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         <div class="label">74</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 74</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Asaph.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.74.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">O God, why have you rejected us forever?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.74.1"><span class="content">Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.74.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.74.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Remember the nation you purchased long ago,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.74.2"><span class="content">the people of your inheritance, whom you redeemed&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.74.2"><span class="content">Mount Zion, where you dwelt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.74.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.74.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Turn your steps toward these everlasting ruins,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.74.3"><span class="content">all this destruction the enemy has brought on the sanctuary.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.74.3"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.74.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.74.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Your foes roared in the place where you met with us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.74.4"><span class="content">they set up their standards as signs.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.74.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.74.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They behaved like men wielding axes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.74.5"><span class="content">to cut through a thicket of trees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.74.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.74.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They smashed all the carved paneling</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.74.6"><span class="content">with their axes and hatchets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.74.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.74.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They burned your sanctuary to the ground;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.74.7"><span class="content">they defiled the dwelling place of your Name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.74.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.74.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They said in their hearts, &#8220;We will crush them completely!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.74.8"><span class="content">They burned every place where God was worshiped in the land.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.74.8"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.74.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.74.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">We are given no signs from God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.74.9"><span class="content">no prophets are left,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.74.9"><span class="content">and none of us knows how long this will be.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.74.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.74.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">How long will the enemy mock you, God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.74.10"><span class="content">Will the foe revile your name forever?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.74.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.74.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.74.11"><span class="content">Take it from the folds of your garment and destroy them!</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.74.11"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.74.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.74.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But God is my King from long ago;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.74.12"><span class="content">he brings salvation on the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.74.12"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.74.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.74.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">It was you who split open the sea by your power;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.74.13"><span class="content">you broke the heads of the monster in the waters.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.74.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.74.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">It was you who crushed the heads of Leviathan</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.74.14"><span class="content">and gave it as food to the creatures of the desert.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.74.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.74.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">It was you who opened up springs and streams;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.74.15"><span class="content">you dried up the ever-flowing rivers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.74.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.74.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The day is yours, and yours also the night;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.74.16"><span class="content">you established the sun and moon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.74.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.74.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">It was you who set all the boundaries of the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.74.17"><span class="content">you made both summer and winter.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.74.17"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.74.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.74.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Remember how the enemy has mocked you, </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="PSA.74.18"><span class="content">how foolish people have reviled your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.74.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.74.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Do not hand over the life of your dove to wild beasts;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.74.19"><span class="content">do not forget the lives of your afflicted people forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.74.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.74.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Have regard for your covenant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.74.20"><span class="content">because haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.74.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.74.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Do not let the oppressed retreat in disgrace;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.74.21"><span class="content">may the poor and needy praise your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.74.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.74.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Rise up, O God, and defend your cause;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.74.22"><span class="content">remember how fools mock you all day long.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.74.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.74.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Do not ignore the clamor of your adversaries,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.74.23"><span class="content">the uproar of your enemies, which rises continually.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">To the Church in Ephesus</span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;To the angel</span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">messenger</span><span class="ft"> </span><span class="ft">; also in verses 8, 12 and 18</span><span class="ft"> </span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">of the church in Ephesus write:</span></span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.2.1"></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.2.1"><span class="wj"><span class="content">These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.</span></span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.2.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But you have this in your favor: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.</span></span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.2.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">To the Church in Smyrna</span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.2.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;To the angel of the church in Smyrna write:</span></span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.2.8"></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.2.8"><span class="wj"><span class="content">These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died and came to life again.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I know your afflictions and your poverty&#8212;yet you are rich! I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your victor&#8217;s crown.</span></span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.2.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who is victorious will not be hurt at all by the second death.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">To the Church in Pergamum</span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.2.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;To the angel of the church in Pergamum write:</span></span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.2.12"></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.2.12"><span class="wj"><span class="content">These are the words of him who has the sharp, double-edged sword.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I know where you live&#8212;where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, not even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death in your city&#8212;where Satan lives.</span></span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.2.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: There are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols and committed sexual immorality.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Likewise, you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Repent therefore! Otherwise, I will soon come to you and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.</span></span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.2.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">To the Church in Thyatira</span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.2.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;To the angel of the church in Thyatira write:</span></span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.2.18"></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.2.18"><span class="wj"><span class="content">These are the words of the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="REV.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first.</span></span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="REV.2.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="REV.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="REV.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="REV.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="REV.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.</span></span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="REV.2.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="REV.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Now I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan&#8217;s so-called deep secrets, &#8216;I will not impose any other burden on you,</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="REV.2.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">except to hold on to what you have until I come.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="REV.2.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="REV.2.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">To the one who is victorious and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations&#8212;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="REV.2.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">that one &#8216;will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like pottery&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:27 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="PSA.2.9">Psalm 2:9</span></span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8212;just as I have received authority from my Father.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="REV.2.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I will also give that one the morning star.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="REV.2.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">To the Church in Sardis</span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;To the angel</span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">messenger</span><span class="ft"> </span><span class="ft">; also in verses 7 and 14</span><span class="ft"> </span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">of the church in Sardis write:</span></span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.3.1"></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.3.1"><span class="wj"><span class="content">These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits</span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:1 </span><span class="ft">That is, the sevenfold Spirit</span><span class="ft"> </span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.</span></span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.3.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">To the Church in Philadelphia</span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.3.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:</span></span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.3.7"></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.3.7"><span class="wj"><span class="content">These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars&#8212;I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.</span></span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.3.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">To the Church in Laodicea</span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.3.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:</span></span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.3.14"></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.3.14"><span class="wj"><span class="content">These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God&#8217;s creation.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So, because you are lukewarm&#8212;neither hot nor cold&#8212;I am about to spit you out of my mouth.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You say, &#8216;I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.&#8217; But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.</span></span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="REV.3.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="REV.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="REV.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.</span></span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="REV.3.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="REV.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="REV.3.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Throne in Heaven</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and ruby. A rainbow that shone like an emerald encircled the throne. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. In front of the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, the sevenfold Spirit</span></span></span><span class="content"> of God. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Also in front of the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.4.6"><span class="content">In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings. Day and night they never stop saying:</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.4.8"></span></div><div class="qc"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.4.8"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Holy, holy, holy</span></span></div><div class="qc"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.4.8"><span class="content">is the Lord God Almighty,&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:8 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="ISA.6.3">Isaiah 6:3</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="qc"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.4.8"><span class="content">who was, and is, and is to come.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.4.8"></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.4.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.4.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;You are worthy, our Lord and God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.4.11"><span class="content">to receive glory and honor and power,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.4.11"><span class="content">for you created all things,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.4.11"><span class="content">and by your will they were created</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.4.11"><span class="content">and have their being.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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