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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.29.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.29.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">There he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.29.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well&#8217;s mouth and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.29.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.29.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Jacob asked the shepherds, &#8220;My brothers, where are you from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.29.4"><span class="content">&#8220;We&#8217;re from Harran,&#8221; they replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.29.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.29.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He said to them, &#8220;Do you know Laban, Nahor&#8217;s grandson?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.29.5"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, we know him,&#8221; they answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.29.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.29.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then Jacob asked them, &#8220;Is he well?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.29.6"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, he is,&#8221; they said, &#8220;and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.29.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.29.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Look,&#8221; he said, &#8220;the sun is still high; it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.29.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.29.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;We can&#8217;t,&#8221; they replied, &#8220;until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.29.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.29.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father&#8217;s sheep, for she was a shepherd. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.29.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of his uncle Laban, and Laban&#8217;s sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle&#8217;s sheep. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.29.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep aloud. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.29.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He had told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and a son of Rebekah. So she ran and told her father.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="GEN.29.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="GEN.29.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister&#8217;s son, he hurried to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, and there Jacob told him all these things. </span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch9" data-usfm="JDG.9.22+JDG.9.23+JDG.9.24+JDG.9.25+JDG.9.26+JDG.9.27+JDG.9.28+JDG.9.29+JDG.9.30+JDG.9.31+JDG.9.32+JDG.9.33+JDG.9.34+JDG.9.35+JDG.9.36+JDG.9.37+JDG.9.38+JDG.9.39+JDG.9.40+JDG.9.41">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JDG.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">After Abimelek had governed Israel three years, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JDG.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">God stirred up animosity between Abimelek and the citizens of Shechem so that they acted treacherously against Abimelek. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JDG.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">God did this in order that the crime against Jerub-Baal&#8217;s seventy sons, the shedding of their blood, might be avenged on their brother Abimelek and on the citizens of Shechem, who had helped him murder his brothers. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">In opposition to him these citizens of Shechem set men on the hilltops to ambush and rob everyone who passed by, and this was reported to Abimelek.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JDG.9.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JDG.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Now Gaal son of Ebed moved with his clan into Shechem, and its citizens put their confidence in him. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JDG.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">After they had gone out into the fields and gathered the grapes and trodden them, they held a festival in the temple of their god. While they were eating and drinking, they cursed Abimelek. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JDG.9.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then Gaal son of Ebed said, &#8220;Who is Abimelek, and why should we Shechemites be subject to him? Isn&#8217;t he Jerub-Baal&#8217;s son, and isn&#8217;t Zebul his deputy? Serve the family of Hamor, Shechem&#8217;s father! Why should we serve Abimelek? </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.9.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">If only this people were under my command! Then I would get rid of him. I would say to Abimelek, &#8216;Call out your whole army!&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:29 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">him.&#8221; Then he said to Abimelek, &#8220;Call out your whole army!&#8221;</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JDG.9.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JDG.9.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">When Zebul the governor of the city heard what Gaal son of Ebed said, he was very angry. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JDG.9.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Under cover he sent messengers to Abimelek, saying, &#8220;Gaal son of Ebed and his clan have come to Shechem and are stirring up the city against you. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JDG.9.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Now then, during the night you and your men should come and lie in wait in the fields. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JDG.9.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">In the morning at sunrise, advance against the city. When Gaal and his men come out against you, seize the opportunity to attack them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JDG.9.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JDG.9.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">So Abimelek and all his troops set out by night and took up concealed positions near Shechem in four companies. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JDG.9.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Now Gaal son of Ebed had gone out and was standing at the entrance of the city gate just as Abimelek and his troops came out from their hiding place.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JDG.9.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JDG.9.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">When Gaal saw them, he said to Zebul, &#8220;Look, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JDG.9.36"><span class="content">Zebul replied, &#8220;You mistake the shadows of the mountains for men.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JDG.9.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JDG.9.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">But Gaal spoke up again: &#8220;Look, people are coming down from the central hill,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:37 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew for this phrase means </span><span class="fqa">the navel of the earth.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and a company is coming from the direction of the diviners&#8217; tree.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JDG.9.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JDG.9.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Then Zebul said to him, &#8220;Where is your big talk now, you who said, &#8216;Who is Abimelek that we should be subject to him?&#8217; Aren&#8217;t these the men you ridiculed? Go out and fight them!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JDG.9.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JDG.9.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">So Gaal led out</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:39 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Gaal went out in the sight of</span></span></span><span class="content"> the citizens of Shechem and fought Abimelek. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="JDG.9.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Abimelek chased him all the way to the entrance of the gate, and many were killed as they fled. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JDG.9.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Then Abimelek stayed in Arumah, and Zebul drove Gaal and his clan out of Shechem.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="JDG.9.41"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">40</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 40</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 40:1-17 is numbered 40:2-18.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.40.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I waited patiently for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.40.1"><span class="content">he turned to me and heard my cry.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.40.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.40.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He lifted me out of the slimy pit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.40.2"><span class="content">out of the mud and mire;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.40.2"><span class="content">he set my feet on a rock</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.40.2"><span class="content">and gave me a firm place to stand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.40.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.40.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He put a new song in my mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.40.3"><span class="content">a hymn of praise to our God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.40.3"><span class="content">Many will see and fear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.40.3"><span class="content">and put their trust in him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.40.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.40.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Blessed is the one</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.40.4"><span class="content">who trusts in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.40.4"><span class="content">who does not look to the proud,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.40.4"><span class="content">to those who turn aside to false gods.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">40:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">to lies</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.40.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.40.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Many, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.40.5"><span class="content">are the wonders you have done,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.40.5"><span class="content">the things you planned for us.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.40.5"><span class="content">None can compare with you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.40.5"><span class="content">were I to speak and tell of your deeds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.40.5"><span class="content">they would be too many to declare.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.40.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.40.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Sacrifice and offering you did not desire&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.40.6"><span class="content">but my ears you have opened</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">40:6 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">but a body you have prepared for me</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.40.6"><span class="content">burnt offerings and sin offerings</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">40:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">purification offerings</span></span></span><span class="content"> you did not require.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.40.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.40.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then I said, &#8220;Here I am, I have come&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.40.7"><span class="content">it is written about me in the scroll.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">40:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">come / with the scroll written for me</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.40.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.40.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I desire to do your will, my God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.40.8"><span class="content">your law is within my heart.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.40.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.40.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I proclaim your saving acts in the great assembly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.40.9"><span class="content">I do not seal my lips, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.40.9"><span class="content">as you know.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.40.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.40.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I do not hide your righteousness in my heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.40.10"><span class="content">I speak of your faithfulness and your saving help.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.40.10"><span class="content">I do not conceal your love and your faithfulness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.40.10"><span class="content">from the great assembly.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.40.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.40.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Do not withhold your mercy from me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.40.11"><span class="content">may your love and faithfulness always protect me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.40.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.40.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For troubles without number surround me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.40.12"><span class="content">my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.40.12"><span class="content">They are more than the hairs of my head,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.40.12"><span class="content">and my heart fails within me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.40.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.40.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Be pleased to save me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.40.13"><span class="content">come quickly, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, to help me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.40.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.40.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">May all who want to take my life</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.40.14"><span class="content">be put to shame and confusion;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.40.14"><span class="content">may all who desire my ruin</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.40.14"><span class="content">be turned back in disgrace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.40.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.40.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">May those who say to me, &#8220;Aha! Aha!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.40.15"><span class="content">be appalled at their own shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.40.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.40.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But may all who seek you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.40.16"><span class="content">rejoice and be glad in you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.40.16"><span class="content">may those who long for your saving help always say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.40.16"><span class="content">&#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is great!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.40.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.40.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But as for me, I am poor and needy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.40.17"><span class="content">may the Lord think of me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.40.17"><span class="content">You are my help and my deliverer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.40.17"><span class="content">you are my God, do not delay.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.37.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.37.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">this is the word the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken against him:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.37.22"><span class="content">&#8220;Virgin Daughter Zion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.37.22"><span class="content">despises and mocks you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.37.22"><span class="content">Daughter Jerusalem</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.37.22"><span class="content">tosses her head as you flee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.37.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.37.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.37.23"><span class="content">Against whom have you raised your voice</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.37.23"><span class="content">and lifted your eyes in pride?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.37.23"><span class="content">Against the Holy One of Israel!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.37.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.37.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">By your messengers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.37.24"><span class="content">you have ridiculed the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.37.24"><span class="content">And you have said,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.37.24"><span class="content">&#8216;With my many chariots</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.37.24"><span class="content">I have ascended the heights of the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.37.24"><span class="content">the utmost heights of Lebanon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.37.24"><span class="content">I have cut down its tallest cedars,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.37.24"><span class="content">the choicest of its junipers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.37.24"><span class="content">I have reached its remotest heights,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.37.24"><span class="content">the finest of its forests.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.37.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.37.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">I have dug wells in foreign lands</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">37:25 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls (see also 2 Kings 19:24); Masoretic Text does not have </span><span class="fq">in foreign lands</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.37.25"><span class="content">and drunk the water there.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.37.25"><span class="content">With the soles of my feet</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.37.25"><span class="content">I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.37.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.37.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;Have you not heard?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.37.26"><span class="content">Long ago I ordained it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.37.26"><span class="content">In days of old I planned it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.37.26"><span class="content">now I have brought it to pass,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.37.26"><span class="content">that you have turned fortified cities</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.37.26"><span class="content">into piles of stone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.37.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.37.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Their people, drained of power,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.37.27"><span class="content">are dismayed and put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.37.27"><span class="content">They are like plants in the field,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.37.27"><span class="content">like tender green shoots,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.37.27"><span class="content">like grass sprouting on the roof,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.37.27"><span class="content">scorched</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">37:27 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 2 Kings 19:26); most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">roof / and terraced fields</span></span></span><span class="content"> before it grows up.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ISA.37.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.37.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;But I know where you are</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.37.28"><span class="content">and when you come and go</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.37.28"><span class="content">and how you rage against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ISA.37.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ISA.37.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Because you rage against me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ISA.37.29"><span class="content">and because your insolence has reached my ears,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ISA.37.29"><span class="content">I will put my hook in your nose</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ISA.37.29"><span class="content">and my bit in your mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ISA.37.29"><span class="content">and I will make you return</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ISA.37.29"><span class="content">by the way you came.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ISA.37.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ISA.37.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">&#8220;This will be the sign for you, Hezekiah:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ISA.37.30"><span class="content">&#8220;This year you will eat what grows by itself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ISA.37.30"><span class="content">and the second year what springs from that.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ISA.37.30"><span class="content">But in the third year sow and reap,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ISA.37.30"><span class="content">plant vineyards and eat their fruit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ISA.37.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ISA.37.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ISA.37.31"><span class="content">will take root below and bear fruit above.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ISA.37.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ISA.37.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ISA.37.32"><span class="content">and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ISA.37.32"><span class="content">The zeal of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ISA.37.32"><span class="content">will accomplish this.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ISA.37.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ISA.37.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says concerning the king of Assyria:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ISA.37.33"><span class="content">&#8220;He will not enter this city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ISA.37.33"><span class="content">or shoot an arrow here.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ISA.37.33"><span class="content">He will not come before it with shield</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ISA.37.33"><span class="content">or build a siege ramp against it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ISA.37.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ISA.37.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">By the way that he came he will return;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ISA.37.34"><span class="content">he will not enter this city,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ISA.37.34"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ISA.37.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ISA.37.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will defend this city and save it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ISA.37.35"><span class="content">for my sake and for the sake of David my servant!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ISA.37.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ISA.37.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Then the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning&#8212;there were all the dead bodies! </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ISA.37.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ISA.37.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ISA.37.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Who do people say the Son of Man is?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MAT.16.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They replied, &#8220;Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MAT.16.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.16.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But what about you?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Who do you say I am?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MAT.16.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.16.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Simon Peter answered, &#8220;You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.16.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.16.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.16.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And I tell you that you are Peter,</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:18 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">Peter </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fq">rock</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:18 </span><span class="ft">That is, the realm of the dead</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">will not overcome it.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MAT.16.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will have been</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">16:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will have been</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">loosed in heaven.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MAT.16.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then he ordered his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch15" data-usfm="ROM.15.23+ROM.15.24+ROM.15.25+ROM.15.26+ROM.15.27+ROM.15.28+ROM.15.29+ROM.15.30+ROM.15.31+ROM.15.32+ROM.15.33">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.15.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But now that there is no more place for me to work in these regions, and since I have been longing for many years to visit you, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.15.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">I plan to do so when I go to Spain. I hope to see you while passing through and to have you assist me on my journey there, after I have enjoyed your company for a while. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.15.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem in the service of the Lord&#8217;s people there. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.15.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the Lord&#8217;s people in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.15.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in the Jews&#8217; spiritual blessings, they owe it to the Jews to share with them their material blessings. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ROM.15.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">So after I have completed this task and have made sure that they have received this contribution, I will go to Spain and visit you on the way. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.15.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">I know that when I come to you, I will come in the full measure of the blessing of Christ.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.15.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ROM.15.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">I urge you, brothers and sisters, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ROM.15.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Pray that I may be kept safe from the unbelievers in Judea and that the contribution I take to Jerusalem may be favorably received by the Lord&#8217;s people there, </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ROM.15.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">so that I may come to you with joy, by God&#8217;s will, and in your company be refreshed. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ROM.15.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">The God of peace be with you all. Amen.</span></span></div>
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