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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">An Axhead Floats</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2KI.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The company of the prophets said to Elisha, &#8220;Look, the place where we meet with you is too small for us. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2KI.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a pole; and let us build a place there for us to meet.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2KI.6.2"><span class="content">And he said, &#8220;Go.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2KI.6.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2KI.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then one of them said, &#8220;Won&#8217;t you please come with your servants?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2KI.6.3"><span class="content">&#8220;I will,&#8221; Elisha replied. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2KI.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">And he went with them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2KI.6.4"><span class="content">They went to the Jordan and began to cut down trees. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2KI.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axhead fell into the water. &#8220;Oh no, my lord!&#8221; he cried out. &#8220;It was borrowed!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2KI.6.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2KI.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The man of God asked, &#8220;Where did it fall?&#8221; When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and threw it there, and made the iron float. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2KI.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Lift it out,&#8221; he said. Then the man reached out his hand and took it.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Elisha Traps Blinded Arameans</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2KI.6.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2KI.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Now the king of Aram was at war with Israel. After conferring with his officers, he said, &#8220;I will set up my camp in such and such a place.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2KI.6.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2KI.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The man of God sent word to the king of Israel: &#8220;Beware of passing that place, because the Arameans are going down there.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2KI.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">So the king of Israel checked on the place indicated by the man of God. Time and again Elisha warned the king, so that he was on his guard in such places.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2KI.6.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2KI.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">This enraged the king of Aram. He summoned his officers and demanded of them, &#8220;Tell me! Which of us is on the side of the king of Israel?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2KI.6.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2KI.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;None of us, my lord the king,&#8221; said one of his officers, &#8220;but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2KI.6.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2KI.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go, find out where he is,&#8221; the king ordered, &#8220;so I can send men and capture him.&#8221; The report came back: &#8220;He is in Dothan.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2KI.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then he sent horses and chariots and a strong force there. They went by night and surrounded the city.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2KI.6.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2KI.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early the next morning, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. &#8220;Oh no, my lord! What shall we do?&#8221; the servant asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2KI.6.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2KI.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid,&#8221; the prophet answered. &#8220;Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2KI.6.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2KI.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And Elisha prayed, &#8220;Open his eyes, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, so that he may see.&#8221; Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> opened the servant&#8217;s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2KI.6.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2KI.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">As the enemy came down toward him, Elisha prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;Strike this army with blindness.&#8221; So he struck them with blindness, as Elisha had asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2KI.6.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2KI.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Elisha told them, &#8220;This is not the road and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will lead you to the man you are looking for.&#8221; And he led them to Samaria.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2KI.6.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2KI.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">After they entered the city, Elisha said, &#8220;</span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, open the eyes of these men so they can see.&#8221; Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> opened their eyes and they looked, and there they were, inside Samaria.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2KI.6.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.6.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, &#8220;Shall I kill them, my father? Shall I kill them?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.6.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2KI.6.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not kill them,&#8221; he answered. &#8220;Would you kill those you have captured with your own sword or bow? Set food and water before them so that they may eat and drink and then go back to their master.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.6.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So he prepared a great feast for them, and after they had finished eating and drinking, he sent them away, and they returned to their master. So the bands from Aram stopped raiding Israel&#8217;s territory.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Famine in Besieged Samaria</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.6.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2KI.6.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Some time later, Ben-Hadad king of Aram mobilized his entire army and marched up and laid siege to Samaria. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.6.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey&#8217;s head sold for eighty shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:25 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 2 pounds or about 920 grams</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver, and a quarter of a cab</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:25 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 1/4 pound or about 100 grams</span></span></span><span class="content"> of seed pods</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">of doves&#8217; dung</span></span></span><span class="content"> for five shekels.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:25 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 2 ounces or about 58 grams</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.6.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.6.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, &#8220;Help me, my lord the king!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.6.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2KI.6.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The king replied, &#8220;If the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor? From the winepress?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.6.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then he asked her, &#8220;What&#8217;s the matter?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.6.28"><span class="content">She answered, &#8220;This woman said to me, &#8216;Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we&#8217;ll eat my son.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.6.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, &#8216;Give up your son so we may eat him,&#8217; but she had hidden him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.6.29"></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2KI.6.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">When the king heard the woman&#8217;s words, he tore his robes. As he went along the wall, the people looked, and they saw that, under his robes, he had sackcloth on his body. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2KI.6.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">He said, &#8220;May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2KI.6.31"></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2KI.6.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, &#8220;Don&#8217;t you see how this murderer is sending someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold it shut against him. Is not the sound of his master&#8217;s footsteps behind him?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2KI.6.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">While he was still talking to them, the messenger came down to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2KI.6.33"><span class="content">The king said, &#8220;This disaster is from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. Why should I wait for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> any longer?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">140</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 140</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 140:1-13 is numbered 140:2-14.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.140.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Rescue me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, from evildoers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.140.1"><span class="content">protect me from the violent,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.140.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.140.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">who devise evil plans in their hearts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.140.2"><span class="content">and stir up war every day.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.140.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.140.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent&#8217;s;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.140.3"><span class="content">the poison of vipers is on their lips.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">140:3 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 5 and 8.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.140.3"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.140.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.140.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Keep me safe, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, from the hands of the wicked;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.140.4"><span class="content">protect me from the violent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.140.4"><span class="content">who devise ways to trip my feet.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.140.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.140.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The arrogant have hidden a snare for me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.140.5"><span class="content">they have spread out the cords of their net</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.140.5"><span class="content">and have set traps for me along my path.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.140.5"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.140.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.140.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I say to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;You are my God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.140.6"><span class="content">Hear, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my cry for mercy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.140.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.140.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, my strong deliverer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.140.7"><span class="content">you shield my head in the day of battle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.140.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.140.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Do not grant the wicked their desires, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.140.8"><span class="content">do not let their plans succeed.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.140.8"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.140.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.140.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Those who surround me proudly rear their heads;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.140.9"><span class="content">may the mischief of their lips engulf them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.140.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.140.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">May burning coals fall on them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.140.10"><span class="content">may they be thrown into the fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.140.10"><span class="content">into miry pits, never to rise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.140.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.140.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">May slanderers not be established in the land;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.140.11"><span class="content">may disaster hunt down the violent.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.140.11"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.140.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.140.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I know that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> secures justice for the poor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.140.12"><span class="content">and upholds the cause of the needy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.140.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.140.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Surely the righteous will praise your name,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.140.13"><span class="content">and the upright will live in your presence.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">141</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 141</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.141.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I call to you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, come quickly to me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.141.1"><span class="content">hear me when I call to you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.141.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.141.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">May my prayer be set before you like incense;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.141.2"><span class="content">may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.141.2"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.141.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.141.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Set a guard over my mouth, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.141.3"><span class="content">keep watch over the door of my lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.141.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.141.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.141.4"><span class="content">so that I take part in wicked deeds</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.141.4"><span class="content">along with those who are evildoers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.141.4"><span class="content">do not let me eat their delicacies.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.141.4"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.141.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.141.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Let a righteous man strike me&#8212;that is a kindness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.141.5"><span class="content">let him rebuke me&#8212;that is oil on my head.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.141.5"><span class="content">My head will not refuse it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.141.5"><span class="content">for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.141.5"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.141.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.141.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.141.6"><span class="content">and the wicked will learn that my words were well spoken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.141.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.141.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They will say, &#8220;As one plows and breaks up the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.141.7"><span class="content">so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of the grave.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.141.7"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.141.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.141.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But my eyes are fixed on you, Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.141.8"><span class="content">in you I take refuge&#8212;do not give me over to death.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.141.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.141.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Keep me safe from the traps set by evildoers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.141.9"><span class="content">from the snares they have laid for me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.141.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.141.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Let the wicked fall into their own nets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.141.10"><span class="content">while I pass by in safety.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">142</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 142</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 142:1-7 is numbered 142:2-8.</span></span></span></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 David. When he was in the cave. A prayer.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.142.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I cry aloud to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.142.1"><span class="content">I lift up my voice to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> for mercy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.142.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.142.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I pour out before him my complaint;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.142.2"><span class="content">before him I tell my trouble.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.142.2"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.142.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.142.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When my spirit grows faint within me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.142.3"><span class="content">it is you who watch over my way.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.142.3"><span class="content">In the path where I walk</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.142.3"><span class="content">people have hidden a snare for me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.142.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.142.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Look and see, there is no one at my right hand;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.142.4"><span class="content">no one is concerned for me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.142.4"><span class="content">I have no refuge;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.142.4"><span class="content">no one cares for my life.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.142.4"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.142.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.142.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I cry to you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.142.5"><span class="content">I say, &#8220;You are my refuge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.142.5"><span class="content">my portion in the land of the living.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.142.5"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.142.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.142.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Listen to my cry,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.142.6"><span class="content">for I am in desperate need;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.142.6"><span class="content">rescue me from those who pursue me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.142.6"><span class="content">for they are too strong for me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.142.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.142.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Set me free from my prison,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.142.7"><span class="content">that I may praise your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.142.7"><span class="content">Then the righteous will gather about me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.142.7"><span class="content">because of your goodness to me.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After this, Jesus went around in Galilee. He did not want</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:1 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">not have authority</span></span></span><span class="content"> to go about in Judea because the Jewish leaders there were looking for a way to kill him. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Jesus&#8217; brothers said to him, &#8220;Leave Galilee and go to Judea, so that your disciples there may see the works you do. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For even his own brothers did not believe in him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.7.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Therefore Jesus told them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;My time is not yet here; for you any time will do.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You go to the festival. I am not</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:8 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">not yet</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">going up to this festival, because my time has not yet fully come.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">After he had said this, he stayed in Galilee.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.7.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">However, after his brothers had left for the festival, he went also, not publicly, but in secret. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now at the festival the Jewish leaders were watching for Jesus and asking, &#8220;Where is he?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.7.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Among the crowds there was widespread whispering about him. Some said, &#8220;He is a good man.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.7.12"><span class="content">Others replied, &#8220;No, he deceives the people.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But no one would say anything publicly about him for fear of the leaders.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Teaches at the Festival</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.7.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Not until halfway through the festival did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The Jews there were amazed and asked, &#8220;How did this man get such learning without having been taught?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.7.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain personal glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.7.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;You are demon-possessed,&#8221; the crowd answered. &#8220;Who is trying to kill you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.7.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Jesus said to them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I did one miracle, and you are all amazed.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Now if a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing a man&#8217;s whole body on the Sabbath?</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Division Over Who Jesus Is</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.7.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t this the man they are trying to kill? </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.7.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Here he is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying a word to him. Have the authorities really concluded that he is the Messiah? </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.7.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But we know where this man is from; when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.7.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.7.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own authority, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him,</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.7.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">but I know him because I am from him and he sent me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.7.29"></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.7.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">At this they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.7.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Still, many in the crowd believed in him. They said, &#8220;When the Messiah comes, will he perform more signs than this man?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.7.31"></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="EPH.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="EPH.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="EPH.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="EPH.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="EPH.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">one Lord, one faith, one baptism; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EPH.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="EPH.4.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="EPH.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EPH.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">This is why it</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:8 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">God</span></span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EPH.4.8"><span class="content">&#8220;When he ascended on high,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EPH.4.8"><span class="content">he took many captives</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EPH.4.8"><span class="content">and gave gifts to his people.&#8221;</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="PSA.68.18">Psalm 68:18</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="EPH.4.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="EPH.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">(What does &#8220;he ascended&#8221; mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the depths of the earth</span></span></span><span class="content">? </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="EPH.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.) </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="EPH.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="EPH.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EPH.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="EPH.4.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="EPH.4.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="EPH.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="EPH.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.</span></span></div>
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