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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="JDG.9.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">The next day the people of Shechem went out to the fields, and this was reported to Abimelek. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="JDG.9.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">So he took his men, divided them into three companies and set an ambush in the fields. When he saw the people coming out of the city, he rose to attack them. </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="JDG.9.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">Abimelek and the companies with him rushed forward to a position at the entrance of the city gate. Then two companies attacked those in the fields and struck them down. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JDG.9.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">All that day Abimelek pressed his attack against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he destroyed the city and scattered salt over it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="JDG.9.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="JDG.9.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">On hearing this, the citizens in the tower of Shechem went into the stronghold of the temple of El-Berith. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="JDG.9.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">When Abimelek heard that they had assembled there, </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="JDG.9.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">he and all his men went up Mount Zalmon. He took an ax and cut off some branches, which he lifted to his shoulders. He ordered the men with him, &#8220;Quick! Do what you have seen me do!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="JDG.9.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">So all the men cut branches and followed Abimelek. They piled them against the stronghold and set it on fire with the people still inside. So all the people in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women, also died.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="JDG.9.49"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v50" data-usfm="JDG.9.50"><span class="label">50</span><span class="content">Next Abimelek went to Thebez and besieged it and captured it. </span></span><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="JDG.9.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">Inside the city, however, was a strong tower, to which all the men and women&#8212;all the people of the city&#8212;had fled. They had locked themselves in and climbed up on the tower roof. </span></span><span class="verse v52" data-usfm="JDG.9.52"><span class="label">52</span><span class="content">Abimelek went to the tower and attacked it. But as he approached the entrance to the tower to set it on fire, </span></span><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="JDG.9.53"><span class="label">53</span><span class="content">a woman dropped an upper millstone on his head and cracked his skull.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v53" data-usfm="JDG.9.53"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v54" data-usfm="JDG.9.54"><span class="label">54</span><span class="content">Hurriedly he called to his armor-bearer, &#8220;Draw your sword and kill me, so that they can&#8217;t say, &#8216;A woman killed him.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; So his servant ran him through, and he died. </span></span><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="JDG.9.55"><span class="label">55</span><span class="content">When the Israelites saw that Abimelek was dead, they went home.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v55" data-usfm="JDG.9.55"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v56" data-usfm="JDG.9.56"><span class="label">56</span><span class="content">Thus God repaid the wickedness that Abimelek had done to his father by murdering his seventy brothers. </span></span><span class="verse v57" data-usfm="JDG.9.57"><span class="label">57</span><span class="content">God also made the people of Shechem pay for all their wickedness. The curse of Jotham son of Jerub-Baal came on them.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Tola</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After the time of Abimelek, a man of Issachar named Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He led</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:2 </span><span class="ft">Traditionally </span><span class="fqa">judged</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 3</span></span></span><span class="content"> Israel twenty-three years; then he died, and was buried in Shamir.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jair</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.10.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He was followed by Jair of Gilead, who led Israel twenty-two years. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He had thirty sons, who rode thirty donkeys. They controlled thirty towns in Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth Jair.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">called the settlements of Jair</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jephthah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. They served the Baals and the Ashtoreths, and the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites and the gods of the Philistines. And because the Israelites forsook the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and no longer served him, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">he became angry with them. He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and the Ammonites, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">who that year shattered and crushed them. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites on the east side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin and Ephraim; Israel was in great distress. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then the Israelites cried out to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;We have sinned against you, forsaking our God and serving the Baals.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.10.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> replied, &#8220;When the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines, </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">the Sidonians, the Amalekites and the Maonites</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:12 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Midianites</span></span></span><span class="content"> oppressed you and you cried to me for help, did I not save you from their hands? </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But you have forsaken me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you when you are in trouble!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.10.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But the Israelites said to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;We have sinned. Do with us whatever you think best, but please rescue us now.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then they got rid of the foreign gods among them and served the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. And he could bear Israel&#8217;s misery no longer.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.10.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When the Ammonites were called to arms and camped in Gilead, the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The leaders of the people of Gilead said to each other, &#8220;Whoever will take the lead in attacking the Ammonites will be head over all who live in Gilead.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">76</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 76</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 76:1-12 is numbered 76:2-13.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph. A song.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.76.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">God is renowned in Judah;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.76.1"><span class="content">in Israel his name is great.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.76.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.76.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">His tent is in Salem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.76.2"><span class="content">his dwelling place in Zion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.76.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.76.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">There he broke the flashing arrows,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.76.3"><span class="content">the shields and the swords, the weapons of war.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">76:3 </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 verse 9.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.76.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.76.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You are radiant with light,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.76.4"><span class="content">more majestic than mountains rich with game.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.76.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.76.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The valiant lie plundered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.76.5"><span class="content">they sleep their last sleep;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.76.5"><span class="content">not one of the warriors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.76.5"><span class="content">can lift his hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.76.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.76.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">At your rebuke, God of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.76.6"><span class="content">both horse and chariot lie still.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.76.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.76.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">It is you alone who are to be feared.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.76.7"><span class="content">Who can stand before you when you are angry?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.76.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.76.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">From heaven you pronounced judgment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.76.8"><span class="content">and the land feared and was quiet&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.76.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.76.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">when you, God, rose up to judge,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.76.9"><span class="content">to save all the afflicted of the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.76.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.76.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Surely your wrath against mankind brings you praise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.76.10"><span class="content">and the survivors of your wrath are restrained.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">76:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Surely the wrath of mankind brings you praise, / and with the remainder of wrath you arm yourself</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.76.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.76.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Make vows to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God and fulfill them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.76.11"><span class="content">let all the neighboring lands</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.76.11"><span class="content">bring gifts to the One to be feared.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.76.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.76.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He breaks the spirit of rulers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.76.12"><span class="content">he is feared by the kings of the earth.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">77</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 77</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 77:1-20 is numbered 77:2-21.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. For Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A psalm.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.77.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I cried out to God for help;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.77.1"><span class="content">I cried out to God to hear me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.77.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.77.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When I was in distress, I sought the Lord;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.77.2"><span class="content">at night I stretched out untiring hands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.77.2"><span class="content">and I would not be comforted.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.77.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.77.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I remembered you, God, and I groaned;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.77.3"><span class="content">I meditated, and my spirit grew faint.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">77:3 </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 9 and 15.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.77.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.77.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You kept my eyes from closing;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.77.4"><span class="content">I was too troubled to speak.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.77.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.77.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I thought about the former days,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.77.5"><span class="content">the years of long ago;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.77.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.77.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I remembered my songs in the night.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.77.6"><span class="content">My heart meditated and my spirit asked:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.77.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.77.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Will the Lord reject forever?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.77.7"><span class="content">Will he never show his favor again?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.77.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.77.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Has his unfailing love vanished forever?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.77.8"><span class="content">Has his promise failed for all time?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.77.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.77.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Has God forgotten to be merciful?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.77.9"><span class="content">Has he in anger withheld his compassion?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.77.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.77.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then I thought, &#8220;To this I will appeal:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.77.10"><span class="content">the years when the Most High stretched out his right hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.77.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.77.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I will remember the deeds of the </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.77.11"><span class="content">yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.77.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.77.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I will consider all your works</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.77.12"><span class="content">and meditate on all your mighty deeds.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.77.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.77.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Your ways, God, are holy.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.77.13"><span class="content">What god is as great as our God?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.77.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.77.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">You are the God who performs miracles;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.77.14"><span class="content">you display your power among the peoples.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.77.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.77.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">With your mighty arm you redeemed your people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.77.15"><span class="content">the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.77.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.77.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The waters saw you, God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.77.16"><span class="content">the waters saw you and writhed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.77.16"><span class="content">the very depths were convulsed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.77.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.77.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The clouds poured down water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.77.17"><span class="content">the heavens resounded with thunder;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.77.17"><span class="content">your arrows flashed back and forth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.77.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.77.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.77.18"><span class="content">your lightning lit up the world;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.77.18"><span class="content">the earth trembled and quaked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.77.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.77.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Your path led through the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.77.19"><span class="content">your way through the mighty waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.77.19"><span class="content">though your footprints were not seen.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.77.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.77.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You led your people like a flock</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.77.20"><span class="content">by the hand of Moses and Aaron.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">28</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul Ashore on Malta</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.28.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Once safely on shore, we found out that the island was called Malta. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.28.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The islanders showed us unusual kindness. They built a fire and welcomed us all because it was raining and cold. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.28.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and, as he put it on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.28.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When the islanders saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, &#8220;This man must be a murderer; for though he escaped from the sea, the goddess Justice has not allowed him to live.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.28.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no ill effects. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.28.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The people expected him to swell up or suddenly fall dead; but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.28.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.28.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">There was an estate nearby that belonged to Publius, the chief official of the island. He welcomed us to his home and showed us generous hospitality for three days. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.28.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">His father was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him and, after prayer, placed his hands on him and healed him. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.28.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">When this had happened, the rest of the sick on the island came and were cured. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.28.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They honored us in many ways; and when we were ready to sail, they furnished us with the supplies we needed.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Arrival at Rome</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.28.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.28.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">After three months we put out to sea in a ship that had wintered in the island&#8212;it was an Alexandrian ship with the figurehead of the twin gods Castor and Pollux. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.28.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">We put in at Syracuse and stayed there three days. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.28.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">From there we set sail and arrived at Rhegium. The next day the south wind came up, and on the following day we reached Puteoli. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.28.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">There we found some brothers and sisters who invited us to spend a week with them. And so we came to Rome. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.28.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The brothers and sisters there had heard that we were coming, and they traveled as far as the Forum of Appius and the Three Taverns to meet us. At the sight of these people Paul thanked God and was encouraged. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.28.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When we got to Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself, with a soldier to guard him.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul Preaches at Rome Under Guard</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.28.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.28.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Three days later he called together the local Jewish leaders. When they had assembled, Paul said to them: &#8220;My brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or against the customs of our ancestors, I was arrested in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.28.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They examined me and wanted to release me, because I was not guilty of any crime deserving death. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.28.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The Jews objected, so I was compelled to make an appeal to Caesar. I certainly did not intend to bring any charge against my own people. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.28.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">For this reason I have asked to see you and talk with you. It is because of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.28.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.28.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They replied, &#8220;We have not received any letters from Judea concerning you, and none of our people who have come from there has reported or said anything bad about you. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.28.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But we want to hear what your views are, for we know that people everywhere are talking against this sect.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.28.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.28.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">They arranged to meet Paul on a certain day, and came in even larger numbers to the place where he was staying. He witnessed to them from morning till evening, explaining about the kingdom of God, and from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets he tried to persuade them about Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.28.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Some were convinced by what he said, but others would not believe. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.28.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: &#8220;The Holy Spirit spoke the truth to your ancestors when he said through Isaiah the prophet:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.28.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.28.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Go to this people and say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.28.26"><span class="content">&#8220;You will be ever hearing but never understanding;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.28.26"><span class="content">you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.28.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.28.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">For this people&#8217;s heart has become calloused;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.28.27"><span class="content">they hardly hear with their ears,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.28.27"><span class="content">and they have closed their eyes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.28.27"><span class="content">Otherwise they might see with their eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.28.27"><span class="content">hear with their ears,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.28.27"><span class="content">understand with their hearts</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.28.27"><span class="content">and turn, and I would heal them.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:27 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 6:9,10 (see Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.28.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.28.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore I want you to know that God&#8217;s salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.28.29"><span class="label">[29]</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:29 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts include here </span><span class="fqa">After he said this, the Jews left, arguing vigorously among themselves.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.28.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.28.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">For two whole years Paul stayed there in his own rented house and welcomed all who came to see him. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.28.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">He proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ&#8212;with all boldness and without hindrance!</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ROM.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ROM.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">For since the creation of the world God&#8217;s invisible qualities&#8212;his eternal power and divine nature&#8212;have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ROM.1.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ROM.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ROM.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ROM.1.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ROM.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator&#8212;who is forever praised. Amen.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ROM.1.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ROM.1.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.1.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ROM.1.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ROM.1.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ROM.1.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ROM.1.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ROM.1.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ROM.1.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">Although they know God&#8217;s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.</span></span></div>
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