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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="DEU.31.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">And Moses recited the words of this song from beginning to end in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel:</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DEU.32.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Listen, you heavens, and I will speak;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DEU.32.1"><span class="content">hear, you earth, the words of my mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DEU.32.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.32.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Let my teaching fall like rain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.32.2"><span class="content">and my words descend like dew,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.32.2"><span class="content">like showers on new grass,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.32.2"><span class="content">like abundant rain on tender plants.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.32.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.32.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I will proclaim the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.32.3"><span class="content">Oh, praise the greatness of our God!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.32.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.32.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He is the Rock, his works are perfect,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.32.4"><span class="content">and all his ways are just.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.32.4"><span class="content">A faithful God who does no wrong,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.32.4"><span class="content">upright and just is he.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.32.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.32.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They are corrupt and not his children;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.32.5"><span class="content">to their shame they are a warped and crooked generation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.32.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.32.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Is this the way you repay the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.32.6"><span class="content">you foolish and unwise people?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.32.6"><span class="content">Is he not your Father, your Creator,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Father, who bought you</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.32.6"><span class="content">who made you and formed you?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.32.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.32.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Remember the days of old;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.32.7"><span class="content">consider the generations long past.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.32.7"><span class="content">Ask your father and he will tell you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.32.7"><span class="content">your elders, and they will explain to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.32.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.32.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.32.8"><span class="content">when he divided all mankind,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.32.8"><span class="content">he set up boundaries for the peoples</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.32.8"><span class="content">according to the number of the sons of Israel.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:8 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint) </span><span class="fqa">sons of God</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.32.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.32.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s portion is his people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.32.9"><span class="content">Jacob his allotted inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.32.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.32.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">In a desert land he found him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.32.10"><span class="content">in a barren and howling waste.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.32.10"><span class="content">He shielded him and cared for him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.32.10"><span class="content">he guarded him as the apple of his eye,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.32.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.32.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">like an eagle that stirs up its nest</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.32.11"><span class="content">and hovers over its young,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.32.11"><span class="content">that spreads its wings to catch them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.32.11"><span class="content">and carries them aloft.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.32.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.32.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> alone led him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.32.12"><span class="content">no foreign god was with him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.32.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.32.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He made him ride on the heights of the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.32.13"><span class="content">and fed him with the fruit of the fields.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.32.13"><span class="content">He nourished him with honey from the rock,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.32.13"><span class="content">and with oil from the flinty crag,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.32.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.32.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">with curds and milk from herd and flock</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.32.14"><span class="content">and with fattened lambs and goats,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.32.14"><span class="content">with choice rams of Bashan</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.32.14"><span class="content">and the finest kernels of wheat.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.32.14"><span class="content">You drank the foaming blood of the grape.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.32.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.32.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Jeshurun</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">32:15 </span><span class="fq">Jeshurun </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">the upright one, </span><span class="ft">that is, Israel.</span></span></span><span class="content"> grew fat and kicked;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.32.15"><span class="content">filled with food, they became heavy and sleek.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.32.15"><span class="content">They abandoned the God who made them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.32.15"><span class="content">and rejected the Rock their Savior.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.32.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.32.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">They made him jealous with their foreign gods</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.32.16"><span class="content">and angered him with their detestable idols.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.32.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.32.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">They sacrificed to false gods, which are not God&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.32.17"><span class="content">gods they had not known,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.32.17"><span class="content">gods that recently appeared,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.32.17"><span class="content">gods your ancestors did not fear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.32.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.32.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">You deserted the Rock, who fathered you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.32.18"><span class="content">you forgot the God who gave you birth.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">5</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Esther&#8217;s Request to the King</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EST.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the palace, in front of the king&#8217;s hall. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the hall, facing the entrance. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EST.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When he saw Queen Esther standing in the court, he was pleased with her and held out to her the gold scepter that was in his hand. So Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EST.5.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EST.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then the king asked, &#8220;What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be given you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EST.5.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EST.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;If it pleases the king,&#8221; replied Esther, &#8220;let the king, together with Haman, come today to a banquet I have prepared for him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EST.5.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EST.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;Bring Haman at once,&#8221; the king said, &#8220;so that we may do what Esther asks.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EST.5.5"><span class="content">So the king and Haman went to the banquet Esther had prepared. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EST.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">As they were drinking wine, the king again asked Esther, &#8220;Now what is your petition? It will be given you. And what is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be granted.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EST.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EST.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Esther replied, &#8220;My petition and my request is this: </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EST.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If the king regards me with favor and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king&#8217;s question.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Haman&#8217;s Rage Against Mordecai</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EST.5.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EST.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Haman went out that day happy and in high spirits. But when he saw Mordecai at the king&#8217;s gate and observed that he neither rose nor showed fear in his presence, he was filled with rage against Mordecai. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EST.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EST.5.10"><span class="content">Calling together his friends and Zeresh, his wife, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EST.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Haman boasted to them about his vast wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored him and how he had elevated him above the other nobles and officials. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EST.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;And that&#8217;s not all,&#8221; Haman added. &#8220;I&#8217;m the only person Queen Esther invited to accompany the king to the banquet she gave. And she has invited me along with the king tomorrow. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EST.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But all this gives me no satisfaction as long as I see that Jew Mordecai sitting at the king&#8217;s gate.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EST.5.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EST.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">His wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, &#8220;Have a pole set up, reaching to a height of fifty cubits,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:14 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 75 feet or about 23 meters</span></span></span><span class="content"> and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai impaled on it. Then go with the king to the banquet and enjoy yourself.&#8221; This suggestion delighted Haman, and he had the pole set up.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">144</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 144</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.144.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my Rock,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.144.1"><span class="content">who trains my hands for war,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.144.1"><span class="content">my fingers for battle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.144.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.144.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He is my loving God and my fortress,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.144.2"><span class="content">my stronghold and my deliverer,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.144.2"><span class="content">my shield, in whom I take refuge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.144.2"><span class="content">who subdues peoples</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">144:2 </span><span class="ft">Many manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls, Aquila, Jerome and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">subdues my people</span></span></span><span class="content"> under me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.144.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.144.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, what are human beings that you care for them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.144.3"><span class="content">mere mortals that you think of them?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.144.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.144.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They are like a breath;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.144.4"><span class="content">their days are like a fleeting shadow.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.144.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.144.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Part your heavens, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and come down;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.144.5"><span class="content">touch the mountains, so that they smoke.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.144.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.144.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.144.6"><span class="content">shoot your arrows and rout them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.144.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.144.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Reach down your hand from on high;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.144.7"><span class="content">deliver me and rescue me</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.144.7"><span class="content">from the mighty waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.144.7"><span class="content">from the hands of foreigners</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.144.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.144.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">whose mouths are full of lies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.144.8"><span class="content">whose right hands are deceitful.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.144.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.144.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I will sing a new song to you, my God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.144.9"><span class="content">on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.144.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.144.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">to the One who gives victory to kings,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.144.10"><span class="content">who delivers his servant David.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.144.10"><span class="content">From the deadly sword </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.144.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">deliver me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.144.11"><span class="content">rescue me from the hands of foreigners</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.144.11"><span class="content">whose mouths are full of lies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.144.11"><span class="content">whose right hands are deceitful.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.144.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.144.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then our sons in their youth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.144.12"><span class="content">will be like well-nurtured plants,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.144.12"><span class="content">and our daughters will be like pillars</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.144.12"><span class="content">carved to adorn a palace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.144.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.144.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Our barns will be filled</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.144.13"><span class="content">with every kind of provision.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.144.13"><span class="content">Our sheep will increase by thousands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.144.13"><span class="content">by tens of thousands in our fields;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.144.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.144.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">our oxen will draw heavy loads.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">144:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">our chieftains will be firmly established</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.144.14"><span class="content">There will be no breaching of walls,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.144.14"><span class="content">no going into captivity,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.144.14"><span class="content">no cry of distress in our streets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.144.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.144.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Blessed is the people of whom this is true;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.144.15"><span class="content">blessed is the people whose God is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ZEC.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the Spirit</span></span></span><span class="content"> of grace and supplication. They will look on</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">to</span></span></span><span class="content"> me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ZEC.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">On that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be as great as the weeping of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ZEC.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The land will mourn, each clan by itself, with their wives by themselves: the clan of the house of David and their wives, the clan of the house of Nathan and their wives, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ZEC.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">the clan of the house of Levi and their wives, the clan of Shimei and their wives, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ZEC.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and all the rest of the clans and their wives.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch13" data-usfm="ZEC.13.1+ZEC.13.2+ZEC.13.3+ZEC.13.4+ZEC.13.5+ZEC.13.6+ZEC.13.7+ZEC.13.8+ZEC.13.9">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEC.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ZEC.13.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ZEC.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;On that day, I will banish the names of the idols from the land, and they will be remembered no more,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty. &#8220;I will remove both the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEC.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And if anyone still prophesies, their father and mother, to whom they were born, will say to them, &#8216;You must die, because you have told lies in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s name.&#8217; Then their own parents will stab the one who prophesies.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ZEC.13.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ZEC.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;On that day every prophet will be ashamed of their prophetic vision. They will not put on a prophet&#8217;s garment of hair in order to deceive. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ZEC.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Each will say, &#8216;I am not a prophet. I am a farmer; the land has been my livelihood since my youth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">farmer; a man sold me in my youth</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEC.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">If someone asks, &#8216;What are these wounds on your body</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">wounds between your hands</span></span></span><span class="content">?&#8217; they will answer, &#8216;The wounds I was given at the house of my friends.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Shepherd Struck, the Sheep Scattered</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ZEC.13.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Awake, sword, against my shepherd,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.13.7"><span class="content">against the man who is close to me!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.13.7"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.13.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Strike the shepherd,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.13.7"><span class="content">and the sheep will be scattered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.13.7"><span class="content">and I will turn my hand against the little ones.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ZEC.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEC.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In the whole land,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEC.13.8"><span class="content">&#8220;two-thirds will be struck down and perish;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEC.13.8"><span class="content">yet one-third will be left in it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ZEC.13.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">This third I will put into the fire;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.13.9"><span class="content">I will refine them like silver</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.13.9"><span class="content">and test them like gold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.13.9"><span class="content">They will call on my name</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.13.9"><span class="content">and I will answer them;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.13.9"><span class="content">I will say, &#8216;They are my people,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ZEC.13.9"><span class="content">and they will say, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is our God.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I am thirsty.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus&#8217; lips. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.19.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">When he had received the drink, Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is finished.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.19.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.19.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.19.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.19.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.19.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus&#8217; side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.19.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.19.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: &#8220;Not one of his bones will be broken,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:36 </span><span class="ft">Exodus 12:46; Num. 9:12; Psalm 34:20</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.19.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">and, as another scripture says, &#8220;They will look on the one they have pierced.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:37 </span><span class="ft">Zech. 12:10</span></span></span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch21" data-usfm="REV.21.1+REV.21.2+REV.21.3+REV.21.4+REV.21.5+REV.21.6+REV.21.7+REV.21.8">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then I saw &#8220;a new heaven and a new earth,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:1 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 65:17</span></span></span><span class="content"> for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, &#8220;Look! God&#8217;s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8216;He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">21:4 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 25:8</span></span></span><span class="content"> or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.21.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He who was seated on the throne said, &#8220;I am making everything new!&#8221; Then he said, &#8220;Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.21.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He said to me: &#8220;It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars&#8212;they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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