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      <div class="chapter ch37" data-usfm="GEN.37.1+GEN.37.2+GEN.37.3+GEN.37.4+GEN.37.5+GEN.37.6+GEN.37.7+GEN.37.8+GEN.37.9+GEN.37.10+GEN.37.11">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.37.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="GEN.37.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.37.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">This is the account of Jacob&#8217;s family line.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.37.2"><span class="content">Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father&#8217;s wives, and he brought their father a bad report about them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="GEN.37.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="GEN.37.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">37:3 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain; also in verses 23 and 32.</span></span></span><span class="content"> robe for him. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.37.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="GEN.37.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="GEN.37.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="GEN.37.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He said to them, &#8220;Listen to this dream I had: </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.37.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="GEN.37.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.37.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">His brothers said to him, &#8220;Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?&#8221; And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="GEN.37.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.37.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. &#8220;Listen,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="GEN.37.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="GEN.37.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, &#8220;What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="GEN.37.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch4" data-usfm="RUT.4.1+RUT.4.2+RUT.4.3+RUT.4.4+RUT.4.5+RUT.4.6+RUT.4.7+RUT.4.8+RUT.4.9+RUT.4.10+RUT.4.11+RUT.4.12">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="RUT.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Meanwhile Boaz went up to the town gate and sat down there just as the guardian-redeemer</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:1 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew word for </span><span class="fq">guardian-redeemer </span><span class="ft">is a legal term for one who has the obligation to redeem a relative in serious difficulty (see Lev. 25:25-55); also in verses 3, 6, 8 and 14.</span></span></span><span class="content"> he had mentioned came along. Boaz said, &#8220;Come over here, my friend, and sit down.&#8221; So he went over and sat down.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="RUT.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="RUT.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Boaz took ten of the elders of the town and said, &#8220;Sit here,&#8221; and they did so. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="RUT.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then he said to the guardian-redeemer, &#8220;Naomi, who has come back from Moab, is selling the piece of land that belonged to our relative Elimelek. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="RUT.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I thought I should bring the matter to your attention and suggest that you buy it in the presence of these seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, do so. But if you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">he</span></span></span><span class="content"> will not, tell me, so I will know. For no one has the right to do it except you, and I am next in line.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="RUT.4.4"><span class="content">&#8220;I will redeem it,&#8221; he said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="RUT.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="RUT.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then Boaz said, &#8220;On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:5 </span><span class="ft">Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew (see also Septuagint) </span><span class="fqa">Naomi and from Ruth the Moabite, you acquire the</span></span></span><span class="content"> dead man&#8217;s widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="RUT.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="RUT.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">At this, the guardian-redeemer said, &#8220;Then I cannot redeem it because I might endanger my own estate. You redeem it yourself. I cannot do it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="RUT.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="RUT.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">(Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other. This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="RUT.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="RUT.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So the guardian-redeemer said to Boaz, &#8220;Buy it yourself.&#8221; And he removed his sandal.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="RUT.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="RUT.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, &#8220;Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="RUT.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon&#8217;s widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="RUT.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="RUT.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then the elders and all the people at the gate said, &#8220;We are witnesses. May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the family of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="RUT.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Through the offspring the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gives you by this young woman, may your family be like that of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch10" data-usfm="JOB.10.8+JOB.10.9+JOB.10.10+JOB.10.11+JOB.10.12+JOB.10.13+JOB.10.14+JOB.10.15+JOB.10.16+JOB.10.17+JOB.10.18+JOB.10.19+JOB.10.20+JOB.10.21+JOB.10.22">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Your hands shaped me and made me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.10.8"><span class="content">Will you now turn and destroy me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.10.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Remember that you molded me like clay.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.10.9"><span class="content">Will you now turn me to dust again?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.10.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Did you not pour me out like milk</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.10.10"><span class="content">and curdle me like cheese,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.10.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">clothe me with skin and flesh</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.10.11"><span class="content">and knit me together with bones and sinews?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.10.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You gave me life and showed me kindness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.10.12"><span class="content">and in your providence watched over my spirit.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.10.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;But this is what you concealed in your heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.10.13"><span class="content">and I know that this was in your mind:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.10.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">If I sinned, you would be watching me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.10.14"><span class="content">and would not let my offense go unpunished.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.10.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If I am guilty&#8212;woe to me!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.10.15"><span class="content">Even if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.10.15"><span class="content">for I am full of shame</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.10.15"><span class="content">and drowned in</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:15 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and aware of</span></span></span><span class="content"> my affliction.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.10.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">If I hold my head high, you stalk me like a lion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.10.16"><span class="content">and again display your awesome power against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.10.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">You bring new witnesses against me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.10.17"><span class="content">and increase your anger toward me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.10.17"><span class="content">your forces come against me wave upon wave.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.10.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why then did you bring me out of the womb?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.10.18"><span class="content">I wish I had died before any eye saw me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.10.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">If only I had never come into being,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.10.19"><span class="content">or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.10.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.10.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Are not my few days almost over?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.10.20"><span class="content">Turn away from me so I can have a moment&#8217;s joy</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.10.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.10.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">before I go to the place of no return,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.10.21"><span class="content">to the land of gloom and utter darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.10.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.10.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">to the land of deepest night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.10.22"><span class="content">of utter darkness and disorder,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.10.22"><span class="content">where even the light is like darkness.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch49" data-usfm="ISA.49.8+ISA.49.9+ISA.49.10+ISA.49.11+ISA.49.12+ISA.49.13+ISA.49.14+ISA.49.15+ISA.49.16+ISA.49.17+ISA.49.18+ISA.49.19+ISA.49.20+ISA.49.21+ISA.49.22+ISA.49.23+ISA.49.24+ISA.49.25+ISA.49.26">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.49.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.49.8"><span class="content">&#8220;In the time of my favor I will answer you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.49.8"><span class="content">and in the day of salvation I will help you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.49.8"><span class="content">I will keep you and will make you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.49.8"><span class="content">to be a covenant for the people,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.49.8"><span class="content">to restore the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.49.8"><span class="content">and to reassign its desolate inheritances,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.49.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.49.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">to say to the captives, &#8216;Come out,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.49.9"><span class="content">and to those in darkness, &#8216;Be free!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.49.9"><span class="content">&#8220;They will feed beside the roads</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.49.9"><span class="content">and find pasture on every barren hill.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.49.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.49.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They will neither hunger nor thirst,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.49.10"><span class="content">nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.49.10"><span class="content">He who has compassion on them will guide them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.49.10"><span class="content">and lead them beside springs of water.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.49.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.49.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I will turn all my mountains into roads,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.49.11"><span class="content">and my highways will be raised up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.49.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.49.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">See, they will come from afar&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.49.12"><span class="content">some from the north, some from the west,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.49.12"><span class="content">some from the region of Aswan.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:12 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">Sinim</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.49.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.49.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Shout for joy, you heavens;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.49.13"><span class="content">rejoice, you earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.49.13"><span class="content">burst into song, you mountains!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.49.13"><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> comforts his people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.49.13"><span class="content">and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.49.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.49.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But Zion said, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has forsaken me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.49.14"><span class="content">the Lord has forgotten me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.49.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.49.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;Can a mother forget the baby at her breast</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.49.15"><span class="content">and have no compassion on the child she has borne?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.49.15"><span class="content">Though she may forget,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.49.15"><span class="content">I will not forget you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.49.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.49.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.49.16"><span class="content">your walls are ever before me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.49.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.49.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Your children hasten back,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.49.17"><span class="content">and those who laid you waste depart from you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.49.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.49.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Lift up your eyes and look around;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.49.18"><span class="content">all your children gather and come to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.49.18"><span class="content">As surely as I live,&#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 v18" data-usfm="ISA.49.18"><span class="content">&#8220;you will wear them all as ornaments;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.49.18"><span class="content">you will put them on, like a bride.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.49.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.49.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Though you were ruined and made desolate</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.49.19"><span class="content">and your land laid waste,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.49.19"><span class="content">now you will be too small for your people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.49.19"><span class="content">and those who devoured you will be far away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.49.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.49.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The children born during your bereavement</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.49.20"><span class="content">will yet say in your hearing,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.49.20"><span class="content">&#8216;This place is too small for us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.49.20"><span class="content">give us more space to live in.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.49.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.49.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then you will say in your heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.49.21"><span class="content">&#8216;Who bore me these?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.49.21"><span class="content">I was bereaved and barren;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.49.21"><span class="content">I was exiled and rejected.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.49.21"><span class="content">Who brought these up?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.49.21"><span class="content">I was left all alone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.49.21"><span class="content">but these&#8212;where have they come from?&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.49.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.49.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.49.22"><span class="content">&#8220;See, I will beckon to the nations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.49.22"><span class="content">I will lift up my banner to the peoples;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.49.22"><span class="content">they will bring your sons in their arms</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.49.22"><span class="content">and carry your daughters on their hips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.49.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.49.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Kings will be your foster fathers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.49.23"><span class="content">and their queens your nursing mothers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.49.23"><span class="content">They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.49.23"><span class="content">they will lick the dust at your feet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.49.23"><span class="content">Then you will know that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.49.23"><span class="content">those who hope in me will not be disappointed.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.49.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.49.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Can plunder be taken from warriors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.49.24"><span class="content">or captives be rescued from the fierce</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:24 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls, Vulgate and Syriac (see also Septuagint and verse 25); Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">righteous</span></span></span><span class="content">?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.49.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.49.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">But this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.49.25"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, captives will be taken from warriors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.49.25"><span class="content">and plunder retrieved from the fierce;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.49.25"><span class="content">I will contend with those who contend with you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.49.25"><span class="content">and your children I will save.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.49.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.49.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.49.26"><span class="content">they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.49.26"><span class="content">Then all mankind will know</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.49.26"><span class="content">that I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, am your Savior,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ISA.49.26"><span class="content">your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MAT.22.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="MAT.22.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MAT.22.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">&#8220;Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="MAT.22.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="MAT.22.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Jesus replied: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:37 </span><span class="ft">Deut. 6:5</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="MAT.22.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">This is the first and greatest commandment.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="MAT.22.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And the second is like it: &#8216;Love your neighbor as yourself.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:39 </span><span class="ft">Lev. 19:18</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MAT.22.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Whose Son Is the Messiah?</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="MAT.22.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="MAT.22.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MAT.22.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MAT.22.42"><span class="content">&#8220;The son of David,&#8221; they replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="MAT.22.42"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="MAT.22.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">He said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him &#8216;Lord&#8217;? For he says,</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="MAT.22.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.22.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The Lord said to my Lord:</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.22.44"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Sit at my right hand</span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.22.44"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">until I put your enemies</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.22.44"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">under your feet.&#8221;&#8198;&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">22:44 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">  
          Psalm 110:1
          </span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="MAT.22.44"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="MAT.22.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If then David calls him &#8216;Lord,&#8217; how can he be his son?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="MAT.22.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch7" data-usfm="1CO.7.1+1CO.7.2+1CO.7.3+1CO.7.4+1CO.7.5+1CO.7.6+1CO.7.7+1CO.7.8+1CO.7.9">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now for the matters you wrote about: &#8220;It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I say this as a concession, not as a command. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I wish that all of you were as I am. But each of you has your own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Now to the unmarried</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">widowers</span></span></span><span class="content"> and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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