23, 29 and 31.</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Japheth:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.10.2"><span class="content">Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek and Tiras.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.10.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The sons of Gomer:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.10.3"><span class="content">Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.10.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The sons of Javan:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.10.4"><span class="content">Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites and the Rodanites.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:4 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text and Samaritan Pentateuch (see also Septuagint and 1 Chron. 1:7); most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">Dodanites</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">(From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Northern Kings Defeated</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Jabin king of Hazor heard of this, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon, to the kings of Shimron and Akshaph, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and to the northern kings who were in the mountains, in the Arabah south of Kinnereth, in the western foothills and in Naphoth Dor on the west; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">to the Canaanites in the east and west; to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites and Jebusites in the hill country; and to the Hivites below Hermon in the region of Mizpah. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They came out with all their troops and a large number of horses and chariots&#8212;a huge army, as numerous as the sand on the seashore. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">All these kings joined forces and made camp together at the Waters of Merom to fight against Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.11.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Joshua, &#8220;Do not be afraid of them, because by this time tomorrow I will hand all of them, slain, over to Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn their chariots.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So Joshua and his whole army came against them suddenly at the Waters of Merom and attacked them, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave them into the hand of Israel. They defeated them and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon, to Misrephoth Maim, and to the Valley of Mizpah on the east, until no survivors were left. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Joshua did to them as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had directed: He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.11.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">At that time Joshua turned back and captured Hazor and put its king to the sword. (Hazor had been the head of all these kingdoms.) </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Everyone in it they put to the sword. They totally destroyed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:11 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, often by totally destroying them; also in verses 12, 20 and 21.</span></span></span><span class="content"> them, not sparing anyone that breathed, and he burned Hazor itself.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.11.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Joshua took all these royal cities and their kings and put them to the sword. He totally destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds&#8212;except Hazor, which Joshua burned. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The Israelites carried off for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but all the people they put to the sword until they completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">As the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded his servant Moses, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua did it; he left nothing undone of all that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.11.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So Joshua took this entire land: the hill country, all the Negev, the whole region of Goshen, the western foothills, the Arabah and the mountains of Israel with their foothills, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, to Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and put them to death. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Joshua waged war against all these kings for a long time. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Except for the Hivites living in Gibeon, not one city made a treaty of peace with the Israelites, who took them all in battle. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">For it was the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.11.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">At that time Joshua went and destroyed the Anakites from the hill country: from Hebron, Debir and Anab, from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua totally destroyed them and their towns. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">No Anakites were left in Israelite territory; only in Gaza, Gath and Ashdod did any survive.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.11.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So Joshua took the entire land, just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had directed Moses, and he gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal divisions. Then the land had rest from war.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 17</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A prayer of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my plea is just;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">listen to my cry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">Hear my prayer&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">it does not rise from deceitful lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.17.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Let my vindication come from you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.17.2"><span class="content">may your eyes see what is right.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Though you probe my heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">though you examine me at night and test me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">you will find that I have planned no evil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">my mouth has not transgressed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Though people tried to bribe me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="content">I have kept myself from the ways of the violent</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="content">through what your lips have commanded.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.17.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">My steps have held to your paths;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.17.5"><span class="content">my feet have not stumbled.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.17.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I call on you, my God, for you will answer me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.17.6"><span class="content">turn your ear to me and hear my prayer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Show me the wonders of your great love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.17.7"><span class="content">you who save by your right hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.17.7"><span class="content">those who take refuge in you from their foes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.17.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Keep me as the apple of your eye;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.17.8"><span class="content">hide me in the shadow of your wings</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.17.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">from the wicked who are out to destroy me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.17.9"><span class="content">from my mortal enemies who surround me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They close up their callous hearts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.17.10"><span class="content">and their mouths speak with arrogance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They have tracked me down, they now surround me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.17.11"><span class="content">with eyes alert, to throw me to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">They are like a lion hungry for prey,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.17.12"><span class="content">like a fierce lion crouching in cover.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.17.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Rise up, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, confront them, bring them down;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.17.13"><span class="content">with your sword rescue me from the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">By your hand save me from such people, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">from those of this world whose reward is in this life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">May what you have stored up for the wicked fill their bellies;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">may their children gorge themselves on it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">and may there be leftovers for their little ones.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">As for me, I will be vindicated and will see your face;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.17.15"><span class="content">when I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.10.5"><span class="content">in whose hand is the club of my wrath!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I send him against a godless nation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.10.6"><span class="content">I dispatch him against a people who anger me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.10.6"><span class="content">to seize loot and snatch plunder,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.10.6"><span class="content">and to trample them down like mud in the streets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But this is not what he intends,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.10.7"><span class="content">this is not what he has in mind;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.10.7"><span class="content">his purpose is to destroy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.10.7"><span class="content">to put an end to many nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.10.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8216;Are not my commanders all kings?&#8217; he says.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.10.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8216;Has not Kalno fared like Carchemish?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.10.9"><span class="content">Is not Hamath like Arpad,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.10.9"><span class="content">and Samaria like Damascus?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.10.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.10.10"><span class="content">kingdoms whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.10.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">shall I not deal with Jerusalem and her images</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.10.11"><span class="content">as I dealt with Samaria and her idols?&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.10.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will say, &#8220;I will punish the king of Assyria for the willful pride of his heart and the haughty look in his eyes. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For he says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.10.13"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;By the strength of my hand I have done this,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.10.13"><span class="content">and by my wisdom, because I have understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.10.13"><span class="content">I removed the boundaries of nations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.10.13"><span class="content">I plundered their treasures;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.10.13"><span class="content">like a mighty one I subdued</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">treasures; / I subdued the mighty,</span></span></span><span class="content"> their kings.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.10.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">As one reaches into a nest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.10.14"><span class="content">so my hand reached for the wealth of the nations;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.10.14"><span class="content">as people gather abandoned eggs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.10.14"><span class="content">so I gathered all the countries;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.10.14"><span class="content">not one flapped a wing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.10.14"><span class="content">or opened its mouth to chirp.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.10.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Does the ax raise itself above the person who swings it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.10.15"><span class="content">or the saw boast against the one who uses it?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.10.15"><span class="content">As if a rod were to wield the person who lifts it up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.10.15"><span class="content">or a club brandish the one who is not wood!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.10.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Therefore, the Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.10.16"><span class="content">will send a wasting disease upon his sturdy warriors;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.10.16"><span class="content">under his pomp a fire will be kindled</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.10.16"><span class="content">like a blazing flame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.10.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The Light of Israel will become a fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.10.17"><span class="content">their Holy One a flame;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.10.17"><span class="content">in a single day it will burn and consume</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.10.17"><span class="content">his thorns and his briers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.10.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The splendor of his forests and fertile fields</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.10.18"><span class="content">it will completely destroy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.10.18"><span class="content">as when a sick person wastes away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.10.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">And the remaining trees of his forests will be so few</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.10.19"><span class="content">that a child could write them down.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Treasures in Heaven</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.6.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MAT.6.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MAT.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy,</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">6:22 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">The Greek for </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fq">healthy </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">here implies generous.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">your whole body will be full of light.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.6.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But if your eyes are unhealthy,</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">6:23 </span><span class="ft">The Greek for </span><span class="fq">unhealthy </span><span class="ft">here implies stingy.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MAT.6.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MAT.6.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ROM.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham&#8217;s offspring&#8212;not only to those who are of the law but also to those who have the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">As it is written: &#8220;I have made you a father of many nations.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:17 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 17:5</span></span></span><span class="content"> He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed&#8212;the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ROM.4.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, &#8220;So shall your offspring be.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:18 </span><span class="ft">Gen. 15:5</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead&#8212;since he was about a hundred years old&#8212;and that Sarah&#8217;s womb was also dead. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">This is why &#8220;it was credited to him as righteousness.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The words &#8220;it was credited to him&#8221; were written not for him alone, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness&#8212;for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.</span></span></div>
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