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         <div class="label">83</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 83</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 83:1-18 is numbered 83:2-19.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A song. A psalm of Asaph.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.83.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">O God, do not remain silent;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.83.1"><span class="content">do not turn a deaf ear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.83.1"><span class="content">do not stand aloof, O God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.83.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.83.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">See how your enemies growl,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.83.2"><span class="content">how your foes rear their heads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.83.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.83.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">With cunning they conspire against your people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.83.3"><span class="content">they plot against those you cherish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.83.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.83.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come,&#8221; they say, &#8220;let us destroy them as a nation,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.83.4"><span class="content">so that Israel&#8217;s name is remembered no more.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.83.4"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.83.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.83.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">With one mind they plot together;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.83.5"><span class="content">they form an alliance against you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.83.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.83.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.83.6"><span class="content">of Moab and the Hagrites,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.83.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.83.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Byblos, Ammon and Amalek,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.83.7"><span class="content">Philistia, with the people of Tyre.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.83.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.83.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Even Assyria has joined them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.83.8"><span class="content">to reinforce Lot&#8217;s descendants.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">83:8 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.83.8"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.83.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.83.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Do to them as you did to Midian,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.83.9"><span class="content">as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.83.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.83.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">who perished at Endor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.83.10"><span class="content">and became like dung on the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.83.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.83.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.83.11"><span class="content">all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.83.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.83.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">who said, &#8220;Let us take possession</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.83.12"><span class="content">of the pasturelands of God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.83.12"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.83.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.83.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Make them like tumbleweed, my God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.83.13"><span class="content">like chaff before the wind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.83.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.83.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">As fire consumes the forest</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.83.14"><span class="content">or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.83.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.83.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">so pursue them with your tempest</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.83.15"><span class="content">and terrify them with your storm.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.83.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.83.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Cover their faces with shame, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.83.16"><span class="content">so that they will seek your name.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.83.16"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.83.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.83.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">May they ever be ashamed and dismayed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.83.17"><span class="content">may they perish in disgrace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.83.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.83.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Let them know that you, whose name is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.83.18"><span class="content">that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">86</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 86</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A prayer of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.86.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and answer me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.86.1"><span class="content">for I am poor and needy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.86.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.86.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Guard my life, for I am faithful to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.86.2"><span class="content">save your servant who trusts in you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.86.2"><span class="content">You are my God; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.86.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">have mercy on me, Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.86.3"><span class="content">for I call to you all day long.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.86.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.86.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Bring joy to your servant, Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.86.4"><span class="content">for I put my trust in you.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.86.4"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.86.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.86.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You, Lord, are forgiving and good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.86.5"><span class="content">abounding in love to all who call to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.86.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.86.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Hear my prayer, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.86.6"><span class="content">listen to my cry for mercy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.86.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.86.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">When I am in distress, I call to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.86.7"><span class="content">because you answer me.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.86.7"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.86.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.86.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Among the gods there is none like you, Lord;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.86.8"><span class="content">no deeds can compare with yours.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.86.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.86.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">All the nations you have made</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.86.9"><span class="content">will come and worship before you, Lord;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.86.9"><span class="content">they will bring glory to your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.86.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.86.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">For you are great and do marvelous deeds;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.86.10"><span class="content">you alone are God.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.86.10"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.86.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.86.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Teach me your way, </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.86.11"><span class="content">that I may rely on your faithfulness;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.86.11"><span class="content">give me an undivided heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.86.11"><span class="content">that I may fear your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.86.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.86.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.86.12"><span class="content">I will glorify your name forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.86.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.86.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For great is your love toward me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.86.13"><span class="content">you have delivered me from the depths,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.86.13"><span class="content">from the realm of the dead.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.86.13"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.86.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.86.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Arrogant foes are attacking me, O God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.86.14"><span class="content">ruthless people are trying to kill me&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.86.14"><span class="content">they have no regard for you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.86.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.86.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.86.15"><span class="content">slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.86.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.86.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Turn to me and have mercy on me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.86.16"><span class="content">show your strength in behalf of your servant;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.86.16"><span class="content">save me, because I serve you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.86.16"><span class="content">just as my mother did.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.86.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.86.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Give me a sign of your goodness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.86.17"><span class="content">that my enemies may see it and be put to shame,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.86.17"><span class="content">for you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, have helped me and comforted me.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="q1"><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 7:1-13 is numbered 7:2-14.</span><span class="ft"> </span></span></span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">How beautiful your sandaled feet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.7.1"><span class="content">O prince&#8217;s daughter!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.7.1"><span class="content">Your graceful legs are like jewels,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.7.1"><span class="content">the work of an artist&#8217;s hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.7.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Your navel is a rounded goblet</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.7.2"><span class="content">that never lacks blended wine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.7.2"><span class="content">Your waist is a mound of wheat</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.7.2"><span class="content">encircled by lilies.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.7.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Your breasts are like two fawns,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.7.3"><span class="content">like twin fawns of a gazelle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.7.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Your neck is like an ivory tower.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.7.4"><span class="content">Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.7.4"><span class="content">by the gate of Bath Rabbim.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.7.4"><span class="content">Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.7.4"><span class="content">looking toward Damascus.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.7.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.7.5"><span class="content">Your hair is like royal tapestry;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.7.5"><span class="content">the king is held captive by its tresses.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.7.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">How beautiful you are and how pleasing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.7.6"><span class="content">my love, with your delights!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.7.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Your stature is like that of the palm,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.7.7"><span class="content">and your breasts like clusters of fruit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.7.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I said, &#8220;I will climb the palm tree;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.7.8"><span class="content">I will take hold of its fruit.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.7.8"><span class="content">May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.7.8"><span class="content">the fragrance of your breath like apples,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.7.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">and your mouth like the best wine.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">She</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.7.9"><span class="content">May the wine go straight to my beloved,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.7.9"><span class="content">flowing gently over lips and teeth.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:9 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint, Aquila, Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">lips of sleepers</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.7.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I belong to my beloved,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.7.10"><span class="content">and his desire is for me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.7.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.7.11"><span class="content">let us spend the night in the villages.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the henna bushes</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.7.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Let us go early to the vineyards</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.7.12"><span class="content">to see if the vines have budded,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.7.12"><span class="content">if their blossoms have opened,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.7.12"><span class="content">and if the pomegranates are in bloom&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.7.12"><span class="content">there I will give you my love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.7.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The mandrakes send out their fragrance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.7.13"><span class="content">and at our door is every delicacy,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.7.13"><span class="content">both new and old,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.7.13"><span class="content">that I have stored up for you, my beloved.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.7.13"></span></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">If only you were to me like a brother,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.8.1"><span class="content">who was nursed at my mother&#8217;s breasts!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.8.1"><span class="content">Then, if I found you outside,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.8.1"><span class="content">I would kiss you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.8.1"><span class="content">and no one would despise me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="SNG.8.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I would lead you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.8.2"><span class="content">and bring you to my mother&#8217;s house&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.8.2"><span class="content">she who has taught me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.8.2"><span class="content">I would give you spiced wine to drink,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.8.2"><span class="content">the nectar of my pomegranates.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="SNG.8.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">His left arm is under my head</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.8.3"><span class="content">and his right arm embraces me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="SNG.8.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.8.4"><span class="content">Do not arouse or awaken love</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.8.4"><span class="content">until it so desires.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">Friends</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="SNG.8.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Who is this coming up from the wilderness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.8.5"><span class="content">leaning on her beloved?</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">She</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.8.5"><span class="content">Under the apple tree I roused you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.8.5"><span class="content">there your mother conceived you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.8.5"><span class="content">there she who was in labor gave you birth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="SNG.8.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Place me like a seal over your heart,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.8.6"><span class="content">like a seal on your arm;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.8.6"><span class="content">for love is as strong as death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.8.6"><span class="content">its jealousy</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">8:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">ardor</span></span></span><span class="content"> unyielding as the grave.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.8.6"><span class="content">It burns like blazing fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.8.6"><span class="content">like a mighty flame.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">8:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">fire, / like the very flame of the <span class="nd">Lord</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="SNG.8.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Many waters cannot quench love;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.8.7"><span class="content">rivers cannot sweep it away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.8.7"><span class="content">If one were to give</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.8.7"><span class="content">all the wealth of one&#8217;s house for love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.8.7"><span class="content">it</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">8:7 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">he</span></span></span><span class="content"> would be utterly scorned.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">Friends</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="SNG.8.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">We have a little sister,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.8.8"><span class="content">and her breasts are not yet grown.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.8.8"><span class="content">What shall we do for our sister</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.8.8"><span class="content">on the day she is spoken for?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="SNG.8.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If she is a wall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.8.9"><span class="content">we will build towers of silver on her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.8.9"><span class="content">If she is a door,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.8.9"><span class="content">we will enclose her with panels of cedar.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">She</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="SNG.8.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I am a wall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.8.10"><span class="content">and my breasts are like towers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.8.10"><span class="content">Thus I have become in his eyes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.8.10"><span class="content">like one bringing contentment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="SNG.8.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Solomon had a vineyard in Baal Hamon;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.8.11"><span class="content">he let out his vineyard to tenants.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.8.11"><span class="content">Each was to bring for its fruit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.8.11"><span class="content">a thousand shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">8:11 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms; also in verse 12</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="SNG.8.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But my own vineyard is mine to give;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.8.12"><span class="content">the thousand shekels are for you, Solomon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.8.12"><span class="content">and two hundred</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">8:12 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 5 pounds or about 2.3 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> are for those who tend its fruit.</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">He</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="SNG.8.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You who dwell in the gardens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.8.13"><span class="content">with friends in attendance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.8.13"><span class="content">let me hear your voice!</span></span></div><div class="sp"><span class="heading">She</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="SNG.8.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Come away, my beloved,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.8.14"><span class="content">and be like a gazelle</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.8.14"><span class="content">or like a young stag</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="SNG.8.14"><span class="content">on the spice-laden mountains.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="3JN.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The elder,</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="3JN.1.1"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="3JN.1.1"><span class="content">To my dear friend Gaius, whom I love in the truth.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="3JN.1.1"></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="3JN.1.1"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="3JN.1.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="3JN.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="3JN.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">It gave me great joy when some believers came and testified about your faithfulness to the truth, telling how you continue to walk in it. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="3JN.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="3JN.1.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="3JN.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers and sisters,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brothers and sisters </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphoi</span>) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God&#8217;s family.</span></span></span><span class="content"> even though they are strangers to you. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="3JN.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They have told the church about your love. Please send them on their way in a manner that honors God. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="3JN.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">It was for the sake of the Name that they went out, receiving no help from the pagans. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="3JN.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">We ought therefore to show hospitality to such people so that we may work together for the truth.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="3JN.1.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="3JN.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not welcome us. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="3JN.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So when I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, spreading malicious nonsense about us. Not satisfied with that, he even refuses to welcome other believers. He also stops those who want to do so and puts them out of the church.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="3JN.1.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="3JN.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="3JN.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Demetrius is well spoken of by everyone&#8212;and even by the truth itself. We also speak well of him, and you know that our testimony is true.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="3JN.1.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="3JN.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I have much to write you, but I do not want to do so with pen and ink. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="3JN.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="3JN.1.14"></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="3JN.1.14"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="3JN.1.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="3JN.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Peace to you. The friends here send their greetings. Greet the friends there by name.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">1</div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JUD.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James,</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JUD.1.1"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JUD.1.1"><span class="content">To those who have been called, who are loved in God the Father and kept for</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">by</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">in</span></span></span><span class="content"> Jesus Christ:</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JUD.1.1"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JUD.1.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JUD.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Sin and Doom of Ungodly People</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JUD.1.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JUD.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God&#8217;s holy people. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JUD.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">individuals who were marked out for condemnation</span></span></span><span class="content"> long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JUD.1.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JUD.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:5 </span><span class="ft">Some early manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Jesus</span></span></span><span class="content"> at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JUD.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling&#8212;these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JUD.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JUD.1.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JUD.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In the very same way, on the strength of their dreams these ungodly people pollute their own bodies, reject authority and heap abuse on celestial beings. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JUD.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not himself dare to condemn him for slander but said, &#8220;The Lord rebuke you!&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:9 </span><span class="ft">Jude is alluding to the Jewish Testament of Moses (approximately the first century <span class="sc">a.d.</span>).</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JUD.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct&#8212;as irrational animals do&#8212;will destroy them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JUD.1.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JUD.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into Balaam&#8217;s error; they have been destroyed in Korah&#8217;s rebellion.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JUD.1.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JUD.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm&#8212;shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted&#8212;twice dead. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JUD.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JUD.1.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JUD.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: &#8220;See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JUD.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">to judge everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:15 </span><span class="ft">From the Jewish First Book of Enoch (approximately the first century <span class="sc">b.c.</span>)</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JUD.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">These people are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Call to Persevere</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JUD.1.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JUD.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JUD.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They said to you, &#8220;In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JUD.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JUD.1.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JUD.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JUD.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">keep yourselves in God&#8217;s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JUD.1.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JUD.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Be merciful to those who doubt; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JUD.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">save others by snatching them from the fire; to others show mercy, mixed with fear&#8212;hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:23 </span><span class="ft">The Greek manuscripts of these verses vary at several points.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Doxology</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JUD.1.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JUD.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JUD.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.</span></span></div>
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