tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-315344982024-03-13T11:16:24.643-04:00But if not ...Being a site for the discussion of the important things:
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The title is from Daniel 3:17-18 ''..our G-d whom we serve is able to deliver us .... and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. <b> But if not </b>, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods .....''
I like the attitude.tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.comBlogger4099125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-26525497938785362852023-10-03T19:35:00.002-04:002023-10-03T19:35:52.073-04:00Today's Readings and Stuff -- Tuesday, 03 October 2023<p> And we are well into the new month. (insert a sad face here).</p><p>I began the day with calls to the one doctor, verifying that I was still OK to go in for some "labs" and where to go for same. Better yet, they were not what they call "fasting" tests, so I could actually grab a mug of coffee and munch something before heading off the the clinic. There they stuck needles in my arm and drew blood, and that was it. Worry had been not needed. Good!</p><p>So, the plan is that next week I go in -- courtesy of a VERY helpful hand from the church -- to have a high-tech scan done of me. Always a bit scary, these things, and one can not help but stew a bit over the potential issues that might be revealed. But it's out of my hands. So we'll trundle on.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>==================</p><p>====================</p><p><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Jeremiah 1</span></u></b></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-1-1"><b>1</b> The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who <i>were</i> in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, </span><span class="text Jer-1-2" id="en-NKJV-18949"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>to whom the word of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. </span><span class="text Jer-1-3" id="en-NKJV-18950"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-1-4" id="en-NKJV-18951"><span style="font-size: small;">The Prophet Is Called</span></span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-1-4"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Then the word of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> came to me, saying:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-1-5" id="en-NKJV-18952" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>“<i><b>Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;</b></i></span><i><b><br /><span class="text Jer-1-5" style="position: relative;">Before you were born I sanctified<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18952a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18952a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%201&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18952a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> you;</span><br /></b><span class="text Jer-1-5" style="position: relative;"><b>I <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18952b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18952b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%201&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18952b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>ordained you a prophet to the nations.</b>”</span></i></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-1-6" id="en-NKJV-18953"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>Then said I:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-1-6" style="position: relative;">“Ah, Lord <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">God</span>!</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-6" style="position: relative;">Behold, I cannot speak, for I <i>am</i> a youth.”</span></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-1-7" id="en-NKJV-18954"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>But the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> said to me:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-1-7" style="position: relative;">“<b><i>Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’</i></b></span><b><i><br /><span class="text Jer-1-7" style="position: relative;">For you shall go to all to whom I send you,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-7" style="position: relative;">And whatever I command you, you shall speak.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-8" id="en-NKJV-18955" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Do not be afraid of their faces,</span><br /></i></b><span class="text Jer-1-8" style="position: relative;"><b><i>For I am with you to deliver you,</i></b>” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>.</span></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-1-9" id="en-NKJV-18956"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>Then the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> said to me:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-1-9" style="position: relative;">“B<b><i>ehold, I have put My words in your mouth.</i></b></span><b><i><br /><span class="text Jer-1-10" id="en-NKJV-18957" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-10" style="position: relative;">To root out and to pull down,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-10" style="position: relative;">To destroy and to throw down,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-10" style="position: relative;">To build and to plant.”</span></i></b></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-1-11" id="en-NKJV-18958"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Moreover the word of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> came to me, saying, “<b><i>Jeremiah, what do you see?”</i></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-1-11">And I said, “I see a <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18958c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18958c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%201&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18958c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>branch of an almond tree.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-1-12" id="en-NKJV-18959"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Then the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> said to me, “<b><i>You have seen well, for I am <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18959d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18959d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%201&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18959d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>ready to perform My word.”</i></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-1-13" id="en-NKJV-18960"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>And the word of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> came to me the second time, saying, “<b><i>What do you see?</i></b>”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-1-13">And I said, “I see a boiling pot, and it is facing away from the north.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-1-14" id="en-NKJV-18961"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>Then the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> said to me:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><b><i><span class="text Jer-1-14" style="position: relative;">“Out of the north calamity shall break forth</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-14" style="position: relative;">On all the inhabitants of the land.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-15" id="en-NKJV-18962" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>For behold, I am calling</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-15" style="position: relative;">All the families of the kingdoms of the north,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-15" style="position: relative;">“They shall come and each one set his throne</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-15" style="position: relative;">At the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-15" style="position: relative;">Against all its walls all around,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-15" style="position: relative;">And against all the cities of Judah.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-16" id="en-NKJV-18963" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>I will utter My judgments</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-16" style="position: relative;">Against them concerning all their wickedness,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-16" style="position: relative;">Because they have forsaken Me,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-16" style="position: relative;">Burned incense to other gods,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-16" style="position: relative;">And worshiped the works of their own hands.</span></i></b></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><b><i><span class="text Jer-1-17" id="en-NKJV-18964" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>“Therefore prepare yourself and arise,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-17" style="position: relative;">And speak to them all that I command you.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-17" style="position: relative;">Do not be dismayed before their faces,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-17" style="position: relative;">Lest I dismay you before them.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-18" id="en-NKJV-18965" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>For behold, I have made you this day</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-18" style="position: relative;">A fortified city and an iron pillar,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-18" style="position: relative;">And bronze walls against the whole land—</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-18" style="position: relative;">Against the kings of Judah,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-18" style="position: relative;">Against its princes,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-18" style="position: relative;">Against its priests,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-18" style="position: relative;">And against the people of the land.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-19" id="en-NKJV-18966" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>They will fight against you,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-1-19" style="position: relative;">But they shall not prevail against you.</span><br /></i></b><span class="text Jer-1-19" style="position: relative;"><b><i>For I am with you,</i></b>” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>, “to deliver you.”</span></p></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Jeremiah 2</u></b></span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-2-1"><b>1 </b> Moreover the word of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> came to me, saying, </span><span class="text Jer-2-2" id="en-NKJV-18968"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>“<b><i>Go and cry in the hearing of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>:</i></b></span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><b><i><span class="text Jer-2-2" style="position: relative;">“I remember you,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-2" style="position: relative;">The kindness of your youth,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-2" style="position: relative;">The love of your betrothal,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-2" style="position: relative;">When you <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18968a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18968a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18968a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>went after Me in the wilderness,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-2" style="position: relative;">In a land not sown.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-3" id="en-NKJV-18969" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>Israel was holiness to the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-3" style="position: relative;">The firstfruits of His increase.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-3" style="position: relative;">All that devour him will offend;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-3" style="position: relative;">Disaster will come upon them,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>.’ ”</span></i></b></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><b><i><span class="text Jer-2-4" id="en-NKJV-18970"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Hear the word of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>, O house of Jacob and all the families of the house of Israel. </span><span class="text Jer-2-5" id="en-NKJV-18971"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Thus says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>:</span></i></b></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><b><i><span class="text Jer-2-5" style="position: relative;">“What injustice have your fathers found in Me,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-5" style="position: relative;">That they have gone far from Me,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-5" style="position: relative;">Have followed <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18971b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18971b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18971b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>idols,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-5" style="position: relative;">And have become idolaters?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-6" id="en-NKJV-18972" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>Neither did they say, ‘Where is the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-6" style="position: relative;">Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-6" style="position: relative;">Who led us through the wilderness,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-6" style="position: relative;">Through a land of deserts and pits,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-6" style="position: relative;">Through a land of drought and the shadow of death,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-6" style="position: relative;">Through a land that no one crossed</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-6" style="position: relative;">And where no one dwelt?’</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-7" id="en-NKJV-18973" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>I brought you into a bountiful country,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-7" style="position: relative;">To eat its fruit and its goodness.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-7" style="position: relative;">But when you entered, you defiled My land</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-7" style="position: relative;">And made My heritage an abomination.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-8" id="en-NKJV-18974" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>The priests did not say, ‘Where is the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>?’</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-8" style="position: relative;">And those who handle the law did not know Me;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-8" style="position: relative;">The rulers also transgressed against Me;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-8" style="position: relative;">The prophets prophesied by Baal,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-8" style="position: relative;">And walked after things that do not profit.</span></i></b></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><b><i><span class="text Jer-2-9" id="en-NKJV-18975" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>“Therefore I will yet <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18975c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18975c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18975c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>bring charges against you,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-9" style="position: relative;">“And against your children’s children I will bring charges.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-10" id="en-NKJV-18976" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>For pass beyond the coasts of <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18976d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18976d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18976d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>Cyprus and see,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-10" style="position: relative;">Send to <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18976e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18976e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18976e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>Kedar and consider diligently,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-10" style="position: relative;">And see if there has been such a thing.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-11" id="en-NKJV-18977" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Has a nation changed its gods,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-11" style="position: relative;">Which are not gods?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-11" style="position: relative;">But My people have changed their Glory</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-11" style="position: relative;">For what does not profit.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-12" id="en-NKJV-18978" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Be astonished, O heavens, at this,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-12" style="position: relative;">And be horribly afraid;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-12" style="position: relative;">Be very desolate,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-13" id="en-NKJV-18979" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>“For My people have committed two evils:</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-13" style="position: relative;">They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-13" style="position: relative;">And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.</span></i></b></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><b><i><span class="text Jer-2-14" id="en-NKJV-18980" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>“Is Israel a servant?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-14" style="position: relative;">Is he a homeborn slave?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-14" style="position: relative;">Why is he plundered?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-15" id="en-NKJV-18981" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>The young lions roared at him, and growled;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-15" style="position: relative;">They made his land waste;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-15" style="position: relative;">His cities are burned, without inhabitant.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-16" id="en-NKJV-18982" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>Also the people of <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18982f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18982f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18982f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>Noph and Tahpanhes</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-16" style="position: relative;">Have <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18982g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18982g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18982g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>broken the crown of your head.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-17" id="en-NKJV-18983" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>Have you not brought this on yourself,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-17" style="position: relative;">In that you have forsaken the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> your God</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-17" style="position: relative;">When He led you in the way?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-18" id="en-NKJV-18984" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>And now why take the road to Egypt,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-18" style="position: relative;">To drink the waters of Sihor?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-18" style="position: relative;">Or why take the road to Assyria,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-18" style="position: relative;">To drink the waters of <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18984h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18984h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18984h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span>the River?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-19" id="en-NKJV-18985" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>Your own wickedness will correct you,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-19" style="position: relative;">And your backslidings will rebuke you.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-19" style="position: relative;">Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-19" style="position: relative;">That you have forsaken the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> your God,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-19" style="position: relative;">And the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18985i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18985i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18985i" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span>fear of Me is not in you,”</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-19" style="position: relative;">Says the Lord <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">God</span> of hosts.</span></i></b></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><b><i><span class="text Jer-2-20" id="en-NKJV-18986" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>“For of old I have broken your yoke and burst your bonds;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-20" style="position: relative;">And you said, ‘I will not <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18986j" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18986j" title="See footnote j">j</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18986j" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote j">j</a>]</span>transgress,’</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-20" style="position: relative;">When on every high hill and under every green tree</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-20" style="position: relative;">You lay down, playing the harlot.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-21" id="en-NKJV-18987" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-21" style="position: relative;">How then have you turned before Me</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-21" style="position: relative;">Into the degenerate plant of an alien vine?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-22" id="en-NKJV-18988" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-22" style="position: relative;">Yet your iniquity is marked<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18988k" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18988k" title="See footnote k">k</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18988k" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote k">k</a>]</span> before Me,” says the Lord <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">God</span>.</span></i></b></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><b><i><span class="text Jer-2-23" id="en-NKJV-18989" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>“How can you say, ‘I am not <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18989l" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18989l" title="See footnote l">l</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18989l" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote l">l</a>]</span>polluted,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-23" style="position: relative;">I have not gone after the Baals’?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-23" style="position: relative;">See your way in the valley;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-23" style="position: relative;">Know what you have done:</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-23" style="position: relative;">You are a swift dromedary breaking loose in her ways,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-24" id="en-NKJV-18990" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>A wild donkey used to the wilderness,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-24" style="position: relative;">That sniffs at the wind in her desire;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-24" style="position: relative;">In her time of mating, who can turn her away?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-24" style="position: relative;">All those who seek her will not weary themselves;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-24" style="position: relative;">In her month they will find her.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-25" id="en-NKJV-18991" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-25" style="position: relative;">But you said, ‘There is no hope.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-25" style="position: relative;">No! For I have loved aliens, and after them I will go.’</span></i></b></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><b><i><span class="text Jer-2-26" id="en-NKJV-18992" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>“As the thief is ashamed when he is found out,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-26" style="position: relative;">So is the house of Israel ashamed;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-26" style="position: relative;">They and their kings and their princes, and their priests and their prophets,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-27" id="en-NKJV-18993" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>Saying to a tree, ‘You are my father,’</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-27" style="position: relative;">And to a stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-27" style="position: relative;">For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-27" style="position: relative;">But in the time of their trouble</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-27" style="position: relative;">They will say, ‘Arise and save us.’</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-28" id="en-NKJV-18994" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-28" style="position: relative;">Let them arise,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-28" style="position: relative;">If they can save you in the time of your <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18994m" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18994m" title="See footnote m">m</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18994m" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote m">m</a>]</span>trouble;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-28" style="position: relative;">For according to the number of your cities</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-28" style="position: relative;">Are your gods, O Judah.</span></i></b></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><b><i><span class="text Jer-2-29" id="en-NKJV-18995" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>“Why will you plead with Me?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-29" style="position: relative;">You all have transgressed against Me,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-30" id="en-NKJV-18996" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>“In vain I have chastened your children;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-30" style="position: relative;">They received no correction.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-30" style="position: relative;">Your sword has devoured your prophets</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-30" style="position: relative;">Like a destroying lion.</span></i></b></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><b><i><span class="text Jer-2-31" id="en-NKJV-18997" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span>“O generation, see the word of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>!</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-31" style="position: relative;">Have I been a wilderness to Israel,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-31" style="position: relative;">Or a land of darkness?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-31" style="position: relative;">Why do My people say, ‘We <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18997n" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18997n" title="See footnote n">n</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18997n" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote n">n</a>]</span>are lords;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-31" style="position: relative;">We will come no more to You’?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-32" id="en-NKJV-18998" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">32 </span>Can a virgin forget her ornaments,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-32" style="position: relative;">Or a bride her attire?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-32" style="position: relative;">Yet My people have forgotten Me days without number.</span></i></b></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><b><i><span class="text Jer-2-33" id="en-NKJV-18999" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">33 </span>“Why do you beautify your way to seek love?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-33" style="position: relative;">Therefore you have also taught</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-33" style="position: relative;">The wicked women your ways.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-34" id="en-NKJV-19000" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">34 </span>Also on your skirts is found</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-34" style="position: relative;">The blood of the lives of the poor innocents.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-34" style="position: relative;">I have not found it by <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-19000o" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-19000o" title="See footnote o">o</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-19000o" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote o">o</a>]</span>secret search,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-34" style="position: relative;">But plainly on all these things.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-35" id="en-NKJV-19001" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">35 </span>Yet you say, ‘Because I am innocent,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-35" style="position: relative;">Surely His anger shall turn from me.’</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-35" style="position: relative;">Behold, I will plead My case against you,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-35" style="position: relative;">Because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-36" id="en-NKJV-19002" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">36 </span>Why do you gad about so much to change your way?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-36" style="position: relative;">Also you shall be ashamed of Egypt as you were ashamed of Assyria.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-37" id="en-NKJV-19003" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">37 </span>Indeed you will go forth from him</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-37" style="position: relative;">With your hands on your head;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-37" style="position: relative;">For the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> has rejected your trusted allies,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-2-37" style="position: relative;">And you will not prosper by them.</span></i></b></p></div><p><br /></p><p>=======================</p><p><b><u>Proverbs 26</u></b></p><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Prov-26-1" style="position: relative;"><b style="font-size: 1.6rem;"><i>1</i></b><span style="font-size: 1.6rem;"> </span>As snow in summer and rain in harvest,</span></span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-1" style="position: relative;">So honor is not fitting for a fool.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-26-2" id="en-NKJV-17144" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-2" style="position: relative;">So a curse without cause shall not alight.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-26-3" id="en-NKJV-17145" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>A whip for the horse,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-3" style="position: relative;">A bridle for the donkey,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-3" style="position: relative;">And a rod for the fool’s back.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-4" id="en-NKJV-17146" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Do not answer a fool according to his folly,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-4" style="position: relative;">Lest you also be like him.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-5" id="en-NKJV-17147" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Answer a fool according to his folly,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-5" style="position: relative;">Lest he be wise in his own eyes.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-6" id="en-NKJV-17148" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>He who sends a message by the hand of a fool</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-6" style="position: relative;">Cuts off <i>his own</i> feet <i>and</i> drinks violence.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-7" id="en-NKJV-17149" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span><i>Like</i> the legs of the lame that hang limp</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-7" style="position: relative;"><i>Is</i> a proverb in the mouth of fools.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-8" id="en-NKJV-17150" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Like one who binds a stone in a sling</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-8" style="position: relative;"><i>Is</i> he who gives honor to a fool.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-9" id="en-NKJV-17151" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span><i>Like</i> a thorn <i>that</i> goes into the hand of a drunkard</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-9" style="position: relative;"><i>Is</i> a proverb in the mouth of fools.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-10" id="en-NKJV-17152" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17152a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17152a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2026&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17152a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>The great <i>God</i> who formed everything</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-10" style="position: relative;">Gives the fool <i>his</i> hire and the transgressor <i>his</i> wages.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-11" id="en-NKJV-17153" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>As a dog returns to his own vomit,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-11" style="position: relative;"><i>So</i> a fool repeats his folly.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-12" id="en-NKJV-17154" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Do you see a man wise in his own eyes?</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-12" style="position: relative;"><i>There is</i> more hope for a fool than for him.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-26-13" id="en-NKJV-17155" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>The lazy <i>man</i> says, “<i>There is</i> a lion in the road!</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-13" style="position: relative;">A fierce lion <i>is</i> in the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17155b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17155b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2026&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17155b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>streets!”</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-14" id="en-NKJV-17156" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span><i>As</i> a door turns on its hinges,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-14" style="position: relative;">So <i>does</i> the lazy <i>man</i> on his bed.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-15" id="en-NKJV-17157" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>The lazy <i>man</i> buries his hand in the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17157c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17157c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2026&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17157c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>bowl;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-15" style="position: relative;">It wearies him to bring it back to his mouth.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-16" id="en-NKJV-17158" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>The lazy <i>man is</i> wiser in his own eyes</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-16" style="position: relative;">Than seven men who can answer sensibly.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-26-17" id="en-NKJV-17159" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>He who passes by <i>and</i> meddles in a quarrel not his own</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-17" style="position: relative;"><i>Is like</i> one who takes a dog by the ears.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-26-18" id="en-NKJV-17160" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-19" id="en-NKJV-17161" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span><i>Is</i> the man <i>who</i> deceives his neighbor,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-19" style="position: relative;">And says, “I was only joking!”</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-26-20" id="en-NKJV-17162" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>Where <i>there is</i> no wood, the fire goes out;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-20" style="position: relative;">And where <i>there is</i> no <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17162d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17162d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2026&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17162d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>talebearer, strife ceases.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-21" id="en-NKJV-17163" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span><i>As</i> charcoal <i>is</i> to burning coals, and wood to fire,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-21" style="position: relative;">So <i>is</i> a contentious man to kindle strife.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-22" id="en-NKJV-17164" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>The words of a <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17164e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17164e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2026&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17164e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>talebearer <i>are</i> like <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17164f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17164f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2026&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17164f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>tasty trifles,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-22" style="position: relative;">And they go down into the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17164g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17164g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2026&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17164g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>inmost body.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-26-23" id="en-NKJV-17165" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>Fervent lips with a wicked heart</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-23" style="position: relative;"><i>Are like</i> earthenware covered with silver dross.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-26-24" id="en-NKJV-17166" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>He who hates, disguises <i>it</i> with his lips,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-24" style="position: relative;">And lays up deceit within himself;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-25" id="en-NKJV-17167" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>When <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17167h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17167h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2026&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17167h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span>he speaks kindly, do not believe him,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-25" style="position: relative;">For <i>there are</i> seven abominations in his heart;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-26" id="en-NKJV-17168" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span><i>Though his</i> hatred is covered by deceit,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-26" style="position: relative;">His wickedness will be revealed before the assembly.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-26-27" id="en-NKJV-17169" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>Whoever digs a pit will fall into it,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-27" style="position: relative;">And he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-26-28" id="en-NKJV-17170" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>A lying tongue hates <i>those who are</i> crushed by it,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-26-28" style="position: relative;">And a flattering mouth works ruin.</span></p></div><p><br /></p><p>======================</p><p><b><u>2nd Timothy 1</u></b></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Tim-1-1"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">1</span></b> </i> Paul, an apostle of <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29811a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29811a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Timothy%201&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29811a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,</span></p><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Tim-1-2" id="en-NKJV-29812"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>To Timothy, a beloved son:</span></p><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Tim-1-2">Grace, mercy, <i>and</i> peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Tim-1-3" id="en-NKJV-29813">Timothy’s Faith and Heritage</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Tim-1-3"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as <i>my</i> forefathers <i>did,</i> as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day, </span><span class="text 2Tim-1-4" id="en-NKJV-29814"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled with joy, </span><span class="text 2Tim-1-5" id="en-NKJV-29815"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>when I call to remembrance the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29815b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29815b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Timothy%201&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29815b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also. </span><span class="text 2Tim-1-6" id="en-NKJV-29816"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. </span><span class="text 2Tim-1-7" id="en-NKJV-29817"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Tim-1-8" id="en-NKJV-29818">Not Ashamed of the Gospel</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Tim-1-8"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God, </span><span class="text 2Tim-1-9" id="en-NKJV-29819"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>who has saved us and called <i>us</i> with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began, </span><span class="text 2Tim-1-10" id="en-NKJV-29820"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, <i>who</i> has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, </span><span class="text 2Tim-1-11" id="en-NKJV-29821"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>to which I was appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29821c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29821c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Timothy%201&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29821c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>of the Gentiles. </span><span class="text 2Tim-1-12" id="en-NKJV-29822"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Tim-1-13" id="en-NKJV-29823">Be Loyal to the Faith</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Tim-1-13"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. </span><span class="text 2Tim-1-14" id="en-NKJV-29824"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>That good thing which was committed to you, keep by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Tim-1-15" id="en-NKJV-29825"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>This you know, that all those in Asia have turned away from me, among whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes. </span><span class="text 2Tim-1-16" id="en-NKJV-29826"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>The Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain; </span><span class="text 2Tim-1-17" id="en-NKJV-29827"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>but when he arrived in Rome, he sought me out very zealously and found <i>me.</i> </span><span class="text 2Tim-1-18" id="en-NKJV-29828"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>The Lord grant to him that he may find mercy from the Lord in that Day—and you know very well how many ways he ministered <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29828d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29828d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Timothy%201&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29828d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span><i>to me</i> at Ephesus.</span></p>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-57736694395176247452023-10-02T21:06:00.000-04:002023-10-02T21:06:10.059-04:00Today's Readings And Stuff -- Monday, 02 October 2023<p> Brief and very late, sorry.</p><p>Wife has been quite ill all day and I'm not all that great either. Trying to keep going, had some things I'd planned to do that have had to be put off a day. So this isn't extensive, sorry.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>=================</b></p><p><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Isaiah 65</span></u></b></p><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Isa-65-1" style="position: relative;">1 “I was sought by <i>those who</i> did not ask <i>for Me;</i></span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-1" style="position: relative;">I was found by <i>those who</i> did not seek Me.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-1" style="position: relative;">I said, ‘Here I am, here I am,’</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-1" style="position: relative;">To a nation <i>that</i> was not called by My name.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-2" id="en-NKJV-18900" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>I have stretched out My hands all day long to a rebellious people,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-2" style="position: relative;">Who walk in a way <i>that is</i> not good,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-2" style="position: relative;">According to their own thoughts;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-3" id="en-NKJV-18901" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>A people who provoke Me to anger continually to My face;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-3" style="position: relative;">Who sacrifice in gardens,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-3" style="position: relative;">And burn incense on altars of brick;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-4" id="en-NKJV-18902" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Who sit among the graves,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-4" style="position: relative;">And spend the night in the tombs;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-4" style="position: relative;">Who eat swine’s flesh,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-4" style="position: relative;">And the broth of <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18902a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18902a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2065&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18902a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>abominable things is <i>in</i> their vessels;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-5" id="en-NKJV-18903" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Who say, ‘Keep to yourself,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-5" style="position: relative;">Do not come near me,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-5" style="position: relative;">For I am holier than you!’</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-5" style="position: relative;">These <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18903b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18903b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2065&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18903b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span><i>are</i> smoke in My nostrils,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-5" style="position: relative;">A fire that burns all the day.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-65-6" id="en-NKJV-18904" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>“Behold, <i>it is</i> written before Me:</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-6" style="position: relative;">I will not keep silence, but will repay—</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-6" style="position: relative;">Even repay into their bosom—</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-7" id="en-NKJV-18905" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together,”</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-7" style="position: relative;">Says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-7" style="position: relative;">“Who have burned incense on the mountains</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-7" style="position: relative;">And blasphemed Me on the hills;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-7" style="position: relative;">Therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom.”</span></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-65-8" id="en-NKJV-18906"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Thus says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-65-8" style="position: relative;">“As the new wine is found in the cluster,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-8" style="position: relative;">And <i>one</i> says, ‘Do not destroy it,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-8" style="position: relative;">For a blessing <i>is</i> in it,’</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-8" style="position: relative;">So will I do for My servants’ sake,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-8" style="position: relative;">That I may not destroy them all.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-9" id="en-NKJV-18907" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>I will bring forth descendants from Jacob,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-9" style="position: relative;">And from Judah an heir of My mountains;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-9" style="position: relative;">My elect shall inherit it,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-9" style="position: relative;">And My servants shall dwell there.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-10" id="en-NKJV-18908" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>Sharon shall be a fold of flocks,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-10" style="position: relative;">And the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-10" style="position: relative;">For My people who have sought Me.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-65-11" id="en-NKJV-18909" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>“But you <i>are</i> those who forsake the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-11" style="position: relative;">Who forget My holy mountain,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-11" style="position: relative;">Who prepare a table for <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18909c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18909c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2065&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18909c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>Gad,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-11" style="position: relative;">And who furnish a drink offering for <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18909d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18909d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2065&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18909d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>Meni.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-12" id="en-NKJV-18910" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Therefore I will number you for the sword,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-12" style="position: relative;">And you shall all bow down to the slaughter;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-12" style="position: relative;">Because, when I called, you did not answer;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-12" style="position: relative;">When I spoke, you did not hear,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-12" style="position: relative;">But did evil before My eyes,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-12" style="position: relative;">And chose <i>that</i> in which I do not delight.”</span></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-65-13" id="en-NKJV-18911"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>Therefore thus says the Lord <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">God</span>:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-65-13" style="position: relative;">“Behold, My servants shall eat,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-13" style="position: relative;">But you shall be hungry;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-13" style="position: relative;">Behold, My servants shall drink,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-13" style="position: relative;">But you shall be thirsty;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-13" style="position: relative;">Behold, My servants shall rejoice,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-13" style="position: relative;">But you shall be ashamed;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-14" id="en-NKJV-18912" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>Behold, My servants shall sing for joy of heart,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-14" style="position: relative;">But you shall cry for sorrow of heart,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-14" style="position: relative;">And wail for <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18912e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18912e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2065&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18912e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>grief of spirit.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-15" id="en-NKJV-18913" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>You shall leave your name as a curse to My chosen;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-15" style="position: relative;">For the Lord <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">God</span> will slay you,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-15" style="position: relative;">And call His servants by another name;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-16" id="en-NKJV-18914" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>So that he who blesses himself in the earth</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-16" style="position: relative;">Shall bless himself in the God of truth;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-16" style="position: relative;">And he who swears in the earth</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-16" style="position: relative;">Shall swear by the God of truth;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-16" style="position: relative;">Because the former troubles are forgotten,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-16" style="position: relative;">And because they are hidden from My eyes.</span></p></div><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-65-17" id="en-NKJV-18915"><span style="font-size: small;">The Glorious New Creation</span></span></h3><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-65-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-17" style="position: relative;">And the former shall not be remembered or <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18915f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18915f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2065&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18915f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>come to mind.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-18" id="en-NKJV-18916" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-18" style="position: relative;">For behold, I create Jerusalem <i>as</i> a rejoicing,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-18" style="position: relative;">And her people a joy.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-19" id="en-NKJV-18917" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>I will rejoice in Jerusalem,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-19" style="position: relative;">And joy in My people;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-19" style="position: relative;">The voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-19" style="position: relative;">Nor the voice of crying.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-65-20" id="en-NKJV-18918" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>“No more shall an infant from there <i>live but a few</i> days,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-20" style="position: relative;">Nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-20" style="position: relative;">For the child shall die one hundred years old,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-20" style="position: relative;">But the sinner <i>being</i> one hundred years old shall be accursed.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-21" id="en-NKJV-18919" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>They shall build houses and inhabit <i>them;</i></span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-21" style="position: relative;">They shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-22" id="en-NKJV-18920" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>They shall not build and another inhabit;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-22" style="position: relative;">They shall not plant and another eat;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-22" style="position: relative;">For as the days of a tree, <i>so shall be</i> the days of My people,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-22" style="position: relative;">And My elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-23" id="en-NKJV-18921" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>They shall not labor in vain,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-23" style="position: relative;">Nor bring forth children for trouble;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-23" style="position: relative;">For they <i>shall be</i> the descendants of the blessed of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-23" style="position: relative;">And their offspring with them.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-65-24" id="en-NKJV-18922" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>“It shall come to pass</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-24" style="position: relative;">That before they call, I will answer;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-24" style="position: relative;">And while they are still speaking, I will hear.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-25" id="en-NKJV-18923" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>The wolf and the lamb shall feed together,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-25" style="position: relative;">The lion shall eat straw like the ox,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-25" style="position: relative;">And dust <i>shall be</i> the serpent’s food.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-25" style="position: relative;">They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,”</span><br /><span class="text Isa-65-25" style="position: relative;">Says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>.</span></p></div><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Isaiah 66</u></b></span></p><p class="chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-66-1">1 Thus says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-66-1" style="position: relative;">“Heaven <i>is</i> My throne,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-1" style="position: relative;">And earth <i>is</i> My footstool.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-1" style="position: relative;">Where <i>is</i> the house that you will build Me?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-1" style="position: relative;">And where <i>is</i> the place of My rest?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-2" id="en-NKJV-18925" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>For all those <i>things</i> My hand has made,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-2" style="position: relative;">And all those <i>things</i> exist,”</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-2" style="position: relative;">Says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-2" style="position: relative;">“But on this <i>one</i> will I look:</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-2" style="position: relative;">On <i>him who is</i> poor and of a contrite spirit,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-2" style="position: relative;">And who trembles at My word.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-66-3" id="en-NKJV-18926" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>“He who kills a bull <i>is as if</i> he slays a man;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-3" style="position: relative;">He who sacrifices a lamb, <i>as if</i> he breaks a dog’s neck;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-3" style="position: relative;">He who offers a grain offering, <i>as if he offers</i> swine’s blood;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-3" style="position: relative;">He who burns incense, <i>as if</i> he blesses an idol.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-3" style="position: relative;">Just as they have chosen their own ways,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-3" style="position: relative;">And their soul delights in their abominations,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-4" id="en-NKJV-18927" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>So will I choose their delusions,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-4" style="position: relative;">And bring their fears on them;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-4" style="position: relative;">Because, when I called, no one answered,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-4" style="position: relative;">When I spoke they did not hear;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-4" style="position: relative;">But they did evil before My eyes,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-4" style="position: relative;">And chose <i>that</i> in which I do not delight.”</span></p></div><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-66-5" id="en-NKJV-18928"><span style="font-size: small;">The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> Vindicates Zion</span></span></h3><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-66-5" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Hear the word of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-5" style="position: relative;">You who tremble at His word:</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-5" style="position: relative;">“Your brethren who hated you,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-5" style="position: relative;">Who cast you out for My name’s sake, said,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-5" style="position: relative;">‘Let the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> be glorified,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-5" style="position: relative;">That we may see your joy.’</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-5" style="position: relative;">But they shall be ashamed.”</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-66-6" id="en-NKJV-18929" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>The sound of noise from the city!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-6" style="position: relative;">A voice from the temple!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-6" style="position: relative;">The voice of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-6" style="position: relative;">Who fully repays His enemies!</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-66-7" id="en-NKJV-18930" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>“Before she was in labor, she gave birth;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-7" style="position: relative;">Before her pain came,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-7" style="position: relative;">She delivered a male child.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-8" id="en-NKJV-18931" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Who has heard such a thing?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-8" style="position: relative;">Who has seen such things?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-8" style="position: relative;">Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-8" style="position: relative;"><i>Or</i> shall a nation be born at once?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-8" style="position: relative;">For as soon as Zion was in labor,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-8" style="position: relative;">She gave birth to her children.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-9" id="en-NKJV-18932" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>Shall I bring to the time of birth, and not cause delivery?” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-9" style="position: relative;">“Shall I who cause delivery shut up <i>the womb?</i>” says your God.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-10" id="en-NKJV-18933" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>“Rejoice with Jerusalem,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-10" style="position: relative;">And be glad with her, all you who love her;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-10" style="position: relative;">Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn for her;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-11" id="en-NKJV-18934" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>That you may feed and be satisfied</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-11" style="position: relative;">With the consolation of her bosom,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-11" style="position: relative;">That you may drink deeply and be delighted</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-11" style="position: relative;">With the abundance of her glory.”</span></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-66-12" id="en-NKJV-18935"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>For thus says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-66-12" style="position: relative;">“Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-12" style="position: relative;">And the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-12" style="position: relative;">Then you shall feed;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-12" style="position: relative;">On <i>her</i> sides shall you be carried,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-12" style="position: relative;">And be dandled on <i>her</i> knees.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-13" id="en-NKJV-18936" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>As one whom his mother comforts,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-13" style="position: relative;">So I will comfort you;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-13" style="position: relative;">And you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”</span></p></div><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-66-14" id="en-NKJV-18937"><span style="font-size: small;">The Reign and Indignation of God</span></span></h3><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-66-14" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>When you see <i>this,</i> your heart shall rejoice,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-14" style="position: relative;">And your bones shall flourish like grass;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-14" style="position: relative;">The hand of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> shall be known to His servants,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-14" style="position: relative;">And <i>His</i> indignation to His enemies.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-15" id="en-NKJV-18938" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>For behold, the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> will come with fire</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-15" style="position: relative;">And with His chariots, like a whirlwind,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-15" style="position: relative;">To render His anger with fury,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-15" style="position: relative;">And His rebuke with flames of fire.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-16" id="en-NKJV-18939" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>For by fire and by His sword</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-16" style="position: relative;">The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> will judge all flesh;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-16" style="position: relative;">And the slain of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> shall be many.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-66-17" id="en-NKJV-18940" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>“Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-17" style="position: relative;"><i>To go</i> to the gardens</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18940a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18940a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2066&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18940a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>After an <i>idol</i> in the midst,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-17" style="position: relative;">Eating swine’s flesh and the abomination and the mouse,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-17" style="position: relative;">Shall <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18940b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18940b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2066&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18940b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>be consumed together,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>.</span></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-66-18" id="en-NKJV-18941"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>“For I <i>know</i> their works and their thoughts. It shall be that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come and see My glory. </span><span class="text Isa-66-19" id="en-NKJV-18942"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>I will set a sign among them; and those among them who escape I will send to the nations: <i>to</i> Tarshish and <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18942c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18942c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2066&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18942c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>Pul and Lud, who draw the bow, and Tubal and Javan, <i>to</i> the coastlands afar off who have not heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles. </span><span class="text Isa-66-20" id="en-NKJV-18943"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>Then they shall bring all your brethren for an offering to the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> out of all nations, on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>, “as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>. </span><span class="text Isa-66-21" id="en-NKJV-18944"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>And I will also take some of them for priests <i>and</i> Levites,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>.</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-66-22" id="en-NKJV-18945" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>“For as the new heavens and the new earth</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-22" style="position: relative;">Which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-22" style="position: relative;">“So shall your descendants and your name remain.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-23" id="en-NKJV-18946" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>And it shall come to pass</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-23" style="position: relative;"><i>That</i> from one New Moon to another,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-23" style="position: relative;">And from one Sabbath to another,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-23" style="position: relative;">All flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-66-24" id="en-NKJV-18947" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>“And they shall go forth and look</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-24" style="position: relative;">Upon the corpses of the men</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-24" style="position: relative;">Who have transgressed against Me.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-24" style="position: relative;">For their worm does not die,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-24" style="position: relative;">And their fire is not quenched.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-66-24" style="position: relative;">They shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.”</span></p></div><p><br /></p><p><b>=================</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Proverbs 25</span></u></b></p><p class="chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-25-1">These also <i>are</i> proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-25-2" id="en-NKJV-17116" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span><b>1 </b><i> It is</i> the glory of God to conceal a matter,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-2" style="position: relative;">But the glory of kings <i>is</i> to search out a matter.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-25-3" id="en-NKJV-17117" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span><i>As</i> the heavens for height and the earth for depth,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-3" style="position: relative;">So the heart of kings <i>is</i> unsearchable.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-25-4" id="en-NKJV-17118" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Take away the dross from silver,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-4" style="position: relative;">And it will go to the silversmith <i>for</i> jewelry.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-5" id="en-NKJV-17119" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Take away the wicked from before the king,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-5" style="position: relative;">And his throne will be established in righteousness.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-25-6" id="en-NKJV-17120" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>Do not exalt yourself in the presence of the king,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-6" style="position: relative;">And do not stand in the place of the great;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-7" id="en-NKJV-17121" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>For <i>it is</i> better that he say to you,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-7" style="position: relative;">“Come up here,”</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-7" style="position: relative;">Than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-7" style="position: relative;">Whom your eyes have seen.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-25-8" id="en-NKJV-17122" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Do not go hastily to <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17122a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17122a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2025&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17122a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>court;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-8" style="position: relative;">For what will you do in the end,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-8" style="position: relative;">When your neighbor has put you to shame?</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-9" id="en-NKJV-17123" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>Debate your case with your neighbor,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-9" style="position: relative;">And do not disclose the secret to another;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-10" id="en-NKJV-17124" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>Lest he who hears <i>it</i> expose your shame,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-10" style="position: relative;">And <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17124b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17124b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2025&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17124b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>your reputation be ruined.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-25-11" id="en-NKJV-17125" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>A word fitly spoken <i>is like</i> apples of gold</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-11" style="position: relative;">In settings of silver.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-12" id="en-NKJV-17126" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span><i>Like</i> an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-12" style="position: relative;"><i>Is</i> a wise rebuker to an obedient ear.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-25-13" id="en-NKJV-17127" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>Like the cold of snow in time of harvest</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-13" style="position: relative;"><i>Is</i> a faithful messenger to those who send him,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-13" style="position: relative;">For he refreshes the soul of his masters.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-25-14" id="en-NKJV-17128" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>Whoever falsely boasts of giving</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-14" style="position: relative;"><i>Is like</i> clouds and wind without rain.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-25-15" id="en-NKJV-17129" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>By long forbearance a ruler is persuaded,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-15" style="position: relative;">And a gentle tongue breaks a bone.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-25-16" id="en-NKJV-17130" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>Have you found honey?</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-16" style="position: relative;">Eat only as much as you need,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-16" style="position: relative;">Lest you be filled with it and vomit.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-25-17" id="en-NKJV-17131" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-17" style="position: relative;">Lest he become weary of you and hate you.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-25-18" id="en-NKJV-17132" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>A man who bears false witness against his neighbor</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-18" style="position: relative;"><i>Is like</i> a club, a sword, and a sharp arrow.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-25-19" id="en-NKJV-17133" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>Confidence in an unfaithful <i>man</i> in time of trouble</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-19" style="position: relative;"><i>Is like</i> a bad tooth and a foot out of joint.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-25-20" id="en-NKJV-17134" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span><i>Like</i> one who takes away a garment in cold weather,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-20" style="position: relative;"><i>And like</i> vinegar on soda,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-20" style="position: relative;"><i>Is</i> one who sings songs to a heavy heart.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-25-21" id="en-NKJV-17135" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-21" style="position: relative;">And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-22" id="en-NKJV-17136" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>For <i>so</i> you will heap coals of fire on his head,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-22" style="position: relative;">And the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> will reward you.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-25-23" id="en-NKJV-17137" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>The north wind brings forth rain,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-23" style="position: relative;">And a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-25-24" id="en-NKJV-17138" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span><i>It is</i> better to dwell in a corner of a housetop,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-24" style="position: relative;">Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-25-25" id="en-NKJV-17139" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span><i>As</i> cold water to a weary soul,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-25" style="position: relative;">So <i>is</i> good news from a far country.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-25-26" id="en-NKJV-17140" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>A righteous <i>man</i> who falters before the wicked</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-26" style="position: relative;"><i>Is like</i> a murky spring and a <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17140c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17140c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2025&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17140c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>polluted well.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-25-27" id="en-NKJV-17141" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span><i>It is</i> not good to eat much honey;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-27" style="position: relative;">So to seek one’s own glory <i>is not</i> glory.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-25-28" id="en-NKJV-17142" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>Whoever <i>has</i> no rule over his own spirit</span><br /><span class="text Prov-25-28" style="position: relative;"><i>Is like</i> a city broken down, without walls.</span></p></div><p><b>-==================</b></p><p><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">1st Timothy 6</span></u></b></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-6-1">1 Let as many bondservants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and <i>His</i> doctrine may not be blasphemed. </span><span class="text 1Tim-6-2" id="en-NKJV-29791"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>And those who have believing masters, let them not despise <i>them</i> because they are brethren, but rather serve <i>them</i> because those who are benefited are believers and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-6-3" id="en-NKJV-29792">Error and Greed</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-6-3"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, <i>even</i> the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29792a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29792a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%206&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29792a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>doctrine which accords with godliness, </span><span class="text 1Tim-6-4" id="en-NKJV-29793"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, </span><span class="text 1Tim-6-5" id="en-NKJV-29794"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29794b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29794b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%206&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29794b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a <i>means of</i> gain. <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29794c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29794c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%206&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29794c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>From such withdraw yourself.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-6-6" id="en-NKJV-29795"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>Now godliness with contentment is great gain. </span><span class="text 1Tim-6-7" id="en-NKJV-29796"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>For we brought nothing into <i>this</i> world, <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29796d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29796d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%206&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29796d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span><i>and it is</i> certain we can carry nothing out. </span><span class="text 1Tim-6-8" id="en-NKJV-29797"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. </span><span class="text 1Tim-6-9" id="en-NKJV-29798"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and <i>into</i> many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. </span><span class="text 1Tim-6-10" id="en-NKJV-29799"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>For the love of money is a root of all <i>kinds of</i> evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-6-11" id="en-NKJV-29800">The Good Confession</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-6-11"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. </span><span class="text 1Tim-6-12" id="en-NKJV-29801"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. </span><span class="text 1Tim-6-13" id="en-NKJV-29802"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and <i>before</i> Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate, </span><span class="text 1Tim-6-14" id="en-NKJV-29803"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>that you keep <i>this</i> commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing, </span><span class="text 1Tim-6-15" id="en-NKJV-29804"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>which He will manifest in His own time, <i>He who is</i> the blessed and only <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29804e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29804e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%206&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29804e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, </span><span class="text 1Tim-6-16" id="en-NKJV-29805"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom <i>be</i> honor and everlasting power. Amen.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-6-17" id="en-NKJV-29806">Instructions to the Rich</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-6-17"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. </span><span class="text 1Tim-6-18" id="en-NKJV-29807"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span><i>Let them</i> do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, </span><span class="text 1Tim-6-19" id="en-NKJV-29808"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-6-20" id="en-NKJV-29809">Guard the Faith</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-6-20"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane <i>and</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29809f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29809f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%206&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29809f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge— </span><span class="text 1Tim-6-21" id="en-NKJV-29810"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>by professing it some have strayed concerning the faith.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-6-21">Grace <i>be</i> with you. Amen.</span></p><p><br /></p>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-37678245124691241942023-10-01T17:41:00.036-04:002023-10-01T19:43:27.052-04:00Today's Readings And Stuff. -- Sunday, 01 October 2023<div>Today has been a VERY good day! I don't say that real often, probably should, but this day was extraordinary. When a very small church, as ours is, conducts FOUR baptisms, that's a very good start to the day. </div>..<div>Not one but three suggestions for "song of the day". ALL of them good, and appropriate as well. Suggestions??</div><div><br /><div>"<b><i>Victory In Jesus</i></b>"</div><div><br /></div><div>"<b><i>All To Jesus I Surrender</i></b>"</div><div><br /></div><div>"<b><i>Take My Life And Let It Be</i></b>". This is the one I woke up to this morning. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>===============</b></div><div><b>===============</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Isaiah 63</span></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Isa-63-1" style="position: relative;">1 Who <i>is</i> this who comes from Edom,</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-1" style="position: relative;">With dyed garments from Bozrah,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-1" style="position: relative;">This <i>One who is</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18868a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18868a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2063&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18868a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>glorious in His apparel,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-1" style="position: relative;">Traveling in the greatness of His strength?—</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-63-1" style="position: relative;">“I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-63-2" id="en-NKJV-18869" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>Why <i>is</i> Your apparel red,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-2" style="position: relative;">And Your garments like one who treads in the winepress?</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-63-3" id="en-NKJV-18870" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>“I have trodden the winepress alone,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-3" style="position: relative;">And from the peoples no one <i>was</i> with Me.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-3" style="position: relative;">For I have trodden them in My anger,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-3" style="position: relative;">And trampled them in My fury;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-3" style="position: relative;">Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-3" style="position: relative;">And I have stained all My robes.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-4" id="en-NKJV-18871" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>For the day of vengeance <i>is</i> in My heart,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-4" style="position: relative;">And the year of My redeemed has come.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-5" id="en-NKJV-18872" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>I looked, but <i>there was</i> no one to help,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-5" style="position: relative;">And I wondered</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-5" style="position: relative;">That <i>there was</i> no one to uphold;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-5" style="position: relative;">Therefore My own arm brought salvation for Me;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-5" style="position: relative;">And My own fury, it sustained Me.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-6" id="en-NKJV-18873" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>I have trodden down the peoples in My anger,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-6" style="position: relative;">Made them drunk in My fury,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-6" style="position: relative;">And brought down their strength to the earth.”</span></p></div><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-63-7" id="en-NKJV-18874"><span style="font-size: small;">God’s Mercy Remembered</span></span></h3><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-63-7" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-7" style="position: relative;"><i>And</i> the praises of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-7" style="position: relative;">According to all that the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> has bestowed on us,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-7" style="position: relative;">And the great goodness toward the house of Israel,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-7" style="position: relative;">Which He has bestowed on them according to His mercies,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-7" style="position: relative;">According to the multitude of His lovingkindnesses.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-8" id="en-NKJV-18875" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>For He said, “Surely they <i>are</i> My people,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-8" style="position: relative;">Children <i>who</i> will not lie.”</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-8" style="position: relative;">So He became their Savior.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-9" id="en-NKJV-18876" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>In all their affliction He was <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18876b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18876b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2063&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18876b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>afflicted,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-9" style="position: relative;">And the Angel of His Presence saved them;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-9" style="position: relative;">In His love and in His pity He redeemed them;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-9" style="position: relative;">And He bore them and carried them</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-9" style="position: relative;">All the days of old.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-10" id="en-NKJV-18877" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-10" style="position: relative;">So He turned Himself against them as an enemy,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-10" style="position: relative;"><i>And</i> He fought against them.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-63-11" id="en-NKJV-18878" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Then he remembered the days of old,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-11" style="position: relative;">Moses <i>and</i> his people, <i>saying:</i></span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-11" style="position: relative;">“Where <i>is</i> He who brought them up out of the sea</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-11" style="position: relative;">With the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18878c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18878c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2063&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18878c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>shepherd of His flock?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-11" style="position: relative;">Where <i>is</i> He who put His Holy Spirit within them,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-12" id="en-NKJV-18879" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Who led <i>them</i> by the right hand of Moses,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-12" style="position: relative;">With His glorious arm,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-12" style="position: relative;">Dividing the water before them</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-12" style="position: relative;">To make for Himself an everlasting name,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-13" id="en-NKJV-18880" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>Who led them through the deep,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-13" style="position: relative;">As a horse in the wilderness,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-13" style="position: relative;"><i>That</i> they might not stumble?”</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-63-14" id="en-NKJV-18881" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>As a beast goes down into the valley,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-14" style="position: relative;"><i>And</i> the Spirit of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> causes him to rest,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-14" style="position: relative;">So You lead Your people,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-14" style="position: relative;">To make Yourself a glorious name.</span></p></div><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-63-15" id="en-NKJV-18882"><span style="font-size: small;">A Prayer of Penitence</span></span></h3><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-63-15" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>Look down from heaven,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-15" style="position: relative;">And see from Your habitation, holy and glorious.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-15" style="position: relative;">Where <i>are</i> Your zeal and Your strength,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-15" style="position: relative;">The yearning of Your heart and Your mercies toward me?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-15" style="position: relative;">Are they restrained?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-16" id="en-NKJV-18883" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>Doubtless You <i>are</i> our Father,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-16" style="position: relative;">Though Abraham was ignorant of us,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-16" style="position: relative;">And Israel does not acknowledge us.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-16" style="position: relative;">You, O <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>, <i>are</i> our Father;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-16" style="position: relative;">Our Redeemer from Everlasting <i>is</i> Your name.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-17" id="en-NKJV-18884" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>O <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>, why have You made us stray from Your ways,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-17" style="position: relative;"><i>And</i> hardened our heart from Your fear?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-17" style="position: relative;">Return for Your servants’ sake,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-17" style="position: relative;">The tribes of Your inheritance.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-18" id="en-NKJV-18885" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>Your holy people have possessed <i>it</i> but a little while;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-18" style="position: relative;">Our adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-19" id="en-NKJV-18886" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>We have become <i>like</i> those of old, over whom You never ruled,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-63-19" style="position: relative;">Those who were never called by Your name.</span></p></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Isaiah 64</span></u></b></div><div><b><u><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></u></b></div><div><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Isa-64-1" style="position: relative;">Oh, that You would <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18887a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18887a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2064&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18887a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>rend the heavens!</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-1" style="position: relative;">That You would come down!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-1" style="position: relative;">That the mountains might shake at Your presence—</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-2" id="en-NKJV-18888" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>As fire burns brushwood,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-2" style="position: relative;">As fire causes water to boil—</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-2" style="position: relative;">To make Your name known to Your adversaries,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-2" style="position: relative;"><i>That</i> the nations may tremble at Your presence!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-3" id="en-NKJV-18889" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>When You did awesome things <i>for which</i> we did not look,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-3" style="position: relative;">You came down,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-3" style="position: relative;">The mountains shook at Your presence.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-4" id="en-NKJV-18890" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>For since the beginning of the world</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-4" style="position: relative;"><i>Men</i> have not heard nor perceived by the ear,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-4" style="position: relative;">Nor has the eye seen any God besides You,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-4" style="position: relative;">Who acts for the one who waits for Him.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-5" id="en-NKJV-18891" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-5" style="position: relative;"><i>Who</i> remembers You in Your ways.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-5" style="position: relative;">You are indeed angry, for we have sinned—</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-5" style="position: relative;">In these ways we continue;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-5" style="position: relative;">And we need to be saved.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-64-6" id="en-NKJV-18892" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>But we are all like an unclean <i>thing,</i></span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-6" style="position: relative;">And all our righteousnesses <i>are</i> like <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18892b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18892b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2064&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18892b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>filthy rags;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-6" style="position: relative;">We all fade as a leaf,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-6" style="position: relative;">And our iniquities, like the wind,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-6" style="position: relative;">Have taken us away.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-7" id="en-NKJV-18893" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>And <i>there is</i> no one who calls on Your name,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-7" style="position: relative;">Who stirs himself up to take hold of You;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-7" style="position: relative;">For You have hidden Your face from us,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-7" style="position: relative;">And have <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18893c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18893c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2064&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18893c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>consumed us because of our iniquities.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-64-8" id="en-NKJV-18894" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>But now, O <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-8" style="position: relative;">You <i>are</i> our Father;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-8" style="position: relative;">We <i>are</i> the clay, and You our potter;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-8" style="position: relative;">And all we <i>are</i> the work of Your hand.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-9" id="en-NKJV-18895" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>Do not be furious, O <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-9" style="position: relative;">Nor remember iniquity forever;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-9" style="position: relative;">Indeed, please look—we all <i>are</i> Your people!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-10" id="en-NKJV-18896" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>Your holy cities are a wilderness,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-10" style="position: relative;">Zion is a wilderness,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-10" style="position: relative;">Jerusalem a desolation.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-11" id="en-NKJV-18897" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Our holy and beautiful <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18897d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18897d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2064&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18897d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>temple,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-11" style="position: relative;">Where our fathers praised You,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-11" style="position: relative;">Is burned up with fire;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-11" style="position: relative;">And all our pleasant things <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18897e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18897e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2064&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18897e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>are laid waste.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-12" id="en-NKJV-18898" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Will You restrain Yourself because of these <i>things,</i> O <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-64-12" style="position: relative;">Will You <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18898f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18898f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2064&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18898f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>hold Your peace, and afflict us very severely?</span></p></div></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-8352503628910244922023-09-30T17:51:00.000-04:002023-09-30T17:51:17.109-04:00Today's Readings and Stuff -- Saturday, 30 September 2023<p> Happy Saturday to all. Today we can at least look back and see the warm weather of August, trying to avoid thinking about the Arctic blasts that will be moving in all too soon. No, I am not a fan of the weather patterns that afflict this area for much of the year. But I'm not in charge, and the One who is in charge is both wiser and more powerful than I. So I'll gulp and hang on.</p><p>Tomorrow is, of course, the beginning of October, the start of the year's third quarter. Hard to believe that the weeks have flown by so quickly. </p><p>As the pattern is, our weekend readings are confined to the Old Testament. Today's reading in Isaiah is one that I find particularly engaging and significant. You may -- I hope -- recognize the words of this passage. They're important (or they wouldn't be there) and we observe that Jesus read that very passage in the synagogue as we see in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 4 and verses 16-22. I for one don't think that His presence there that day was a coincidence, the passage testifies to Him. </p><p><br /></p><p>=======================</p><p>=======================</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Isaiah 61</span></u></b></p><p><br /></p><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Isa-61-1" style="position: relative;">1 “The Spirit of the Lord <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">God</span> <i>is</i> upon Me,</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-1" style="position: relative;">Because the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> has anointed Me</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-1" style="position: relative;">To preach good tidings to the poor;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-1" style="position: relative;">He has sent Me to <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18845a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18845a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2061&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18845a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>heal the brokenhearted,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-1" style="position: relative;">To proclaim liberty to the captives,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-1" style="position: relative;">And the opening of the prison to <i>those who are</i> bound;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-2" id="en-NKJV-18846" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>To proclaim the acceptable year of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-2" style="position: relative;">And the day of vengeance of our God;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-2" style="position: relative;">To comfort all who mourn,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-3" id="en-NKJV-18847" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>To <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18847b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18847b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2061&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18847b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>console those who mourn in Zion,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-3" style="position: relative;">To give them beauty for ashes,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-3" style="position: relative;">The oil of joy for mourning,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-3" style="position: relative;">The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-3" style="position: relative;">That they may be called trees of righteousness,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-3" style="position: relative;">The planting of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>, that He may be glorified.”</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-61-4" id="en-NKJV-18848" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>And they shall rebuild the old ruins,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-4" style="position: relative;">They shall raise up the former desolations,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-4" style="position: relative;">And they shall repair the ruined cities,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-4" style="position: relative;">The desolations of many generations.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-5" id="en-NKJV-18849" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-5" style="position: relative;">And the sons of the foreigner</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-5" style="position: relative;"><i>Shall be</i> your plowmen and your vinedressers.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-6" id="en-NKJV-18850" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>But you shall be named the priests of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-6" style="position: relative;">They shall call you the servants of our God.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-6" style="position: relative;">You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-6" style="position: relative;">And in their glory you shall boast.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-7" id="en-NKJV-18851" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>Instead of your shame <i>you shall have</i> double <i>honor,</i></span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-7" style="position: relative;">And <i>instead of</i> confusion they shall rejoice in their portion.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-7" style="position: relative;">Therefore in their land they shall possess double;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-7" style="position: relative;">Everlasting joy shall be theirs.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-61-8" id="en-NKJV-18852" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>“For I, the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>, love justice;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-8" style="position: relative;">I hate robbery <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18852c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18852c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2061&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18852c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>for burnt offering;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-8" style="position: relative;">I will direct their work in truth,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-8" style="position: relative;">And will make with them an everlasting covenant.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-9" id="en-NKJV-18853" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>Their descendants shall be known among the Gentiles,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-9" style="position: relative;">And their offspring among the people.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-9" style="position: relative;">All who see them shall acknowledge them,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-9" style="position: relative;">That they <i>are</i> the posterity <i>whom</i> the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> has blessed.”</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-61-10" id="en-NKJV-18854" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>I will greatly rejoice in the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-10" style="position: relative;">My soul shall be joyful in my God;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-10" style="position: relative;">For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-10" style="position: relative;">He has covered me with the robe of righteousness,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-10" style="position: relative;">As a bridegroom decks <i>himself</i> with ornaments,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-10" style="position: relative;">And as a bride adorns <i>herself</i> with her jewels.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-11" id="en-NKJV-18855" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>For as the earth brings forth its bud,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-11" style="position: relative;">As the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-61-11" style="position: relative;">So the Lord <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">God</span> will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.</span></p><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-61-11" style="position: relative;"><br /></span></p><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="text Isa-61-11" style="position: relative;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Isaiah 62</u></b></span></span></p><div class="poetry" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Isa-62-1" style="position: relative;">For Zion’s sake I will not <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18856a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18856a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2062&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18856a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>hold My peace,</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-1" style="position: relative;">And for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-1" style="position: relative;">Until her righteousness goes forth as brightness,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-1" style="position: relative;">And her salvation as a lamp <i>that</i> burns.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-2" id="en-NKJV-18857" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>The Gentiles shall see your righteousness,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-2" style="position: relative;">And all kings your glory.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-2" style="position: relative;">You shall be called by a new name,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-2" style="position: relative;">Which the mouth of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> will name.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-3" id="en-NKJV-18858" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>You shall also be a crown of glory</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-3" style="position: relative;">In the hand of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-3" style="position: relative;">And a royal diadem</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-3" style="position: relative;">In the hand of your God.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-4" id="en-NKJV-18859" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>You shall no longer be termed Forsaken,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18859b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18859b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2062&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18859b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-4" style="position: relative;">Nor shall your land any more be termed Desolate;<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18859c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18859c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2062&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18859c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-4" style="position: relative;">But you shall be called <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18859d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18859d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2062&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18859d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>Hephzibah, and your land <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18859e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18859e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2062&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18859e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>Beulah;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-4" style="position: relative;">For the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> delights in you,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-4" style="position: relative;">And your land shall be married.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-5" id="en-NKJV-18860" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>For <i>as</i> a young man marries a virgin,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-5" style="position: relative;"><i>So</i> shall your sons marry you;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-5" style="position: relative;">And <i>as</i> the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-5" style="position: relative;"><i>So</i> shall your God rejoice over you.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-62-6" id="en-NKJV-18861" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-6" style="position: relative;">They shall <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18861f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18861f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2062&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18861f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>never hold their peace day or night.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-6" style="position: relative;">You who <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18861g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18861g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2062&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18861g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>make mention of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>, do not keep silent,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-7" id="en-NKJV-18862" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>And give Him no rest till He establishes</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-7" style="position: relative;">And till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-62-8" id="en-NKJV-18863" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> has sworn by His right hand</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-8" style="position: relative;">And by the arm of His strength:</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-8" style="position: relative;">“Surely I will no longer give your grain</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-8" style="position: relative;"><i>As</i> food for your enemies;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-8" style="position: relative;">And the sons of the foreigner shall not drink your new wine,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-8" style="position: relative;">For which you have labored.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-9" id="en-NKJV-18864" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>But those who have gathered it shall eat it,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-9" style="position: relative;">And praise the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-9" style="position: relative;">Those who have brought it together shall drink it in My holy courts.”</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-62-10" id="en-NKJV-18865" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>Go through,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-10" style="position: relative;">Go through the gates!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-10" style="position: relative;">Prepare the way for the people;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-10" style="position: relative;">Build up,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-10" style="position: relative;">Build up the highway!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-10" style="position: relative;">Take out the stones,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-10" style="position: relative;">Lift up a banner for the peoples!</span></p></div><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-61-11" style="position: relative;"></span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-62-11" id="en-NKJV-18866" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Indeed the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> has proclaimed</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-11" style="position: relative;">To the end of the world:</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-11" style="position: relative;">“Say to the daughter of Zion,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-11" style="position: relative;">‘Surely your salvation is coming;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-11" style="position: relative;">Behold, His reward <i>is</i> with Him,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-11" style="position: relative;">And His <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18866h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18866h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2062&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18866h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span>work before Him.’ ”</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-12" id="en-NKJV-18867" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>And they shall call them The Holy People,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-12" style="position: relative;">The Redeemed of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-12" style="position: relative;">And you shall be called Sought Out,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-62-12" style="position: relative;">A City Not Forsaken.</span></p></div></div>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-49172756168355717712023-09-29T20:18:00.000-04:002023-09-29T20:18:25.698-04:00Today's Readings and Stuff -- Friday, 29 September 2023<p> Happy Friday wishes to all who stop by here. We are now in the last bit of September, the end of the quarter that began back at the start of July, and we are now getting well into what I call the "-brrrr1" months of the year. As some know, I really only like the months with very short names, like May and June: I am not a Fall person, more of a Spring type. But it is what it is.<br /></p><p>Been a bit off-kilter the last week or so. As some know, we recently traded our 23-year-old Ford SUV and and 1994 heap that I got from my late brother's estate, and received a 17 year old GMC in return. Good deal, right? But I came out of church Sunday morning and all the "Fix Brakes NOW!!" alarms went off. Very little pedal there. Exciting, right? I managed to get it home intact (praying a whole LOT the entire time). Had planned to attend a yearly gathering of area churches that night, but that was off the table, and likewise for anything else for much of the week. The nephew next door worked on it and we're pretty much mobile now, not 100.00% perfect, but mobile. He and the family are off camping for the weekend so further adjustments are in limbo until next week, but at least I can make the necessary trips. Could be worse. So, sorry, my attention has been taken up with the day-to-day essentials. Sorry.</p><p>Worse, the passages we've been in lately are tremendously important ones. Hard to argue that, not considering the import of the passages in Isaiah and the Epistles. Much of Isaiah is some really strong condemnation of the cultural depravity in Israel and Judah, some of which is too much like our own land. But then ,,,,, the verses we sometimes study around the time of Christmas as the time of the Savior is foretold. Important, very!! And so are the passes in Timothy, very much applicable to our own time and culture, with appropriate warnings. Please give this attention!</p><p>=========================</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>Isaiah 59</b></u></span></p><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Isa-59-1" style="position: relative;">Behold, the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>’s hand is not shortened,</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-1" style="position: relative;">That it cannot save;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-1" style="position: relative;">Nor His ear heavy,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-1" style="position: relative;">That it cannot hear.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-2" id="en-NKJV-18803" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>But your iniquities have separated you from your God;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-2" style="position: relative;">And your sins have hidden <i>His</i> face from you,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-2" style="position: relative;">So that He will not hear.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-3" id="en-NKJV-18804" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>For your hands are defiled with <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18804a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18804a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2059&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18804a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>blood,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-3" style="position: relative;">And your fingers with iniquity;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-3" style="position: relative;">Your lips have spoken lies,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-3" style="position: relative;">Your tongue has muttered perversity.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-59-4" id="en-NKJV-18805" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>No one calls for justice,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-4" style="position: relative;">Nor does <i>any</i> plead for truth.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-4" style="position: relative;">They trust in empty words and speak lies;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-4" style="position: relative;">They conceive <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18805b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18805b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2059&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18805b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>evil and bring forth iniquity.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-5" id="en-NKJV-18806" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-5" style="position: relative;">He who eats of their eggs dies,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-5" style="position: relative;">And <i>from</i> that which is crushed a viper breaks out.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-59-6" id="en-NKJV-18807" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>Their webs will not become garments,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-6" style="position: relative;">Nor will they cover themselves with their works;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-6" style="position: relative;">Their works <i>are</i> works of iniquity,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-6" style="position: relative;">And the act of violence <i>is</i> in their hands.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-7" id="en-NKJV-18808" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>Their feet run to evil,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-7" style="position: relative;">And they make haste to shed innocent blood;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-7" style="position: relative;">Their thoughts <i>are</i> thoughts of iniquity;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-7" style="position: relative;">Wasting and destruction <i>are</i> in their paths.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-8" id="en-NKJV-18809" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>The way of peace they have not known,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-8" style="position: relative;">And <i>there is</i> no justice in their ways;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-8" style="position: relative;">They have made themselves crooked paths;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-8" style="position: relative;">Whoever takes that way shall not know peace.</span></p></div><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-59-9" id="en-NKJV-18810" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sin Confessed</span></span></h3><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-59-9" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>Therefore justice is far from us,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-9" style="position: relative;">Nor does righteousness overtake us;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-9" style="position: relative;">We look for light, but there is darkness!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-9" style="position: relative;">For brightness, <i>but</i> we walk in blackness!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-10" id="en-NKJV-18811" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>We grope for the wall like the blind,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-10" style="position: relative;">And we grope as if <i>we had</i> no eyes;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-10" style="position: relative;">We stumble at noonday as at twilight;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-10" style="position: relative;"><i>We are</i> as dead <i>men</i> in desolate places.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-11" id="en-NKJV-18812" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>We all growl like bears,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-11" style="position: relative;">And moan sadly like doves;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-11" style="position: relative;">We look for justice, but <i>there is</i> none;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-11" style="position: relative;">For salvation, <i>but</i> it is far from us.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-12" id="en-NKJV-18813" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>For our transgressions are multiplied before You,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-12" style="position: relative;">And our sins testify against us;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-12" style="position: relative;">For our transgressions <i>are</i> with us,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-12" style="position: relative;">And <i>as for</i> our iniquities, we know them:</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-13" id="en-NKJV-18814" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>In transgressing and lying against the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-13" style="position: relative;">And departing from our God,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-13" style="position: relative;">Speaking oppression and revolt,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-13" style="position: relative;">Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-14" id="en-NKJV-18815" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>Justice is turned back,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-14" style="position: relative;">And righteousness stands afar off;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-14" style="position: relative;">For truth is fallen in the street,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-14" style="position: relative;">And equity cannot enter.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-15" id="en-NKJV-18816" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>So truth fails,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-15" style="position: relative;">And he <i>who</i> departs from evil makes himself a prey.</span></p></div><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-59-15" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Redeemer of Zion</span></span></h3><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-59-15" style="position: relative;">Then the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> saw <i>it,</i> and <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18816c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18816c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2059&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18816c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>it displeased Him</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-15" style="position: relative;">That <i>there was</i> no justice.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-16" id="en-NKJV-18817" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>He saw that <i>there was</i> no man,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-16" style="position: relative;">And wondered that <i>there was</i> no intercessor;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-16" style="position: relative;">Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-16" style="position: relative;">And His own righteousness, it sustained Him.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-17" id="en-NKJV-18818" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>For He put on righteousness as a breastplate,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-17" style="position: relative;">And a helmet of salvation on His head;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-17" style="position: relative;">He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-17" style="position: relative;">And was clad with zeal as a cloak.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-18" id="en-NKJV-18819" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>According to <i>their</i> deeds, accordingly He will repay,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-18" style="position: relative;">Fury to His adversaries,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-18" style="position: relative;">Recompense to His enemies;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-18" style="position: relative;">The coastlands He will fully repay.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-19" id="en-NKJV-18820" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>So shall they fear</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-19" style="position: relative;">The name of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> from the west,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-19" style="position: relative;">And His glory from the rising of the sun;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-19" style="position: relative;">When the enemy comes in like a flood,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-19" style="position: relative;">The Spirit of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> will lift up a standard against him.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-59-20" id="en-NKJV-18821" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>“The Redeemer will come to Zion,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-20" style="position: relative;">And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,”</span><br /><span class="text Isa-59-20" style="position: relative;">Says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>.</span></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-59-21" id="en-NKJV-18822"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>“As for Me,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>, “this <i>is</i> My covenant with them: My Spirit who <i>is</i> upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>, “from this time and forevermore.”</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Isaiah 60</span></u></b></p><p><br /></p><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Isa-60-1" style="position: relative;">Arise, shine;</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-1" style="position: relative;">For your light has come!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-1" style="position: relative;">And the glory of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> is risen upon you.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-2" id="en-NKJV-18824" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-2" style="position: relative;">And deep darkness the people;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-2" style="position: relative;">But the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> will arise over you,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-2" style="position: relative;">And His glory will be seen upon you.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-3" id="en-NKJV-18825" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>The Gentiles shall come to your light,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-3" style="position: relative;">And kings to the brightness of your rising.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-60-4" id="en-NKJV-18826" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>“Lift up your eyes all around, and see:</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-4" style="position: relative;">They all gather together, they come to you;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-4" style="position: relative;">Your sons shall come from afar,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-4" style="position: relative;">And your daughters shall be nursed at <i>your</i> side.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-5" id="en-NKJV-18827" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Then you shall see and become radiant,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-5" style="position: relative;">And your heart shall swell with joy;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-5" style="position: relative;">Because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-5" style="position: relative;">The wealth of the Gentiles shall come to you.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-6" id="en-NKJV-18828" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>The multitude of camels shall cover your <i>land,</i></span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-6" style="position: relative;">The dromedaries of Midian and Ephah;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-6" style="position: relative;">All those from Sheba shall come;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-6" style="position: relative;">They shall bring gold and incense,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-6" style="position: relative;">And they shall proclaim the praises of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-7" id="en-NKJV-18829" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-7" style="position: relative;">The rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-7" style="position: relative;">They shall ascend with acceptance on My altar,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-7" style="position: relative;">And I will glorify the house of My glory.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-60-8" id="en-NKJV-18830" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>“Who <i>are</i> these <i>who</i> fly like a cloud,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-8" style="position: relative;">And like doves to their roosts?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-9" id="en-NKJV-18831" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>Surely the coastlands shall wait for Me;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-9" style="position: relative;">And the ships of Tarshish <i>will come</i> first,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-9" style="position: relative;">To bring your sons from afar,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-9" style="position: relative;">Their silver and their gold with them,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-9" style="position: relative;">To the name of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> your God,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-9" style="position: relative;">And to the Holy One of Israel,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-9" style="position: relative;">Because He has glorified you.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-60-10" id="en-NKJV-18832" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>“The sons of foreigners shall build up your walls,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-10" style="position: relative;">And their kings shall minister to you;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-10" style="position: relative;">For in My wrath I struck you,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-10" style="position: relative;">But in My favor I have had mercy on you.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-11" id="en-NKJV-18833" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Therefore your gates shall be open continually;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-11" style="position: relative;">They shall not be shut day or night,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-11" style="position: relative;">That <i>men</i> may bring to you the wealth of the Gentiles,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-11" style="position: relative;">And their kings in procession.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-12" id="en-NKJV-18834" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>For the nation and kingdom which will not serve you shall perish,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-12" style="position: relative;">And <i>those</i> nations shall be utterly ruined.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-60-13" id="en-NKJV-18835" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>“The glory of Lebanon shall come to you,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-13" style="position: relative;">The cypress, the pine, and the box tree together,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-13" style="position: relative;">To beautify the place of My sanctuary;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-13" style="position: relative;">And I will make the place of My feet glorious.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-14" id="en-NKJV-18836" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>Also the sons of those who afflicted you</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-14" style="position: relative;">Shall come bowing to you,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-14" style="position: relative;">And all those who despised you shall fall prostrate at the soles of your feet;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-14" style="position: relative;">And they shall call you The City of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-14" style="position: relative;">Zion of the Holy One of Israel.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-60-15" id="en-NKJV-18837" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>“Whereas you have been forsaken and hated,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-15" style="position: relative;">So that no one went through <i>you,</i></span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-15" style="position: relative;">I will make you an eternal excellence,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-15" style="position: relative;">A joy of many generations.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-16" id="en-NKJV-18838" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>You shall drink the milk of the Gentiles,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-16" style="position: relative;">And milk the breast of kings;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-16" style="position: relative;">You shall know that I, the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>, <i>am</i> your Savior</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-16" style="position: relative;">And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-60-17" id="en-NKJV-18839" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>“Instead of bronze I will bring gold,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-17" style="position: relative;">Instead of iron I will bring silver,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-17" style="position: relative;">Instead of wood, bronze,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-17" style="position: relative;">And instead of stones, iron.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-17" style="position: relative;">I will also make your officers peace,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-17" style="position: relative;">And your magistrates righteousness.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-18" id="en-NKJV-18840" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>Violence shall no longer be heard in your land,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-18" style="position: relative;">Neither <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18840a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18840a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2060&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18840a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>wasting nor destruction within your borders;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-18" style="position: relative;">But you shall call your walls Salvation,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-18" style="position: relative;">And your gates Praise.</span></p></div><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-60-19" id="en-NKJV-18841"><span style="font-size: small;">God the Glory of His People</span></span></h3><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-60-19" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>“The sun shall no longer be your light by day,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-19" style="position: relative;">Nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-19" style="position: relative;">But the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> will be to you an everlasting light,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-19" style="position: relative;">And your God your glory.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-20" id="en-NKJV-18842" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>Your sun shall no longer go down,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-20" style="position: relative;">Nor shall your moon withdraw itself;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-20" style="position: relative;">For the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> will be your everlasting light,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-20" style="position: relative;">And the days of your mourning shall be ended.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-21" id="en-NKJV-18843" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>Also your people <i>shall</i> all <i>be</i> righteous;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-21" style="position: relative;">They shall inherit the land forever,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-21" style="position: relative;">The branch of My planting,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-21" style="position: relative;">The work of My hands,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-21" style="position: relative;">That I may be glorified.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-22" id="en-NKJV-18844" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>A little one shall become a thousand,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-22" style="position: relative;">And a small one a strong nation.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-60-22" style="position: relative;">I, the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span>, will hasten it in its time.”</span></p></div><p>========================</p><p><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Proverbs 24</span></u></b></p><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Prov-24-1" style="position: relative;">Do not be envious of evil men,</span></span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-1" style="position: relative;">Nor desire to be with them;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-2" id="en-NKJV-17082" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>For their heart devises violence,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-2" style="position: relative;">And their lips talk of troublemaking.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-24-3" id="en-NKJV-17083" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>Through wisdom a house is built,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-3" style="position: relative;">And by understanding it is established;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-4" id="en-NKJV-17084" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>By knowledge the rooms are filled</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-4" style="position: relative;">With all precious and pleasant riches.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-24-5" id="en-NKJV-17085" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>A wise man <i>is</i> strong,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-5" style="position: relative;">Yes, a man of knowledge increases strength;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-6" id="en-NKJV-17086" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>For by wise counsel you will wage your own war,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-6" style="position: relative;">And in a multitude of counselors <i>there is</i> safety.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-24-7" id="en-NKJV-17087" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>Wisdom <i>is</i> too lofty for a fool;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-7" style="position: relative;">He does not open his mouth in the gate.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-24-8" id="en-NKJV-17088" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>He who plots to do evil</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-8" style="position: relative;">Will be called a <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17088a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17088a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2024&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17088a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>schemer.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-9" id="en-NKJV-17089" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>The devising of foolishness <i>is</i> sin,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-9" style="position: relative;">And the scoffer <i>is</i> an abomination to men.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-24-10" id="en-NKJV-17090" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span><i>If</i> you faint in the day of adversity,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-10" style="position: relative;">Your strength <i>is</i> small.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-24-11" id="en-NKJV-17091" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Deliver <i>those who</i> are drawn toward death,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-11" style="position: relative;">And hold back <i>those</i> stumbling to the slaughter.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-12" id="en-NKJV-17092" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>If you say, “Surely we did not know this,”</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-12" style="position: relative;">Does not He who weighs the hearts consider <i>it?</i></span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-12" style="position: relative;">He who keeps your soul, does He <i>not</i> know <i>it?</i></span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-12" style="position: relative;">And will He <i>not</i> render to <i>each</i> man according to his deeds?</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-24-13" id="en-NKJV-17093" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>My son, eat honey because <i>it is</i> good,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-13" style="position: relative;">And the honeycomb <i>which is</i> sweet to your taste;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-14" id="en-NKJV-17094" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>So <i>shall</i> the knowledge of wisdom <i>be</i> to your soul;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-14" style="position: relative;">If you have found <i>it,</i> there is a <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17094b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17094b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2024&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17094b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>prospect,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-14" style="position: relative;">And your hope will not be cut off.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-24-15" id="en-NKJV-17095" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>Do not lie in wait, O wicked <i>man,</i> against the dwelling of the righteous;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-15" style="position: relative;">Do not plunder his resting place;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-16" id="en-NKJV-17096" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>For a righteous <i>man</i> may fall seven times</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-16" style="position: relative;">And rise again,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-16" style="position: relative;">But the wicked shall fall by calamity.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-24-17" id="en-NKJV-17097" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>Do not rejoice when your enemy falls,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-17" style="position: relative;">And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-18" id="en-NKJV-17098" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>Lest the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> see <i>it,</i> and <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17098c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17098c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2024&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17098c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>it displease Him,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-18" style="position: relative;">And He turn away His wrath from him.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-24-19" id="en-NKJV-17099" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>Do not fret because of evildoers,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-19" style="position: relative;">Nor be envious of the wicked;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-20" id="en-NKJV-17100" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>For there will be no prospect for the evil <i>man;</i></span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-20" style="position: relative;">The lamp of the wicked will be put out.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-24-21" id="en-NKJV-17101" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>My son, fear the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">Lord</span> and the king;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-21" style="position: relative;">Do not associate with those given to change;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-22" id="en-NKJV-17102" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>For their calamity will rise suddenly,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-22" style="position: relative;">And who knows the ruin those two can bring?</span></p></div><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-24-23" id="en-NKJV-17103"><span style="font-size: small;">Further Sayings of the Wise</span></span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-24-23"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>These <i>things</i> also <i>belong</i> to the wise:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-24-23" style="position: relative;"><i>It is</i> not good to <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17103d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17103d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2024&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17103d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>show partiality in judgment.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-24" id="en-NKJV-17104" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>He who says to the wicked, “You <i>are</i> righteous,”</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-24" style="position: relative;">Him the people will curse;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-24" style="position: relative;">Nations will abhor him.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-25" id="en-NKJV-17105" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>But those who rebuke <i>the wicked</i> will have delight,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-25" style="position: relative;">And a good blessing will come upon them.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-24-26" id="en-NKJV-17106" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>He who gives a right answer kisses the lips.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-24-27" id="en-NKJV-17107" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>Prepare your outside work,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-27" style="position: relative;">Make it fit for yourself in the field;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-27" style="position: relative;">And afterward build your house.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-24-28" id="en-NKJV-17108" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-28" style="position: relative;"><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17108e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17108e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2024&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17108e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>For would you deceive with your lips?</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-29" id="en-NKJV-17109" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>Do not say, “I will do to him just as he has done to me;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-29" style="position: relative;">I will render to the man according to his work.”</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-24-30" id="en-NKJV-17110" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>I went by the field of the lazy <i>man</i>,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-30" style="position: relative;">And by the vineyard of the man devoid of understanding;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-31" id="en-NKJV-17111" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span>And there it was, all overgrown with thorns;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-31" style="position: relative;">Its surface was covered with nettles;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-31" style="position: relative;">Its stone wall was broken down.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-32" id="en-NKJV-17112" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">32 </span>When I saw <i>it,</i> I considered <i>it</i> well;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-32" style="position: relative;">I looked on <i>it and</i> received instruction:</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-33" id="en-NKJV-17113" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">33 </span>A little sleep, a little slumber,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-33" style="position: relative;">A little folding of the hands to rest;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-34" id="en-NKJV-17114" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">34 </span>So shall your poverty come <i>like</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17114f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17114f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2024&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17114f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>a prowler,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-24-34" style="position: relative;">And your need like <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17114g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17114g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2024&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17114g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>an armed man.</span></p></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>=========================</p><p><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">1st Timothy 5</span></u></b></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="text 1Tim-5-1"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">1 </span></b> Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort <i style="font-size: 16px;">him</i> as a father, younger men as brothers, </span><span class="text 1Tim-5-2" id="en-NKJV-29766" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-5-3" id="en-NKJV-29767">Honor True Widows</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-5-3"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>Honor widows who are really widows. </span><span class="text 1Tim-5-4" id="en-NKJV-29768"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and to repay their parents; for this is <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29768a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29768a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%205&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29768a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>good and acceptable before God. </span><span class="text 1Tim-5-5" id="en-NKJV-29769"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Now she who is really a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day. </span><span class="text 1Tim-5-6" id="en-NKJV-29770"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>But she who lives in <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29770b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29770b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%205&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29770b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>pleasure is dead while she lives. </span><span class="text 1Tim-5-7" id="en-NKJV-29771"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>And these things command, that they may be blameless. </span><span class="text 1Tim-5-8" id="en-NKJV-29772"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-5-9" id="en-NKJV-29773"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>Do not let a widow under sixty years old be taken into the number, <i>and not unless</i> she has been the wife of one man, </span><span class="text 1Tim-5-10" id="en-NKJV-29774"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>well reported for good works: if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-5-11" id="en-NKJV-29775"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>But <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29775c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29775c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%205&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29775c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>refuse <i>the</i> younger widows; for when they have begun to grow wanton against Christ, they desire to marry, </span><span class="text 1Tim-5-12" id="en-NKJV-29776"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>having condemnation because they have cast off their first <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29776d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29776d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%205&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29776d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>faith. </span><span class="text 1Tim-5-13" id="en-NKJV-29777"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>And besides they learn <i>to be</i> idle, wandering about from house to house, and not only idle but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not. </span><span class="text 1Tim-5-14" id="en-NKJV-29778"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>Therefore I desire that <i>the</i> younger <i>widows</i> marry, bear children, manage the house, give no opportunity to the adversary to speak reproachfully. </span><span class="text 1Tim-5-15" id="en-NKJV-29779"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>For some have already turned aside after Satan. </span><span class="text 1Tim-5-16" id="en-NKJV-29780"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>If any believing <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29780e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29780e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%205&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29780e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>man or woman has widows, let them <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29780f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29780f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%205&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29780f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>relieve them, and do not let the church be burdened, that it may relieve those who are really widows.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-5-17" id="en-NKJV-29781">Honor the Elders</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-5-17"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and doctrine. </span><span class="text 1Tim-5-18" id="en-NKJV-29782"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>For the Scripture says, <span class="oblique">“You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain,”</span> and, <span class="woj">“The laborer <i>is</i> worthy of his wages.”</span> </span><span class="text 1Tim-5-19" id="en-NKJV-29783"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>Do not receive an accusation against an elder except from two or three witnesses. </span><span class="text 1Tim-5-20" id="en-NKJV-29784"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>Those who are sinning rebuke in the presence of all, that the rest also may fear.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-5-21" id="en-NKJV-29785"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>I charge <i>you</i> before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29785g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29785g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%205&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29785g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>elect angels that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing with partiality. </span><span class="text 1Tim-5-22" id="en-NKJV-29786"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>Do not lay hands on anyone hastily, nor share in other people’s sins; keep yourself pure.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-5-23" id="en-NKJV-29787"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29787h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29787h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%205&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29787h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span>infirmities.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-5-24" id="en-NKJV-29788"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>Some men’s sins are clearly evident, preceding <i>them</i> to judgment, but those of some <i>men</i> follow later. </span><span class="text 1Tim-5-25" id="en-NKJV-29789"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>Likewise, the good works <i>of some</i> are clearly evident, and those that are otherwise cannot be hidden.</span></p>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-29447259654345493582023-09-28T16:34:00.000-04:002023-09-28T16:34:05.329-04:00Today's Readings and Stuff -- Thursday, 28 September 2023<p> Well, I am making another effort to get this under way again. Hope to, anyway.</p><p>As I've mentioned in previous posts, I frequently -- ok, normally -- wake up with a hymn or "spiritual song' in mind. An lets not go down the road of arguing which is which or whatever: I've been through that and hear, frequently, the disputes. But this morning I awoke to "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ake2dSxNock" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Take The Name of Jesus With You"</a> playing. It's a good one, a VERY good one, and not hears -- or lived out -- often enough. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>===================</p><p style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Isaiah 57</b></span></u></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><div class="poetry" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Isa-57-1" style="position: relative;">The righteous perishes,</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-1" style="position: relative;">And no man takes <i>it</i> to heart;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-1" style="position: relative;">Merciful men <i>are</i> taken away,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-1" style="position: relative;">While no one considers</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-1" style="position: relative;">That the righteous is taken away from <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18767a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18767a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2057&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18767a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>evil.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-2" id="en-NKJV-18768" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>He shall enter into peace;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-2" style="position: relative;">They shall rest in their beds,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-2" style="position: relative;"><i>Each one</i> walking <i>in</i> his uprightness.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-57-3" id="en-NKJV-18769" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>“But come here,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-3" style="position: relative;">You sons of the sorceress,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-3" style="position: relative;">You offspring of the adulterer and the harlot!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-4" id="en-NKJV-18770" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Whom do you ridicule?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-4" style="position: relative;">Against whom do you make a wide mouth</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-4" style="position: relative;"><i>And</i> stick out the tongue?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-4" style="position: relative;"><i>Are</i> you not children of transgression,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-4" style="position: relative;">Offspring of falsehood,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-5" id="en-NKJV-18771" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Inflaming yourselves with gods under every green tree,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-5" style="position: relative;">Slaying the children in the valleys,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-5" style="position: relative;">Under the clefts of the rocks?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-6" id="en-NKJV-18772" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>Among the smooth <i>stones</i> of the stream</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-6" style="position: relative;"><i>Is</i> your portion;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-6" style="position: relative;">They, they, <i>are</i> your lot!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-6" style="position: relative;">Even to them you have poured a drink offering,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-6" style="position: relative;">You have offered a grain offering.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-6" style="position: relative;">Should I receive comfort in these?</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-57-7" id="en-NKJV-18773" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>“On a lofty and high mountain</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-7" style="position: relative;">You have set your bed;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-7" style="position: relative;">Even there you went up</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-7" style="position: relative;">To offer sacrifice.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-8" id="en-NKJV-18774" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Also behind the doors and their posts</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-8" style="position: relative;">You have set up your remembrance;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-8" style="position: relative;">For you have uncovered yourself <i>to those other</i> than Me,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-8" style="position: relative;">And have gone up to them;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-8" style="position: relative;">You have enlarged your bed</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-8" style="position: relative;">And <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18774b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18774b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2057&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18774b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>made <i>a covenant</i> with them;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-8" style="position: relative;">You have loved their bed,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-8" style="position: relative;">Where you saw <i>their</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18774c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18774c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2057&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18774c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>nudity.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-9" id="en-NKJV-18775" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>You went to the king with ointment,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-9" style="position: relative;">And increased your perfumes;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-9" style="position: relative;">You sent your messengers far off,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-9" style="position: relative;">And <i>even</i> descended to Sheol.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-10" id="en-NKJV-18776" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>You are wearied in the length of your way;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-10" style="position: relative;"><i>Yet</i> you did not say, ‘There is no hope.’</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-10" style="position: relative;">You have found the life of your hand;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-10" style="position: relative;">Therefore you were not grieved.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-57-11" id="en-NKJV-18777" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>“And of whom have you been afraid, or feared,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-11" style="position: relative;">That you have lied</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-11" style="position: relative;">And not remembered Me,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-11" style="position: relative;">Nor taken <i>it</i> to your heart?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-11" style="position: relative;">Is it not because I have <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18777d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18777d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2057&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18777d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>held My peace from of old</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-11" style="position: relative;">That you do not fear Me?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-12" id="en-NKJV-18778" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>I will declare your righteousness</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-12" style="position: relative;">And your works,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-12" style="position: relative;">For they will not profit you.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-13" id="en-NKJV-18779" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>When you cry out,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-13" style="position: relative;">Let your collection <i>of idols</i> deliver you.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-13" style="position: relative;">But the wind will carry them all away,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-13" style="position: relative;">A breath will take <i>them.</i></span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-13" style="position: relative;">But he who puts his trust in Me shall possess the land,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-13" style="position: relative;">And shall inherit My holy mountain.”</span></p></div><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-57-14" id="en-NKJV-18780"><span style="font-size: small;">Healing for the Backslider</span></span></h3><div class="poetry" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-57-14" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>And one shall say,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-14" style="position: relative;">“Heap it up! Heap it up!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-14" style="position: relative;">Prepare the way,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-14" style="position: relative;">Take the stumbling block out of the way of My people.”</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-57-15" id="en-NKJV-18781" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>For thus says the High and Lofty One</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-15" style="position: relative;">Who inhabits eternity, whose name <i>is</i> Holy:</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-15" style="position: relative;">“I dwell in the high and holy <i>place,</i></span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-15" style="position: relative;">With him <i>who</i> has a contrite and humble spirit,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-15" style="position: relative;">To revive the spirit of the humble,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-15" style="position: relative;">And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-16" id="en-NKJV-18782" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>For I will not contend forever,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-16" style="position: relative;">Nor will I always be angry;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-16" style="position: relative;">For the spirit would fail before Me,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-16" style="position: relative;">And the souls <i>which</i> I have made.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-17" id="en-NKJV-18783" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>For the iniquity of his covetousness</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-17" style="position: relative;">I was angry and struck him;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-17" style="position: relative;">I hid and was angry,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-17" style="position: relative;">And he went on <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18783e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18783e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2057&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18783e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>backsliding in the way of his heart.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-18" id="en-NKJV-18784" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>I have seen his ways, and will heal him;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-18" style="position: relative;">I will also lead him,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-18" style="position: relative;">And restore comforts to him</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-18" style="position: relative;">And to his mourners.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-57-19" id="en-NKJV-18785" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>“I create the fruit of the lips:</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-19" style="position: relative;">Peace, peace to <i>him who is</i> far off and to <i>him who is</i> near,”</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-19" style="position: relative;">Says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-19" style="position: relative;">“And I will heal him.”</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-20" id="en-NKJV-18786" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>But the wicked <i>are</i> like the troubled sea,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-20" style="position: relative;">When it cannot rest,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-20" style="position: relative;">Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-57-21" id="en-NKJV-18787" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>“<i>There</i> <i>is</i> no peace,”</span><br /><span class="text Isa-57-21" style="position: relative;">Says my God, “for the wicked.”</span></p></div></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Isaiah 58</span></u></b></p><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="poetry" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Isa-58-1" style="position: relative;">“Cry aloud, <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18788a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18788a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2058&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18788a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>spare not;</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-1" style="position: relative;">Lift up your voice like a trumpet;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-1" style="position: relative;">Tell My people their transgression,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-1" style="position: relative;">And the house of Jacob their sins.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-2" id="en-NKJV-18789" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>Yet they seek Me daily,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-2" style="position: relative;">And delight to know My ways,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-2" style="position: relative;">As a nation that did righteousness,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-2" style="position: relative;">And did not forsake the ordinance of their God.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-2" style="position: relative;">They ask of Me the ordinances of justice;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-2" style="position: relative;">They take delight in approaching God.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-3" id="en-NKJV-18790" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>‘Why have we fasted,’ <i>they say,</i> ‘and You have not seen?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-3" style="position: relative;"><i>Why</i> have we afflicted our souls, and You take no notice?’</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-58-3" style="position: relative;">“In fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-3" style="position: relative;">And <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18790b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18790b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2058&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18790b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>exploit all your laborers.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-4" id="en-NKJV-18791" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Indeed you fast for strife and debate,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-4" style="position: relative;">And to strike with the fist of wickedness.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-4" style="position: relative;">You will not fast as <i>you do</i> this day,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-4" style="position: relative;">To make your voice heard on high.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-5" id="en-NKJV-18792" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Is it a fast that I have chosen,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-5" style="position: relative;">A day for a man to afflict his soul?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-5" style="position: relative;"><i>Is it</i> to bow down his head like a bulrush,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-5" style="position: relative;">And to spread out sackcloth and ashes?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-5" style="position: relative;">Would you call this a fast,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-5" style="position: relative;">And an acceptable day to the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>?</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-58-6" id="en-NKJV-18793" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>“<i>Is</i> this not the fast that I have chosen:</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-6" style="position: relative;">To loose the bonds of wickedness,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-6" style="position: relative;">To undo the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18793c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18793c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2058&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18793c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>heavy burdens,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-6" style="position: relative;">To let the oppressed go free,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-6" style="position: relative;">And that you break every yoke?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-7" id="en-NKJV-18794" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span><i>Is it</i> not to share your bread with the hungry,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-7" style="position: relative;">And that you bring to your house the poor who are <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18794d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18794d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2058&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18794d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>cast out;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-7" style="position: relative;">When you see the naked, that you cover him,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-7" style="position: relative;">And not hide yourself from your own flesh?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-8" id="en-NKJV-18795" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Then your light shall break forth like the morning,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-8" style="position: relative;">Your healing shall spring forth speedily,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-8" style="position: relative;">And your righteousness shall go before you;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-8" style="position: relative;">The glory of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> shall be your rear guard.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-9" id="en-NKJV-18796" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>Then you shall call, and the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> will answer;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-9" style="position: relative;">You shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I <i>am.</i>’</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-58-9" style="position: relative;">“If you take away the yoke from your midst,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-9" style="position: relative;">The <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18796e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18796e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2058&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18796e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-10" id="en-NKJV-18797" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span><i>If</i> you extend your soul to the hungry</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-10" style="position: relative;">And satisfy the afflicted soul,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-10" style="position: relative;">Then your light shall dawn in the darkness,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-10" style="position: relative;">And your <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18797f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18797f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2058&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18797f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>darkness shall <i>be</i> as the noonday.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-11" id="en-NKJV-18798" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> will guide you continually,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-11" style="position: relative;">And satisfy your soul in drought,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-11" style="position: relative;">And strengthen your bones;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-11" style="position: relative;">You shall be like a watered garden,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-11" style="position: relative;">And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-12" id="en-NKJV-18799" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Those from among you</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-12" style="position: relative;">Shall build the old waste places;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-12" style="position: relative;">You shall raise up the foundations of many generations;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-12" style="position: relative;">And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-12" style="position: relative;">The Restorer of <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18799g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18799g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2058&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18799g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>Streets to Dwell In.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-58-13" id="en-NKJV-18800" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-13" style="position: relative;"><i>From</i> doing your pleasure on My holy day,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-13" style="position: relative;">And call the Sabbath a delight,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-13" style="position: relative;">The holy <i>day</i> of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> honorable,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-13" style="position: relative;">And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-13" style="position: relative;">Nor finding your own pleasure,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-13" style="position: relative;">Nor speaking <i>your own</i> words,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-14" id="en-NKJV-18801" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>Then you shall delight yourself in the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-14" style="position: relative;">And I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-14" style="position: relative;">And feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-58-14" style="position: relative;">The mouth of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> has spoken.”</span></p></div></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>==================</p><p>------------------------------====</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Proverb 23</u></b></span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Prov-23-1" id="en-CSB-17046" style="position: relative;">1 When you sit down to dine with a ruler,</span></span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-1" style="position: relative;">consider carefully what<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-17046a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-17046a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2023&version=CSB#fen-CSB-17046a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> is before you,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-2" id="en-CSB-17047" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>and put a knife to your throat</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-2" style="position: relative;">if you have a big<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-17047b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-17047b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2023&version=CSB#fen-CSB-17047b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> appetite;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-3" id="en-CSB-17048" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>don’t desire his choice food,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-3" style="position: relative;">for that food is deceptive.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-23-4" id="en-CSB-17049" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Don’t wear yourself out to get rich;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-4" style="position: relative;">because you know better, stop!</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-5" id="en-CSB-17050" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>As soon as your eyes fly to it, it disappears,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-5" style="position: relative;">for it makes wings for itself</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-5" style="position: relative;">and flies like an eagle to the sky.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-23-6" id="en-CSB-17051" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>Don’t eat a stingy person’s bread,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-17051c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-17051c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2023&version=CSB#fen-CSB-17051c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-6" style="position: relative;">and don’t desire his choice food,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-7" id="en-CSB-17052" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>for it’s like someone calculating inwardly.<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-17052d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-17052d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2023&version=CSB#fen-CSB-17052d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-7" style="position: relative;">“Eat and drink,” he says to you,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-7" style="position: relative;">but his heart is not with you.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-8" id="en-CSB-17053" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>You will vomit the little you’ve eaten</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-8" style="position: relative;">and waste your pleasant words.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-23-9" id="en-CSB-17054" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>Don’t speak to<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-17054e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-17054e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2023&version=CSB#fen-CSB-17054e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> a fool,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-9" style="position: relative;">for he will despise the insight of your words.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-23-10" id="en-CSB-17055" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>Don’t move an ancient boundary marker,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-10" style="position: relative;">and don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-11" id="en-CSB-17056" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>for their Redeemer is strong,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-11" style="position: relative;">and he will champion their cause against you.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-23-12" id="en-CSB-17057" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Apply yourself to discipline</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-12" style="position: relative;">and listen to words of knowledge.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-23-13" id="en-CSB-17058" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>Don’t withhold discipline from a youth;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-13" style="position: relative;">if you punish him with a rod, he will not die.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-14" id="en-CSB-17059" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>Punish him with a rod,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-14" style="position: relative;">and you will rescue his life from Sheol.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-23-15" id="en-CSB-17060" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>My son, if your heart is wise,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-15" style="position: relative;">my heart will indeed rejoice.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-16" id="en-CSB-17061" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>My innermost being will celebrate</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-16" style="position: relative;">when your lips say what is right.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-23-17" id="en-CSB-17062" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>Don’t let your heart envy sinners;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-17" style="position: relative;">instead, always fear the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-18" id="en-CSB-17063" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>For then you will have a future,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-18" style="position: relative;">and your hope will not be dashed.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-23-19" id="en-CSB-17064" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>Listen, my son, and be wise;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-19" style="position: relative;">keep your mind on the right course.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-20" id="en-CSB-17065" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>Don’t associate with those who drink too much wine</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-20" style="position: relative;">or with those who gorge themselves on meat.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-21" id="en-CSB-17066" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>For the drunkard and the glutton will become poor,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-21" style="position: relative;">and grogginess will clothe them in rags.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-23-22" id="en-CSB-17067" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>Listen to your father who gave you life,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-22" style="position: relative;">and don’t despise your mother when<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-17067f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-17067f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2023&version=CSB#fen-CSB-17067f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> she is old.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-23" id="en-CSB-17068" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>Buy—and do not sell—truth,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-23" style="position: relative;">wisdom, instruction, and understanding.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-24" id="en-CSB-17069" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>The father of a righteous son will rejoice greatly,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-24" style="position: relative;">and one who fathers a wise son will delight in him.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-25" id="en-CSB-17070" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>Let your father and mother have joy,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-25" style="position: relative;">and let her who gave birth to you rejoice.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-23-26" id="en-CSB-17071" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>My son, give me your heart,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-26" style="position: relative;">and let your eyes observe my ways.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-27" id="en-CSB-17072" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>For a prostitute is a deep pit,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-27" style="position: relative;">and a wayward woman is a narrow well;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-28" id="en-CSB-17073" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>indeed, she sets an ambush like a robber</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-28" style="position: relative;">and increases the number of unfaithful people.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-23-29" id="en-CSB-17074" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>Who has woe? Who has sorrow?</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-29" style="position: relative;">Who has conflicts? Who has complaints?</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-29" style="position: relative;">Who has wounds for no reason?</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-29" style="position: relative;">Who has red eyes?</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-30" id="en-CSB-17075" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>Those who linger over wine;</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-30" style="position: relative;">those who go looking for mixed wine.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-31" id="en-CSB-17076" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span>Don’t gaze at wine because it is red,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-31" style="position: relative;">because it gleams in the cup</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-31" style="position: relative;">and goes down smoothly.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-32" id="en-CSB-17077" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">32 </span>In the end it bites like a snake</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-32" style="position: relative;">and stings like a viper.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-33" id="en-CSB-17078" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">33 </span>Your eyes will see strange things,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-33" style="position: relative;">and you will say absurd things.<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-17078g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-17078g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2023&version=CSB#fen-CSB-17078g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-34" id="en-CSB-17079" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">34 </span>You’ll be like someone sleeping out at sea</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-34" style="position: relative;">or lying down on the top of a ship’s mast.</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-35" id="en-CSB-17080" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">35 </span>“They struck me, but<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-17080h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-17080h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2023&version=CSB#fen-CSB-17080h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span> I feel no pain!</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-35" style="position: relative;">They beat me, but I didn’t know it!</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-35" style="position: relative;">When will I wake up?</span><br /><span class="text Prov-23-35" style="position: relative;">I’ll look for another drink.”</span></p></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>====================</p><p>=================</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">1 Timothy 4</span></u></b></p><p class="first-line-none chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-4-1">Now the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will depart from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons, </span><span class="text 1Tim-4-2" id="en-CSB-29733"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared. </span><span class="text 1Tim-4-3" id="en-CSB-29734"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>They forbid marriage and demand abstinence from foods that God created to be received with gratitude by those who believe and know the truth. </span><span class="text 1Tim-4-4" id="en-CSB-29735"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, </span><span class="text 1Tim-4-5" id="en-CSB-29736"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>since it is sanctified by the word of God and by prayer.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-4-6" id="en-CSB-29737">A Good Servant of Jesus Christ</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-4-6"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>If you point these things out to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of the faith and the good teaching that you have followed. </span><span class="text 1Tim-4-7" id="en-CSB-29738"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>But have nothing to do with pointless and silly myths. Rather, train yourself in godliness. </span><span class="text 1Tim-4-8" id="en-CSB-29739"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>For the training of the body has limited benefit, but godliness is beneficial in every way, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come. </span><span class="text 1Tim-4-9" id="en-CSB-29740"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance. </span><span class="text 1Tim-4-10" id="en-CSB-29741"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>For this reason we labor and strive,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-29741a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-29741a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%204&version=CSB#fen-CSB-29741a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> because we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-4-11" id="en-CSB-29742">Instructions for Ministry</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Tim-4-11"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Command and teach these things. </span><span class="text 1Tim-4-12" id="en-CSB-29743"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Don’t let anyone despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-29743b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-29743b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%204&version=CSB#fen-CSB-29743b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> in faith, and in purity. </span><span class="text 1Tim-4-13" id="en-CSB-29744"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>Until I come, give your attention to public reading, exhortation, and teaching. </span><span class="text 1Tim-4-14" id="en-CSB-29745"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>Don’t neglect the gift that is in you; it was given to you through prophecy, with the laying on of hands by the council of elders. </span><span class="text 1Tim-4-15" id="en-CSB-29746"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>Practice these things; be committed to them, so that your progress may be evident to all. </span><span class="text 1Tim-4-16" id="en-CSB-29747"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>Pay close attention to your life and your teaching; persevere in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers.</span></p>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-64279956456033074852023-08-04T19:34:00.002-04:002023-08-04T19:34:39.225-04:0004 August 2023. mea culpaTo repeat:<div>For reasons beyond the scope of this post, there has been a huge gap in postings. For which my apologies. No excuses are offered here, it would be pointless and inappropriate.</div><div>I do intend to resume activity, and offer apologies to all.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-24276223356397659112023-06-12T19:36:00.003-04:002023-06-12T19:36:55.367-04:00Today, 12 June 2023<p> Sincere apologies for the huge gap in activity here. I sincerely mean that.</p><p>My hope is to get things underway once more, Real Soon Now. </p>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-73374803217348926442023-01-16T19:49:00.000-05:002023-01-16T19:49:04.534-05:00 Monday, 16 January 2023<div>Another break in the action, sorry. Been some "stuff" going on here and, to use a phrase from a weird world about a hundred years ago, I'm dancing as fast as I can.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Bible texts for the last few days are good and extremely important. I can't stress that enough. Whole sermon series can and have been based upon just a few verses from them. I recommend serious and intentional and prayerful attention to them.</div><div><br /></div><div>As some know, I sometimes - not always but often -- wake up with a hymn or spiritual song in mind and it stays there much of the day. I don't know what it means, the phenomenon I mean, but it does have an affect upon my mood and thought processes for the day. Three of them are shown below: the third one in the list is the one that I woke up with. </div><div><br /></div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HofI50AD55Y" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My Faith Looks Up To Thee </a> (page 462 in the hymnal I checked yesterday)<div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ahjKfVb4Lc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I Will Sing The Wondrous Story.</a> (page 329 in that same hymnal)</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfEf1V6UDZk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I'd Rather Have Jesus</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>==========================</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">Genesis 31</span></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="first-line-none chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-31-1">Now Jacob heard what Laban’s sons were saying: “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s and has built this wealth from what belonged to our father.” </span><span class="text Gen-31-2" id="en-CSB-876"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>And Jacob saw from Laban’s face that his attitude toward him was not the same as before.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-31-3" id="en-CSB-877"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> said to him, “Go back to the land of your ancestors and to your family, and I will be with you.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-31-4" id="en-CSB-878"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Jacob had Rachel and Leah called to the field where his flocks were. </span><span class="text Gen-31-5" id="en-CSB-879"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>He said to them, “I can see from your father’s face that his attitude toward me is not the same as before, but the God of my father has been with me. </span><span class="text Gen-31-6" id="en-CSB-880"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>You know that with all my strength I have served your father </span><span class="text Gen-31-7" id="en-CSB-881"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>and that he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not let him harm me. </span><span class="text Gen-31-8" id="en-CSB-882"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>If he said, ‘The spotted sheep will be your wages,’ then all the sheep were born spotted. If he said, ‘The streaked sheep will be your wages,’ then all the sheep were born streaked. </span><span class="text Gen-31-9" id="en-CSB-883"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>God has taken away your father’s herds and given them to me.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-31-10" id="en-CSB-884"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>“When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females. </span><span class="text Gen-31-11" id="en-CSB-885"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>In that dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’ </span><span class="text Gen-31-12" id="en-CSB-886"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>And he said, ‘Look up and see: all the males that are mating with the flocks are streaked, spotted, and speckled, for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you. </span><span class="text Gen-31-13" id="en-CSB-887"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>I am the God of Bethel, where you poured oil on the stone marker and made a solemn vow to me. Get up, leave this land, and return to your native land.’”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-31-14" id="en-CSB-888"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>Then Rachel and Leah answered him, “Do we have any portion or inheritance in our father’s family? </span><span class="text Gen-31-15" id="en-CSB-889"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? For he has sold us and has certainly spent our purchase price. </span><span class="text Gen-31-16" id="en-CSB-890"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>In fact, all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has said to you.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-31-17" id="en-CSB-891"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>So Jacob got up and put his children and wives on the camels. </span><span class="text Gen-31-18" id="en-CSB-892"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>He took all the livestock and possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, and he drove his herds to go to the land of Canaan, to his father Isaac. </span><span class="text Gen-31-19" id="en-CSB-893"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols. </span><span class="text Gen-31-20" id="en-CSB-894"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>And Jacob deceived<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-894a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-894a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2031&version=CSB#fen-CSB-894a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> Laban the Aramean, not telling him that he was fleeing. </span><span class="text Gen-31-21" id="en-CSB-895"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>He fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-895b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-895b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2031&version=CSB#fen-CSB-895b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> the hill country of Gilead.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-31-22" id="en-CSB-896">Laban Overtakes Jacob</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-31-22"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>On the third day Laban was told that Jacob had fled. </span><span class="text Gen-31-23" id="en-CSB-897"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead. </span><span class="text Gen-31-24" id="en-CSB-898"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night. “Watch yourself!” God warned him. “Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-31-25" id="en-CSB-899"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>When Laban overtook Jacob, Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and his relatives also pitched their tents in the hill country of Gilead. </span><span class="text Gen-31-26" id="en-CSB-900"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and taken my daughters away like prisoners of war! </span><span class="text Gen-31-27" id="en-CSB-901"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>Why did you secretly flee from me, deceive me, and not tell me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and lyres, </span><span class="text Gen-31-28" id="en-CSB-902"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>but you didn’t even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters. You have acted foolishly. </span><span class="text Gen-31-29" id="en-CSB-903"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>I could do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Watch yourself! Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’ </span><span class="text Gen-31-30" id="en-CSB-904"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s family—but why have you stolen my gods?”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-31-31" id="en-CSB-905"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span>Jacob answered, “I was afraid, for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force. </span><span class="text Gen-31-32" id="en-CSB-906"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">32 </span>If you find your gods with anyone here, he will not live! Before our relatives, point out anything that is yours and take it.” Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-31-33" id="en-CSB-907"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">33 </span>So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, Leah’s tent, and the tents of the two concubines,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-907c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-907c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2031&version=CSB#fen-CSB-907c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> but he found nothing. When he left Leah’s tent, he went into Rachel’s tent. </span><span class="text Gen-31-34" id="en-CSB-908"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">34 </span>Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of the camel, and sat on them. Laban searched the whole tent but found nothing.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-31-35" id="en-CSB-909"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">35 </span>She said to her father, “Don’t be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence; I am having my period.” So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-31-36" id="en-CSB-910">Jacob’s Covenant with Laban</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-31-36"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">36 </span>Then Jacob became incensed and brought charges against Laban. “What is my crime?” he said to Laban. “What is my sin, that you have pursued me? </span><span class="text Gen-31-37" id="en-CSB-911"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">37 </span>You’ve searched all my possessions! Have you found anything of yours?<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-911d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-911d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2031&version=CSB#fen-CSB-911d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> Put it here before my relatives and yours, and let them decide between the two of us. </span><span class="text Gen-31-38" id="en-CSB-912"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">38 </span>I’ve been with you these twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams from your flock. </span><span class="text Gen-31-39" id="en-CSB-913"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">39 </span>I did not bring you any of the flock torn by wild beasts; I myself bore the loss. You demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or by night. </span><span class="text Gen-31-40" id="en-CSB-914"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">40 </span>There I was—the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes. </span><span class="text Gen-31-41" id="en-CSB-915"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">41 </span>For twenty years in your household I served you—fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks—and you have changed my wages ten times! </span><span class="text Gen-31-42" id="en-CSB-916"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">42 </span>If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, certainly now you would have sent me off empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and my hard work,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-916e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-916e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2031&version=CSB#fen-CSB-916e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> and he issued his verdict last night.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-31-43" id="en-CSB-917"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">43 </span>Then Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters; the children, my children; and the flocks, my flocks! Everything you see is mine! But what can I do today for these daughters of mine or for the children they have borne? </span><span class="text Gen-31-44" id="en-CSB-918"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">44 </span>Come now, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be a witness between the two of us.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-31-45" id="en-CSB-919"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">45 </span>So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a marker. </span><span class="text Gen-31-46" id="en-CSB-920"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">46 </span>Then Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a mound, then ate there by the mound. </span><span class="text Gen-31-47" id="en-CSB-921"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">47 </span>Laban named the mound Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob named it Galeed.<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-921f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-921f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2031&version=CSB#fen-CSB-921f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-31-48" id="en-CSB-922"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">48 </span>Then Laban said, “This mound is a witness between you and me today.” Therefore the place was called Galeed </span><span class="text Gen-31-49" id="en-CSB-923"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">49 </span>and also Mizpah,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-923g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-923g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2031&version=CSB#fen-CSB-923g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> for he said, “May the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> watch between you and me when we are out of each other’s sight. </span><span class="text Gen-31-50" id="en-CSB-924"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">50 </span>If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, though no one is with us, understand that God will be a witness between you and me.” </span><span class="text Gen-31-51" id="en-CSB-925"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">51 </span>Laban also said to Jacob, “Look at this mound and the marker I have set up between you and me. </span><span class="text Gen-31-52" id="en-CSB-926"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">52 </span>This mound is a witness and the marker is a witness that I will not pass beyond this mound to you, and you will not pass beyond this mound and this marker to do me harm. </span><span class="text Gen-31-53" id="en-CSB-927"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">53 </span>The God of Abraham, and the gods of Nahor—the gods of their father<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-927h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-927h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2031&version=CSB#fen-CSB-927h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span>—will judge between us.” And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac. </span><span class="text Gen-31-54" id="en-CSB-928"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">54 </span>Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. So they ate a meal and spent the night on the mountain. </span><span class="text Gen-31-55" id="en-CSB-929"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">55 </span>Laban got up early in the morning, kissed his grandchildren and daughters, and blessed them. Then Laban left to return home.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-CSB-894a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2031&version=CSB#en-CSB-894" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 31:20">31:20</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit <em>And he stole the heart of</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-895b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2031&version=CSB#en-CSB-895" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 31:21">31:21</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit <em>and set his face to</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-907c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2031&version=CSB#en-CSB-907" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 31:33">31:33</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit <em>servants</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-911d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2031&version=CSB#en-CSB-911" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 31:37">31:37</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit <em>What have you found from all of the possessions of your house?</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-916e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2031&version=CSB#en-CSB-916" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 31:42">31:42</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit <em>and the work of my hands</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-921f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2031&version=CSB#en-CSB-921" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 31:47">31:47</a> <span class="footnote-text"><em>Jegar-sahadutha</em> is Aramaic, and <em>Galeed</em> is Hb; both names = Mound of Witness</span></li><li id="fen-CSB-923g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2031&version=CSB#en-CSB-923" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 31:49">31:49</a> <span class="footnote-text">= Watchtower</span></li><li id="fen-CSB-927h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2031&version=CSB#en-CSB-927" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 31:53">31:53</a> <span class="footnote-text">Two Hb mss, LXX omit <em>the gods of their father</em></span></li></ol></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">Genesis 32</span></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="first-line-none chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-32-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-size: 2.4rem; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">32 </span>Jacob went on his way, and God’s angels met him. </span><span class="text Gen-32-2" id="en-CSB-931"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s camp.” So he called that place Mahanaim.<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-931a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-931a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2032&version=CSB#fen-CSB-931a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-32-3" id="en-CSB-932"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the territory of Edom. </span><span class="text Gen-32-4" id="en-CSB-933"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>He commanded them, “You are to say to my lord Esau, ‘This is what your servant Jacob says. I have been staying with Laban and have been delayed until now. </span><span class="text Gen-32-5" id="en-CSB-934"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, and male and female slaves. I have sent this message to inform my lord, in order to seek your favor.’”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-32-6" id="en-CSB-935"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau; he is coming to meet you—and he has four hundred men with him.” </span><span class="text Gen-32-7" id="en-CSB-936"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; he divided the people with him into two camps, along with the flocks, herds, and camels. </span><span class="text Gen-32-8" id="en-CSB-937"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>He thought, “If Esau comes to one camp and attacks it, the remaining one can escape.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-32-9" id="en-CSB-938"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>Then Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> who said to me, ‘Go back to your land and to your family, and I will cause you to prosper,’ </span><span class="text Gen-32-10" id="en-CSB-939"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. Indeed, I crossed over the Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two camps. </span><span class="text Gen-32-11" id="en-CSB-940"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Please rescue me from my brother Esau, for I am afraid of him; otherwise, he may come and attack me, the mothers, and their children. </span><span class="text Gen-32-12" id="en-CSB-941"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>You have said, ‘I will cause you to prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to be counted.’”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-32-13" id="en-CSB-942"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>He spent the night there and took part of what he had brought with him as a gift for his brother Esau: </span><span class="text Gen-32-14" id="en-CSB-943"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>two hundred female goats, twenty male goats, two hundred ewes, twenty rams, </span><span class="text Gen-32-15" id="en-CSB-944"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>thirty milk camels with their young, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys, and ten male donkeys. </span><span class="text Gen-32-16" id="en-CSB-945"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>He entrusted them to his slaves as separate herds and said to them, “Go on ahead of me, and leave some distance between the herds.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-32-17" id="en-CSB-946"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>And he told the first one, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘Who do you belong to? Where are you going? And whose animals are these ahead of you?’ </span><span class="text Gen-32-18" id="en-CSB-947"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>then tell him, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau. And look, he is behind us.’”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-32-19" id="en-CSB-948"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>He also told the second one, the third, and everyone who was walking behind the animals, “Say the same thing to Esau when you find him. </span><span class="text Gen-32-20" id="en-CSB-949"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I want to appease Esau with the gift that is going ahead of me. After that, I can face him, and perhaps he will forgive me.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-32-21" id="en-CSB-950"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>So the gift was sent on ahead of him while he remained in the camp that night. </span><span class="text Gen-32-22" id="en-CSB-951"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two slave women, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of Jabbok. </span><span class="text Gen-32-23" id="en-CSB-952"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-32-24" id="en-CSB-953">Jacob Wrestles with God</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-32-24"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. </span><span class="text Gen-32-25" id="en-CSB-954"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>When the man saw that he could not defeat him, he struck Jacob’s hip socket as they wrestled and dislocated his hip. </span><span class="text Gen-32-26" id="en-CSB-955"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>Then he said to Jacob, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-32-26">But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-32-27" id="en-CSB-956"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>“What is your name?” the man asked.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-32-27">“Jacob,” he replied.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-32-28" id="en-CSB-957"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>“Your name will no longer be Jacob,” he said. “It will be Israel<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-957b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-957b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2032&version=CSB#fen-CSB-957b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-32-29" id="en-CSB-958"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-32-29">But he answered, “Why do you ask my name?” And he blessed him there.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-32-30" id="en-CSB-959"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>Jacob then named the place Peniel,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-959c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-959c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2032&version=CSB#fen-CSB-959c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> “For I have seen God face to face,” he said, “yet my life has been spared.” </span><span class="text Gen-32-31" id="en-CSB-960"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span>The sun shone on him as he passed by Penuel<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-960d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-960d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2032&version=CSB#fen-CSB-960d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>—limping because of his hip. </span><span class="text Gen-32-32" id="en-CSB-961"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">32 </span>That is why, still today, the Israelites don’t eat the thigh muscle that is at the hip socket: because he struck Jacob’s hip socket at the thigh muscle.<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-961e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-961e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2032&version=CSB#fen-CSB-961e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span></span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-CSB-931a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2032&version=CSB#en-CSB-931" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 32:2">32:2</a> <span class="footnote-text">= Two Camps</span></li><li id="fen-CSB-957b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2032&version=CSB#en-CSB-957" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 32:28">32:28</a> <span class="footnote-text">In Hb, the name <em>Israel</em> sounds like “he struggled (with) God.”</span></li><li id="fen-CSB-959c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2032&version=CSB#en-CSB-959" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 32:30">32:30</a> <span class="footnote-text">= Face of God</span></li><li id="fen-CSB-960d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2032&version=CSB#en-CSB-960" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 32:31">32:31</a> <span class="footnote-text">Variant of <em>Peniel</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-961e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2032&version=CSB#en-CSB-961" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 32:32">32:32</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>tendon</em></span></li></ol></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>====================</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Psalm 11</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-11-1">Refuge in the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span></h3><h4 class="psalm-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-11-1">For the choir director. Of David.</span></h4><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-11-1" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">1 </span><b>1</b> I have taken refuge in the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-11-1" style="position: relative;">How can you say to me,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-11-1" style="position: relative;">“Escape to the mountains<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-14061a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-14061a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2011&version=CSB#fen-CSB-14061a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> like a bird!</span><br /><span class="text Ps-11-2" id="en-CSB-14062" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>For look, the wicked string bows;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-11-2" style="position: relative;">they put their arrows on bowstrings</span><br /><span class="text Ps-11-2" style="position: relative;">to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-11-3" id="en-CSB-14063" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>When the foundations are destroyed,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-11-3" style="position: relative;">what can the righteous do?”</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-11-4" id="en-CSB-14064" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> is in his holy temple;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-11-4" style="position: relative;">the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>—his throne is in heaven.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-11-4" style="position: relative;">His eyes watch;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-11-4" style="position: relative;">his gaze<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-14064b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-14064b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2011&version=CSB#fen-CSB-14064b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> examines everyone.<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-14064c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-14064c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2011&version=CSB#fen-CSB-14064c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-11-5" id="en-CSB-14065" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> examines the righteous,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-11-5" style="position: relative;">but he hates the wicked</span><br /><span class="text Ps-11-5" style="position: relative;">and<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-14065d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-14065d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2011&version=CSB#fen-CSB-14065d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> those who love violence.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-11-6" id="en-CSB-14066" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>Let him rain burning coals<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-14066e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-14066e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2011&version=CSB#fen-CSB-14066e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> and sulfur on the wicked;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-11-6" style="position: relative;">let a scorching wind be the portion in their cup.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-11-7" id="en-CSB-14067" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>For the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> is righteous; he loves righteous deeds.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-11-7" style="position: relative;">The upright will see his face.</span></p></div><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-CSB-14061a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2011&version=CSB#en-CSB-14061" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Psalm 11:1">11:1</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit <em>your mountain</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-14064b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2011&version=CSB#en-CSB-14064" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Psalm 11:4">11:4</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit <em>eyelids</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-14064c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2011&version=CSB#en-CSB-14064" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Psalm 11:4">11:4</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>examines the descendants of Adam</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-14065d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2011&version=CSB#en-CSB-14065" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Psalm 11:5">11:5</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>righteous and the wicked, and he hates</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-14066e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2011&version=CSB#en-CSB-14066" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Psalm 11:6">11:6</a> <span class="footnote-text">Sym; MT reads <em>rain snares, fire</em></span></li></ol></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>==========================</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u>Matthew 11</u></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="first-line-none chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-11-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-size: 2.4rem; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">1 </span>When Jesus had finished giving instructions to his twelve disciples, he moved on from there to teach and preach in their towns. </span><span class="text Matt-11-2" id="en-CSB-23462"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>Now when John heard in prison what the Christ was doing, he sent a message through his disciples </span><span class="text Matt-11-3" id="en-CSB-23463"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>and asked him, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we expect someone else?”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-11-4" id="en-CSB-23464"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Jesus replied to them, <span class="woj">“Go and report to John what you hear and see:</span> </span><span class="text Matt-11-5" id="en-CSB-23465"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span><span class="woj">The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, those with leprosy</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23465a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23465a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2011&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23465a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> <span class="woj">are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor are told the good news,</span> </span><span class="text Matt-11-6" id="en-CSB-23466"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span><span class="woj">and blessed is the one who isn’t offended by me.”</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-11-7" id="en-CSB-23467"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>As these men were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: <span class="woj">“What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swaying in the wind?</span> </span><span class="text Matt-11-8" id="en-CSB-23468"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span><span class="woj">What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothes? See, those who wear soft clothes are in royal palaces.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-11-9" id="en-CSB-23469"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span><span class="woj">What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-11-10" id="en-CSB-23470"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span><span class="woj">This is the one about whom it is written:</span></span></p><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><i><span class="text Matt-11-10" style="position: relative;"><span class="woj"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you;</span></span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-11-10" style="position: relative;"><span class="woj"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">he will prepare your way before you.</span></span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23470b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23470b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2011&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23470b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></i></p></div><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-11-11" id="en-CSB-23471"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span><span class="woj">“Truly I tell you, among those born of women no one greater than John the Baptist has appeared,</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23471c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23471c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2011&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23471c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> <span class="woj">but the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-11-12" id="en-CSB-23472"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span><span class="woj">From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been suffering violence,</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23472d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23472d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2011&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23472d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> <span class="woj">and the violent have been seizing it by force.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-11-13" id="en-CSB-23473"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span><span class="woj">For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-11-14" id="en-CSB-23474"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span><span class="woj">And if you’re willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who is to come.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-11-15" id="en-CSB-23475"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span><span class="woj">Let anyone who has ears</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23475e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23475e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2011&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23475e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> <span class="woj">listen.</span></span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-11-16" id="en-CSB-23476">An Unresponsive Generation</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-11-16"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span><span class="woj">“To what should I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to other children:</span></span></p><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-11-17" id="en-CSB-23477" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span><span class="woj"><i>We played the flute for you,</i></span></span><i><br /><span class="text Matt-11-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="woj">but you didn’t dance;</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-11-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="woj">we sang a lament,</span></span><br /></i><span class="text Matt-11-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="woj"><i>but you didn’t mourn!</i></span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23477f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23477f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2011&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23477f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span></span></p></div><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-11-18" id="en-CSB-23478"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span><span class="woj">For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’</span> </span><span class="text Matt-11-19" id="en-CSB-23479"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span><span class="woj">The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard,</span> <span class="woj">a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’</span> <span class="woj">Yet wisdom is vindicated</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23479g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23479g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2011&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23479g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> <span class="woj">by her deeds.”</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23479h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23479h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2011&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23479h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-11-20" id="en-CSB-23480"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>Then he proceeded to denounce the towns where most of his miracles were done, because they did not repent: </span><span class="text Matt-11-21" id="en-CSB-23481"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span><span class="woj">“Woe to you, Chorazin!</span> <span class="woj">Woe to you, Bethsaida!</span> <span class="woj">For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon,</span> <span class="woj">they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes long ago.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-11-22" id="en-CSB-23482"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span><span class="woj">But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment</span> <span class="woj">than for you.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-11-23" id="en-CSB-23483"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span><span class="woj">And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will go down to Hades.</span> <span class="woj">For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until today.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-11-24" id="en-CSB-23484"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span><span class="woj">But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”</span></span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-11-25" id="en-CSB-23485">The Son Gives Knowledge and Rest</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-11-25"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>At that time Jesus said, <span class="woj">“I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-11-26" id="en-CSB-23486"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span><span class="woj">Yes, Father, because this was your good pleasure.</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23486i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23486i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2011&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23486i" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span> </span><span class="text Matt-11-27" id="en-CSB-23487"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span><span class="woj">All things have been entrusted to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son desires</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23487j" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23487j" title="See footnote j">j</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2011&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23487j" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote j">j</a>]</span> <span class="woj">to reveal him.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-11-28" id="en-CSB-23488"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span><span class="woj">“Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-11-29" id="en-CSB-23489"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span><span class="woj">Take up my yoke and learn from me,</span> <span class="woj">because I am lowly and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-11-30" id="en-CSB-23490"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span><span class="woj">For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”</span></span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-CSB-23465a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2011&version=CSB#en-CSB-23465" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 11:5">11:5</a> <span class="footnote-text">Gk <em>lepros</em>; a term for various skin diseases; see Lv 13–14</span></li><li id="fen-CSB-23470b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2011&version=CSB#en-CSB-23470" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 11:10">11:10</a> <span class="footnote-text">Mal 3:1</span></li><li id="fen-CSB-23471c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2011&version=CSB#en-CSB-23471" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 11:11">11:11</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit <em>arisen</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-23472d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2011&version=CSB#en-CSB-23472" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 11:12">11:12</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>has been forcefully advancing</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-23475e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2011&version=CSB#en-CSB-23475" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 11:15">11:15</a> <span class="footnote-text">Other mss add <em>to hear</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-23477f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2011&version=CSB#en-CSB-23477" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 11:17">11:17</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>beat your chests in grief</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-23479g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2011&version=CSB#en-CSB-23479" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 11:19">11:19</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>declared right</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-23479h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2011&version=CSB#en-CSB-23479" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 11:19">11:19</a> <span class="footnote-text">Other mss read <em>children</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-23486i" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2011&version=CSB#en-CSB-23486" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 11:26">11:26</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit <em>was well-pleasing in your sight</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-23487j" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2011&version=CSB#en-CSB-23487" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 11:27">11:27</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>wills</em>, or <em>chooses</em></span></li></ol></div></div>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-32007266088205241392023-01-11T16:36:00.002-05:002023-01-11T16:36:43.042-05:00Today's Readings and Stuff -- Wednesday, 11 January 2023<p> Greetings to all. Hoping that all is well with all who stop in.</p><p><br /></p><p>=============</p><p>Our reading today in the Old Testament is chapters 21 and 22 in the Genesis.</p><p>This is one of those "hit hard" passages for me, perhaps for you as well. Can you imagine the Lord commanding you to kill your son, the one you'd prayed for for decades, and to sacrifice him on an altar? I can't imagine anything more mind-shattering than that. But then, the Lord was just asking Abraham to do something that will be followed by the Son of God being sacrificed. Two of the most significant episodes since Creation. And not over yet.</p><p><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Genesis 21</span></u></b></p><p class="first-line-none chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-21-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1</span></span><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-size: 2.4rem; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;"> </span>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> came to Sarah as he had said, and the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> did for Sarah what he had promised. </span><span class="text Gen-21-2" id="en-CSB-516" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time God had told him. </span><span class="text Gen-21-3" id="en-CSB-517" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>Abraham named his son who was born to him—the one Sarah bore to him—Isaac. </span><span class="text Gen-21-4" id="en-CSB-518" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him. </span><span class="text Gen-21-5" id="en-CSB-519" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-21-6" id="en-CSB-520"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears will laugh with me.”<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-520a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-520a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2021&version=CSB#fen-CSB-520a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> </span><span class="text Gen-21-7" id="en-CSB-521"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>She also said, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne a son for him<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-521b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-521b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2021&version=CSB#fen-CSB-521b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> in his old age.”</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-21-8" id="en-CSB-522">Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-21-8"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned. </span><span class="text Gen-21-9" id="en-CSB-523"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>But Sarah saw the son mocking—the one Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham. </span><span class="text Gen-21-10" id="en-CSB-524"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>So she said to Abraham, “Drive out this slave with her son, for the son of this slave will not be a coheir with my son Isaac!”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-21-11" id="en-CSB-525"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>This was very distressing to<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-525c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-525c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2021&version=CSB#fen-CSB-525c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> Abraham because of his son. </span><span class="text Gen-21-12" id="en-CSB-526"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-526d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-526d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2021&version=CSB#fen-CSB-526d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> about the boy and about your slave. Whatever Sarah says to you, listen to her, because your offspring will be traced through Isaac, </span><span class="text Gen-21-13" id="en-CSB-527"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>and I will also make a nation of the slave’s son because he is your offspring.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-21-14" id="en-CSB-528"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>Early in the morning Abraham got up, took bread and a waterskin, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her and the boy away. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beer-sheba. </span><span class="text Gen-21-15" id="en-CSB-529"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes </span><span class="text Gen-21-16" id="en-CSB-530"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>and went and sat at a distance, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I can’t bear to watch the boy die!” While she sat at a distance, she<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-530e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-530e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2021&version=CSB#fen-CSB-530e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> wept loudly.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-21-17" id="en-CSB-531"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>God heard the boy crying, and the<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-531f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-531f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2021&version=CSB#fen-CSB-531f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What’s wrong, Hagar? Don’t be afraid, for God has heard the boy crying from the place where he is. </span><span class="text Gen-21-18" id="en-CSB-532"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>Get up, help the boy up, and grasp his hand, for I will make him a great nation.” </span><span class="text Gen-21-19" id="en-CSB-533"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well. So she went and filled the waterskin and gave the boy a drink. </span><span class="text Gen-21-20" id="en-CSB-534"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>God was with the boy, and he grew; he settled in the wilderness and became an archer. </span><span class="text Gen-21-21" id="en-CSB-535"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>He settled in the Wilderness of Paran, and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-21-22" id="en-CSB-536">Abraham’s Covenant with Abimelech</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-21-22"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>At that time Abimelech, accompanied by Phicol the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do. </span><span class="text Gen-21-23" id="en-CSB-537"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>Swear to me by God here and now, that you will not break an agreement with me or with my children and descendants. As I have been loyal to you, so you will be loyal to me and to the country where you are a resident alien.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-21-24" id="en-CSB-538"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>And Abraham said, “I swear it.” </span><span class="text Gen-21-25" id="en-CSB-539"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>But Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-21-26" id="en-CSB-540"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>Abimelech replied, “I don’t know who did this thing. You didn’t report anything to me, so I hadn’t heard about it until today.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-21-27" id="en-CSB-541"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>Abraham took flocks and herds and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made a covenant. </span><span class="text Gen-21-28" id="en-CSB-542"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>Abraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock. </span><span class="text Gen-21-29" id="en-CSB-543"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>And Abimelech said to Abraham, “Why have you separated these seven ewe lambs?”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-21-30" id="en-CSB-544"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from me so that this act<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-544g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-544g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2021&version=CSB#fen-CSB-544g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> will serve as my witness that I dug this well.” </span><span class="text Gen-21-31" id="en-CSB-545"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span>Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-545h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-545h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2021&version=CSB#fen-CSB-545h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span> because it was there that the two of them swore an oath. </span><span class="text Gen-21-32" id="en-CSB-546"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">32 </span>After they had made a covenant at Beer-sheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, left and returned to the land of the Philistines.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-21-33" id="en-CSB-547"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">33 </span>Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called on the name of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, the Everlasting God. </span><span class="text Gen-21-34" id="en-CSB-548"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">34 </span>And Abraham lived as an alien in the land of the Philistines for many days.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-CSB-520a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2021&version=CSB#en-CSB-520" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 21:6">21:6</a> <span class="footnote-text">Isaac = He Laughs; Gn 17:19</span></li><li id="fen-CSB-521b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2021&version=CSB#en-CSB-521" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 21:7">21:7</a> <span class="footnote-text">Sam, Tg Jonathan; MT omits <em>him</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-525c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2021&version=CSB#en-CSB-525" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 21:11">21:11</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit <em>was very bad in the eyes of</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-526d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2021&version=CSB#en-CSB-526" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 21:12">21:12</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit <em>“Let it not be bad in your eyes</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-530e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2021&version=CSB#en-CSB-530" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 21:16">21:16</a> <span class="footnote-text">LXX reads <em>the boy</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-531f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2021&version=CSB#en-CSB-531" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 21:17">21:17</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>an</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-544g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2021&version=CSB#en-CSB-544" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 21:30">21:30</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit <em>that it</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-545h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2021&version=CSB#en-CSB-545" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 21:31">21:31</a> <span class="footnote-text">= Well of the Oath, or Seven Wells</span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Genesis 22</p><p class="first-line-none chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-22-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1</span></span><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-size: 2.4rem; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;"> </span>After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-22-1">“Here I am,” he answered.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-22-2" id="en-CSB-550"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>“Take your son,” he said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-22-3" id="en-CSB-551"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>So Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took with him two of his young men and his son Isaac. He split wood for a burnt offering and set out to go to the place God had told him about. </span><span class="text Gen-22-4" id="en-CSB-552"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. </span><span class="text Gen-22-5" id="en-CSB-553"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there to worship; then we’ll come back to you.” </span><span class="text Gen-22-6" id="en-CSB-554"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac. In his hand he took the fire and the knife, and the two of them walked on together.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-22-7" id="en-CSB-555"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>Then Isaac spoke to his father Abraham and said, “My father.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-22-7">And he replied, “Here I am, my son.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-22-7">Isaac said, “The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-22-8" id="en-CSB-556"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Abraham answered, “God himself will provide<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-556a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-556a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2022&version=CSB#fen-CSB-556a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” Then the two of them walked on together.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-22-9" id="en-CSB-557"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>When they arrived at the place that God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-557b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-557b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2022&version=CSB#fen-CSB-557b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> and placed him on the altar on top of the wood. </span><span class="text Gen-22-10" id="en-CSB-558"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>Then Abraham reached out and took the knife to slaughter his son.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-22-11" id="en-CSB-559"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>But the angel of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-22-11">He replied, “Here I am.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-22-12" id="en-CSB-560"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Then he said, “Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.” </span><span class="text Gen-22-13" id="en-CSB-561"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>Abraham looked up and saw a ram<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-561c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-561c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2022&version=CSB#fen-CSB-561c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> caught in the thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son. </span><span class="text Gen-22-14" id="en-CSB-562"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>And Abraham named that place The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> Will Provide,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-562d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-562d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2022&version=CSB#fen-CSB-562d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> so today it is said, “It will be provided<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-562e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-562e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2022&version=CSB#fen-CSB-562e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> on the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>’s mountain.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-22-15" id="en-CSB-563"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>Then the angel of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> called to Abraham a second time from heaven </span><span class="text Gen-22-16" id="en-CSB-564"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>and said, “By myself I have sworn,” this is the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>’s declaration: “Because you have done this thing and have not withheld your only son, </span><span class="text Gen-22-17" id="en-CSB-565"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>I will indeed bless you and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the city gates of their<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-565f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-565f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2022&version=CSB#fen-CSB-565f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> enemies. </span><span class="text Gen-22-18" id="en-CSB-566"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>And all the nations of the earth will be blessed<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-566g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-566g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2022&version=CSB#fen-CSB-566g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> by your offspring because you have obeyed my command.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-22-19" id="en-CSB-567"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>Abraham went back to his young men, and they got up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham settled in Beer-sheba.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-22-20" id="en-CSB-568">Rebekah’s Family</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-22-20"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>Now after these things Abraham was told, “Milcah also has borne sons to your brother Nahor: </span><span class="text Gen-22-21" id="en-CSB-569"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>Uz his firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel the father of Aram, </span><span class="text Gen-22-22" id="en-CSB-570"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.” </span><span class="text Gen-22-23" id="en-CSB-571"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>And Bethuel fathered Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight to Nahor, Abraham’s brother. </span><span class="text Gen-22-24" id="en-CSB-572"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-CSB-556a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2022&version=CSB#en-CSB-556" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 22:8">22:8</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit <em>see</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-557b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2022&version=CSB#en-CSB-557" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 22:9">22:9</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>Isaac hand and foot</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-561c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2022&version=CSB#en-CSB-561" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 22:13">22:13</a> <span class="footnote-text">Some Hb mss, Sam, LXX, Syr, Tg; other Hb mss read <em>saw behind him a ram</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-562d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2022&version=CSB#en-CSB-562" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 22:14">22:14</a> <span class="footnote-text">= <em>Yahweh-yireh</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-562e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2022&version=CSB#en-CSB-562" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 22:14">22:14</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>“He will be seen</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-565f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2022&version=CSB#en-CSB-565" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 22:17">22:17</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit <em>his</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-566g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2022&version=CSB#en-CSB-566" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 22:18">22:18</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>will consider themselves blessed</em>, or <em>will find blessing</em></span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>=================</p><p>Psalm 8</p><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-8-1" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">1 </span><span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><b>1</b> Lord</span>, our Lord,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-1" style="position: relative;">how magnificent is your name throughout the earth!</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-1" style="position: relative;">You have covered the heavens with your majesty.<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-14014a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-14014a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%208&version=CSB#fen-CSB-14014a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-2" id="en-CSB-14015" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>From the mouths of infants and nursing babies,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-2" style="position: relative;">you have established a stronghold<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-14015b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-14015b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%208&version=CSB#fen-CSB-14015b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-2" style="position: relative;">on account of your adversaries</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-2" style="position: relative;">in order to silence the enemy and the avenger.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-8-3" id="en-CSB-14016" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>When I observe your heavens,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-3" style="position: relative;">the work of your fingers,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-3" style="position: relative;">the moon and the stars,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-3" style="position: relative;">which you set in place,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-4" id="en-CSB-14017" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>what is a human being that you remember him,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-4" style="position: relative;">a son of man<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-14017c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-14017c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%208&version=CSB#fen-CSB-14017c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> that you look after him?</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-5" id="en-CSB-14018" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>You made him little less than God<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-14018d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-14018d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%208&version=CSB#fen-CSB-14018d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-14018e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-14018e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%208&version=CSB#fen-CSB-14018e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-5" style="position: relative;">and crowned him with glory and honor.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-6" id="en-CSB-14019" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>You made him ruler over the works of your hands;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-6" style="position: relative;">you put everything under his feet:</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-7" id="en-CSB-14020" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>all the sheep and oxen,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-7" style="position: relative;">as well as the animals in the wild,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-8" id="en-CSB-14021" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>the birds of the sky,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-8" style="position: relative;">and the fish of the sea</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-8" style="position: relative;">that pass through the currents of the seas.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-8-9" id="en-CSB-14022" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span><span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, our Lord,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-8-9" style="position: relative;">how magnificent is your name throughout the earth!</span></p></div><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-CSB-14014a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%208&version=CSB#en-CSB-14014" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Psalm 8:1">8:1</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit <em>earth, which has set your splendor upon the heavens</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-14015b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%208&version=CSB#en-CSB-14015" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Psalm 8:2">8:2</a> <span class="footnote-text">LXX reads <em>established praise</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-14017c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%208&version=CSB#en-CSB-14017" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Psalm 8:4">8:4</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>a mere mortal</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-14018d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%208&version=CSB#en-CSB-14018" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Psalm 8:5">8:5</a> <span class="footnote-text">LXX reads <em>angels</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-14018e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%208&version=CSB#en-CSB-14018" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Psalm 8:5">8:5</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>heavenly beings</em>; Hb <i class="transliteration">Elohim</i></span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>===============</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Matthew 8</span></b></p><p class="first-line-none chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-8-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">1</span><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;"> </span>When he came down from the mountain, large crowds followed him. </span><span class="text Matt-8-2" id="en-CSB-23348" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>Right away a man with leprosy<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23348a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23348a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23348a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> came up and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-8-3" id="en-CSB-23349"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>Reaching out his hand, Jesus touched him, saying, <span class="woj">“I am willing; be made clean.”</span> Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. </span><span class="text Matt-8-4" id="en-CSB-23350"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Then Jesus told him, <span class="woj">“See that you don’t tell anyone;</span> <span class="woj">but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”</span></span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-8-5" id="en-CSB-23351">A Centurion’s Faith</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-8-5"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>When he entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, pleading with him, </span><span class="text Matt-8-6" id="en-CSB-23352"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>“Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, in terrible agony.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-8-7" id="en-CSB-23353"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>He said to him, <span class="woj">“Am I to come and heal him?”</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23353b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23353b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23353b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-8-8" id="en-CSB-23354"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>“Lord,” the centurion replied, “I am not worthy to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed. </span><span class="text Matt-8-9" id="en-CSB-23355"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>For I too am a man under authority, having soldiers under my command.<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23355c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23355c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23355c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-8-10" id="en-CSB-23356"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>Hearing this, Jesus was amazed and said to those following him, <span class="woj">“Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with so great a faith.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-8-11" id="en-CSB-23357"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span><span class="woj">I tell you that many will come from east and west to share the banquet</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23357d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23357d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23357d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> <span class="woj">with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-8-12" id="en-CSB-23358"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span><span class="woj">But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”</span> </span><span class="text Matt-8-13" id="en-CSB-23359"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>Then Jesus told the centurion, <span class="woj">“Go. As you have believed,</span> <span class="woj">let it be done for you.”</span> And his servant was healed that very moment.<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23359e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23359e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23359e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span></span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-8-14" id="en-CSB-23360">Healings at Capernaum</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-8-14"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>Jesus went into Peter’s house and saw his mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever. </span><span class="text Matt-8-15" id="en-CSB-23361"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>So he touched her hand, and the fever left her. Then she got up and began to serve him. </span><span class="text Matt-8-16" id="en-CSB-23362"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>When evening came, they brought to him many who were demon-possessed. He drove out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick, </span><span class="text Matt-8-17" id="en-CSB-23363"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>so that what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:</span></p><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><i><span class="text Matt-8-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">He himself took our weaknesses</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-8-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">and carried our diseases.</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23363f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23363f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23363f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span></span></i></p></div><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-8-18" id="en-CSB-23364">The Cost of Following Jesus</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-8-18"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>When Jesus saw a large crowd<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23364g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23364g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23364g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> around him, he gave the order to go to the other side of the sea. </span><span class="text Matt-8-19" id="en-CSB-23365"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>A scribe approached him and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-8-20" id="en-CSB-23366"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>Jesus told him, <span class="woj">“Foxes have dens, and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man</span> <span class="woj">has no place to lay his head.”</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-8-21" id="en-CSB-23367"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>“Lord,” another of his disciples said, “first let me go bury my father.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-8-22" id="en-CSB-23368"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>But Jesus told him, <span class="woj">“Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”</span></span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-8-23" id="en-CSB-23369">Wind and Waves Obey Jesus</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-8-23"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>As he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. </span><span class="text Matt-8-24" id="en-CSB-23370"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>Suddenly, a violent storm arose on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves—but Jesus kept sleeping. </span><span class="text Matt-8-25" id="en-CSB-23371"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>So the disciples came and woke him up, saying, “Lord, save us! We’re going to die!”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-8-26" id="en-CSB-23372"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>He said to them, <span class="woj">“Why are you afraid, you of little faith?”</span> Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-8-27" id="en-CSB-23373"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the sea obey him!”</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-8-28" id="en-CSB-23374">Demons Driven Out by Jesus</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-8-28"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>When he had come to the other side, to the region of the Gadarenes,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23374h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23374h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23374h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span> two demon-possessed men met him as they came out of the tombs. They were so violent that no one could pass that way. </span><span class="text Matt-8-29" id="en-CSB-23375"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>Suddenly they shouted, “What do you have to do with us,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23375i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23375i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23375i" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span> Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-8-30" id="en-CSB-23376"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>A long way off from them, a large herd of pigs was feeding. </span><span class="text Matt-8-31" id="en-CSB-23377"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span>“If you drive us out,” the demons begged him, “send us into the herd of pigs.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-8-32" id="en-CSB-23378"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">32 </span><span class="woj">“Go!”</span> he told them. So when they had come out, they entered the pigs, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and perished in the water. </span><span class="text Matt-8-33" id="en-CSB-23379"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">33 </span>Then the men who tended them fled. They went into the city and reported everything, especially what had happened to those who were demon-possessed. </span><span class="text Matt-8-34" id="en-CSB-23380"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">34 </span>At that, the whole town went out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged him to leave their region.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-CSB-23348a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208&version=CSB#en-CSB-23348" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 8:2">8:2</a> <span class="footnote-text">Gk <em>lepros</em>; a term for various skin diseases, also in v. 3; see Lv 13–14</span></li><li id="fen-CSB-23353b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208&version=CSB#en-CSB-23353" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 8:7">8:7</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>“I will come and heal him.”</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-23355c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208&version=CSB#en-CSB-23355" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 8:9">8:9</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit <em>under me</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-23357d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208&version=CSB#en-CSB-23357" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 8:11">8:11</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit <em>recline at the table</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-23359e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208&version=CSB#en-CSB-23359" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 8:13">8:13</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>that hour</em>; lit <em>very hour</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-23363f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208&version=CSB#en-CSB-23363" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 8:17">8:17</a> <span class="footnote-text">Is 53:4</span></li><li id="fen-CSB-23364g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208&version=CSB#en-CSB-23364" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 8:18">8:18</a> <span class="footnote-text">Other mss read <em>saw large crowds</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-23374h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208&version=CSB#en-CSB-23374" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 8:28">8:28</a> <span class="footnote-text">Other mss read <em>Gergesenes</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-23375i" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208&version=CSB#en-CSB-23375" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 8:29">8:29</a> <span class="footnote-text">Other mss add <em>Jesus</em></span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-86336399234730336622023-01-07T17:50:00.001-05:002023-01-07T17:50:19.567-05:00Today's Readings and Stuff -- Saturday, 7 January 2023<p> A good day to all who stop by here. Welcome!</p><p>Yesterday's effort was more than a bit disjointed. Had some issues going on in the background and got overwhelmed by some of what was going on, the implications of some of the texts adding to that. There are those who choose to bypass most of the Old Testament as it seems to (and does, often) contradict what they choose to believe. And, yes, some of it can run at odds with what our culture often chooses to revere. Oh, well.</p><p>I'm not going to attempt a recovery of those texts, but I strongly recommend that any reading this do so. It's important, and those accounts have more than a little to do with the world in which we live.</p><p>=======================</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">Genesis 13</span></u></b></p><p class="first-line-none chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-13-1"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">1 </span></b>Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev—he, his wife, and all he had, and Lot with him. </span><span class="text Gen-13-2" id="en-CSB-321" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold. </span><span class="text Gen-13-3" id="en-CSB-322" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>He went by stages from the Negev to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been, </span><span class="text Gen-13-4" id="en-CSB-323" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>to the site where he had built the altar. And Abram called on the name of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> there.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-13-5" id="en-CSB-324"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents. </span><span class="text Gen-13-6" id="en-CSB-325"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>But the land was unable to support them as long as they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they could not stay together, </span><span class="text Gen-13-7" id="en-CSB-326"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>and there was quarreling between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. (At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land.)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-13-8" id="en-CSB-327"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>So Abram said to Lot, “Please, let’s not have quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, since we are relatives. </span><span class="text Gen-13-9" id="en-CSB-328"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>Isn’t the whole land before you? Separate from me: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-13-10" id="en-CSB-329"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>Lot looked out and saw that the entire plain<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-329a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-329a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2013&version=CSB#fen-CSB-329a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> of the Jordan as far as Zoar was well watered everywhere like the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>’s garden and the land of Egypt. (This was before the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) </span><span class="text Gen-13-11" id="en-CSB-330"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>So Lot chose the entire plain of the Jordan for himself. Then Lot journeyed eastward, and they separated from each other. </span><span class="text Gen-13-12" id="en-CSB-331"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot lived in the cities on the plain and set up his tent near Sodom. </span><span class="text Gen-13-13" id="en-CSB-332"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>(Now the men of Sodom were evil, sinning immensely<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-332b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-332b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2013&version=CSB#fen-CSB-332b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> against the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-13-14" id="en-CSB-333"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>After Lot had separated from him, the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> said to Abram, “Look from the place where you are. Look north and south, east and west, </span><span class="text Gen-13-15" id="en-CSB-334"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>for I will give you and your offspring<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-334c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-334c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2013&version=CSB#fen-CSB-334c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> forever all the land that you see. </span><span class="text Gen-13-16" id="en-CSB-335"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted. </span><span class="text Gen-13-17" id="en-CSB-336"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>Get up and walk around the land, through its length and width, for I will give it to you.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-13-18" id="en-CSB-337"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-CSB-329a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2013&version=CSB#en-CSB-329" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 13:10">13:10</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit <em>circle</em>; i.e., probably the large round plain where the Jordan River empties into the Dead Sea, also in v. 11</span></li><li id="fen-CSB-332b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2013&version=CSB#en-CSB-332" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 13:13">13:13</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit <em>evil and sinful</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-334c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2013&version=CSB#en-CSB-334" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 13:15">13:15</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit <em>seed</em></span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Genesis 14</span></u></b></p><p class="first-line-none chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-14-1"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">1 </span></b> In those days King Amraphel of Shinar, King Arioch of Ellasar, King Chedorlaomer of Elam, and King Tidal of Goiim<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-338a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-338a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2014&version=CSB#fen-CSB-338a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> </span><span class="text Gen-14-2" id="en-CSB-339" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>waged war against King Bera of Sodom, King Birsha of Gomorrah, King Shinab of Admah, and King Shemeber of Zeboiim, as well as the king of Bela (that is, Zoar). </span><span class="text Gen-14-3" id="en-CSB-340" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>All of these came as allies to the Siddim Valley (that is, the Dead Sea). </span><span class="text Gen-14-4" id="en-CSB-341" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>They were subject to Chedorlaomer for twelve years, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled. </span><span class="text Gen-14-5" id="en-CSB-342" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim, </span><span class="text Gen-14-6" id="en-CSB-343" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>and the Horites in the mountains of Seir, as far as El-paran by the wilderness. </span><span class="text Gen-14-7" id="en-CSB-344" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>Then they came back to invade En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they defeated the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-14-8" id="en-CSB-345"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out and lined up for battle in the Siddim Valley </span><span class="text Gen-14-9" id="en-CSB-346"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>against King Chedorlaomer of Elam, King Tidal of Goiim, King Amraphel of Shinar, and King Arioch of Ellasar—four kings against five. </span><span class="text Gen-14-10" id="en-CSB-347"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>Now the Siddim Valley contained many asphalt pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-347b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-347b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2014&version=CSB#fen-CSB-347b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> but the rest fled to the mountains. </span><span class="text Gen-14-11" id="en-CSB-348"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>The four kings took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food and went on. </span><span class="text Gen-14-12" id="en-CSB-349"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>They also took Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, for he was living in Sodom, and they went on.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-14-13" id="en-CSB-350"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>One of the survivors came and told Abram the Hebrew, who lived near the oaks belonging to Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and the brother of Aner. They were bound by a treaty with Abram. </span><span class="text Gen-14-14" id="en-CSB-351"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>When Abram heard that his relative had been taken prisoner, he assembled<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-351c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-351c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2014&version=CSB#fen-CSB-351c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> his 318 trained men, born in his household, and they went in pursuit as far as Dan. </span><span class="text Gen-14-15" id="en-CSB-352"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>And he and his servants deployed against them by night, defeated them, and pursued them as far as Hobah to the north of Damascus. </span><span class="text Gen-14-16" id="en-CSB-353"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>He brought back all the goods and also his relative Lot and his goods, as well as the women and the other people.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-14-17" id="en-CSB-354">Melchizedek’s Blessing</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-14-17"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>After Abram returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the Shaveh Valley (that is, the King’s Valley). </span><span class="text Gen-14-18" id="en-CSB-355"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>Melchizedek, king of Salem,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-355d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-355d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2014&version=CSB#fen-CSB-355d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> brought out bread and wine; he was a priest to God Most High. </span><span class="text Gen-14-19" id="en-CSB-356"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>He blessed him and said:</span></p><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-14-19" style="position: relative;">Abram is blessed by God Most High,</span><br /><span class="text Gen-14-19" style="position: relative;">Creator<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-356e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-356e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2014&version=CSB#fen-CSB-356e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> of heaven and earth,</span><br /><span class="text Gen-14-20" id="en-CSB-357" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>and blessed be God Most High</span><br /><span class="text Gen-14-20" style="position: relative;">who has handed over your enemies to you.</span></p></div><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-14-20">And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-14-21" id="en-CSB-358"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, but take the possessions for yourself.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-14-22" id="en-CSB-359"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand in an oath to the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth, </span><span class="text Gen-14-23" id="en-CSB-360"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>that I will not take a thread or sandal strap or anything that belongs to you, so you can never say, ‘I made Abram rich.’ </span><span class="text Gen-14-24" id="en-CSB-361"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>I will take nothing except what the servants have eaten. But as for the share of the men who came with me—Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre—they can take their share.”</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-CSB-338a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2014&version=CSB#en-CSB-338" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 14:1">14:1</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>nations</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-347b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2014&version=CSB#en-CSB-347" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 14:10">14:10</a> <span class="footnote-text">Sam, LXX; MT reads <em>fell there</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-351c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2014&version=CSB#en-CSB-351" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 14:14">14:14</a> <span class="footnote-text">Sam; MT reads <em>poured out</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-355d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2014&version=CSB#en-CSB-355" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 14:18">14:18</a> <span class="footnote-text">= Jerusalem</span></li><li id="fen-CSB-356e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2014&version=CSB#en-CSB-356" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Genesis 14:19">14:19</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>Possessor</em></span></li></ol></div>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-29098178304062285782023-01-06T19:46:00.002-05:002023-01-06T19:46:30.970-05:00a new year begins, and already running way late. Sorry. So this covers January 1 through 6, 2023Nominee for "song of the month" is one I woke to Monday morning and it is still there. Haven't sung it or even heard it sung in a long time. But it speaks to me. "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HgZcqpaw7E" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart</i></a>". Sing along, and think about the words. This is a <b><u>very</u></b> important matter. This is one of those songs/hymns that is a worthy prayer, a good sign I think.<div><br /><div><ol style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="first" style="list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Spirit of God, descend upon my heart;</i></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Wean it from earth; through all its pulses move.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Stoop to my weakness, mighty as Thou art,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>And make me love Thee as I ought to love.</i></div></i></li><li style="list-style-type: none; margin-top: 1em;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Hast Thou not bid me love Thee, God and King?</i></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><i>All, all Thine own, soul, heart and strength and mind.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>I see Thy cross; there teach my heart to cling:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Oh, let me seek Thee, and, oh, let me find!</i></div></i></li><li style="list-style-type: none; margin-top: 1em;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh;</i></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh;</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.</i></div></i></li><li style="list-style-type: none; margin-top: 1em;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Teach me to love Thee as Thine angels love,</i></div><i><div style="text-align: center;"><i>One holy passion filling all my frame;</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The kindling of the heav’n-descended Dove,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>My heart an altar, and Thy love the flame.</i></div></i></li></ol></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>But there is another that has been resonating for the last few <u>months,</u> an important matter that we need to address. <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k22uFPUUmFI&t=10s" target="_blank">Knowing You</a>. </i>The first stanza in particular.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><b><span jsname="YS01Ge">All I once held dear, <u>built my life upon</u></span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">All this world reveres, and wars to own</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">All I once thought gain I have counted loss</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Spent and worthless now, compared to this</span></b></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Knowing You, Jesus</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Knowing You</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">There is no greater thing</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You're my all, You're the best</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You're my joy, my righteousness</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And I love You, Lord</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Yeah-yeah</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Now my heart's desire is to know You more</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">To be found in You and known as Yours</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">To possess by faith what I could not earn</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">All-surpassing gift of righteousness</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Knowing You, Jesus</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Knowing You</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">There is no greater thing</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You're my all, You're the best</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You're my joy, my righteousness</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And I love You, Lord</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Oh, to know the power of Your risen life</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And to know You in Your sufferings</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">To become like You in Your death, my Lord</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">So with You to live and never die</span></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Knowing You, Jesus</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Knowing You</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">There is no greater thing</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You're my all, You're the best</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You're my joy, my righteousness</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You're my all, You're the best</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You're my joy, my righteousness</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You're my all, You're the best</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You're my joy, my righteousness</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And I love You, Lord</span></div><div class="ujudUb WRZytc" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">You're my all, You're the best</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You're my joy, my righteousness</span><br aria-hidden="true" /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And I love You, Lord</span></div></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>This touches me personally, and I think it is critical to our mission and our awareness of many of the issues we see. Where do you put our reliance? Other than the Lord of course. I can not overstate the importance of the issue. Living where I do, and considering all that I have been through since childhood, so many of those things we thought we could rely upon, fell apart. Health, jobs, relationships, circumstances. I see, daily, examples of this. And, yes, I have been guilty of this as well. Very much so.</div><div>We see the issue on all sides. If we don't direct attention to the Lord, why are we here?</div><div><br /></div><div>========================</div></div><div>As stated above, this is very late going up. I don't want to overload everyone with the volume of VERY important Scripture that was on the schedule, but I don't want to overlook any. So please forgive me for the amount. It's all important, all of it created echoes that we see in our world today, if we take the trouble to look. So please invest the time needed. Please.</div><div><br /></div><div>==============================</div><div>Genesis 1-12</div><div><br /></div><div><h1 class="passage-display" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; width: 451.615px;"><div aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="listbox" aria-labelledby="dropdown-7fb90" class="bcv d-container go2538389840" id="dropdown-7fb90" role="button" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 16px 0px 0px; min-width: auto; position: relative;"><div class="dropdown-display" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 0%; justify-content: space-between; min-width: 0px; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><div class="dropdown-display-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Genesis 1</span></div><div class="dropdown-display-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div></div><div class="clearfix" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 16px 0px 0px; min-width: auto; position: relative;"></div></h1><div class="passage-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 1.7em; margin-top: 50px; min-width: 0px;"><div class="passage-content passage-class-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-width: 0px;"><div class="version-CSB result-text-style-normal text-html" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-width: 0px;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.5rem; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-1-1"><br /></span></h3><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.5rem; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-1-1" id="en-CSB-1">The Creation</span></h3><p class="first-line-none chapter-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-1-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-size: 2.4rem; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">1</span><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;"> </span>In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-1a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-1a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201&version=CSB#fen-CSB-1a" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-1-2" id="en-CSB-2"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. </span><span class="text Gen-1-3" id="en-CSB-3"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. </span><span class="text Gen-1-4" id="en-CSB-4"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness. </span><span class="text Gen-1-5" id="en-CSB-5"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” There was an evening, and there was a morning: one day.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-1-6" id="en-CSB-6"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>Then God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, separating water from water.” </span><span class="text Gen-1-7" id="en-CSB-7"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above the expanse. And it was so. </span><span class="text Gen-1-8" id="en-CSB-8"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>God called the expanse “sky.”<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-8b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-8b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201&version=CSB#fen-CSB-8b" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> Evening came and then morning: the second day.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-1-9" id="en-CSB-9"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. </span><span class="text Gen-1-10" id="en-CSB-10"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>God called the dry land “earth,” and the gathering of the water he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good. </span><span class="text Gen-1-11" id="en-CSB-11"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Then God said, “Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds.” And it was so. </span><span class="text Gen-1-12" id="en-CSB-12"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. </span><span class="text Gen-1-13" id="en-CSB-13"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>Evening came and then morning: the third day.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-1-14" id="en-CSB-14"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night. They will serve as signs for seasons<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-14c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-14c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201&version=CSB#fen-CSB-14c" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> and for days and years. </span><span class="text Gen-1-15" id="en-CSB-15"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>They will be lights in the expanse of the sky to provide light on the earth.” And it was so. </span><span class="text Gen-1-16" id="en-CSB-16"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night—as well as the stars. </span><span class="text Gen-1-17" id="en-CSB-17"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>God placed them in the expanse of the sky to provide light on the earth, </span><span class="text Gen-1-18" id="en-CSB-18"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>to rule the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. </span><span class="text Gen-1-19" id="en-CSB-19"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>Evening came and then morning: the fourth day.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-1-20" id="en-CSB-20"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>Then God said, “Let the water swarm with<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-20d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-20d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201&version=CSB#fen-CSB-20d" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” </span><span class="text Gen-1-21" id="en-CSB-21"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>So God created the large sea-creatures and every living creature that moves and swarms in the water, according to their kinds. He also created every winged creature according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. </span><span class="text Gen-1-22" id="en-CSB-22"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>God blessed them: “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters of the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.” </span><span class="text Gen-1-23" id="en-CSB-23"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>Evening came and then morning: the fifth day.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-1-24" id="en-CSB-24"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>Then God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that crawl, and the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. </span><span class="text Gen-1-25" id="en-CSB-25"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>So God made the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that crawl on the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-1-26" id="en-CSB-26"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>Then God said, “Let us make man<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-26e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-26e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201&version=CSB#fen-CSB-26e" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> in<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-26f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-26f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201&version=CSB#fen-CSB-26f" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> our image, according to our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth, and the creatures that crawl<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-26g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-26g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201&version=CSB#fen-CSB-26g" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> on the earth.”</span></p><div class="poetry" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-1-27" id="en-CSB-27" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>So God created man</span><br /><span class="text Gen-1-27" style="position: relative;">in his own image;</span><br /><span class="text Gen-1-27" style="position: relative;">he created him in the image of God;</span><br /><span class="text Gen-1-27" style="position: relative;">he created them male and female.</span></p></div><p class="first-line-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gen-1-28" id="en-CSB-28"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.” </span><span class="text Gen-1-29" id="en-CSB-29"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>God also said, “Look, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the surface of the entire earth and every tree whose fruit contains seed. This will be food for you, </span><span class="text Gen-1-30" id="en-CSB-30"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>for all the wildlife of the earth, for every bird of the sky, and for every creature that crawls on the earth—everything having the breath of life in it—I have given<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-30h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-30h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201&version=CSB#fen-CSB-30h" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span> every green plant for food.” And it was so. </span><span class="text Gen-1-31" id="en-CSB-31"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span>God saw all that he had made, and it was very good indeed. Evening came and then morning: the sixth day.</span></p></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>===============================</div><div>Psalm 1-5</div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="chapter" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-1-1" id="en-CSB-13941">Psalm 1</span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-1-1">The Two Ways</span></h3><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-1-1" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">1 </span>How happy is the one who does not</span><br /><span class="text Ps-1-1" style="position: relative;">walk in the advice of the wicked</span><br /><span class="text Ps-1-1" style="position: relative;">or stand in the pathway with sinners</span><br /><span class="text Ps-1-1" style="position: relative;">or sit in the company of mockers!</span><br /><span class="text Ps-1-2" id="en-CSB-13942" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>Instead, his delight is in the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>’s instruction,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-1-2" style="position: relative;">and he meditates on it day and night.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-1-3" id="en-CSB-13943" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>He is like a tree planted beside flowing streams<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-13943a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-13943a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%201&version=CSB#fen-CSB-13943a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-1-3" style="position: relative;">that bears its fruit in its season,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-1-3" style="position: relative;">and its leaf does not wither.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-1-3" style="position: relative;">Whatever he does prospers.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-1-4" id="en-CSB-13944" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>The wicked are not like this;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-1-4" style="position: relative;">instead, they are like chaff that the wind blows away.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-1-5" id="en-CSB-13945" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Therefore the wicked will not stand up in the judgment,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-1-5" style="position: relative;">nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-1-6" id="en-CSB-13946" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>For the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> watches over the way of the righteous,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-1-6" style="position: relative;">but the way of the wicked leads to ruin.</span></p></div></div><div><h3 class="chapter" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-2-1" id="en-CSB-13947">Psalm 2</span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-2-1"><span style="font-size: small;">Coronation of the Son</span></span></h3><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-2-1" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">1 </span>Why do the nations rage</span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-1" style="position: relative;">and the peoples plot in vain?</span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-2" id="en-CSB-13948" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>The kings of the earth take their stand,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-2" style="position: relative;">and the rulers conspire together</span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-2" style="position: relative;">against the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> and his Anointed One:<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-13948a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-13948a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-13948a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-3" id="en-CSB-13949" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>“Let’s tear off their chains</span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-3" style="position: relative;">and throw their ropes off of us.”</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-2-4" id="en-CSB-13950" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>The one enthroned<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-13950b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-13950b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-13950b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> in heaven laughs;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-4" style="position: relative;">the Lord ridicules them.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-5" id="en-CSB-13951" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Then he speaks to them in his anger</span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-5" style="position: relative;">and terrifies them in his wrath:</span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-6" id="en-CSB-13952" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>“I have installed my king</span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-6" style="position: relative;">on Zion, my holy mountain.”</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-2-7" id="en-CSB-13953" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>I will declare the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>’s decree.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-7" style="position: relative;">He said to me, “You are my Son;<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-13953c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-13953c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-13953c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-7" style="position: relative;">today I have become your Father.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-8" id="en-CSB-13954" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Ask of me,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-8" style="position: relative;">and I will make the nations your inheritance</span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-8" style="position: relative;">and the ends of the earth your possession.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-9" id="en-CSB-13955" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>You will break them with an iron scepter;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-9" style="position: relative;">you will shatter them like pottery.”</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-2-10" id="en-CSB-13956" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>So now, kings, be wise;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-10" style="position: relative;">receive instruction, you judges of the earth.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-11" id="en-CSB-13957" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Serve the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> with reverential awe</span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-11" style="position: relative;">and rejoice with trembling.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-12" id="en-CSB-13958" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Pay homage to<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-13958d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-13958d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-13958d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> the Son or he will be angry</span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-12" style="position: relative;">and you will perish in your rebellion,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-13958e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-13958e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-13958e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-12" style="position: relative;">for his anger may ignite at any moment.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-2-12" style="position: relative;">All who take refuge in him are happy.</span></p></div></div><div><h3 class="chapter" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-3-1" id="en-CSB-13959">Psalm 3</span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-3-1">Confidence in Troubled Times</span></h3><h4 class="psalm-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-3-1">A psalm of David when he fled from his son Absalom.</span></h4><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-3-1" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">1 </span><span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, how my foes increase!</span><br /><span class="text Ps-3-1" style="position: relative;">There are many who attack me.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-3-2" id="en-CSB-13960" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>Many say about me,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-3-2" style="position: relative;">“There is no help for him in God.”<i class="selah">Selah</i></span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-3-3" id="en-CSB-13961" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>But you, <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, are a shield around me,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-3-3" style="position: relative;">my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-3-4" id="en-CSB-13962" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>I cry aloud to the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-3-4" style="position: relative;">and he answers me from his holy mountain.<i class="selah">Selah</i></span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-3-5" id="en-CSB-13963" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>I lie down and sleep;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-3-5" style="position: relative;">I wake again because the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> sustains me.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-3-6" id="en-CSB-13964" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>I will not be afraid of thousands of people</span><br /><span class="text Ps-3-6" style="position: relative;">who have taken their stand against me on every side.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-3-7" id="en-CSB-13965" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>Rise up, <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>!</span><br /><span class="text Ps-3-7" style="position: relative;">Save me, my God!</span><br /><span class="text Ps-3-7" style="position: relative;">You strike all my enemies on the cheek;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-3-7" style="position: relative;">you break the teeth of the wicked.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-3-8" id="en-CSB-13966" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Salvation belongs to the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-3-8" style="position: relative;">may your blessing be on your people.<i class="selah">Selah</i></span></p></div></div><div><h3 class="chapter" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-4-1" id="en-CSB-13967">Psalm 4</span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-4-1">A Night Prayer</span></h3><h4 class="psalm-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-4-1">For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A psalm of David.</span></h4><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-4-1" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">1 </span>Answer me when I call,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-1" style="position: relative;">God, who vindicates me.<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-13967a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-13967a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%204&version=CSB#fen-CSB-13967a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-1" style="position: relative;">You freed me from affliction;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-1" style="position: relative;">be gracious to me and hear my prayer.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-4-2" id="en-CSB-13968" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>How long, exalted ones,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-13968b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-13968b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%204&version=CSB#fen-CSB-13968b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> will my honor be insulted?</span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-2" style="position: relative;">How long will you love what is worthless</span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-2" style="position: relative;">and pursue a lie? <i class="selah">Selah</i></span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-3" id="en-CSB-13969" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>Know that the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> has set apart</span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-3" style="position: relative;">the faithful for himself;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-3" style="position: relative;">the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> will hear when I call to him.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-4" id="en-CSB-13970" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Be angry<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-13970c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-13970c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%204&version=CSB#fen-CSB-13970c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> and do not sin;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-4" style="position: relative;">reflect in your heart while on your bed and be silent. <i class="selah">Selah</i></span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-5" id="en-CSB-13971" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Offer sacrifices in righteousness<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-13971d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-13971d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%204&version=CSB#fen-CSB-13971d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-5" style="position: relative;">and trust in the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-4-6" id="en-CSB-13972" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>Many are asking, “Who can show us anything good?”</span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-6" style="position: relative;">Let the light of your face shine on us, <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-4-7" id="en-CSB-13973" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>You have put more joy in my heart</span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-7" style="position: relative;">than they have when their grain and new wine abound.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-8" id="en-CSB-13974" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>I will both lie down and sleep in peace,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-8" style="position: relative;">for you alone, <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, make me live in safety.</span></p></div></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="chapter" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-4-1" id="en-CSB-13967">Psalm 4</span></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-4-1">A Night Prayer</span></h3><h4 class="psalm-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-4-1">For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A psalm of David.</span></h4><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-4-1" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">1 </span>Answer me when I call,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-1" style="position: relative;">God, who vindicates me.<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-13967a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-13967a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%204&version=CSB#fen-CSB-13967a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-1" style="position: relative;">You freed me from affliction;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-1" style="position: relative;">be gracious to me and hear my prayer.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-4-2" id="en-CSB-13968" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>How long, exalted ones,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-13968b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-13968b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%204&version=CSB#fen-CSB-13968b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> will my honor be insulted?</span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-2" style="position: relative;">How long will you love what is worthless</span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-2" style="position: relative;">and pursue a lie? <i class="selah">Selah</i></span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-3" id="en-CSB-13969" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>Know that the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> has set apart</span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-3" style="position: relative;">the faithful for himself;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-3" style="position: relative;">the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> will hear when I call to him.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-4" id="en-CSB-13970" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Be angry<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-13970c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-13970c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%204&version=CSB#fen-CSB-13970c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> and do not sin;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-4" style="position: relative;">reflect in your heart while on your bed and be silent. <i class="selah">Selah</i></span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-5" id="en-CSB-13971" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Offer sacrifices in righteousness<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-13971d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-13971d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%204&version=CSB#fen-CSB-13971d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-5" style="position: relative;">and trust in the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-4-6" id="en-CSB-13972" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>Many are asking, “Who can show us anything good?”</span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-6" style="position: relative;">Let the light of your face shine on us, <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-4-7" id="en-CSB-13973" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>You have put more joy in my heart</span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-7" style="position: relative;">than they have when their grain and new wine abound.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-8" id="en-CSB-13974" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>I will both lie down and sleep in peace,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-4-8" style="position: relative;">for you alone, <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, make me live in safety.</span></p></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>===============================</div><div>Matthew 1-5</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><h1 class="passage-display" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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font-size: 1.6rem; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 16px 0px 0px; min-width: auto; position: relative;"></div></h1><div class="passage-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 1.7em; margin-top: 50px; min-width: 0px;"><div class="passage-content passage-class-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-width: 0px;"><div class="version-CSB result-text-style-normal text-html" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-width: 0px;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.5rem; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-1-1"><br /></span></h3><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.5rem; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-1-1"><br /></span></h3><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.5rem; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-1-1" id="en-CSB-23146">The Genealogy of Jesus Christ</span></h3><p class="first-line-none chapter-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-1-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">1 </span>An account of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham:</span></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-1-2" id="en-CSB-23147"><span style="font-size: small;">From Abraham to David</span></span></h3><div class="list left-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 1.6rem; min-width: 0px; position: relative;"><p class="hang-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-2"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>Abraham fathered<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23147a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23147a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%201&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23147a" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> Isaac,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-2">Isaac fathered Jacob,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-2">Jacob fathered Judah and his brothers,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-3" id="en-CSB-23148"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>Judah fathered Perez and Zerah by Tamar,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-3">Perez fathered Hezron,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-3">Hezron fathered Aram,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-4" id="en-CSB-23149"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Aram fathered Amminadab,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-4">Amminadab fathered Nahshon,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-4">Nahshon fathered Salmon,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-5" id="en-CSB-23150"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Salmon fathered Boaz by Rahab,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-5">Boaz fathered Obed by Ruth,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-5">Obed fathered Jesse,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-6" id="en-CSB-23151"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>and Jesse fathered King David.</span></p></div><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-1-6"><span style="font-size: small;">From David to the Babylonian Exile</span></span></h3><div class="list left-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 1.6rem; min-width: 0px; position: relative;"><p class="hang-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-6">David fathered Solomon<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23151b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23151b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%201&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23151b" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> by Uriah’s wife,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-7" id="en-CSB-23152"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>Solomon fathered Rehoboam,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-7">Rehoboam fathered Abijah,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-7">Abijah fathered Asa,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23152c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23152c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%201&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23152c" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-8" id="en-CSB-23153"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Asa<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23153d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23153d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%201&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23153d" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> fathered Jehoshaphat,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-8">Jehoshaphat fathered Joram,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23153e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23153e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%201&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23153e" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span></span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-8">Joram fathered Uzziah,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-9" id="en-CSB-23154"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>Uzziah fathered Jotham,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-9">Jotham fathered Ahaz,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-9">Ahaz fathered Hezekiah,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-10" id="en-CSB-23155"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>Hezekiah fathered Manasseh,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-10">Manasseh fathered Amon,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23155f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23155f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%201&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23155f" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span></span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-10">Amon fathered Josiah,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-11" id="en-CSB-23156"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>and Josiah fathered Jeconiah and his brothers</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-11">at the time of the exile to Babylon.</span></p></div><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-1-12" id="en-CSB-23157"><span style="font-size: small;">From the Exile to the Messiah</span></span></h3><div class="list left-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 1.6rem; min-width: 0px; position: relative;"><p class="hang-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-12"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>After the exile to Babylon</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-12">Jeconiah fathered Shealtiel,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-12">Shealtiel fathered Zerubbabel,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-13" id="en-CSB-23158"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>Zerubbabel fathered Abiud,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-13">Abiud fathered Eliakim,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-13">Eliakim fathered Azor,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-14" id="en-CSB-23159"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>Azor fathered Zadok,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-14">Zadok fathered Achim,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-14">Achim fathered Eliud,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-15" id="en-CSB-23160"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>Eliud fathered Eleazar,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-15">Eleazar fathered Matthan,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-15">Matthan fathered Jacob,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-16" id="en-CSB-23161"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>and Jacob fathered Joseph the husband of Mary,</span></p><p class="hang-1 top-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: -0.75em; min-width: 0px; text-indent: -1em;"><span class="text Matt-1-16">who gave birth to Jesus who is called the Messiah.</span></p></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-1-17" id="en-CSB-23162"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations; and from David until the exile to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the exile to Babylon until the Messiah, fourteen generations.</span></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-1-18" id="en-CSB-23163"><span style="font-size: small;">The Nativity of the Messiah</span></span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-1-18"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>The birth of Jesus Christ came about this way: After his mother Mary had been engaged<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23163g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23163g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%201&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23163g" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> to Joseph, it was discovered before they came together that she was pregnant from the Holy Spirit. </span><span class="text Matt-1-19" id="en-CSB-23164"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>So her husband, Joseph, being a righteous man, and not wanting to disgrace her publicly, decided to divorce her secretly.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-1-20" id="en-CSB-23165"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>But after he had considered these things, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because what has been conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. </span><span class="text Matt-1-21" id="en-CSB-23166"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-1-22" id="en-CSB-23167"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>Now all this took place to fulfill what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet:</span></p><div class="poetry" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-1-23" id="en-CSB-23168" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">See, the virgin will become pregnant</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-1-23" style="position: relative;"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">and give birth to a son,</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-1-23" style="position: relative;"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">and they will name him Immanuel</span>,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23168h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23168h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%201&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23168h" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span></span></p></div><p class="first-line-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-1-23">which is translated “God is with us.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-1-24" id="en-CSB-23169"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>When Joseph woke up, he did as the Lord’s angel had commanded him. He married her </span><span class="text Matt-1-25" id="en-CSB-23170"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>but did not have sexual relations with her until she gave birth to a son.<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23170i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23170i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%201&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23170i" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span> And he named him Jesus.</span></p></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>---</div><div><br /></div><div><h1 class="passage-display" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; width: 451.615px;"><div aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="listbox" aria-labelledby="dropdown-51626" class="bcv d-container go2538389840" id="dropdown-51626" role="button" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-size: 1.6rem; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 16px 0px 0px; min-width: auto; position: relative;"><div class="dropdown-display" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 0%; justify-content: space-between; min-width: 0px; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><div class="dropdown-display-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-width: 0px;">Matthew 2</div></div></div><div aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="listbox" aria-labelledby="dropdown-b8d2" class="translation d-container go2538389840" id="dropdown-b8d2" role="button" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-size: 1.6rem; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 16px 0px 0px; min-width: auto; position: relative;"><div class="dropdown-display" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 0%; justify-content: space-between; min-width: 0px; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"><div class="dropdown-display-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 24px; font-weight: 700;">Wi</span><span style="font-size: 1.5rem; letter-spacing: 0px;">se Men Visit the King</span></div></div></div></h1><div class="passage-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 1.7em; margin-top: 50px; min-width: 0px;"><div class="passage-content passage-class-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-width: 0px;"><div class="version-CSB result-text-style-normal text-html" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-width: 0px;"><p class="first-line-none chapter-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-2-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-size: 2.4rem; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">2 </span></span></p><p class="first-line-none chapter-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-2-1">After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, wise men from the east arrived in Jerusalem, </span><span class="text Matt-2-2" id="en-CSB-23172"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star at its rising and have come to worship him.”<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23172a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23172a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23172a" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-2-3" id="en-CSB-23173"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>When King Herod heard this, he was deeply disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. </span><span class="text Matt-2-4" id="en-CSB-23174"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>So he assembled all the chief priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the Messiah would be born.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-2-5" id="en-CSB-23175"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>“In Bethlehem of Judea,” they told him, “because this is what was written by the prophet:</span></p><div class="poetry" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-2-6" id="en-CSB-23176" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">And you, Bethlehem,</span> in the land of Judah,</span><br /><span class="text Matt-2-6" style="position: relative;">are by no means <span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">least among the rulers of Judah:</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-2-6" style="position: relative;"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">Because out of you will come a ruler</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-2-6" style="position: relative;"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">who will shepherd my people Israel.</span>”<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23176b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23176b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23176b" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></p></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-2-7" id="en-CSB-23177"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>Then Herod secretly summoned the wise men and asked them the exact time the star appeared. </span><span class="text Matt-2-8" id="en-CSB-23178"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>He sent them to Bethlehem and said, “Go and search carefully for the child. When you find him, report back to me so that I too can go and worship him.”<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23178c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23178c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23178c" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-2-9" id="en-CSB-23179"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>After hearing the king, they went on their way. And there it was—the star they had seen at its rising. It led them until it came and stopped above the place where the child was. </span><span class="text Matt-2-10" id="en-CSB-23180"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>When they saw the star, they were overwhelmed with joy. </span><span class="text Matt-2-11" id="en-CSB-23181"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and falling to their knees, they worshiped him.<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23181d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23181d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23181d" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh. </span><span class="text Matt-2-12" id="en-CSB-23182"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>And being warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their own country by another route.</span></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-2-13" id="en-CSB-23183"><span style="font-size: small;">The Flight into Egypt</span></span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-2-13"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>After they were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Get up! Take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. For Herod is about to search for the child to kill him.” </span><span class="text Matt-2-14" id="en-CSB-23184"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night, and escaped to Egypt. </span><span class="text Matt-2-15" id="en-CSB-23185"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>He stayed there until Herod’s death, so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled: <span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">Out of Egypt I called my Son.</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23185e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23185e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23185e" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span></span></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-2-16" id="en-CSB-23186"><span style="font-size: small;">The Massacre of the Innocents</span></span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-2-16"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>Then Herod, when he realized that he had been outwitted by the wise men, flew into a rage. He gave orders to massacre all the boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, in keeping with the time he had learned from the wise men. </span><span class="text Matt-2-17" id="en-CSB-23187"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>Then what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-2-18" id="en-CSB-23188"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">A voice was heard in Ramah,</span></span></p><div class="poetry" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-2-18" style="position: relative;"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">weeping,</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23188f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23188f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23188f" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> <span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">and great mourning,</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-2-18" style="position: relative;"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">Rachel weeping for her children;</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-2-18" style="position: relative;"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">and she refused to be consoled,</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-2-18" style="position: relative;"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">because they are no more.</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23188g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23188g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23188g" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span></span></p></div><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-2-19" id="en-CSB-23189"><span style="font-size: small;">The Return to Nazareth</span></span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-2-19"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, </span><span class="text Matt-2-20" id="en-CSB-23190"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>saying, “Get up, take the child and his mother, and go to the land of Israel, because those who intended to kill the child are dead.” </span><span class="text Matt-2-21" id="en-CSB-23191"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>So he got up, took the child and his mother, and entered the land of Israel. </span><span class="text Matt-2-22" id="en-CSB-23192"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>But when he heard that Archelaus was ruling over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. And being warned in a dream, he withdrew to the region of Galilee. </span><span class="text Matt-2-23" id="en-CSB-23193"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>Then he went and settled in a town called Nazareth to fulfill what was spoken through the prophets, that he would be called a Nazarene.</span></p><h4 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><p class="first-line-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-2-23"></span></p><ol style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-CSB-23172a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%202&version=CSB#en-CSB-23172" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 2:2">2:2</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>to pay him homage</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-23176b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%202&version=CSB#en-CSB-23176" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 2:6">2:6</a> <span class="footnote-text">Mc 5:2</span></li><li id="fen-CSB-23178c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%202&version=CSB#en-CSB-23178" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 2:8">2:8</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>and pay him homage</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-23181d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%202&version=CSB#en-CSB-23181" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 2:11">2:11</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>they paid him homage</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-23185e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%202&version=CSB#en-CSB-23185" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 2:15">2:15</a> <span class="footnote-text">Hs 11:1</span></li><li id="fen-CSB-23188f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%202&version=CSB#en-CSB-23188" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 2:18">2:18</a> <span class="footnote-text">Other mss read <em>Ramah, lamentation, and weeping,</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-23188g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%202&version=CSB#en-CSB-23188" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Matthew 2:18">2:18</a> <span class="footnote-text">Jr 31:15</span></li></ol><div>-----</div><div><p class="first-line-none chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-3-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-size: 2.4rem; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">3 </span></span></p><p class="first-line-none chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-3-1">In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea </span><span class="text Matt-3-2" id="en-CSB-23195"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>and saying, “Repent, because the kingdom of heaven has come near!” </span><span class="text Matt-3-3" id="en-CSB-23196"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>For he is the one spoken of through the prophet Isaiah, who said:</span></p><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-3-3" style="position: relative;"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">A voice of one crying out in the wilderness:</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-3-3" style="position: relative;"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">Prepare the way for the Lord;</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-3-3" style="position: relative;"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">make his paths straight!</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23196a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23196a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%203&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23196a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></p></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-3-4" id="en-CSB-23197"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Now John had a camel-hair garment with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. </span><span class="text Matt-3-5" id="en-CSB-23198"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Then people from Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the vicinity of the Jordan were going out to him, </span><span class="text Matt-3-6" id="en-CSB-23199"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-3-7" id="en-CSB-23200"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>When he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? </span><span class="text Matt-3-8" id="en-CSB-23201"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Therefore produce fruit consistent with<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23201b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23201b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%203&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23201b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> repentance. </span><span class="text Matt-3-9" id="en-CSB-23202"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>And don’t presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones. </span><span class="text Matt-3-10" id="en-CSB-23203"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>The ax is already at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-3-11" id="en-CSB-23204"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>“I baptize you with<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23204c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23204c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%203&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23204c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> water for repentance, but the one who is coming after me is more powerful than I. I am not worthy to remove<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23204d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23204d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%203&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23204d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> his sandals. He himself will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. </span><span class="text Matt-3-12" id="en-CSB-23205"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>His winnowing shovel is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn. But the chaff he will burn with fire that never goes out.”</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-3-13" id="en-CSB-23206">The Baptism of Jesus</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-3-13"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him. </span><span class="text Matt-3-14" id="en-CSB-23207"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>But John tried to stop him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and yet you come to me?”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-3-15" id="en-CSB-23208"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>Jesus answered him, <span class="woj">“Allow it for now, because this is the way for us to fulfill all righteousness.”</span> Then John allowed him to be baptized.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-3-16" id="en-CSB-23209"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>When Jesus was baptized, he went up immediately from the water. The heavens suddenly opened for him,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23209e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23209e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%203&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23209e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming down on him. </span><span class="text Matt-3-17" id="en-CSB-23210"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>And a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased.”</span></p></div><div>---------</div><div><p class="first-line-none chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-4-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-size: 2.4rem; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">4 </span>Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. </span><span class="text Matt-4-2" id="en-CSB-23212"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>After he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. </span><span class="text Matt-4-3" id="en-CSB-23213"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>Then the tempter approached him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-4-4" id="en-CSB-23214"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>He answered, <span class="woj">“It is written: <span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.</span>”</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23214a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23214a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%204&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23214a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-4-5" id="en-CSB-23215"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Then the devil took him to the holy city, had him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, </span><span class="text Matt-4-6" id="en-CSB-23216"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written:</span></p><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-4-6" style="position: relative;"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">He will give his angels</span> <span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">orders concerning you</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Matt-4-6" style="position: relative;">and <span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">they will support you with their hands</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-4-6" style="position: relative;"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">so that you will not strike</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-4-6" style="position: relative;"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">your foot against a stone.</span>”<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23216b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23216b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%204&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23216b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></p></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-4-7" id="en-CSB-23217"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>Jesus told him, <span class="woj">“It is also written: <span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">Do not test the Lord your God.</span>”</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23217c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23217c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%204&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23217c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-4-8" id="en-CSB-23218"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. </span><span class="text Matt-4-9" id="en-CSB-23219"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>And he said to him, “I will give you all these things if you will fall down and worship me.”<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23219d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23219d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%204&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23219d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-4-10" id="en-CSB-23220"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>Then Jesus told him, <span class="woj">“Go away,</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23220e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23220e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%204&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23220e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> <span class="woj">Satan! For it is written: <span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.</span>”</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23220f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23220f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%204&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23220f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-4-11" id="en-CSB-23221"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Then the devil left him, and angels came and began to serve him.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-4-12" id="en-CSB-23222">Ministry in Galilee</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-4-12"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>When he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee. </span><span class="text Matt-4-13" id="en-CSB-23223"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>He left Nazareth and went to live in Capernaum by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali. </span><span class="text Matt-4-14" id="en-CSB-23224"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:</span></p><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-4-15" id="en-CSB-23225" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali,</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-4-15" style="position: relative;"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">along the road by the sea, beyond the Jordan,</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-4-15" style="position: relative;"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">Galilee of the Gentiles.</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-4-16" id="en-CSB-23226" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">The people who live in darkness</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-4-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">have seen a great light,</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-4-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">and for those living in the land of the shadow of death,</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-4-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">a light has dawned<span style="font-size: 1.6rem;">.</span></span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23226g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23226g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%204&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23226g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23226h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23226h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%204&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23226h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span></span></p></div><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-4-17" id="en-CSB-23227"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>From then on Jesus began to preach, <span class="woj">“Repent, because the kingdom of heaven</span> <span class="woj">has come near.”</span></span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-4-18" id="en-CSB-23228">The First Disciples</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-4-18"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>As he was walking along the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter), and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea—for they were fishermen. </span><span class="text Matt-4-19" id="en-CSB-23229"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span><span class="woj">“Follow me,”</span> he told them, <span class="woj">“and I will make you fish for</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23229i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23229i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%204&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23229i" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span> <span class="woj">people.”</span> </span><span class="text Matt-4-20" id="en-CSB-23230"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>Immediately they left their nets and followed him.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-4-21" id="en-CSB-23231"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John. They were in a boat with Zebedee their father, preparing their nets, and he called them. </span><span class="text Matt-4-22" id="en-CSB-23232"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>Immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-4-23" id="en-CSB-23233">Teaching, Preaching, and Healing</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-4-23"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>Now Jesus began to go all over Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23233j" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23233j" title="See footnote j">j</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%204&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23233j" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote j">j</a>]</span> disease and sickness<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23233k" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23233k" title="See footnote k">k</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%204&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23233k" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote k">k</a>]</span> among the people. </span><span class="text Matt-4-24" id="en-CSB-23234"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>Then the news about him spread throughout Syria. So they brought to him all those who were afflicted, those suffering from various diseases and intense pains, the demon-possessed, the epileptics, and the paralytics. And he healed them. </span><span class="text Matt-4-25" id="en-CSB-23235"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>Large crowds followed him from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan.</span></p></div><div><br /></div><div>----------</div><div><p class="first-line-none chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-5-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-size: 2.4rem; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">5 </span>When he saw the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and after he sat down, his disciples came to him. </span><span class="text Matt-5-2" id="en-CSB-23237"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>Then<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23237a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23237a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23237a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> he began to teach them, saying:</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-5-3" id="en-CSB-23238">The Beatitudes</span></h3><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-5-3" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span><span class="woj">“Blessed are the poor in spirit,</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-5-3" style="position: relative;"><span class="woj">for the kingdom of heaven</span> <span class="woj">is theirs.</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-5-4" id="en-CSB-23239" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span><span class="woj">Blessed are those who mourn,</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-5-4" style="position: relative;"><span class="woj">for they will be comforted.</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-5-5" id="en-CSB-23240" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span><span class="woj">Blessed are the humble,</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-5-5" style="position: relative;"><span class="woj">for they will inherit the earth.</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-5-6" id="en-CSB-23241" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span><span class="woj">Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-5-6" style="position: relative;"><span class="woj">for they will be filled.</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-5-7" id="en-CSB-23242" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span><span class="woj">Blessed are the merciful,</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-5-7" style="position: relative;"><span class="woj">for they will be shown mercy.</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-5-8" id="en-CSB-23243" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span><span class="woj">Blessed are the pure in heart,</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-5-8" style="position: relative;"><span class="woj">for they will see God.</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-5-9" id="en-CSB-23244" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span><span class="woj">Blessed are the peacemakers,</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-5-9" style="position: relative;"><span class="woj">for they will be called sons of God.</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-5-10" id="en-CSB-23245" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span><span class="woj">Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,</span></span><br /><span class="text Matt-5-10" style="position: relative;"><span class="woj">for the kingdom of heaven</span> <span class="woj">is theirs.</span></span></p></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-5-11" id="en-CSB-23246"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span><span class="woj">“You are blessed when they insult you and persecute you and falsely say every kind of evil against you because of me.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-12" id="en-CSB-23247"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span><span class="woj">Be glad and rejoice, because your reward is great in heaven. For that is how they persecuted</span> <span class="woj">the prophets who were before you.</span></span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-5-13" id="en-CSB-23248">Believers Are Salt and Light</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-5-13"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span><span class="woj">“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty?</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23248b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23248b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23248b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> <span class="woj">It’s no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-5-14" id="en-CSB-23249"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span><span class="woj">“You are the light of the world. A city situated on a hill cannot be hidden.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-15" id="en-CSB-23250"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span><span class="woj">No one lights a lamp</span> <span class="woj">and puts it under a basket, but rather on a lampstand, and it gives light for all who are in the house.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-16" id="en-CSB-23251"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span><span class="woj">In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.</span></span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-5-17" id="en-CSB-23252">Christ Fulfills the Law</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-5-17"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span><span class="woj">“Don’t think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-18" id="en-CSB-23253"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span><span class="woj">For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23253c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23253c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23253c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> <span class="woj">or one stroke of a letter will pass away from the law until all things are accomplished.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-19" id="en-CSB-23254"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span><span class="woj">Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever does and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-20" id="en-CSB-23255"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span><span class="woj">For I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the kingdom of heaven.</span></span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-5-21" id="en-CSB-23256">Murder Begins in the Heart</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-5-21"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span><span class="woj">“You have heard that it was said to our ancestors, <span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">Do not murder</span>,</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23256d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23256d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23256d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> <span class="woj">and whoever murders will be subject to judgment.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-22" id="en-CSB-23257"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span><span class="woj">But I tell you, everyone who is angry with his brother or sister</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23257e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23257e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23257e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> <span class="woj">will be subject to judgment. Whoever insults</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23257f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23257f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23257f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> <span class="woj">his brother or sister will be subject to the court.</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23257g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23257g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23257g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> <span class="woj">Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be subject to hellfire.</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23257h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23257h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23257h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-23" id="en-CSB-23258"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span><span class="woj">So if you are offering your gift on the altar, and there you remember that your brother or sister has something against you,</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-24" id="en-CSB-23259"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span><span class="woj">leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled with your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-25" id="en-CSB-23260"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span><span class="woj">Reach a settlement quickly with your adversary while you’re on the way with him to the court, or your adversary will hand you over to the judge, and the judge to</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23260i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23260i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23260i" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span> <span class="woj">the officer, and you will be thrown into prison.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-26" id="en-CSB-23261"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span><span class="woj">Truly I tell you, you will never get out of there until you have paid the last penny.</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23261j" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23261j" title="See footnote j">j</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23261j" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote j">j</a>]</span></span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-5-27" id="en-CSB-23262">Adultery Begins in the Heart</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-5-27"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span><span class="woj">“You have heard that it was said, <span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">Do not commit adultery.</span></span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23262k" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23262k" title="See footnote k">k</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23262k" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote k">k</a>]</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-28" id="en-CSB-23263"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span><span class="woj">But I tell you, everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-29" id="en-CSB-23264"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span><span class="woj">If your right eye causes you to sin,</span> <span class="woj">gouge it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-30" id="en-CSB-23265"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span><span class="woj">And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.</span></span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-5-31" id="en-CSB-23266">Divorce Practices Censured</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-5-31"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span><span class="woj">“It was also said, <span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">Whoever divorces</span></span> <span class="woj"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">his wife must give her a written notice of divorce.</span></span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23266l" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23266l" title="See footnote l">l</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23266l" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote l">l</a>]</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-32" id="en-CSB-23267"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">32 </span><span class="woj">But I tell you, everyone who divorces his wife, except in a case of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery. And whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.</span></span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-5-33" id="en-CSB-23268">Tell the Truth</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-5-33"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">33 </span><span class="woj">“Again, you have heard that it was said to our ancestors,<span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">You must not break your oath, but you must keep your oaths to the Lord.</span></span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23268m" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23268m" title="See footnote m">m</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23268m" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote m">m</a>]</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-34" id="en-CSB-23269"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">34 </span><span class="woj">But I tell you, don’t take an oath at all: either by heaven, because it is God’s throne;</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-35" id="en-CSB-23270"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">35 </span><span class="woj">or by the earth, because it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-36" id="en-CSB-23271"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">36 </span><span class="woj">Do not swear by your head, because you cannot make a single hair white or black.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-37" id="en-CSB-23272"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">37 </span><span class="woj">But let your ‘yes’ mean ‘yes,’ and your ‘no’ mean ‘no.’ Anything more than this is from the evil one.</span></span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-5-38" id="en-CSB-23273">Go the Second Mile</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-5-38"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">38 </span><span class="woj">“You have heard that it was said, <span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">An eye for an eye</span> and <span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">a tooth for a tooth.</span></span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23273n" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23273n" title="See footnote n">n</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23273n" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote n">n</a>]</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-39" id="en-CSB-23274"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">39 </span><span class="woj">But I tell you, don’t resist</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23274o" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23274o" title="See footnote o">o</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23274o" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote o">o</a>]</span> <span class="woj">an evildoer. On the contrary, if anyone slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-40" id="en-CSB-23275"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">40 </span><span class="woj">As for the one who wants to sue you and take away your shirt, let him have your coat as well.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-41" id="en-CSB-23276"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">41 </span><span class="woj">And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-42" id="en-CSB-23277"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">42 </span><span class="woj">Give to the one who asks you, and don’t turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.</span></span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-5-43" id="en-CSB-23278">Love Your Enemies</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Matt-5-43"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">43 </span><span class="woj">“You have heard that it was said, <span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">Love your neighbor</span></span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23278p" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23278p" title="See footnote p">p</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23278p" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote p">p</a>]</span> <span class="woj">and hate your enemy.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-44" id="en-CSB-23279"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">44 </span><span class="woj">But I tell you, love your enemies</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23279q" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23279q" title="See footnote q">q</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23279q" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote q">q</a>]</span> <span class="woj">and pray for those who</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23279r" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23279r" title="See footnote r">r</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23279r" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote r">r</a>]</span> <span class="woj">persecute you,</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-45" id="en-CSB-23280"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">45 </span><span class="woj">so that you may be</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23280s" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23280s" title="See footnote s">s</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23280s" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote s">s</a>]</span> <span class="woj">children of your Father in heaven. For he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-46" id="en-CSB-23281"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">46 </span><span class="woj">For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-47" id="en-CSB-23282"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">47 </span><span class="woj">And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what are you doing out of the ordinary?</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23282t" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23282t" title="See footnote t">t</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23282t" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote t">t</a>]</span> <span class="woj">Don’t even the Gentiles</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-23282u" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-23282u" title="See footnote u">u</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205&version=CSB#fen-CSB-23282u" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote u">u</a>]</span> <span class="woj">do the same?</span> </span><span class="text Matt-5-48" id="en-CSB-23283"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">48 </span><span class="woj">Be perfect,</span> <span class="woj">therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.</span></span></p></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-50017077137496260952022-12-03T19:34:00.000-05:002022-12-03T19:34:05.687-05:00Today's "Stuff"<p> Happy Saturday to all. We're getting around a little bit better here, a Good Thing after the last few weeks of misery and illnesses.</p><p>I had to make a "run" for Dear Wife this afternoon, down to our local grocery. Needed -- and Right Away Too -- a couple things I'd not gotten the other day (hadn't been on the list I was given) so off I went. OK. Couldn't help notice that the very air looked grey and sad. I tend to pick up on that, it matches my general doleful outlook.</p><p>We -- meaning I -- have a bad habit of letting our surroundings and our circumstances to govern our outlook on life. I'm more prone to that than most. One of my earliest memories is the death of my father's sister; I couldn't have been more than 4 or so. Another of those outlook-shaping memories is being, age around 4-1/2 of so, at home with Dad at work, when my mother suffered a miscarriage. I was the one who had to grab a phone and start calling people to come get her and take her to hospital. Grim. Several more similar situations as I say my parents' world collapse and their dreams die. An attitude reinforced as I, and later Wife and I, went through a whole series of life-shattering situations.</p><p>And, yet, our circumstances should not be the only criteria. We, particularly those who claim Christ, are supposed to, called to, and blessed to call that eternal relationship with the Lord as being our real sense of joy and of happiness. (and they are not the same thing). That gray sky won't be there forever. The bumps in the road are not hidden from the Lord. Sometimes they serve His purpose.</p><p>Seeing the Lord's hand in the clouds is something I'm supposed to be pursuing. Perhaps tomorrow I'll do it better.</p>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-83541672068657397702022-12-02T20:34:00.002-05:002022-12-02T20:34:32.334-05:00Today's Readings and Stuff -- Friday, 02 December 2022<p> Apologies for a really discombobulated year with gaps of awful length. We've had some issues, among which is that Dear Wife and I have been down sick for the last two weeks. I am not quite to 100% yet, but a lot better than where I was a few days ago. Wife has had a truly rough time, and is still in it though perhaps a teeny bit that she was a day or so ago. It appears that we've both been hit with the truly nasty version of influenza that is making the rounds this year. What's aggravating is that at the doctor appointment I had a few weeks ago, I took the doctor's advice and took the flu shot. And now have that flu. So forgive my skepticism towards the expert advice.</p><p>I want to write some, a great deal in fact, about the collapse we're seeing all around us. Not up to it tonight, but it's coming. People, I've been watching crushed hopes, collapsed dreams, the rug pulled out, for my entire life. So much of what we built our hopes upon, other than the Lord, collapsed. And it's going to get far worse, I fear.</p><p>More to come.</p><p>===========================</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">Hosea 3</span></u></b></p><p class="first-line-none chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Hos-3-1"><b>1</b> Then the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> said to me, “Go again; show love to a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, just as the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> loves the Israelites though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Hos-3-2" id="en-CSB-22131"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and nine bushels of barley.<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-22131a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-22131a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea%203&version=CSB#fen-CSB-22131a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-22131b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-22131b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea%203&version=CSB#fen-CSB-22131b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> </span><span class="text Hos-3-3" id="en-CSB-22132"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>I said to her, “You are to live with me many days. You must not be promiscuous or belong to any man, and I will act the same way toward you.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Hos-3-4" id="en-CSB-22133"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or household idols. </span><span class="text Hos-3-5" id="en-CSB-22134"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> their God and David their king. They will come with awe to the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> and to his goodness in the last days.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-CSB-22131a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea%203&version=CSB#en-CSB-22131" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hosea 3:2">3:2</a> <span class="footnote-text">LXX reads <em>barley and a measure of wine</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-22131b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea%203&version=CSB#en-CSB-22131" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hosea 3:2">3:2</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit <em>silver, a homer of barley, and a lethek of barley</em></span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">Hosea 4</span></u></b></p><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="chapter-1"><span class="text Hos-4-1" style="position: relative;"><b>1</b> Hear the word of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, people of Israel,</span></span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-1" style="position: relative;">for the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> has a case</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-1" style="position: relative;">against the inhabitants of the land:</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-1" style="position: relative;">There is no truth, no faithful love,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-1" style="position: relative;">and no knowledge of God in the land!</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-2" id="en-CSB-22136" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>Cursing, lying, murder, stealing,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-2" style="position: relative;">and adultery are rampant;</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-2" style="position: relative;">one act of bloodshed follows another.</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-3" id="en-CSB-22137" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>For this reason the land mourns,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-3" style="position: relative;">and everyone who lives in it languishes,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-3" style="position: relative;">along with the wild animals and the birds of the sky;</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-3" style="position: relative;">even the fish of the sea disappear.</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-4" id="en-CSB-22138" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>But let no one dispute; let no one argue,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-4" style="position: relative;">for my case is against you priests.<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-22138a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-22138a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea+4&version=CSB#fen-CSB-22138a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-22138b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-22138b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea+4&version=CSB#fen-CSB-22138b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-5" id="en-CSB-22139" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>You will stumble by day;</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-5" style="position: relative;">the prophet will also stumble with you by night.</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-5" style="position: relative;">And I will destroy your mother.</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-6" id="en-CSB-22140" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-6" style="position: relative;">Because you have rejected knowledge,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-6" style="position: relative;">I will reject you from serving as my priest.</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-6" style="position: relative;">Since you have forgotten the law of your God,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-6" style="position: relative;">I will also forget your sons.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Hos-4-7" id="en-CSB-22141" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>The more they multiplied,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-7" style="position: relative;">the more they sinned against me.</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-7" style="position: relative;">I<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-22141c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-22141c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea+4&version=CSB#fen-CSB-22141c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> will change their<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-22141d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-22141d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea+4&version=CSB#fen-CSB-22141d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> honor into disgrace.</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-8" id="en-CSB-22142" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>They feed on the sin<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-22142e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-22142e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea+4&version=CSB#fen-CSB-22142e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> of my people;</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-8" style="position: relative;">they have an appetite for their iniquity.</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-9" id="en-CSB-22143" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>The same judgment will happen</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-9" style="position: relative;">to both people and priests.</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-9" style="position: relative;">I will punish them for their ways</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-9" style="position: relative;">and repay them for their deeds.</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-10" id="en-CSB-22144" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>They will eat but not be satisfied;</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-10" style="position: relative;">they will be promiscuous but not multiply.</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-10" style="position: relative;">For they have abandoned their devotion to the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-11" id="en-CSB-22145" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Promiscuity, wine, and new wine</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-11" style="position: relative;">take away one’s understanding.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Hos-4-12" id="en-CSB-22146" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>My people consult their wooden idols,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-12" style="position: relative;">and their divining rods inform them.</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-12" style="position: relative;">For a spirit of promiscuity leads them astray;</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-12" style="position: relative;">they act promiscuously</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-12" style="position: relative;">in disobedience to<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-22146f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-22146f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea+4&version=CSB#fen-CSB-22146f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> their God.</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-13" id="en-CSB-22147" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>They sacrifice on the mountaintops,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-13" style="position: relative;">and they burn offerings on the hills,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-13" style="position: relative;">and under oaks, poplars, and terebinths,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-13" style="position: relative;">because their shade is pleasant.</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-13" style="position: relative;">And so your daughters act promiscuously</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-13" style="position: relative;">and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-14" id="en-CSB-22148" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>I will not punish your daughters</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-14" style="position: relative;">when they act promiscuously</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-14" style="position: relative;">or your daughters-in-law</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-14" style="position: relative;">when they commit adultery,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-14" style="position: relative;">for the men themselves go off with prostitutes</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-14" style="position: relative;">and make sacrifices with cult prostitutes.</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-14" style="position: relative;">People without discernment are doomed.</span></p></div><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Hos-4-15" id="en-CSB-22149">Warnings for Israel and Judah</span></h3><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Hos-4-15" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>Israel, if you act promiscuously,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-15" style="position: relative;">don’t let Judah become guilty!</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-15" style="position: relative;">Do not go to Gilgal</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-15" style="position: relative;">or make a pilgrimage to Beth-aven,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-22149g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-22149g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea+4&version=CSB#fen-CSB-22149g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-15" style="position: relative;">and do not swear an oath: As the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> lives!</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-16" id="en-CSB-22150" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn cow.</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-16" style="position: relative;">Can the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> now shepherd them</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-16" style="position: relative;">like a lamb in an open meadow?</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-17" id="en-CSB-22151" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>Ephraim is attached to idols;</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-17" style="position: relative;">leave him alone!</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-18" id="en-CSB-22152" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>When their drinking is over,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-18" style="position: relative;">they turn to promiscuity.</span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-18" style="position: relative;">Israel’s leaders<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-22152h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-22152h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea+4&version=CSB#fen-CSB-22152h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span> fervently love disgrace.<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-22152i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-22152i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea+4&version=CSB#fen-CSB-22152i" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-19" id="en-CSB-22153" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>A wind with its wings will carry them off,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-22153j" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-22153j" title="See footnote j">j</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea+4&version=CSB#fen-CSB-22153j" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote j">j</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text Hos-4-19" style="position: relative;">and they will be ashamed of their sacrifices.</span></p></div><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-CSB-22138a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea+4&version=CSB#en-CSB-22138" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hosea 4:4">4:4</a> <span class="footnote-text">Text emended; MT reads <em>argue, and your people are like those contending with a priest</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-22138b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea+4&version=CSB#en-CSB-22138" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hosea 4:4">4:4</a> <span class="footnote-text">Hb obscure</span></li><li id="fen-CSB-22141c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea+4&version=CSB#en-CSB-22141" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hosea 4:7">4:7</a> <span class="footnote-text">Alt Hb tradition, Syr, Tg read <em>They</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-22141d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea+4&version=CSB#en-CSB-22141" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hosea 4:7">4:7</a> <span class="footnote-text">Alt Hb tradition reads <em>my</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-22142e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea+4&version=CSB#en-CSB-22142" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hosea 4:8">4:8</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>sin offerings</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-22146f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea+4&version=CSB#en-CSB-22146" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hosea 4:12">4:12</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit <em>promiscuously from under</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-22149g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea+4&version=CSB#en-CSB-22149" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hosea 4:15">4:15</a> <span class="footnote-text">= House of Wickedness</span></li><li id="fen-CSB-22152h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea+4&version=CSB#en-CSB-22152" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hosea 4:18">4:18</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit <em>Her shields</em>; Ps 47:9; 89:18</span></li><li id="fen-CSB-22152i" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea+4&version=CSB#en-CSB-22152" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hosea 4:18">4:18</a> <span class="footnote-text">Hb obscure</span></li><li id="fen-CSB-22153j" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hosea+4&version=CSB#en-CSB-22153" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hosea 4:19">4:19</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit <em>wind will bind it in its wings</em></span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p>======================</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">Revelation 2</span></u></b></p><p><br /></p><p class="first-line-none chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rev-2-1"><span class="woj"><b>1 </b> “Write to the angel</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-30702a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-30702a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-30702a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> <span class="woj">of the church in Ephesus: Thus says the one who holds the seven stars in his right hand and who walks among the seven golden lampstands:</span> </span><span class="text Rev-2-2" id="en-CSB-30703"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span><span class="woj">I know your works, your labor, and your endurance,</span> <span class="woj">and that you cannot tolerate evil people. You have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not,</span> <span class="woj">and you have found them to be liars.</span> </span><span class="text Rev-2-3" id="en-CSB-30704"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span><span class="woj">I know that you have persevered and endured hardships for the sake of my name,</span> <span class="woj">and you have not grown weary.</span> </span><span class="text Rev-2-4" id="en-CSB-30705"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span><span class="woj">But I have this against you: You have abandoned the love you had at first.</span> </span><span class="text Rev-2-5" id="en-CSB-30706"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span><span class="woj">Remember then how far you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first.</span> <span class="woj">Otherwise, I will come to you</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-30706b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-30706b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-30706b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> <span class="woj">and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.</span> </span><span class="text Rev-2-6" id="en-CSB-30707"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span><span class="woj">Yet you do have this: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rev-2-7" id="en-CSB-30708"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span><span class="woj">“Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give</span> <span class="woj">the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-30708c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-30708c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-30708c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> <span class="woj">the paradise of God.</span></span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rev-2-8" id="en-CSB-30709">The Letter to Smyrna</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rev-2-8"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span><span class="woj">“Write to the angel of the church in Smyrna: Thus says the First and the Last,</span> <span class="woj">the one who was dead and came to life:</span> </span><span class="text Rev-2-9" id="en-CSB-30710"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span><span class="woj">I know your</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-30710d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-30710d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-30710d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> <span class="woj">affliction and poverty, but you are rich. I know the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.</span> </span><span class="text Rev-2-10" id="en-CSB-30711"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span><span class="woj">Don’t be afraid of what you are about to suffer. Look, the devil</span> <span class="woj">is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will experience affliction for ten days.</span> <span class="woj">Be faithful to the point of death,</span> <span class="woj">and I will give you the crown</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-30711e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-30711e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-30711e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> <span class="woj">of life.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rev-2-11" id="en-CSB-30712"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span><span class="woj">“Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will never be harmed by the second death.</span></span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rev-2-12" id="en-CSB-30713">The Letter to Pergamum</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rev-2-12"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span><span class="woj">“Write to the angel of the church in Pergamum: Thus says the one who has the sharp, double-edged sword:</span> </span><span class="text Rev-2-13" id="en-CSB-30714"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span><span class="woj">I know</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-30714f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-30714f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-30714f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> <span class="woj">where you live—where Satan’s throne is. Yet you are holding on to my name and did not deny your faith in me,</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-30714g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-30714g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-30714g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> <span class="woj">even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness</span> <span class="woj">who was put to death among you, where Satan lives.</span> </span><span class="text Rev-2-14" id="en-CSB-30715"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span><span class="woj">But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam,</span> <span class="woj">who taught Balak to place a stumbling block</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-30715h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-30715h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-30715h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span> <span class="woj">in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols</span> <span class="woj">and to commit sexual immorality.</span> </span><span class="text Rev-2-15" id="en-CSB-30716"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span><span class="woj">In the same way, you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-30716i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-30716i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-30716i" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span> </span><span class="text Rev-2-16" id="en-CSB-30717"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span><span class="woj">So repent! Otherwise, I will come to you quickly</span> <span class="woj">and fight against them with the sword of my mouth.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rev-2-17" id="en-CSB-30718"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span><span class="woj">“Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give some of the hidden manna.</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-30718j" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-30718j" title="See footnote j">j</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-30718j" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote j">j</a>]</span> <span class="woj">I will also give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name</span> <span class="woj">is inscribed that no one knows except the one who receives it.</span></span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rev-2-18" id="en-CSB-30719">The Letter to Thyatira</span></h3><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rev-2-18"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span><span class="woj">“Write to the angel of the church in Thyatira: Thus says the Son of God,</span> <span class="woj">the one whose eyes are like a fiery flame and whose feet are like fine bronze:</span> </span><span class="text Rev-2-19" id="en-CSB-30720"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span><span class="woj">I know your works—your love, faithfulness,</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-30720k" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-30720k" title="See footnote k">k</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-30720k" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote k">k</a>]</span> <span class="woj">service, and endurance.</span> <span class="woj">I know that your last works are greater than the first.</span> </span><span class="text Rev-2-20" id="en-CSB-30721"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span><span class="woj">But I have this against you: You tolerate the woman Jezebel,</span> <span class="woj">who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat meat sacrificed to idols.</span> </span><span class="text Rev-2-21" id="en-CSB-30722"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span><span class="woj">I gave her time to repent,</span> <span class="woj">but she does not want to repent of her sexual immorality.</span> </span><span class="text Rev-2-22" id="en-CSB-30723"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span><span class="woj">Look, I will throw her into a sickbed</span> <span class="woj">and those who commit adultery with her</span> <span class="woj">into great affliction.</span> <span class="woj">Unless they repent of her</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-30723l" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-30723l" title="See footnote l">l</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-30723l" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote l">l</a>]</span> <span class="woj">works,</span> </span><span class="text Rev-2-23" id="en-CSB-30724"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span><span class="woj">I will strike her children dead.</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-30724m" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-30724m" title="See footnote m">m</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-30724m" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote m">m</a>]</span> <span class="woj">Then all the churches will know that I am the one who examines minds and hearts,</span> <span class="woj">and I will give to each of you according to your works.</span> </span><span class="text Rev-2-24" id="en-CSB-30725"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span><span class="woj">I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who haven’t known “the so-called secrets</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-30725n" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-30725n" title="See footnote n">n</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-30725n" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote n">n</a>]</span> <span class="woj">of Satan”</span> <span class="woj">—as they say—I am not putting any other burden on you.</span> </span><span class="text Rev-2-25" id="en-CSB-30726"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span><span class="woj">Only hold on to what you have until I come.</span> </span><span class="text Rev-2-26" id="en-CSB-30727"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span><span class="woj">The one who conquers and who keeps my works to the end: I will give him authority over the nations—</span></span></p><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rev-2-27" id="en-CSB-30728" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span><span class="woj"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">and he will rule</span></span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-30728o" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-30728o" title="See footnote o">o</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-30728o" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote o">o</a>]</span> <span class="woj"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">them with an iron scepter;</span></span></span><br /><span class="text Rev-2-27" style="position: relative;"><span class="woj"><span class="quote" style="font-weight: bolder;">he will shatter them like pottery</span></span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-CSB-30728p" data-link="[<a href="#fen-CSB-30728p" title="See footnote p">p</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#fen-CSB-30728p" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote p">p</a>]</span> <span class="woj">—</span></span></p></div><p class="first-line-none" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rev-2-28" id="en-CSB-30729"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span><span class="woj">just as I have received this from my Father. I will also give him the morning star.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rev-2-29" id="en-CSB-30730"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span><span class="woj">“Let anyone who has ears to hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.</span></span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-CSB-30702a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#en-CSB-30702" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Revelation 2:1">2:1</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>messenger</em>, also in vv. 8,12,18</span></li><li id="fen-CSB-30706b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#en-CSB-30706" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Revelation 2:5">2:5</a> <span class="footnote-text">Other mss add <em>quickly</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-30708c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#en-CSB-30708" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Revelation 2:7">2:7</a> <span class="footnote-text">Other mss read <em>in the midst of</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-30710d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#en-CSB-30710" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Revelation 2:9">2:9</a> <span class="footnote-text">Other mss add <em>works and</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-30711e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#en-CSB-30711" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Revelation 2:10">2:10</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>wreath</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-30714f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#en-CSB-30714" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Revelation 2:13">2:13</a> <span class="footnote-text">Other mss add <em>your works and</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-30714g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#en-CSB-30714" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Revelation 2:13">2:13</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>deny my faith</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-30715h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#en-CSB-30715" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Revelation 2:14">2:14</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>to place a trap</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-30716i" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#en-CSB-30716" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Revelation 2:15">2:15</a> <span class="footnote-text">Other mss add <em>which I hate</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-30718j" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#en-CSB-30718" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Revelation 2:17">2:17</a> <span class="footnote-text">Other mss add <em>to eat</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-30720k" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#en-CSB-30720" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Revelation 2:19">2:19</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>faith</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-30723l" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#en-CSB-30723" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Revelation 2:22">2:22</a> <span class="footnote-text">Other mss read <em>their</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-30724m" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#en-CSB-30724" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Revelation 2:23">2:23</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>with a plague</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-30725n" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#en-CSB-30725" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Revelation 2:24">2:24</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>the secret things</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-30728o" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#en-CSB-30728" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Revelation 2:27">2:27</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <em>shepherd</em></span></li><li id="fen-CSB-30728p" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%202&version=CSB#en-CSB-30728" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Revelation 2:27">2:27</a> <span class="footnote-text">Ps 2:9</span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-7051296619495126842022-10-28T20:41:00.004-04:002022-10-28T20:41:48.695-04:00Today's Readings and Stuff -- Friday, 28 October 2022<p> Wishing a "happy Friday" to all who happen to stop by here. The "usual" bad behaviors that some of us have, sadly, been seeing as "cultural imperatives" in this (and other) area on Friday nights are probably well underway. We'll see the "death count" in the morning's news reports. Unfortunately.</p><p>One of the things that has been weighing on my mind for most of the year, certainly over the last several months, is the amount of effort and attention and emphasis that is expended upon the wrong things. I am certainly not innocent on that matter. Not at all. But look around: how much attention is directed, even by those that might be sitting in a pew on Sunday morning, on the things of Christ. Far more directed on business, sports activities, various forms of - sometimes indecent - entertainment, and all the rest. Let's be honest, the things being related in our recent readings both in the Old Testament and the New, are in nature very little different from what we see and have come to accept as "the way things are". No, most of us aren't bowing to Ba'al. Or burning babies in a Topheth altar. But I know of several church denominations that are big supporters of abortion, a distinction without much difference.</p><p>We know what happened in Israel and Judah despite the many warnings of the prophets. Do we really think that our own nation and world are somehow exempt? I think not. </p><p>======================</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u>Jeremiah 51</u></b></span></p><p class="chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-1">Thus says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-1" style="position: relative;"><b>1</b> “Behold, I will raise up against Babylon,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-1" style="position: relative;">Against those who dwell in <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20214a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20214a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2051&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20214a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>Leb Kamai,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-1" style="position: relative;">A destroying wind.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-2" id="en-NKJV-20215" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>And I will send winnowers to Babylon,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-2" style="position: relative;">Who shall winnow her and empty her land.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-2" style="position: relative;">For in the day of doom</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-2" style="position: relative;">They shall be against her all around.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-3" id="en-NKJV-20216" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>Against <i>her</i> let the archer bend his bow,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-3" style="position: relative;">And lift himself up against <i>her</i> in his armor.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-3" style="position: relative;">Do not spare her young men;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-3" style="position: relative;">Utterly destroy all her army.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-4" id="en-NKJV-20217" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-4" style="position: relative;">And <i>those</i> thrust through in her streets.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-5" id="en-NKJV-20218" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-5" style="position: relative;">By his God, the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> of hosts,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-5" style="position: relative;">Though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.”</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-6" id="en-NKJV-20219" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>Flee from the midst of Babylon,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-6" style="position: relative;">And every one save his life!</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-6" style="position: relative;">Do not be cut off in her iniquity,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-6" style="position: relative;">For this <i>is</i> the time of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>’s vengeance;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-6" style="position: relative;">He shall recompense her.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-7" id="en-NKJV-20220" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>Babylon <i>was</i> a golden cup in the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>’s hand,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-7" style="position: relative;">That made all the earth drunk.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-7" style="position: relative;">The nations drank her wine;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-7" style="position: relative;">Therefore the nations are deranged.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-8" id="en-NKJV-20221" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-8" style="position: relative;">Wail for her!</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-8" style="position: relative;">Take balm for her pain;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-8" style="position: relative;">Perhaps she may be healed.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-9" id="en-NKJV-20222" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>We would have healed Babylon,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-9" style="position: relative;">But she is not healed.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-9" style="position: relative;">Forsake her, and let us go everyone to his own country;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-9" style="position: relative;">For her judgment reaches to heaven and is lifted up to the skies.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-10" id="en-NKJV-20223" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> has revealed our righteousness.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-10" style="position: relative;">Come and let us declare in Zion the work of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> our God.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-11" id="en-NKJV-20224" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Make<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20224b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20224b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2051&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20224b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> the arrows bright!</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-11" style="position: relative;">Gather the shields!</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-11" style="position: relative;">The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-11" style="position: relative;">For His plan <i>is</i> against Babylon to destroy it,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-11" style="position: relative;">Because it <i>is</i> the vengeance of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-11" style="position: relative;">The vengeance for His temple.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-12" id="en-NKJV-20225" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Set up the standard on the walls of Babylon;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-12" style="position: relative;">Make the guard strong,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-12" style="position: relative;">Set up the watchmen,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-12" style="position: relative;">Prepare the ambushes.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-12" style="position: relative;">For the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> has both devised and done</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-12" style="position: relative;">What He spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-13" id="en-NKJV-20226" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>O you who dwell by many waters,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-13" style="position: relative;">Abundant in treasures,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-13" style="position: relative;">Your end has come,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-13" style="position: relative;">The measure of your covetousness.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-14" id="en-NKJV-20227" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> of hosts has sworn by Himself:</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-14" style="position: relative;">“Surely I will fill you with men, as with locusts,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-14" style="position: relative;">And they shall lift up a shout against you.”</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-15" id="en-NKJV-20228" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>He has made the earth by His power;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-15" style="position: relative;">He has established the world by His wisdom,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-15" style="position: relative;">And stretched out the heaven by His understanding.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-16" id="en-NKJV-20229" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>When He utters <i>His</i> voice—</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-16" style="position: relative;"><i>There is</i> a multitude of waters in the heavens:</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-16" style="position: relative;">“He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-16" style="position: relative;">He makes lightnings for the rain;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-16" style="position: relative;">He brings the wind out of His treasuries.”</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-17" id="en-NKJV-20230" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>Everyone is dull-hearted, without knowledge;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-17" style="position: relative;">Every metalsmith is put to shame by the carved image;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-17" style="position: relative;">For his molded image <i>is</i> falsehood,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-17" style="position: relative;">And <i>there is</i> no breath in them.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-18" id="en-NKJV-20231" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>They <i>are</i> futile, a work of errors;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-18" style="position: relative;">In the time of their punishment they shall perish.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-19" id="en-NKJV-20232" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>The Portion of Jacob <i>is</i> not like them,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-19" style="position: relative;">For He <i>is</i> the Maker of all things;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-19" style="position: relative;">And <i>Israel is</i> the tribe of His inheritance.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-19" style="position: relative;">The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> of hosts <i>is</i> His name.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-20" id="en-NKJV-20233" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>“You <i>are</i> My battle-ax <i>and</i> weapons of war:</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-20" style="position: relative;">For with you I will break the nation in pieces;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-20" style="position: relative;">With you I will destroy kingdoms;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-21" id="en-NKJV-20234" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>With you I will break in pieces the horse and its rider;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-21" style="position: relative;">With you I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-22" id="en-NKJV-20235" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>With you also I will break in pieces man and woman;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-22" style="position: relative;">With you I will break in pieces old and young;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-22" style="position: relative;">With you I will break in pieces the young man and the maiden;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-23" id="en-NKJV-20236" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>With you also I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-23" style="position: relative;">With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-23" style="position: relative;">And with you I will break in pieces governors and rulers.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-24" id="en-NKJV-20237" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>“And I will repay Babylon</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-24" style="position: relative;">And all the inhabitants of Chaldea</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-24" style="position: relative;">For all the evil they have done</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-24" style="position: relative;">In Zion in your sight,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-25" id="en-NKJV-20238" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>“Behold, I <i>am</i> against you, O destroying mountain,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-25" style="position: relative;">Who destroys all the earth,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-25" style="position: relative;">“And I will stretch out My hand against you,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-25" style="position: relative;">Roll you down from the rocks,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-25" style="position: relative;">And make you a burnt mountain.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-26" id="en-NKJV-20239" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>They shall not take from you a stone for a corner</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-26" style="position: relative;">Nor a stone for a foundation,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-26" style="position: relative;">But you shall be desolate forever,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-27" id="en-NKJV-20240" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>Set up a banner in the land,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-27" style="position: relative;">Blow the trumpet among the nations!</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-27" style="position: relative;">Prepare the nations against her,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-27" style="position: relative;">Call the kingdoms together against her:</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-27" style="position: relative;">Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-27" style="position: relative;">Appoint a general against her;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-27" style="position: relative;">Cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-28" id="en-NKJV-20241" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>Prepare against her the nations,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-28" style="position: relative;">With the kings of the Medes,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-28" style="position: relative;">Its governors and all its rulers,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-28" style="position: relative;">All the land of his dominion.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-29" id="en-NKJV-20242" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>And the land will tremble and sorrow;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-29" style="position: relative;">For every purpose of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> shall be performed against Babylon,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-29" style="position: relative;">To make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-30" id="en-NKJV-20243" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-30" style="position: relative;">They have remained in their strongholds;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-30" style="position: relative;">Their might has failed,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-30" style="position: relative;">They became <i>like</i> women;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-30" style="position: relative;">They have burned her dwelling places,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-30" style="position: relative;">The bars of her <i>gate</i> are broken.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-31" id="en-NKJV-20244" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span>One runner will run to meet another,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-31" style="position: relative;">And one messenger to meet another,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-31" style="position: relative;">To show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on <i>all</i> sides;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-32" id="en-NKJV-20245" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">32 </span>The passages are blocked,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-32" style="position: relative;">The reeds they have burned with fire,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-32" style="position: relative;">And the men of war are terrified.</span></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-33" id="en-NKJV-20246"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">33 </span>For thus says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> of hosts, the God of Israel:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-33" style="position: relative;">“The daughter of Babylon <i>is</i> like a threshing floor</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-33" style="position: relative;"><i>When</i> <i>it is</i> time to thresh her;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-33" style="position: relative;">Yet a little while</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-33" style="position: relative;">And the time of her harvest will come.”</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-34" id="en-NKJV-20247" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">34 </span>“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-34" style="position: relative;">Has devoured me, he has crushed me;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-34" style="position: relative;">He has made me an empty vessel,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-34" style="position: relative;">He has swallowed me up like a monster;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-34" style="position: relative;">He has filled his stomach with my delicacies,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-34" style="position: relative;">He has spit me out.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-35" id="en-NKJV-20248" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">35 </span>Let the violence <i>done</i> to me and my flesh <i>be</i> upon Babylon,”</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-35" style="position: relative;">The inhabitant of Zion will say;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-35" style="position: relative;">“And my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea!”</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-35" style="position: relative;">Jerusalem will say.</span></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-36" id="en-NKJV-20249"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">36 </span>Therefore thus says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-36" style="position: relative;">“Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance for you.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-36" style="position: relative;">I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-37" id="en-NKJV-20250" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">37 </span>Babylon shall become a heap,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-37" style="position: relative;">A dwelling place for jackals,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-37" style="position: relative;">An astonishment and a hissing,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-37" style="position: relative;">Without an inhabitant.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-38" id="en-NKJV-20251" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">38 </span>They shall roar together like lions,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-38" style="position: relative;">They shall growl like lions’ whelps.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-39" id="en-NKJV-20252" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">39 </span>In their excitement I will prepare their feasts;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-39" style="position: relative;">I will make them drunk,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-39" style="position: relative;">That they may rejoice,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-39" style="position: relative;">And sleep a perpetual sleep</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-39" style="position: relative;">And not awake,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-40" id="en-NKJV-20253" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">40 </span>“I will bring them down</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-40" style="position: relative;">Like lambs to the slaughter,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-40" style="position: relative;">Like rams with male goats.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-41" id="en-NKJV-20254" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">41 </span>“Oh, how Sheshach<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20254c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20254c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2051&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20254c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> is taken!</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-41" style="position: relative;">Oh, how the praise of the whole earth is seized!</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-41" style="position: relative;">How Babylon has become desolate among the nations!</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-42" id="en-NKJV-20255" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">42 </span>The sea has come up over Babylon;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-42" style="position: relative;">She is covered with the multitude of its waves.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-43" id="en-NKJV-20256" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">43 </span>Her cities are a desolation,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-43" style="position: relative;">A dry land and a wilderness,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-43" style="position: relative;">A land where no one dwells,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-43" style="position: relative;">Through which no son of man passes.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-44" id="en-NKJV-20257" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">44 </span>I will punish Bel<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20257d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20257d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2051&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20257d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> in Babylon,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-44" style="position: relative;">And I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-44" style="position: relative;">And the nations shall not stream to him anymore.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-44" style="position: relative;">Yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-45" id="en-NKJV-20258" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">45 </span>“My people, go out of the midst of her!</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-45" style="position: relative;">And let everyone deliver <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20258e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20258e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2051&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20258e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>himself from the fierce anger of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-46" id="en-NKJV-20259" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">46 </span>And lest your heart faint,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-46" style="position: relative;">And you fear for the rumor that <i>will be</i> heard in the land</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-46" style="position: relative;">(A rumor will come <i>one</i> year,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-46" style="position: relative;">And after that, in <i>another</i> year</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-46" style="position: relative;">A rumor <i>will come,</i></span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-46" style="position: relative;">And violence in the land,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-46" style="position: relative;">Ruler against ruler),</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-47" id="en-NKJV-20260" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">47 </span>Therefore behold, the days are coming</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-47" style="position: relative;">That I will bring judgment on the carved images of Babylon;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-47" style="position: relative;">Her whole land shall be ashamed,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-47" style="position: relative;">And all her slain shall fall in her midst.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-48" id="en-NKJV-20261" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">48 </span>Then the heavens and the earth and all that <i>is</i> in them</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-48" style="position: relative;">Shall sing joyously over Babylon;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-48" style="position: relative;">For the plunderers shall come to her from the north,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-49" id="en-NKJV-20262" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">49 </span>As Babylon <i>has caused</i> the slain of Israel to fall,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-49" style="position: relative;">So at Babylon the slain of all the earth shall fall.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-50" id="en-NKJV-20263" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">50 </span>You who have escaped the sword,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-50" style="position: relative;">Get away! Do not stand still!</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-50" style="position: relative;">Remember the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> afar off,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-50" style="position: relative;">And let Jerusalem come to your mind.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-51" id="en-NKJV-20264" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">51 </span>We are ashamed because we have heard reproach.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-51" style="position: relative;">Shame has covered our faces,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-51" style="position: relative;">For strangers have come into the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20264f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20264f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2051&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20264f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>sanctuaries of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>’s house.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-52" id="en-NKJV-20265" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">52 </span>“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-52" style="position: relative;">“That I will bring judgment on her carved images,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-52" style="position: relative;">And throughout all her land the wounded shall groan.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-53" id="en-NKJV-20266" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">53 </span>Though Babylon were to <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20266g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20266g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2051&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20266g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>mount up to heaven,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-53" style="position: relative;">And though she were to fortify the height of her strength,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-53" style="position: relative;"><i>Yet</i> from Me plunderers would come to her,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-54" id="en-NKJV-20267" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">54 </span>The sound of a cry <i>comes</i> from Babylon,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-54" style="position: relative;">And great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-55" id="en-NKJV-20268" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">55 </span>Because the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> is plundering Babylon</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-55" style="position: relative;">And silencing her loud voice,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-55" style="position: relative;">Though her waves roar like great waters,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-55" style="position: relative;">And the noise of their voice is uttered,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-56" id="en-NKJV-20269" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">56 </span>Because the plunderer comes against her, against Babylon,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-56" style="position: relative;">And her mighty men are taken.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-56" style="position: relative;">Every one of their bows is broken;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-56" style="position: relative;">For the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> <i>is</i> the God of recompense,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-56" style="position: relative;">He will surely repay.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-57" id="en-NKJV-20270" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">57 </span>“And I will make drunk</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-57" style="position: relative;">Her princes and wise men,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-57" style="position: relative;">Her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-57" style="position: relative;">And they shall sleep a perpetual sleep</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-57" style="position: relative;">And not awake,” says the King,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-57" style="position: relative;">Whose name <i>is</i> the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> of hosts.</span></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-58" id="en-NKJV-20271"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">58 </span>Thus says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> of hosts:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-58" style="position: relative;">“The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20271h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20271h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2051&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20271h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-58" style="position: relative;">And her high gates shall be burned with fire;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-58" style="position: relative;">The people will labor in vain,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-58" style="position: relative;">And the nations, because of the fire;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-51-58" style="position: relative;">And they shall be weary.”</span></p></div><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-59" id="en-NKJV-20272">Jeremiah’s Command to Seraiah</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-59"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">59 </span>The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And Seraiah <i>was</i> the quartermaster. </span><span class="text Jer-51-60" id="en-NKJV-20273"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">60 </span>So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that would come upon Babylon, all these words that are written against Babylon. </span><span class="text Jer-51-61" id="en-NKJV-20274"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">61 </span>And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you arrive in Babylon and see it, and read all these words, </span><span class="text Jer-51-62" id="en-NKJV-20275"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">62 </span>then you shall say, ‘O <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, You have spoken against this place to cut it off, so that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but it shall be desolate forever.’ </span><span class="text Jer-51-63" id="en-NKJV-20276"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">63 </span>Now it shall be, when you have finished reading this book, <i>that</i> you shall tie a stone to it and throw it out into the Euphrates. </span><span class="text Jer-51-64" id="en-NKJV-20277"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">64 </span>Then you shall say, ‘Thus Babylon shall sink and not rise from the catastrophe that I will bring upon her. And they shall be weary.’ ”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-51-64">Thus far <i>are</i> the words of Jeremiah.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-20214a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2051&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20214" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 51:1">Jeremiah 51:1</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>The Midst of Those Who Rise Up Against Me;</i> a code word for Chaldea, Babylonia</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20224b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2051&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20224" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 51:11">Jeremiah 51:11</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Polish the arrows!</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20254c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2051&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20254" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 51:41">Jeremiah 51:41</a> <span class="footnote-text">A code word for Babylon, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Jer.25.26" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jer.25.26&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Jer. 25:26</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20257d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2051&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20257" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 51:44">Jeremiah 51:44</a> <span class="footnote-text">A Babylonian god</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20258e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2051&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20258" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 51:45">Jeremiah 51:45</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>his soul</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20264f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2051&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20264" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 51:51">Jeremiah 51:51</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>holy places</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20266g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2051&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20266" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 51:53">Jeremiah 51:53</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>ascend</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20271h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2051&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20271" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 51:58">Jeremiah 51:58</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>laid utterly bare</i></span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">Jeremiah 52</span></u></b></p><p class="chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-52-1"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">1 </span></b> Zedekiah <i style="font-size: 16px;">was</i> twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name <i style="font-size: 16px;">was</i> Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. </span><span class="text Jer-52-2" id="en-NKJV-20279" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>He also did evil in the sight of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, according to all that Jehoiakim had done. </span><span class="text Jer-52-3" id="en-NKJV-20280" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>For because of the anger of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> <i>this</i> happened in Jerusalem and Judah, till He finally cast them out from His presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-52-4" id="en-NKJV-20281"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth <i>day</i> of the month, <i>that</i> Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and <i>they</i> built a siege wall against it all around. </span><span class="text Jer-52-5" id="en-NKJV-20282"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. </span><span class="text Jer-52-6" id="en-NKJV-20283"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>By the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. </span><span class="text Jer-52-7" id="en-NKJV-20284"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>Then the city <i>wall</i> was broken through, and all the men of war fled and went out of the city at night by way of the gate between the two walls, which <i>was</i> by the king’s garden, even though the Chaldeans <i>were</i> near the city all around. And they went by way of the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20284a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20284a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2052&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20284a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>plain.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-52-8" id="en-NKJV-20285"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. All his army was scattered from him. </span><span class="text Jer-52-9" id="en-NKJV-20286"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he pronounced judgment on him. </span><span class="text Jer-52-10" id="en-NKJV-20287"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. And he killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah. </span><span class="text Jer-52-11" id="en-NKJV-20288"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>He also put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20288b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20288b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2052&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20288b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>bronze fetters, took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-52-12" id="en-NKJV-20289">The Temple and City Plundered and Burned</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-52-12"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Now in the fifth month, on the tenth <i>day</i> of the month (which <i>was</i> the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, <i>who</i> served the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. </span><span class="text Jer-52-13" id="en-NKJV-20290"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>He burned the house of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> and the king’s house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, he burned with fire. </span><span class="text Jer-52-14" id="en-NKJV-20291"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>And all the army of the Chaldeans who <i>were</i> with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around. </span><span class="text Jer-52-15" id="en-NKJV-20292"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive <i>some</i> of the poor people, the rest of the people who remained in the city, the defectors who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen. </span><span class="text Jer-52-16" id="en-NKJV-20293"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left <i>some</i> of the poor of the land as vinedressers and farmers.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-52-17" id="en-NKJV-20294"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>The bronze pillars that <i>were</i> in the house of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, and the carts and the bronze Sea that <i>were</i> in the house of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all their bronze to Babylon. </span><span class="text Jer-52-18" id="en-NKJV-20295"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>They also took away the pots, the shovels, the trimmers, the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20295c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20295c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2052&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20295c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>bowls, the spoons, and all the bronze utensils with which the <i>priests</i> ministered. </span><span class="text Jer-52-19" id="en-NKJV-20296"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>The basins, the firepans, the bowls, the pots, the lampstands, the spoons, and the cups, whatever <i>was</i> solid gold and whatever <i>was</i> solid silver, the captain of the guard took away. </span><span class="text Jer-52-20" id="en-NKJV-20297"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>The two pillars, one Sea, the twelve bronze bulls which <i>were</i> under <i>it, and</i> the carts, which King Solomon had made for the house of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>—the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure. </span><span class="text Jer-52-21" id="en-NKJV-20298"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>Now <i>concerning</i> the pillars: the height of one pillar <i>was</i> eighteen <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20298d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20298d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2052&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20298d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>cubits, a measuring line of twelve cubits could measure its circumference, and its thickness <i>was</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20298e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20298e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2052&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20298e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>four fingers; <i>it was</i> hollow. </span><span class="text Jer-52-22" id="en-NKJV-20299"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>A capital of bronze <i>was</i> on it; and the height of one capital <i>was</i> five cubits, with a network and pomegranates all around the capital, all of bronze. The second pillar, with pomegranates was the same. </span><span class="text Jer-52-23" id="en-NKJV-20300"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates, all around on the network, <i>were</i> one hundred.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-52-24" id="en-NKJV-20301">The People Taken Captive to Babylonia</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-52-24"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers. </span><span class="text Jer-52-25" id="en-NKJV-20302"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>He also took out of the city an <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20302f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20302f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2052&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20302f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>officer who had charge of the men of war, seven men of the king’s close associates who were found in the city, the principal scribe of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city. </span><span class="text Jer-52-26" id="en-NKJV-20303"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took these and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. </span><span class="text Jer-52-27" id="en-NKJV-20304"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>Then the king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive from its own land.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-52-28" id="en-NKJV-20305"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>These <i>are</i> the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews; </span><span class="text Jer-52-29" id="en-NKJV-20306"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons; </span><span class="text Jer-52-30" id="en-NKJV-20307"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred and forty-five persons. All the persons <i>were</i> four thousand six hundred.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-52-31" id="en-NKJV-20308">Jehoiachin Released from Prison</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-52-31"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span>Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth <i>day</i> of the month, <i>that</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20308g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20308g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2052&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20308g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the <i>first</i> year of his reign, lifted<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20308h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20308h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2052&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20308h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span> up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison. </span><span class="text Jer-52-32" id="en-NKJV-20309"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">32 </span>And he spoke kindly to him and gave him a more prominent seat than those of the kings who <i>were</i> with him in Babylon. </span><span class="text Jer-52-33" id="en-NKJV-20310"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">33 </span>So <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20310i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20310i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2052&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20310i" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span>Jehoiachin changed from his prison garments, and he ate bread regularly before the <i>king</i> all the days of his life. </span><span class="text Jer-52-34" id="en-NKJV-20311"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">34 </span>And as for his provisions, there was a regular ration given him by the king of Babylon, a portion for each day until the day of his death, all the days of his life.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-20284a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2052&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20284" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 52:7">Jeremiah 52:7</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>Arabah;</i> the Jordan Valley</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20288b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2052&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20288" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 52:11">Jeremiah 52:11</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>shackles</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20295c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2052&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20295" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 52:18">Jeremiah 52:18</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>basins</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20298d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2052&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20298" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 52:21">Jeremiah 52:21</a> <span class="footnote-text">18 inches each</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20298e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2052&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20298" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 52:21">Jeremiah 52:21</a> <span class="footnote-text">3 inches</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20302f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2052&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20302" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 52:25">Jeremiah 52:25</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>eunuch</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20308g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2052&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20308" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 52:31">Jeremiah 52:31</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>Awil-Marduk;</i> lit. <i>The Man of Marduk</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20308h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2052&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20308" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 52:31">Jeremiah 52:31</a> <span class="footnote-text">Showed favor to</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20310i" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2052&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20310" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 52:33">Jeremiah 52:33</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>he</i></span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p>==============================</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Song of Solomon</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Chapter 1</b></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-1"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">1</span></b> The song of songs, which <i style="font-size: 16px;">is</i> Solomon’s.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-2" id="en-NKJV-17540">The Banquet</span></h3><h4 class="speaker" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-2">The <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17540a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17540a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%201&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17540a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #952004; cursor: pointer; min-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>Shulamite</span></h4><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-2" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth—</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-2" style="position: relative;">For <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17540b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17540b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%201&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17540b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>your love <i>is</i> better than wine.</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-3" id="en-NKJV-17541" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>Because of the fragrance of your good ointments,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-3" style="position: relative;">Your name <i>is</i> ointment poured forth;</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-3" style="position: relative;">Therefore the virgins love you.</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-4" id="en-NKJV-17542" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Draw me away!</span></p></div><h4 class="speaker" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-4">The Daughters of Jerusalem</span></h4><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-4" style="position: relative;">We will run after <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17542c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17542c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%201&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17542c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>you.</span></p></div><h4 class="speaker" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-4">The Shulamite</span></h4><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-4" style="position: relative;">The king has brought me into his chambers.</span></p></div><h4 class="speaker" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-4">The Daughters of Jerusalem</span></h4><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-4" style="position: relative;">We will be glad and rejoice in <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17542d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17542d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%201&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17542d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>you.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-4" style="position: relative;">We will remember your love more than wine.</span></p></div><h4 class="speaker" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-4">The Shulamite</span></h4><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-4" style="position: relative;">Rightly do they love you.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-5" id="en-NKJV-17543" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>I <i>am</i> dark, but lovely,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-5" style="position: relative;">O daughters of Jerusalem,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-5" style="position: relative;">Like the tents of Kedar,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-5" style="position: relative;">Like the curtains of Solomon.</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-6" id="en-NKJV-17544" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>Do not look upon me, because I <i>am</i> dark,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-6" style="position: relative;">Because the sun has <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17544e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17544e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%201&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17544e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>tanned me.</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-6" style="position: relative;">My mother’s sons were angry with me;</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-6" style="position: relative;">They made me the keeper of the vineyards,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-6" style="position: relative;"><i>But</i> my own vineyard I have not kept.</span></p></div><h4 class="speaker" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-7" id="en-NKJV-17545">(To Her Beloved)</span></h4><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-7" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>Tell me, O you whom I love,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-7" style="position: relative;">Where you feed <i>your flock,</i></span><br /><span class="text Song-1-7" style="position: relative;">Where you make <i>it</i> rest at noon.</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-7" style="position: relative;">For why should I be as one who <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17545f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17545f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%201&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17545f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>veils herself</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-7" style="position: relative;">By the flocks of your companions?</span></p></div><h4 class="speaker" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-8" id="en-NKJV-17546">The Beloved</span></h4><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-8" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>If you do not know, O fairest among women,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-8" style="position: relative;"><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17546g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17546g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%201&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17546g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>Follow in the footsteps of the flock,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-8" style="position: relative;">And feed your little goats</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-8" style="position: relative;">Beside the shepherds’ tents.</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-9" id="en-NKJV-17547" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>I have compared you, my love,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-9" style="position: relative;">To my filly among Pharaoh’s chariots.</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-10" id="en-NKJV-17548" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-10" style="position: relative;">Your neck with chains <i>of gold.</i></span></p></div><h4 class="speaker" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-11" id="en-NKJV-17549">The Daughters of Jerusalem</span></h4><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-11" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>We will make <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17549h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17549h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%201&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17549h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span>you ornaments of gold</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-11" style="position: relative;">With studs of silver.</span></p></div><h4 class="speaker" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-12" id="en-NKJV-17550">The Shulamite</span></h4><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-12" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>While the king <i>is</i> at his table,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-12" style="position: relative;">My <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17550i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17550i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%201&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17550i" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span>spikenard sends forth its fragrance.</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-13" id="en-NKJV-17551" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>A bundle of myrrh <i>is</i> my beloved to me,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-13" style="position: relative;">That lies all night between my breasts.</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-14" id="en-NKJV-17552" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>My beloved <i>is</i> to me a cluster of henna <i>blooms</i></span><br /><span class="text Song-1-14" style="position: relative;">In the vineyards of En Gedi.</span></p></div><h4 class="speaker" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-15" id="en-NKJV-17553">The Beloved</span></h4><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-15" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>Behold, you <i>are</i> fair, <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17553j" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17553j" title="See footnote j">j</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%201&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17553j" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote j">j</a>]</span>my love!</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-15" style="position: relative;">Behold, you <i>are</i> fair!</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-15" style="position: relative;">You <i>have</i> dove’s eyes.</span></p></div><h4 class="speaker" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-16" id="en-NKJV-17554">The Shulamite</span></h4><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Song-1-16" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>Behold, you <i>are</i> handsome, my beloved!</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-16" style="position: relative;">Yes, pleasant!</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-16" style="position: relative;">Also our <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17554k" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17554k" title="See footnote k">k</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%201&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17554k" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote k">k</a>]</span>bed <i>is</i> green.</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-17" id="en-NKJV-17555" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>The beams of our houses <i>are</i> cedar,</span><br /><span class="text Song-1-17" style="position: relative;"><i>And</i> our rafters of fir.</span></p></div><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-17540a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%201&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-17540" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Song of Solomon 1:2">Song of Solomon 1:2</a> <span class="footnote-text">A young woman from the town of Shulam or Shunem, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Song.6.13" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song.6.13&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Song 6:13</a>. The speaker and audience are identified according to the number, gender, and person of the Hebrew words. Occasionally the identity is not certain.</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17540b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%201&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-17540" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Song of Solomon 1:2">Song of Solomon 1:2</a> <span class="footnote-text">Masc. sing.: the Beloved</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17542c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%201&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-17542" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Song of Solomon 1:4">Song of Solomon 1:4</a> <span class="footnote-text">Masc. sing.: the Beloved</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17542d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%201&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-17542" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Song of Solomon 1:4">Song of Solomon 1:4</a> <span class="footnote-text">Fem. sing.: the Shulamite</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17544e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%201&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-17544" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Song of Solomon 1:6">Song of Solomon 1:6</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>looked upon me</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17545f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%201&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-17545" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Song of Solomon 1:7">Song of Solomon 1:7</a> <span class="footnote-text">LXX, Syr., Vg. <i>wanders</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17546g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%201&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-17546" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Song of Solomon 1:8">Song of Solomon 1:8</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>Go out</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17549h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%201&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-17549" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Song of Solomon 1:11">Song of Solomon 1:11</a> <span class="footnote-text">Fem. sing.: the Shulamite</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17550i" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%201&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-17550" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Song of Solomon 1:12">Song of Solomon 1:12</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>perfume</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17553j" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%201&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-17553" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Song of Solomon 1:15">Song of Solomon 1:15</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>my companion, friend</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17554k" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Song%20of%20Solomon%201&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-17554" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Song of Solomon 1:16">Song of Solomon 1:16</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>couch</i></span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>========================</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u>Hebrews 11</u></b></span></p><p><br /></p><p class="chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-1"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">1</span></b> Now faith is the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30174a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30174a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2011&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30174a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>substance of things hoped for, the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30174b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30174b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2011&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30174b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>evidence of things not seen. </span><span class="text Heb-11-2" id="en-NKJV-30175" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>For by it the elders obtained a <i>good</i> testimony.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-3" id="en-NKJV-30176"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>By faith we understand that the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30176c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30176c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2011&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30176c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-4" id="en-NKJV-30177">Faith at the Dawn of History</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-4"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-5" id="en-NKJV-30178"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, <span class="oblique">“and was not found, because God had taken him”</span>; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God. </span><span class="text Heb-11-6" id="en-NKJV-30179"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>But without faith <i>it is</i> impossible to please <i>Him,</i> for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and <i>that</i> He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-7" id="en-NKJV-30180"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-8" id="en-NKJV-30181">Faithful Abraham</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-8"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. </span><span class="text Heb-11-9" id="en-NKJV-30182"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as <i>in</i> a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; </span><span class="text Heb-11-10" id="en-NKJV-30183"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker <i>is</i> God.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-11" id="en-NKJV-30184"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30184d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30184d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2011&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30184d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised. </span><span class="text Heb-11-12" id="en-NKJV-30185"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born <i>as many</i> as the stars of the sky in multitude—innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-13" id="en-NKJV-30186">The Heavenly Hope</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-13"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30186e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30186e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2011&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30186e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>were assured of them, embraced <i>them</i> and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. </span><span class="text Heb-11-14" id="en-NKJV-30187"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. </span><span class="text Heb-11-15" id="en-NKJV-30188"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>And truly if they had called to mind that <i>country</i> from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return. </span><span class="text Heb-11-16" id="en-NKJV-30189"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly <i>country.</i> Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-17" id="en-NKJV-30190">The Faith of the Patriarchs</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-17"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten <i>son,</i> </span><span class="text Heb-11-18" id="en-NKJV-30191"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30191f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30191f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2011&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30191f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>of whom it was said, <span class="oblique">“In Isaac your seed shall be called,”</span> </span><span class="text Heb-11-19" id="en-NKJV-30192"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>concluding that God <i>was</i> able to raise <i>him</i> up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-20" id="en-NKJV-30193"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-21" id="en-NKJV-30194"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, <i>leaning</i> on the top of his staff.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-22" id="en-NKJV-30195"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave instructions concerning his bones.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-23" id="en-NKJV-30196">The Faith of Moses</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-23"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw <i>he was</i> a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king’s command.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-24" id="en-NKJV-30197"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, </span><span class="text Heb-11-25" id="en-NKJV-30198"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30198g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30198g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2011&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30198g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>passing pleasures of sin, </span><span class="text Heb-11-26" id="en-NKJV-30199"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>esteeming the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30199h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30199h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2011&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30199h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span>reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30199i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30199i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2011&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30199i" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span>in Egypt; for he looked to the reward.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-27" id="en-NKJV-30200"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible. </span><span class="text Heb-11-28" id="en-NKJV-30201"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-29" id="en-NKJV-30202"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry <i>land, whereas</i> the Egyptians, attempting to do so, were drowned.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-30" id="en-NKJV-30203">By Faith They Overcame</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-30"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were encircled for seven days. </span><span class="text Heb-11-31" id="en-NKJV-30204"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span>By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30204j" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30204j" title="See footnote j">j</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2011&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30204j" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote j">j</a>]</span>did not believe, when she had received the spies with peace.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-32" id="en-NKJV-30205"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">32 </span>And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also <i>of</i> David and Samuel and the prophets: </span><span class="text Heb-11-33" id="en-NKJV-30206"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">33 </span>who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, </span><span class="text Heb-11-34" id="en-NKJV-30207"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">34 </span>quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. </span><span class="text Heb-11-35" id="en-NKJV-30208"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">35 </span>Women received their dead raised to life again.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-35">Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. </span><span class="text Heb-11-36" id="en-NKJV-30209"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">36 </span>Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. </span><span class="text Heb-11-37" id="en-NKJV-30210"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">37 </span>They were stoned, they were sawn in two, <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30210k" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30210k" title="See footnote k">k</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2011&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30210k" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote k">k</a>]</span>were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented— </span><span class="text Heb-11-38" id="en-NKJV-30211"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">38 </span>of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, <i>in</i> dens and caves of the earth.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-11-39" id="en-NKJV-30212"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">39 </span>And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, </span><span class="text Heb-11-40" id="en-NKJV-30213"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">40 </span>God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-30174a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2011&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30174" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 11:1">Hebrews 11:1</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>realization</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30174b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2011&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30174" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 11:1">Hebrews 11:1</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>confidence</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30176c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2011&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30176" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 11:3">Hebrews 11:3</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>ages,</i> Gr. <i>aiones,</i> aeons</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30184d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2011&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30184" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 11:11">Hebrews 11:11</a> <span class="footnote-text">NU omits <i>she bore a child</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30186e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2011&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30186" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 11:13">Hebrews 11:13</a> <span class="footnote-text">NU, M omit <i>were assured of them</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30191f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2011&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30191" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 11:18">Hebrews 11:18</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>to</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30198g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2011&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30198" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 11:25">Hebrews 11:25</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>temporary</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30199h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2011&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30199" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 11:26">Hebrews 11:26</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>reviling because of</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30199i" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2011&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30199" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 11:26">Hebrews 11:26</a> <span class="footnote-text">NU, M <i>of</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30204j" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2011&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30204" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 11:31">Hebrews 11:31</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>were disobedient</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30210k" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2011&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30210" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 11:37">Hebrews 11:37</a> <span class="footnote-text">NU omits <i>were tempted</i></span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-25060968481593671652022-10-27T21:41:00.001-04:002022-10-27T21:42:13.917-04:00Today's Readings and Stuff -- Thursday, 27 October 2022<p>Been a very long gap in posting here. My apologies. As some know, I started this blog back in 2006 while living in eastern Tennessee, continued it when relocated to central Alabama, and followed on when relocated to NE Ohio where I am now. For most of that time span, I've been pretty regular in my postings here and need to get back into that patterning . It's a good and necessary part of the day's routine and consistency for most of that. I normally am into the day's Bible reading before rising for the day, while my Beloved is still asleep beside me. The creation of these posts is later in the day, after I've had some time to digest those passages a bit, and to consider their significance and application to the worlds, both inner and outer, that we are facing that day.</p><p>The recent readings, much of them, are not light-hearted sweetness stuff. I've been spending weeks and weeks in readings in Isaiah and Jeremiah, certainly not happy-happy stuff. The recent weeks have also had me in Ecclesiastes, which has been reinforcing my realizations that so much of life and emphasis, certainly including mine, has focused on stuff that at best doesn't honor the Lord nor further the Kingdom. At best. That hits hard, and should. Even the New Testament passages have had more than a few references to the hard struggle and opposition that comes with serving Jesus. Issues rarely mentioned in many churches, and rarely mentioned by believers. Unfortunately.</p><p>So forgive me if this gets serious.</p><p><br /></p><p>============================</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>Jeremiah 49</u></span></b></p><p class="chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-1">Against the Ammonites.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-1"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">1 </span></b> Thus says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-1" style="position: relative;">“Has Israel no sons?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-1" style="position: relative;">Has he no heir?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-1" style="position: relative;">Why <i>then</i> does <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20129a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20129a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2049&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20129a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>Milcom inherit Gad,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-1" style="position: relative;">And his people dwell in its cities?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-2" id="en-NKJV-20130" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-2" style="position: relative;">“That I will cause to be heard an alarm of war</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-2" style="position: relative;">In Rabbah of the Ammonites;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-2" style="position: relative;">It shall be a desolate mound,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-2" style="position: relative;">And her <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20130b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20130b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2049&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20130b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>villages shall be burned with fire.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-2" style="position: relative;">Then Israel shall take possession of his inheritance,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-3" id="en-NKJV-20131" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>“Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is plundered!</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-3" style="position: relative;">Cry, you daughters of Rabbah,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-3" style="position: relative;">Gird yourselves with sackcloth!</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-3" style="position: relative;">Lament and run to and fro by the walls;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-3" style="position: relative;">For <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20131c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20131c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2049&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20131c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>Milcom shall go into captivity</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-3" style="position: relative;">With his priests and his princes together.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-4" id="en-NKJV-20132" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Why do you boast in the valleys,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-4" style="position: relative;"><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20132d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20132d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2049&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20132d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>Your flowing valley, O backsliding daughter?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-4" style="position: relative;">Who trusted in her treasures, <i>saying,</i></span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-4" style="position: relative;">‘Who will come against me?’</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-5" id="en-NKJV-20133" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Behold, I will bring fear upon you,”</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-5" style="position: relative;">Says the Lord <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">God</span> of hosts,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-5" style="position: relative;">“From all those who are around you;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-5" style="position: relative;">You shall be driven out, everyone headlong,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-5" style="position: relative;">And no one will gather those who wander off.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-6" id="en-NKJV-20134" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>But afterward I will bring back</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-6" style="position: relative;">The captives of the people of Ammon,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span></p></div><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-7" id="en-NKJV-20135">Judgment on Edom</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-7"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>Against Edom.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-7">Thus says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> of hosts:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-7" style="position: relative;">“<i>Is</i> wisdom no more in Teman?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-7" style="position: relative;">Has counsel perished from the prudent?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-7" style="position: relative;">Has their wisdom vanished?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-8" id="en-NKJV-20136" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan!</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-8" style="position: relative;">For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-8" style="position: relative;">The time <i>that</i> I will punish him.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-9" id="en-NKJV-20137" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>If grape-gatherers came to you,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-9" style="position: relative;">Would they not leave <i>some</i> gleaning grapes?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-9" style="position: relative;">If thieves by night,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-9" style="position: relative;">Would they not destroy until they have enough?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-10" id="en-NKJV-20138" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>But I have made Esau bare;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-10" style="position: relative;">I have uncovered his secret places,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-10" style="position: relative;">And he shall not be able to hide himself.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-10" style="position: relative;">His descendants are plundered,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-10" style="position: relative;">His brethren and his neighbors,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-10" style="position: relative;">And he <i>is</i> no more.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-11" id="en-NKJV-20139" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Leave your fatherless children,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-11" style="position: relative;">I will preserve <i>them</i> alive;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-11" style="position: relative;">And let your widows trust in Me.”</span></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-12" id="en-NKJV-20140"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>For thus says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>: “Behold, those whose judgment <i>was</i> not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunk. And <i>are</i> you the one who will altogether go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink <i>of it.</i> </span><span class="text Jer-49-13" id="en-NKJV-20141"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>For I have sworn by Myself,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, “that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20141e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20141e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2049&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20141e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>waste, and a curse. And all its cities shall be perpetual <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20141f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20141f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2049&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20141f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>wastes.”</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-14" id="en-NKJV-20142" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>I have heard a message from the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-14" style="position: relative;">And an ambassador has been sent to the nations:</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-14" style="position: relative;">“Gather together, come against her,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-14" style="position: relative;">And rise up to battle!</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-15" id="en-NKJV-20143" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>“For indeed, I will make you small among nations,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-15" style="position: relative;">Despised among men.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-16" id="en-NKJV-20144" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>Your fierceness has deceived you,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-16" style="position: relative;">The pride of your heart,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-16" style="position: relative;">O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-16" style="position: relative;">Who hold the height of the hill!</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-16" style="position: relative;">Though you make your nest as high as the eagle,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-16" style="position: relative;">I will bring you down from there,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-17" id="en-NKJV-20145" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>“Edom also shall be an astonishment;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-17" style="position: relative;">Everyone who goes by it will be astonished</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-17" style="position: relative;">And will hiss at all its plagues.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-18" id="en-NKJV-20146" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-18" style="position: relative;">And their neighbors,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-18" style="position: relative;">“No one shall remain there,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-18" style="position: relative;">Nor shall a son of man dwell in it.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-19" id="en-NKJV-20147" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>“Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20147g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20147g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2049&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20147g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>floodplain of the Jordan</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-19" style="position: relative;">Against the dwelling place of the strong;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-19" style="position: relative;">But I will suddenly make him run away from her.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-19" style="position: relative;">And who <i>is</i> a chosen <i>man that</i> I may appoint over her?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-19" style="position: relative;">For who <i>is</i> like Me?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-19" style="position: relative;">Who will arraign Me?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-19" style="position: relative;">And who <i>is</i> that shepherd</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-19" style="position: relative;">Who will withstand Me?”</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-20" id="en-NKJV-20148" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>Therefore hear the counsel of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> that He has taken against Edom,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-20" style="position: relative;">And His purposes that He has proposed against the inhabitants of Teman:</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-20" style="position: relative;">Surely the least of the flock shall <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20148h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20148h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2049&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20148h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span>draw them out;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-20" style="position: relative;">Surely He shall make their dwelling places desolate with them.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-21" id="en-NKJV-20149" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>The earth shakes at the noise of their fall;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-21" style="position: relative;">At the cry its noise is heard at the Red Sea.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-22" id="en-NKJV-20150" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>Behold, He shall come up and fly like the eagle,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-22" style="position: relative;">And spread His wings over Bozrah;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-22" style="position: relative;">The heart of the mighty men of Edom in that day shall be</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-22" style="position: relative;">Like the heart of a woman in birth pangs.</span></p></div><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-23" id="en-NKJV-20151">Judgment on Damascus</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-23"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>Against Damascus.</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-23" style="position: relative;">“Hamath and Arpad are shamed,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-23" style="position: relative;">For they have heard bad news.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-23" style="position: relative;">They are fainthearted;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-23" style="position: relative;"><i>There is</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20151i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20151i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2049&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20151i" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span>trouble on the sea;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-23" style="position: relative;">It cannot be quiet.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-24" id="en-NKJV-20152" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>Damascus has grown feeble;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-24" style="position: relative;">She turns to flee,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-24" style="position: relative;">And fear has seized <i>her.</i></span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-24" style="position: relative;">Anguish and sorrows have taken her like a woman in <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20152j" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20152j" title="See footnote j">j</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2049&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20152j" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote j">j</a>]</span>labor.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-25" id="en-NKJV-20153" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>Why is the city of praise not deserted, the city of My joy?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-26" id="en-NKJV-20154" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-26" style="position: relative;">And all the men of war shall be cut off in that day,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> of hosts.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-27" id="en-NKJV-20155" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>“I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-27" style="position: relative;">And it shall consume the palaces of Ben-Hadad.”</span></p></div><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-28" id="en-NKJV-20156">Judgment on Kedar and Hazor</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-28"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>Against Kedar and against the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon shall strike.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-28">Thus says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-28" style="position: relative;">“Arise, go up to Kedar,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-28" style="position: relative;">And devastate the men of the East!</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-29" id="en-NKJV-20157" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>Their tents and their flocks they shall take away.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-29" style="position: relative;">They shall take for themselves their curtains,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-29" style="position: relative;">All their vessels and their camels;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-29" style="position: relative;">And they shall cry out to them,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-29" style="position: relative;">‘Fear <i>is</i> on every side!’</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-30" id="en-NKJV-20158" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>“Flee, get far away! Dwell in the depths,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-30" style="position: relative;">O inhabitants of Hazor!” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-30" style="position: relative;">“For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-30" style="position: relative;">And has conceived a plan against you.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-31" id="en-NKJV-20159" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span>“Arise, go up to the wealthy nation that dwells securely,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-31" style="position: relative;">“Which has neither gates nor bars,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-31" style="position: relative;">Dwelling alone.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-32" id="en-NKJV-20160" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">32 </span>Their camels shall be for booty,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-32" style="position: relative;">And the multitude of their cattle for plunder.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-32" style="position: relative;">I will scatter to all winds those <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20160k" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20160k" title="See footnote k">k</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2049&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20160k" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote k">k</a>]</span>in the farthest corners,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-32" style="position: relative;">And I will bring their calamity from all its sides,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-33" id="en-NKJV-20161" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">33 </span>“Hazor shall be a dwelling for jackals, a desolation forever;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-33" style="position: relative;">No one shall reside there,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-33" style="position: relative;">Nor son of man dwell in it.”</span></p></div><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-34" id="en-NKJV-20162">Judgment on Elam</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-34"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">34 </span>The word of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying, </span><span class="text Jer-49-35" id="en-NKJV-20163"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">35 </span>“Thus says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> of hosts:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-35" style="position: relative;">‘Behold, I will break the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20163l" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20163l" title="See footnote l">l</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2049&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20163l" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote l">l</a>]</span>bow of Elam,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-35" style="position: relative;">The foremost of their might.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-36" id="en-NKJV-20164" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">36 </span>Against Elam I will bring the four winds</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-36" style="position: relative;">From the four quarters of heaven,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-36" style="position: relative;">And scatter them toward all those winds;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-36" style="position: relative;">There shall be no nations where the outcasts of Elam will not go.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-37" id="en-NKJV-20165" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">37 </span>For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-37" style="position: relative;">And before those who seek their life.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-37" style="position: relative;">I will bring disaster upon them,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-37" style="position: relative;">My fierce anger,’ says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-37" style="position: relative;">‘And I will send the sword after them</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-37" style="position: relative;">Until I have consumed them.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-38" id="en-NKJV-20166" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">38 </span>I will set My throne in Elam,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-38" style="position: relative;">And will destroy from there the king and the princes,’ says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-49-39" id="en-NKJV-20167" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">39 </span>‘But it shall come to pass in the latter days:</span><br /><span class="text Jer-49-39" style="position: relative;">I will bring back the captives of Elam,’ says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.”</span></p></div><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-20129a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2049&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20129" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 49:1">Jeremiah 49:1</a> <span class="footnote-text">Heb. <i>Malcam,</i> lit. <i>their king;</i> an Ammonite god, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Kgs.11.5" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Kgs.11.5&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">1 Kin. 11:5</a>; <i>Molech,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Lev.18.21" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Lev.18.21&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Lev. 18:21</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20130b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2049&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20130" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 49:2">Jeremiah 49:2</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>daughters</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20131c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2049&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20131" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 49:3">Jeremiah 49:3</a> <span class="footnote-text">See v. <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Jer.49.1" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jer.49.1&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">1</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20132d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2049&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20132" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 49:4">Jeremiah 49:4</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>Your valley is flowing</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20141e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2049&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20141" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 49:13">Jeremiah 49:13</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>ruin</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20141f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2049&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20141" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 49:13">Jeremiah 49:13</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>ruins</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20147g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2049&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20147" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 49:19">Jeremiah 49:19</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>thicket</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20148h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2049&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20148" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 49:20">Jeremiah 49:20</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>drag them away</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20151i" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2049&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20151" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 49:23">Jeremiah 49:23</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>anxiety</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20152j" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2049&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20152" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 49:24">Jeremiah 49:24</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>childbirth</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20160k" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2049&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20160" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 49:32">Jeremiah 49:32</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>cut off at the corner,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Jer.9.26" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jer.9.26&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Jer. 9:26</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Jer.25.23" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jer.25.23&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">25:23</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20163l" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2049&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20163" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 49:35">Jeremiah 49:35</a> <span class="footnote-text">Power</span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">Jeremiah 50</span></u></b></p><p><br /></p><p class="chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-50-1"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">1 </span></b> The word that the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> spoke against Babylon <i style="font-size: 16px;">and</i> against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-50-2" id="en-NKJV-20169" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>“Declare among the nations,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-2" style="position: relative;">Proclaim, and <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20169a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20169a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2050&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20169a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>set up a standard;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-2" style="position: relative;">Proclaim—do not conceal <i>it</i>—</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-2" style="position: relative;">Say, ‘Babylon is taken, Bel is shamed.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-2" style="position: relative;"><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20169b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20169b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2050&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20169b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>Merodach is broken in pieces;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-2" style="position: relative;">Her idols are humiliated,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-2" style="position: relative;">Her images are broken in pieces.’</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-3" id="en-NKJV-20170" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>For out of the north a nation comes up against her,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-3" style="position: relative;">Which shall make her land desolate,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-3" style="position: relative;">And no one shall dwell therein.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-3" style="position: relative;">They shall <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20170c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20170c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2050&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20170c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>move, they shall depart,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-3" style="position: relative;">Both man and beast.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-50-4" id="en-NKJV-20171" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>“In those days and in that time,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-4" style="position: relative;">“The children of Israel shall come,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-4" style="position: relative;">They and the children of Judah together;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-4" style="position: relative;">With continual weeping they shall come,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-4" style="position: relative;">And seek the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> their God.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-5" id="en-NKJV-20172" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>They shall ask the way to Zion,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-5" style="position: relative;">With their faces toward it, <i>saying,</i></span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-5" style="position: relative;">‘Come and let us join ourselves to the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-5" style="position: relative;"><i>In</i> a perpetual covenant</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-5" style="position: relative;"><i>That</i> will not be forgotten.’</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-50-6" id="en-NKJV-20173" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>“My people have been lost sheep.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-6" style="position: relative;">Their shepherds have led them astray;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-6" style="position: relative;">They have turned them away <i>on</i> the mountains.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-6" style="position: relative;">They have gone from mountain to hill;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-6" style="position: relative;">They have forgotten their resting place.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-7" id="en-NKJV-20174" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>All who found them have devoured them;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-7" style="position: relative;">And their adversaries said, ‘We have not offended,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-7" style="position: relative;">Because they have sinned against the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, the habitation of justice,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-7" style="position: relative;">The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, the hope of their fathers.’</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-50-8" id="en-NKJV-20175" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>“Move from the midst of Babylon,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-8" style="position: relative;">Go out of the land of the Chaldeans;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-8" style="position: relative;">And be like the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20175d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20175d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2050&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20175d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>rams before the flocks.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-9" id="en-NKJV-20176" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>For behold, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-9" style="position: relative;">An assembly of great nations from the north country,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-9" style="position: relative;">And they shall array themselves against her;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-9" style="position: relative;">From there she shall be captured.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-9" style="position: relative;">Their arrows <i>shall be</i> like <i>those</i> of <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20176e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20176e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2050&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20176e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>an expert warrior;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-9" style="position: relative;">None shall return in vain.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-10" id="en-NKJV-20177" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>And Chaldea shall become plunder;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-10" style="position: relative;">All who plunder her shall be satisfied,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-50-11" id="en-NKJV-20178" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>“Because you were glad, because you rejoiced,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-11" style="position: relative;">You destroyers of My heritage,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-11" style="position: relative;">Because you have grown fat like a heifer threshing grain,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-11" style="position: relative;">And you <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20178f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20178f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2050&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20178f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>bellow like bulls,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-12" id="en-NKJV-20179" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Your mother shall be deeply ashamed;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-12" style="position: relative;">She who bore you shall be ashamed.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-12" style="position: relative;">Behold, the least of the nations <i>shall be</i> a wilderness,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-12" style="position: relative;">A dry land and a desert.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-13" id="en-NKJV-20180" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>Because of the wrath of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-13" style="position: relative;">She shall not be inhabited,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-13" style="position: relative;">But she shall be wholly desolate.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-13" style="position: relative;">Everyone who goes by Babylon shall be horrified</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-13" style="position: relative;">And hiss at all her plagues.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-50-14" id="en-NKJV-20181" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>“Put yourselves in array against Babylon all around,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-14" style="position: relative;">All you who bend the bow;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-14" style="position: relative;">Shoot at her, spare no arrows,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-14" style="position: relative;">For she has sinned against the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-15" id="en-NKJV-20182" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>Shout against her all around;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-15" style="position: relative;">She has given her hand,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-15" style="position: relative;">Her foundations have fallen,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-15" style="position: relative;">Her walls are thrown down;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-15" style="position: relative;">For it <i>is</i> the vengeance of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-15" style="position: relative;">Take vengeance on her.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-15" style="position: relative;">As she has done, so do to her.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-16" id="en-NKJV-20183" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>Cut off the sower from Babylon,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-16" style="position: relative;">And him who handles the sickle at harvest time.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-16" style="position: relative;">For fear of the oppressing sword</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-16" style="position: relative;">Everyone shall turn to his own people,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-16" style="position: relative;">And everyone shall flee to his own land.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-50-17" id="en-NKJV-20184" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>“Israel <i>is</i> like scattered sheep;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-17" style="position: relative;">The lions have driven <i>him</i> away.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-17" style="position: relative;">First the king of Assyria devoured him;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-17" style="position: relative;">Now at last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”</span></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-50-18" id="en-NKJV-20185"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>Therefore thus says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> of hosts, the God of Israel:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-50-18" style="position: relative;">“Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-18" style="position: relative;">As I have punished the king of Assyria.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-19" id="en-NKJV-20186" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>But I will bring back Israel to his home,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-19" style="position: relative;">And he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-19" style="position: relative;">His soul shall be satisfied on Mount Ephraim and Gilead.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-20" id="en-NKJV-20187" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>In those days and in that time,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-20" style="position: relative;">“The iniquity of Israel shall be sought, but <i>there shall be</i> none;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-20" style="position: relative;">And the sins of Judah, but they shall not be found;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-20" style="position: relative;">For I will pardon those whom I preserve.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-50-21" id="en-NKJV-20188" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>“Go up against the land of Merathaim, against it,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-21" style="position: relative;">And against the inhabitants of Pekod.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-21" style="position: relative;"><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20188g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20188g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2050&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20188g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>Waste and utterly destroy them,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-21" style="position: relative;">“And do according to all that I have commanded you.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-22" id="en-NKJV-20189" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>A sound of battle <i>is</i> in the land,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-22" style="position: relative;">And of great destruction.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-23" id="en-NKJV-20190" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut apart and broken!</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-23" style="position: relative;">How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-24" id="en-NKJV-20191" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>I have laid a snare for you;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-24" style="position: relative;">You have indeed been trapped, O Babylon,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-24" style="position: relative;">And you were not aware;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-24" style="position: relative;">You have been found and also caught,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-24" style="position: relative;">Because you have contended against the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-25" id="en-NKJV-20192" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> has opened His armory,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-25" style="position: relative;">And has brought out the weapons of His indignation;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-25" style="position: relative;">For this <i>is</i> the work of the Lord <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">God</span> of hosts</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-25" style="position: relative;">In the land of the Chaldeans.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-26" id="en-NKJV-20193" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>Come against her from the farthest border;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-26" style="position: relative;">Open her storehouses;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-26" style="position: relative;">Cast her up as heaps of ruins,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-26" style="position: relative;">And destroy her utterly;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-26" style="position: relative;">Let nothing of her be left.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-27" id="en-NKJV-20194" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>Slay all her bulls,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-27" style="position: relative;">Let them go down to the slaughter.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-27" style="position: relative;">Woe to them!</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-27" style="position: relative;">For their day has come, the time of their punishment.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-28" id="en-NKJV-20195" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>The voice of those who flee and escape from the land of Babylon</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-28" style="position: relative;">Declares in Zion the vengeance of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> our God,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-28" style="position: relative;">The vengeance of His temple.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-50-29" id="en-NKJV-20196" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>“Call together the archers against Babylon.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-29" style="position: relative;">All you who bend the bow, encamp against it all around;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-29" style="position: relative;">Let none of them <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20196h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20196h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2050&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20196h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span>escape.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-29" style="position: relative;">Repay her according to her work;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-29" style="position: relative;">According to all she has done, do to her;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-29" style="position: relative;">For she has been proud against the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-29" style="position: relative;">Against the Holy One of Israel.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-30" id="en-NKJV-20197" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>Therefore her young men shall fall in the streets,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-30" style="position: relative;">And all her men of war shall be cut off in that day,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-31" id="en-NKJV-20198" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span>“Behold, I <i>am</i> against you,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-31" style="position: relative;">O most haughty one!” says the Lord <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">God</span> of hosts;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-31" style="position: relative;">“For your day has come,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-31" style="position: relative;"><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20198i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20198i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2050&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20198i" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span>The time <i>that</i> I will punish you.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-32" id="en-NKJV-20199" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">32 </span>The most proud shall stumble and fall,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-32" style="position: relative;">And no one will raise him up;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-32" style="position: relative;">I will kindle a fire in his cities,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-32" style="position: relative;">And it will devour all around him.”</span></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-50-33" id="en-NKJV-20200"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">33 </span>Thus says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> of hosts:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-50-33" style="position: relative;">“The children of Israel <i>were</i> oppressed,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-33" style="position: relative;">Along with the children of Judah;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-33" style="position: relative;">All who took them captive have held them fast;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-33" style="position: relative;">They have refused to let them go.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-34" id="en-NKJV-20201" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">34 </span>Their Redeemer <i>is</i> strong;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-34" style="position: relative;">The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> of hosts <i>is</i> His name.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-34" style="position: relative;">He will thoroughly plead their case,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-34" style="position: relative;">That He may give rest to the land,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-34" style="position: relative;">And disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-50-35" id="en-NKJV-20202" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">35 </span>“A sword <i>is</i> against the Chaldeans,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-35" style="position: relative;">“Against the inhabitants of Babylon,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-35" style="position: relative;">And against her princes and her wise men.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-36" id="en-NKJV-20203" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">36 </span>A sword <i>is</i> against the soothsayers, and they will be fools.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-36" style="position: relative;">A sword <i>is</i> against her mighty men, and they will be dismayed.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-37" id="en-NKJV-20204" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">37 </span>A sword <i>is</i> against their horses,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-37" style="position: relative;">Against their chariots,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-37" style="position: relative;">And against all the mixed peoples who <i>are</i> in her midst;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-37" style="position: relative;">And they will become like women.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-37" style="position: relative;">A sword <i>is</i> against her treasures, and they will be robbed.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-38" id="en-NKJV-20205" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">38 </span>A <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20205j" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20205j" title="See footnote j">j</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2050&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20205j" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote j">j</a>]</span>drought <i>is</i> against her waters, and they will be dried up.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-38" style="position: relative;">For it <i>is</i> the land of carved images,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-38" style="position: relative;">And they are insane with <i>their</i> idols.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-50-39" id="en-NKJV-20206" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">39 </span>“Therefore the wild desert beasts shall dwell <i>there</i> with the jackals,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-39" style="position: relative;">And the ostriches shall dwell in it.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-39" style="position: relative;">It shall be inhabited no more forever,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-39" style="position: relative;">Nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-40" id="en-NKJV-20207" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">40 </span>As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-40" style="position: relative;">And their neighbors,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-40" style="position: relative;">“<i>So</i> no one shall reside there,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-40" style="position: relative;">Nor son of man dwell in it.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-50-41" id="en-NKJV-20208" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">41 </span>“Behold, a people shall come from the north,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-41" style="position: relative;">And a great nation and many kings</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-41" style="position: relative;">Shall be raised up from the ends of the earth.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-42" id="en-NKJV-20209" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">42 </span>They shall hold the bow and the lance;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-42" style="position: relative;">They <i>are</i> cruel and shall not show mercy.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-42" style="position: relative;">Their voice shall roar like the sea;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-42" style="position: relative;">They shall ride on horses,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-42" style="position: relative;">Set in array, like a man for the battle,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-42" style="position: relative;">Against you, O daughter of Babylon.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-50-43" id="en-NKJV-20210" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">43 </span>“The king of Babylon has heard the report about them,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-43" style="position: relative;">And his hands grow feeble;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-43" style="position: relative;">Anguish has taken hold of him,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-43" style="position: relative;">Pangs as of a woman in childbirth.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-50-44" id="en-NKJV-20211" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">44 </span>“Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-20211k" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-20211k" title="See footnote k">k</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2050&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-20211k" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote k">k</a>]</span>floodplain of the Jordan</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-44" style="position: relative;">Against the dwelling place of the strong;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-44" style="position: relative;">But I will make them suddenly run away from her.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-44" style="position: relative;">And who <i>is</i> a chosen <i>man that</i> I may appoint over her?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-44" style="position: relative;">For who <i>is</i> like Me?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-44" style="position: relative;">Who will arraign Me?</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-44" style="position: relative;">And who <i>is</i> that shepherd</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-44" style="position: relative;">Who will withstand Me?”</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Jer-50-45" id="en-NKJV-20212" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">45 </span>Therefore hear the counsel of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> that He has taken against Babylon,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-45" style="position: relative;">And His purposes that He has proposed against the land of the Chaldeans:</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-45" style="position: relative;">Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out;</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-45" style="position: relative;">Surely He will make their dwelling place desolate with them.</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-46" id="en-NKJV-20213" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">46 </span>At the noise of the taking of Babylon</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-46" style="position: relative;">The earth trembles,</span><br /><span class="text Jer-50-46" style="position: relative;">And the cry is heard among the nations.</span></p></div><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-20169a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2050&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20169" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 50:2">Jeremiah 50:2</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>lift</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20169b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2050&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20169" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 50:2">Jeremiah 50:2</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>Marduk;</i> a Babylonian god</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20170c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2050&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20170" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 50:3">Jeremiah 50:3</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>wander</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20175d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2050&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20175" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 50:8">Jeremiah 50:8</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>male goats</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20176e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2050&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20176" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 50:9">Jeremiah 50:9</a> <span class="footnote-text">So with some Heb. mss., LXX, Syr.; MT, Tg., Vg. <i>a warrior who makes childless</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20178f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2050&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20178" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 50:11">Jeremiah 50:11</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>neigh like steeds</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20188g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2050&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20188" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 50:21">Jeremiah 50:21</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>Attack</i> with the sword</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20196h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2050&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20196" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 50:29">Jeremiah 50:29</a> <span class="footnote-text">Qr., some Heb. mss., LXX, Tg. add <i>to her</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20198i" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2050&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20198" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 50:31">Jeremiah 50:31</a> <span class="footnote-text">So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Vg. <i>The time of your punishment</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20205j" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2050&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20205" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 50:38">Jeremiah 50:38</a> <span class="footnote-text">So with MT, Tg., Vg.; Syr. <i>sword;</i> LXX omits <i>A drought is</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20211k" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2050&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-20211" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Jeremiah 50:44">Jeremiah 50:44</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>thicket</i></span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>==================================</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>Ecclesiastes 12</u></span></b></p><p><br /></p><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Eccl-12-1" style="position: relative;"><b style="font-size: 1.6rem;">1</b><span style="font-size: 1.6rem;"> </span>Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth,</span></span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-1" style="position: relative;">Before the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17525a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17525a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%2012&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17525a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>difficult days come,</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-1" style="position: relative;">And the years draw near when you say,</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-1" style="position: relative;">“I have no pleasure in them”:</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-2" id="en-NKJV-17526" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>While the sun and the light,</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-2" style="position: relative;">The moon and the stars,</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-2" style="position: relative;">Are not darkened,</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-2" style="position: relative;">And the clouds do not return after the rain;</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-3" id="en-NKJV-17527" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>In the day when the keepers of the house tremble,</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-3" style="position: relative;">And the strong men bow down;</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-3" style="position: relative;">When the grinders cease because they are few,</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-3" style="position: relative;">And those that look through the windows grow dim;</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-4" id="en-NKJV-17528" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>When the doors are shut in the streets,</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-4" style="position: relative;">And the sound of grinding is low;</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-4" style="position: relative;">When one rises up at the sound of a bird,</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-4" style="position: relative;">And all the daughters of music are brought low.</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-5" id="en-NKJV-17529" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Also they are afraid of height,</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-5" style="position: relative;">And of terrors in the way;</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-5" style="position: relative;">When the almond tree blossoms,</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-5" style="position: relative;">The grasshopper is a burden,</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-5" style="position: relative;">And desire fails.</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-5" style="position: relative;">For man goes to his eternal home,</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-5" style="position: relative;">And the mourners go about the streets.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Eccl-12-6" id="en-NKJV-17530" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span><i>Remember your Creator</i> before the silver cord is <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17530b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17530b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%2012&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17530b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>loosed,</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-6" style="position: relative;">Or the golden bowl is broken,</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-6" style="position: relative;">Or the pitcher shattered at the fountain,</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-6" style="position: relative;">Or the wheel broken at the well.</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-7" id="en-NKJV-17531" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>Then the dust will return to the earth as it was,</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-7" style="position: relative;">And the spirit will return to God who gave it.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Eccl-12-8" id="en-NKJV-17532" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher,</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-8" style="position: relative;">“All <i>is</i> vanity.”</span></p></div><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Eccl-12-9" id="en-NKJV-17533">The Whole Duty of Man</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Eccl-12-9"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>And moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yes, he pondered and sought out <i>and</i> set<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17533c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17533c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%2012&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17533c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> in order many proverbs. </span><span class="text Eccl-12-10" id="en-NKJV-17534"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>The Preacher sought to find <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17534d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17534d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%2012&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17534d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>acceptable words; and <i>what was</i> written <i>was</i> upright—words of truth. </span><span class="text Eccl-12-11" id="en-NKJV-17535"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>The words of the wise are like goads, and the words of <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-17535e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-17535e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%2012&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-17535e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>scholars are like well-driven nails, given by one Shepherd. </span><span class="text Eccl-12-12" id="en-NKJV-17536"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>And further, my son, be admonished by these. Of making many books <i>there is</i> no end, and much study <i>is</i> wearisome to the flesh.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Eccl-12-13" id="en-NKJV-17537"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Eccl-12-13" style="position: relative;">Fear God and keep His commandments,</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-13" style="position: relative;">For this is man’s all.</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-14" id="en-NKJV-17538" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>For God will bring every work into judgment,</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-14" style="position: relative;">Including every secret thing,</span><br /><span class="text Eccl-12-14" style="position: relative;">Whether good or evil.</span></p></div><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-17525a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%2012&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-17525" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Ecclesiastes 12:1">Ecclesiastes 12:1</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>evil</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17530b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%2012&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-17530" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Ecclesiastes 12:6">Ecclesiastes 12:6</a> <span class="footnote-text">So with Qr., Tg.; Kt. <i>removed;</i> LXX, Vg. <i>broken</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17533c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%2012&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-17533" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Ecclesiastes 12:9">Ecclesiastes 12:9</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>arranged</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17534d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%2012&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-17534" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Ecclesiastes 12:10">Ecclesiastes 12:10</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>delightful</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-17535e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%2012&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-17535" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Ecclesiastes 12:11">Ecclesiastes 12:11</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>masters of assemblies</i></span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>=============================</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">Hebrews 10</span></u></b></p><p><br /></p><p class="chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-10-1"><b>1</b> For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, <i>and</i> not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. </span><span class="text Heb-10-2" id="en-NKJV-30136"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30136a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30136a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30136a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. </span><span class="text Heb-10-3" id="en-NKJV-30137"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>But in those <i>sacrifices there is</i> a reminder of sins every year. </span><span class="text Heb-10-4" id="en-NKJV-30138"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>For <i>it is</i> not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-10-5" id="en-NKJV-30139">Christ’s Death Fulfills God’s Will</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-10-5"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-10-5" style="position: relative;"><span class="oblique"><span style="font-size: 1.6rem;">“</span><i>Sacrifice and offering You did not desire,</i></span></span><i><br /><span class="text Heb-10-5" style="position: relative;"><span class="oblique">But a body You have prepared for Me.</span></span><br /><span class="text Heb-10-6" id="en-NKJV-30140" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span><span class="oblique">In burnt offerings and</span> sacrifices <span class="oblique">for sin</span></span><br /><span class="text Heb-10-6" style="position: relative;"><span class="oblique">You had no pleasure.</span></span><br /><span class="text Heb-10-7" id="en-NKJV-30141" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span><span class="oblique">Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—</span></span></i><br /><i><span class="text Heb-10-7" style="position: relative;"><span class="oblique">In the volume of the book it is written of Me—</span></span><br /><span class="text Heb-10-7" style="position: relative;"><span class="oblique">To do Your will, O God.’ ”</span></span></i></p></div><p class="first-line-none top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-10-8" id="en-NKJV-30142"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Previously saying, <span class="oblique">“Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and</span> <i>offerings</i> <span class="oblique">for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure</span> <i>in them</i>” (which are offered according to the law), </span><span class="text Heb-10-9" id="en-NKJV-30143"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>then He said, <span class="oblique">“Behold, I have come to do Your will,</span> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30143b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30143b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30143b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span><span class="oblique">O God.”</span> He takes away the first that He may establish the second. </span><span class="text Heb-10-10" id="en-NKJV-30144"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>By that will we have been <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30144c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30144c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30144c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once <i>for all.</i></span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-10-11" id="en-NKJV-30145">Christ’s Death Perfects the Sanctified</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-10-11"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. </span><span class="text Heb-10-12" id="en-NKJV-30146"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, </span><span class="text Heb-10-13" id="en-NKJV-30147"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. </span><span class="text Heb-10-14" id="en-NKJV-30148"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30148d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30148d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30148d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>sanctified.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-10-15" id="en-NKJV-30149"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-10-16" id="en-NKJV-30150"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span><span class="oblique">“This</span> <i>is</i> <span class="oblique">the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the</span> <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span><span class="oblique">: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,”</span> </span><span class="text Heb-10-17" id="en-NKJV-30151"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span><i>then He adds,</i> <span class="oblique">“Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”</span> </span><span class="text Heb-10-18" id="en-NKJV-30152"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>Now where there is <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30152e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30152e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30152e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>remission of these, <i>there is</i> no longer an offering for sin.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-10-19" id="en-NKJV-30153">Hold Fast Your Confession</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-10-19"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>Therefore, brethren, having boldness<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30153f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30153f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30153f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, </span><span class="text Heb-10-20" id="en-NKJV-30154"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, </span><span class="text Heb-10-21" id="en-NKJV-30155"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>and <i>having</i> a High Priest over the house of God, </span><span class="text Heb-10-22" id="en-NKJV-30156"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. </span><span class="text Heb-10-23" id="en-NKJV-30157"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>Let us hold fast the confession of <i>our</i> hope without wavering, for He who promised <i>is</i> faithful. </span><span class="text Heb-10-24" id="en-NKJV-30158"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, </span><span class="text Heb-10-25" id="en-NKJV-30159"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as <i>is</i> the manner of some, but exhorting <i>one another,</i> and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-10-26" id="en-NKJV-30160">The Just Live by Faith</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-10-26"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, </span><span class="text Heb-10-27" id="en-NKJV-30161"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. </span><span class="text Heb-10-28" id="en-NKJV-30162"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on <i>the testimony of</i> two or three witnesses. </span><span class="text Heb-10-29" id="en-NKJV-30163"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? </span><span class="text Heb-10-30" id="en-NKJV-30164"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>For we know Him who said, <span class="oblique">“Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,”</span> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30164g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30164g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30164g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>says the Lord. And again, <span class="oblique">“The</span> <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> <span class="oblique">will judge His people.”</span> </span><span class="text Heb-10-31" id="en-NKJV-30165"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span>It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-10-32" id="en-NKJV-30166"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">32 </span>But recall the former days in which, after you were <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30166h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30166h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30166h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span>illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: </span><span class="text Heb-10-33" id="en-NKJV-30167"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">33 </span>partly while you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while you became companions of those who were so treated; </span><span class="text Heb-10-34" id="en-NKJV-30168"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">34 </span>for you had compassion on <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30168i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30168i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30168i" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span>me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30168j" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30168j" title="See footnote j">j</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30168j" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote j">j</a>]</span>goods, knowing that you have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30168k" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30168k" title="See footnote k">k</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30168k" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote k">k</a>]</span>in heaven. </span><span class="text Heb-10-35" id="en-NKJV-30169"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">35 </span>Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. </span><span class="text Heb-10-36" id="en-NKJV-30170"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">36 </span>For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-10-37" id="en-NKJV-30171" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">37 </span><span class="oblique">“For</span> <span class="oblique">yet a little while,</span></span><br /><span class="text Heb-10-37" style="position: relative;"><i>And</i> <span class="oblique">He</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30171l" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30171l" title="See footnote l">l</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30171l" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote l">l</a>]</span> <span class="oblique">who is coming will come and will not</span> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30171m" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30171m" title="See footnote m">m</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30171m" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote m">m</a>]</span><span class="oblique">tarry.</span></span><br /><span class="text Heb-10-38" id="en-NKJV-30172" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">38 </span><span class="oblique">Now</span> <span class="oblique">the</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30172n" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30172n" title="See footnote n">n</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30172n" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote n">n</a>]</span> <span class="oblique">just shall live by faith;</span></span><br /><span class="text Heb-10-38" style="position: relative;"><span class="oblique">But if</span> <i>anyone</i> <span class="oblique">draws back,</span></span><br /><span class="text Heb-10-38" style="position: relative;"><span class="oblique">My soul has no pleasure in him.”</span></span></p></div><p class="first-line-none top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Heb-10-39" id="en-NKJV-30173"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">39 </span>But we are not of those who draw back to <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-30173o" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-30173o" title="See footnote o">o</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-30173o" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote o">o</a>]</span>perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-30136a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30136" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 10:2">Hebrews 10:2</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>cleansed</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30143b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30143" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 10:9">Hebrews 10:9</a> <span class="footnote-text">NU, M omit <i>O God</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30144c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30144" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 10:10">Hebrews 10:10</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>set apart</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30148d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30148" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 10:14">Hebrews 10:14</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>set apart</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30152e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30152" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 10:18">Hebrews 10:18</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>forgiveness</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30153f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30153" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 10:19">Hebrews 10:19</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>confidence</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30164g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30164" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 10:30">Hebrews 10:30</a> <span class="footnote-text">NU omits <i>says the Lord</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30166h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30166" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 10:32">Hebrews 10:32</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>enlightened</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30168i" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30168" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 10:34">Hebrews 10:34</a> <span class="footnote-text">NU <i>the prisoners</i> instead of <i>me in my chains</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30168j" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30168" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 10:34">Hebrews 10:34</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>possessions</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30168k" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30168" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 10:34">Hebrews 10:34</a> <span class="footnote-text">NU omits <i>in heaven</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30171l" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30171" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 10:37">Hebrews 10:37</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>that which</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30171m" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30171" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 10:37">Hebrews 10:37</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>delay</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30172n" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30172" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 10:38">Hebrews 10:38</a> <span class="footnote-text">NU <i>My just one</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-30173o" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2010&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-30173" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Hebrews 10:39">Hebrews 10:39</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>destruction</i></span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-41811104557337901322022-09-14T17:31:00.000-04:002022-09-14T17:31:13.245-04:00Today's Readings and Stuff -- Wednesday, 14 September 2022<div>Greetings to all who stumble across this poor site. Welcome, surely. This has not been as faithfully maintained as I had endeavored to do, particularly in the last year. My sincere apologies. Things here have been disjointed, what with Dear Wife's serious and ever more serious medical problems, matters which haven't improved either of our outlooks on the life we live or our future. Shouldn't be that way, but it is. Sorry. </div><div>And yet ---</div><div>we're not done yet. I don't understand our circumstances, but remain convinced that, somehow, we are here on a mission. The specifics of that I don't pretend to fully grasp, but am convinced that it is so. And that the Lord is up to something. As I've mentioned before, the "song of the day" entries that I often include here are mentioned because, somehow, they have a particular meaning and import at a particular time or circumstance. For example, yesterday, in that odd period before waking, the first one below, "<i>Great Is Thy Faithfulness</i>" was singing in my mind, and some discussion of the meaning and import was going on as well. I don't understand that, don't mean to make it earth-shattering or the like, but it meant much to me and it still does. Who can deny the truth of it? Not me, surely. So, perhaps, that little vignette was intended to change me just a bit. Perhaps. </div><div>And the other one immediately below, came to mind as I was dressing for the day's "fun". Again, not a bad frame of mind to start the day. </div><div><br /></div><b><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTKIqmdfHSk" target="_blank">Great Is. Thy Faithfulness</a></i></b><div><br /></div><div>and</div><div><br /></div><div>"<i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxnFr-NLeLU" target="_blank"><b>Jesus Saves</b></a></i>"</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>=====================</div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><b><u>Isaiah 29</u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Isa-29-1" style="position: relative;">“Woe to <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18195a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18195a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+29&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18195a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>Ariel, to Ariel, the city <i>where</i> David dwelt!</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-1" style="position: relative;">Add year to year;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-1" style="position: relative;">Let feasts come around.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-2" id="en-NKJV-18196" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>Yet I will distress Ariel;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-2" style="position: relative;">There shall be heaviness and sorrow,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-2" style="position: relative;">And it shall be to Me as Ariel.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-3" id="en-NKJV-18197" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>I will encamp against you all around,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-3" style="position: relative;">I will lay siege against you with a mound,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-3" style="position: relative;">And I will raise siegeworks against you.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-4" id="en-NKJV-18198" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>You shall be brought down,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-4" style="position: relative;">You shall speak out of the ground;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-4" style="position: relative;">Your speech shall be low, out of the dust;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-4" style="position: relative;">Your voice shall be like a medium’s, out of the ground;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-4" style="position: relative;">And your speech shall whisper out of the dust.</span></span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="text Isa-29-5" id="en-NKJV-18199" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>“Moreover the multitude of your foes</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-5" style="position: relative;">Shall be like fine dust,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-5" style="position: relative;">And the multitude of the terrible ones</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-5" style="position: relative;">Like chaff that passes away;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-5" style="position: relative;">Yes, it shall be in an instant, suddenly.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-6" id="en-NKJV-18200" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>You will be punished by the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> of hosts</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-6" style="position: relative;">With thunder and earthquake and great noise,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-6" style="position: relative;"><i>With</i> storm and tempest</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-6" style="position: relative;">And the flame of devouring fire.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-7" id="en-NKJV-18201" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>The multitude of all the nations who fight against <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18201b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18201b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+29&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18201b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>Ariel,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-7" style="position: relative;">Even all who fight against her and her fortress,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-7" style="position: relative;">And distress her,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-7" style="position: relative;">Shall be as a dream of a night vision.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-8" id="en-NKJV-18202" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>It shall even be as when a hungry man dreams,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-8" style="position: relative;">And look—he eats;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-8" style="position: relative;">But he awakes, and his soul is still empty;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-8" style="position: relative;">Or as when a thirsty man dreams,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-8" style="position: relative;">And look—he drinks;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-8" style="position: relative;">But he awakes, and indeed <i>he is</i> faint,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-8" style="position: relative;">And his soul still craves:</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-8" style="position: relative;">So the multitude of all the nations shall be,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-8" style="position: relative;">Who fight against Mount Zion.”</span></span></p></div><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-29-9" id="en-NKJV-18203"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Blindness of Disobedience</span></span></h3><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="text Isa-29-9" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>Pause and wonder!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-9" style="position: relative;">Blind yourselves and be blind!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-9" style="position: relative;">They are drunk, but not with wine;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-9" style="position: relative;">They stagger, but not with intoxicating drink.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-10" id="en-NKJV-18204" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>For the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> has poured out on you</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-10" style="position: relative;">The spirit of deep sleep,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-10" style="position: relative;">And has closed your eyes, namely, the prophets;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-10" style="position: relative;">And He has covered your heads, <i>namely,</i> the seers.</span></span></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-29-11" id="en-NKJV-18205"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>The whole vision has become to you like the words of a <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18205c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18205c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+29&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18205c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>book that is sealed, which <i>men</i> deliver to one who is literate, saying, “Read this, please.”</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-29-11"><span style="font-size: medium;">And he says, “I cannot, for it <i>is</i> sealed.”</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-29-12" id="en-NKJV-18206"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Then the book is delivered to one who <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18206d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18206d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+29&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18206d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>is illiterate, saying, “Read this, please.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-29-12">And he says, “I am not literate.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-29-13" id="en-NKJV-18207"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>Therefore the Lord said:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-29-13" style="position: relative;">“Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-13" style="position: relative;">And honor Me with their lips,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-13" style="position: relative;">But have removed their hearts far from Me,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-13" style="position: relative;">And their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-14" id="en-NKJV-18208" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-14" style="position: relative;">Among this people,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-14" style="position: relative;">A marvelous work and a wonder;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-14" style="position: relative;">For the wisdom of their wise <i>men</i> shall perish,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-14" style="position: relative;">And the understanding of their prudent <i>men</i> shall be hidden.”</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-29-15" id="en-NKJV-18209" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>Woe to those who seek deep to hide their counsel far from the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-15" style="position: relative;">And their works are in the dark;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-15" style="position: relative;">They say, “Who sees us?” and, “Who knows us?”</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-16" id="en-NKJV-18210" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>Surely you have things turned around!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-16" style="position: relative;">Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-16" style="position: relative;">For shall the thing made say of him who made it,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-16" style="position: relative;">“He did not make me”?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-16" style="position: relative;">Or shall the thing formed say of him who formed it,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-16" style="position: relative;">“He has no understanding”?</span></p></div><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-29-17" id="en-NKJV-18211">Future Recovery of Wisdom</span></h3><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-29-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span><i>Is</i> it not yet a very little while</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-17" style="position: relative;">Till Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-17" style="position: relative;">And the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest?</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-18" id="en-NKJV-18212" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>In that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-18" style="position: relative;">And the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-19" id="en-NKJV-18213" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>The humble also shall increase <i>their</i> joy in the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-19" style="position: relative;">And the poor among men shall rejoice</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-19" style="position: relative;">In the Holy One of Israel.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-20" id="en-NKJV-18214" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>For the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18214e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18214e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+29&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18214e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>terrible one is brought to nothing,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-20" style="position: relative;">The scornful one is consumed,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-20" style="position: relative;">And all who watch for iniquity are cut off—</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-21" id="en-NKJV-18215" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>Who make a man an offender by a word,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-21" style="position: relative;">And lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-21" style="position: relative;">And turn aside the just by empty words.</span></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-29-22" id="en-NKJV-18216"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>Therefore thus says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-29-22" style="position: relative;">“Jacob shall not now be ashamed,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-22" style="position: relative;">Nor shall his face now grow pale;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-23" id="en-NKJV-18217" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>But when he sees his children,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-23" style="position: relative;">The work of My hands, in his midst,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-23" style="position: relative;">They will hallow My name,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-23" style="position: relative;">And hallow the Holy One of Jacob,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-23" style="position: relative;">And fear the God of Israel.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-24" id="en-NKJV-18218" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>These also who erred in spirit will come to understanding,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-29-24" style="position: relative;">And those who complained will learn doctrine.”</span></p></div><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-18195a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+29&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-18195" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Isaiah 29:1">Isaiah 29:1</a> <span class="footnote-text">Jerusalem, lit. <i>Lion of God</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18201b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+29&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-18201" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Isaiah 29:7">Isaiah 29:7</a> <span class="footnote-text">Jerusalem</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18205c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+29&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-18205" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Isaiah 29:11">Isaiah 29:11</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>scroll</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18206d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+29&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-18206" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Isaiah 29:12">Isaiah 29:12</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>does not know books</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18214e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+29&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-18214" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Isaiah 29:20">Isaiah 29:20</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>terrifying</i></span></li></ol></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>Isaiah 30</u></b></div><div><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Isa-30-1" style="position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>1</b></span><span style="font-size: 1.6rem;"> </span>“Woe to the rebellious children,” says the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-1" style="position: relative;">“Who take counsel, but not of Me,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-1" style="position: relative;">And who <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18219a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18219a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2030&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18219a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>devise plans, but not of My Spirit,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-1" style="position: relative;">That they may add sin to sin;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-2" id="en-NKJV-18220" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>Who walk to go down to Egypt,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-2" style="position: relative;">And have not asked My advice,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-2" style="position: relative;">To strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-2" style="position: relative;">And to trust in the shadow of Egypt!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-3" id="en-NKJV-18221" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>Therefore the strength of Pharaoh</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-3" style="position: relative;">Shall be your shame,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-3" style="position: relative;">And trust in the shadow of Egypt</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-3" style="position: relative;">Shall be <i>your</i> humiliation.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-4" id="en-NKJV-18222" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>For his princes were at Zoan,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-4" style="position: relative;">And his ambassadors came to Hanes.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-5" id="en-NKJV-18223" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>They were all ashamed of a people <i>who</i> could not benefit them,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-5" style="position: relative;">Or be help or benefit,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-5" style="position: relative;">But a shame and also a reproach.”</span></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-30-6" id="en-NKJV-18224"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>The <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18224b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18224b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2030&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18224b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>burden against the beasts of the South.</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-30-6" style="position: relative;">Through a land of trouble and anguish,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-6" style="position: relative;">From which <i>came</i> the lioness and lion,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-6" style="position: relative;">The viper and fiery flying serpent,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-6" style="position: relative;">They will carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-6" style="position: relative;">And their treasures on the humps of camels,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-6" style="position: relative;">To a people <i>who</i> shall not profit;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-7" id="en-NKJV-18225" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-7" style="position: relative;">Therefore I have called her</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-7" style="position: relative;"><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18225c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18225c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2030&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18225c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>Rahab-Hem-Shebeth.</span></p></div><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-30-8" id="en-NKJV-18226"><span style="font-size: small;">A Rebellious People</span></span></h3><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-30-8" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Now go, write it before them on a tablet,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-8" style="position: relative;">And note it on a scroll,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-8" style="position: relative;">That it may be for time to come,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-8" style="position: relative;">Forever and ever:</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-9" id="en-NKJV-18227" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>That this <i>is</i> a rebellious people,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-9" style="position: relative;">Lying children,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-9" style="position: relative;">Children <i>who</i> will not hear the law of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-10" id="en-NKJV-18228" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>Who say to the seers, “Do not see,”</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-10" style="position: relative;">And to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us right things;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-10" style="position: relative;">Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-11" id="en-NKJV-18229" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Get out of the way,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-11" style="position: relative;">Turn aside from the path,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-11" style="position: relative;">Cause the Holy One of Israel</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-11" style="position: relative;">To cease from before us.”</span></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-30-12" id="en-NKJV-18230"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-30-12" style="position: relative;">“Because you despise this word,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-12" style="position: relative;">And trust in oppression and perversity,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-12" style="position: relative;">And rely on them,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-13" id="en-NKJV-18231" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>Therefore this iniquity shall be to you</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-13" style="position: relative;">Like a breach ready to fall,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-13" style="position: relative;">A bulge in a high wall,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-13" style="position: relative;">Whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-14" id="en-NKJV-18232" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>And He shall break it like the breaking of the potter’s vessel,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-14" style="position: relative;">Which is broken in pieces;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-14" style="position: relative;">He shall not spare.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-14" style="position: relative;">So there shall not be found among its fragments</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-14" style="position: relative;"><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18232d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18232d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2030&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18232d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>A shard to take fire from the hearth,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-14" style="position: relative;">Or to take water from the cistern.”</span></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-30-15" id="en-NKJV-18233"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>For thus says the Lord <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">God</span>, the Holy One of Israel:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-30-15" style="position: relative;">“In returning and rest you shall be saved;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-15" style="position: relative;">In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.”</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-15" style="position: relative;">But you would not,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-16" id="en-NKJV-18234" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>And you said, “No, for we will flee on horses”—</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-16" style="position: relative;">Therefore you shall flee!</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-16" style="position: relative;">And, “We will ride on swift <i>horses</i>”—</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-16" style="position: relative;">Therefore those who pursue you shall be swift!</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-30-17" id="en-NKJV-18235" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>One thousand <i>shall flee</i> at the threat of one,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-17" style="position: relative;">At the threat of five you shall flee,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-17" style="position: relative;">Till you are left as a <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18235e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18235e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2030&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18235e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>pole on top of a mountain</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-17" style="position: relative;">And as a banner on a hill.</span></p></div><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-30-18" id="en-NKJV-18236"><span style="font-size: small;">God Will Be Gracious</span></span></h3><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-30-18" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>Therefore the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> will wait, that He may be gracious to you;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-18" style="position: relative;">And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-18" style="position: relative;">For the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> <i>is</i> a God of justice;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-18" style="position: relative;">Blessed <i>are</i> all those who wait for Him.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-30-19" id="en-NKJV-18237" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-19" style="position: relative;">You shall weep no more.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-19" style="position: relative;">He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-19" style="position: relative;">When He hears it, He will answer you.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-20" id="en-NKJV-18238" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>And <i>though</i> the Lord gives you</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-20" style="position: relative;">The bread of adversity and the water of <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18238f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18238f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2030&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18238f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>affliction,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-20" style="position: relative;">Yet your teachers will not be moved into a corner anymore,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-20" style="position: relative;">But your eyes shall see your teachers.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-21" id="en-NKJV-18239" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-21" style="position: relative;">“This <i>is</i> the way, walk in it,”</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-21" style="position: relative;">Whenever you turn to the right hand</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-21" style="position: relative;">Or whenever you turn to the left.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-22" id="en-NKJV-18240" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>You will also defile the covering of your images of silver,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-22" style="position: relative;">And the ornament of your molded images of gold.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-22" style="position: relative;">You will throw them away as an unclean thing;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-22" style="position: relative;">You will say to them, “Get away!”</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-30-23" id="en-NKJV-18241" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>Then He will give the rain for your seed</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-23" style="position: relative;">With which you sow the ground,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-23" style="position: relative;">And bread of the increase of the earth;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-23" style="position: relative;">It will be <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18241g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18241g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2030&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18241g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>fat and plentiful.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-23" style="position: relative;">In that day your cattle will feed</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-23" style="position: relative;">In large pastures.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-24" id="en-NKJV-18242" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>Likewise the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-24" style="position: relative;">Will eat cured fodder,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-24" style="position: relative;">Which has been winnowed with the shovel and fan.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-25" id="en-NKJV-18243" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>There will be on every high mountain</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-25" style="position: relative;">And on every high hill</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-25" style="position: relative;">Rivers <i>and</i> streams of waters,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-25" style="position: relative;">In the day of the great slaughter,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-25" style="position: relative;">When the towers fall.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-26" id="en-NKJV-18244" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-26" style="position: relative;">And the light of the sun will be sevenfold,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-26" style="position: relative;">As the light of seven days,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-26" style="position: relative;">In the day that the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> binds up the bruise of His people</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-26" style="position: relative;">And heals the stroke of their wound.</span></p></div><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-30-27" id="en-NKJV-18245"><span style="font-size: small;">Judgment on Assyria</span></span></h3><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-30-27" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>Behold, the name of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> comes from afar,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-27" style="position: relative;">Burning <i>with</i> His anger,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-27" style="position: relative;">And <i>His</i> burden <i>is</i> heavy;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-27" style="position: relative;">His lips are full of indignation,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-27" style="position: relative;">And His tongue like a devouring fire.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-28" id="en-NKJV-18246" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>His breath is like an overflowing stream,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-28" style="position: relative;">Which reaches up to the neck,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-28" style="position: relative;">To sift the nations with the sieve of futility;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-28" style="position: relative;">And <i>there shall be</i> a bridle in the jaws of the people,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-28" style="position: relative;">Causing <i>them</i> to err.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Isa-30-29" id="en-NKJV-18247" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>You shall have a song</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-29" style="position: relative;">As in the night <i>when</i> a holy festival is kept,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-29" style="position: relative;">And gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-29" style="position: relative;">To come into the mountain of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-29" style="position: relative;">To <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18247h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18247h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2030&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18247h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span>the Mighty One of Israel.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-30" id="en-NKJV-18248" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> will cause His glorious voice to be heard,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-30" style="position: relative;">And show the descent of His arm,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-30" style="position: relative;">With the indignation of <i>His</i> anger</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-30" style="position: relative;">And the flame of a devouring fire,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-30" style="position: relative;"><i>With</i> scattering, tempest, and hailstones.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-31" id="en-NKJV-18249" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span>For through the voice of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-31" style="position: relative;">Assyria will be <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-18249i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-18249i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2030&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-18249i" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span>beaten down,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-31" style="position: relative;"><i>As</i> He strikes with the rod.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-32" id="en-NKJV-18250" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">32 </span>And <i>in</i> every place where the staff of punishment passes,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-32" style="position: relative;">Which the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> lays on him,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-32" style="position: relative;"><i>It</i> will be with tambourines and harps;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-32" style="position: relative;">And in battles of brandishing He will fight with it.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-33" id="en-NKJV-18251" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">33 </span>For Tophet <i>was</i> established of old,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-33" style="position: relative;">Yes, for the king it is prepared.</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-33" style="position: relative;">He has made <i>it</i> deep and large;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-33" style="position: relative;">Its pyre <i>is</i> fire with much wood;</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-33" style="position: relative;">The breath of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, like a stream of brimstone,</span><br /><span class="text Isa-30-33" style="position: relative;">Kindles it.</span></p></div><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-18219a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2030&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-18219" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Isaiah 30:1">Isaiah 30:1</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>weave a web</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18224b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2030&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-18224" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Isaiah 30:6">Isaiah 30:6</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>oracle, prophecy</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18225c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2030&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-18225" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Isaiah 30:7">Isaiah 30:7</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>Rahab Sits Idle</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18232d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2030&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-18232" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Isaiah 30:14">Isaiah 30:14</a> <span class="footnote-text">A piece of broken pottery</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18235e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2030&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-18235" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Isaiah 30:17">Isaiah 30:17</a> <span class="footnote-text">A tree stripped of branches</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18238f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2030&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-18238" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Isaiah 30:20">Isaiah 30:20</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>oppression</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18241g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2030&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-18241" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Isaiah 30:23">Isaiah 30:23</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>rich</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18247h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2030&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-18247" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Isaiah 30:29">Isaiah 30:29</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>the Rock</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-18249i" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2030&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-18249" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Isaiah 30:31">Isaiah 30:31</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>shattered</i></span></li></ol></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>=========================</div><div><b><u>Proverbs 12</u></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Prov-12-1" style="position: relative;"><b style="font-size: 1.6rem;">1</b><span style="font-size: 1.6rem;"> </span>Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,</span></span><br /></p><p><span class="text Prov-12-1" style="position: relative;">But he who hates correction <i>is</i> stupid.</span><span class="text Prov-12-2" id="en-NKJV-16722" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-2" style="position: relative;">But a man of wicked intentions He will condemn.</span><span class="text Prov-12-3" id="en-NKJV-16723" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-3" style="position: relative;">But the root of the righteous cannot be moved.</span><span class="text Prov-12-4" id="en-NKJV-16724" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-4" style="position: relative;">But she who causes shame <i>is</i> like rottenness in his bones.</span><span class="text Prov-12-5" id="en-NKJV-16725" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-5" style="position: relative;"><i>But</i> the counsels of the wicked <i>are</i> deceitful.</span><span class="text Prov-12-6" id="en-NKJV-16726" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-6" id="en-NKJV-16726" style="position: relative;">The words of the wicked <i>are,</i> “Lie in wait for blood,”</span><br /><span class="text Prov-12-6" style="position: relative;">But the mouth of the upright will deliver them.</span><span class="text Prov-12-7" id="en-NKJV-16727" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-7" style="position: relative;">But the house of the righteous will stand.</span><span class="text Prov-12-8" id="en-NKJV-16728" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-8" style="position: relative;">But he who is of a perverse heart will be despised.</span><span class="text Prov-12-9" id="en-NKJV-16729" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-9" style="position: relative;">Than he who honors himself but lacks bread.</span><span class="text Prov-12-10" id="en-NKJV-16730" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-10" style="position: relative;">But the tender mercies of the wicked <i>are</i> cruel.</span><span class="text Prov-12-11" id="en-NKJV-16731" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-11" style="position: relative;">But he who follows <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-16731d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-16731d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+12&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-16731d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>frivolity <i>is</i> devoid of <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-16731e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-16731e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+12&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-16731e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>understanding.</span><span class="text Prov-12-12" id="en-NKJV-16732" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-12" style="position: relative;">But the root of the righteous yields <i>fruit.</i></span><span class="text Prov-12-13" id="en-NKJV-16733" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-13" id="en-NKJV-16733" style="position: relative;">The wicked is ensnared by the transgression of <i>his</i> lips,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-12-13" style="position: relative;">But the righteous will come through trouble.</span><span class="text Prov-12-14" id="en-NKJV-16734" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-14" id="en-NKJV-16734" style="position: relative;">A man will be satisfied with good by the fruit of <i>his</i> mouth,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-12-14" style="position: relative;">And the recompense of a man’s hands will be rendered to him.</span><span class="text Prov-12-15" id="en-NKJV-16735" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-15" style="position: relative;">But he who heeds counsel <i>is</i> wise.</span><span class="text Prov-12-16" id="en-NKJV-16736" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-16" id="en-NKJV-16736" style="position: relative;">A fool’s wrath is known at once,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-12-16" style="position: relative;">But a prudent <i>man</i> covers shame.</span><span class="text Prov-12-17" id="en-NKJV-16737" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-17" style="position: relative;">But a false witness, deceit.</span><span class="text Prov-12-18" id="en-NKJV-16738" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-18" id="en-NKJV-16738" style="position: relative;">There is one who speaks like the piercings of a sword,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-12-18" style="position: relative;">But the tongue of the wise <i>promotes</i> health.</span><span class="text Prov-12-19" id="en-NKJV-16739" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-19" id="en-NKJV-16739" style="position: relative;">The truthful lip shall be established forever,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-12-19" style="position: relative;">But a lying tongue <i>is</i> but for a moment.</span><span class="text Prov-12-20" id="en-NKJV-16740" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-20" id="en-NKJV-16740" style="position: relative;">Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-12-20" style="position: relative;">But counselors of peace have joy.</span><span class="text Prov-12-21" id="en-NKJV-16741" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-21" id="en-NKJV-16741" style="position: relative;">No grave <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-16741f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-16741f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+12&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-16741f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>trouble will overtake the righteous,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-12-21" style="position: relative;">But the wicked shall be filled with evil.</span><span class="text Prov-12-22" id="en-NKJV-16742" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-22" id="en-NKJV-16742" style="position: relative;">Lying lips <i>are</i> an abomination to the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Prov-12-22" style="position: relative;">But those who deal truthfully <i>are</i> His delight.</span><span class="text Prov-12-23" id="en-NKJV-16743" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-23" style="position: relative;">But the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.</span><span class="text Prov-12-24" id="en-NKJV-16744" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-24" style="position: relative;">But the lazy <i>man</i> will be put to forced labor.</span><span class="text Prov-12-25" id="en-NKJV-16745" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-25" style="position: relative;">But a good word makes it glad.</span><span class="text Prov-12-26" id="en-NKJV-16746" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-26" style="position: relative;">For the way of the wicked leads them astray.</span><span class="text Prov-12-27" id="en-NKJV-16747" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-27" style="position: relative;">But diligence <i>is</i> man’s precious possession.</span><span class="text Prov-12-28" id="en-NKJV-16748" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span></span><span class="text Prov-12-28" style="position: relative;">And in <i>its</i> pathway <i>there is</i> no death.</span></p><p></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-12-2" id="en-NKJV-16722" style="position: relative;">A good <i>man</i> obtains favor from the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-12-3" id="en-NKJV-16723" style="position: relative;">A man is not established by wickedness,</span><br /></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-12-4" id="en-NKJV-16724" style="position: relative;">An<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-16724a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-16724a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+12&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-16724a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> excellent wife <i>is</i> the crown of her husband,</span><br /></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-12-5" id="en-NKJV-16725" style="position: relative;">The thoughts of the righteous <i>are</i> right,</span><br /></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-12-7" id="en-NKJV-16727" style="position: relative;">The wicked are overthrown and <i>are</i> no more,</span><br /></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-12-8" id="en-NKJV-16728" style="position: relative;">A man will be commended according to his wisdom,</span><br /></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-12-9" id="en-NKJV-16729" style="position: relative;">Better <i>is the one</i> who is <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-16729b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-16729b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+12&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-16729b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>slighted but has a servant,</span><br /></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-12-10" id="en-NKJV-16730" style="position: relative;">A righteous <i>man</i> regards the life of his animal,</span><br /></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-12-11" id="en-NKJV-16731" style="position: relative;">He who <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-16731c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-16731c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+12&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-16731c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>tills his land will be satisfied with bread,</span><br /></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-12-12" id="en-NKJV-16732" style="position: relative;">The wicked covet the catch of evil <i>men,</i></span><br /></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-12-15" id="en-NKJV-16735" style="position: relative;">The way of a fool <i>is</i> right in his own eyes,</span><br /></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-12-17" id="en-NKJV-16737" style="position: relative;">He <i>who</i> speaks truth declares righteousness,</span><br /></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-12-23" id="en-NKJV-16743" style="position: relative;">A prudent man conceals knowledge,</span><br /></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-12-24" id="en-NKJV-16744" style="position: relative;">The hand of the diligent will rule,</span><br /></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-12-25" id="en-NKJV-16745" style="position: relative;">Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression,</span><br /></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-12-26" id="en-NKJV-16746" style="position: relative;">The righteous should choose his friends carefully,</span><br /></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-12-27" id="en-NKJV-16747" style="position: relative;">The lazy <i>man</i> does not roast what he took in hunting,</span><br /></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Prov-12-28" id="en-NKJV-16748" style="position: relative;">In the way of righteousness <i>is</i> life,</span><br /></p></div><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-16724a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+12&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-16724" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Proverbs 12:4">Proverbs 12:4</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i style="font-size: 16px;">A wife of valor</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-16729b" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+12&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-16729" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Proverbs 12:9">Proverbs 12:9</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>lightly esteemed</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-16731c" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+12&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-16731" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Proverbs 12:11">Proverbs 12:11</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>works</i> or <i>cultivates</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-16731d" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+12&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-16731" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Proverbs 12:11">Proverbs 12:11</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>vain things</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-16731e" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+12&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-16731" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Proverbs 12:11">Proverbs 12:11</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>heart</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-16741f" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+12&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-16741" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Proverbs 12:21">Proverbs 12:21</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>harm</i></span></li></ol></div></div><div><br /></div><div>=====================</div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>1st Thessalonians 1</u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Thess-1-1"><b>1 </b>Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy,</span></p><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Thess-1-1">To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:</span></p><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Thess-1-1">Grace to you and peace <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29562a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29562a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Thessalonians+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29562a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Thess-1-2" id="en-NKJV-29563">Their Good Example</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Thess-1-2"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers, </span><span class="text 1Thess-1-3" id="en-NKJV-29564"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father, </span><span class="text 1Thess-1-4" id="en-NKJV-29565"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>knowing, beloved brethren, your election by God. </span><span class="text 1Thess-1-5" id="en-NKJV-29566"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and in much assurance, as you know what kind of men we were among you for your sake.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Thess-1-6" id="en-NKJV-29567"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>And you became followers of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit, </span><span class="text 1Thess-1-7" id="en-NKJV-29568"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>so that you became examples to all in Macedonia and Achaia who believe. </span><span class="text 1Thess-1-8" id="en-NKJV-29569"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>For from you the word of the Lord has sounded forth, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place. Your faith toward God has gone out, so that we do not need to say anything. </span><span class="text 1Thess-1-9" id="en-NKJV-29570"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, </span><span class="text 1Thess-1-10" id="en-NKJV-29571"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, <i>even</i> Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.</span></p></div><div><br /></div>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-6386892092080889082022-08-22T22:16:00.001-04:002022-08-22T22:16:36.534-04:00Today's Readings and Stuff -- Monday, 22 August 2022<p> My apologies for the looooong break in posting. As some know, I've been doing this blog since around 2006, for whatever that is worth. In several states and several situations. I'll be posting some stuff from the book of Job, which certainly in keeping with some of my general outlook, probably has been for a good while. Much good there, and it reminds me (us) about our proper viewpoints on the realities of the lives we lead.</p><p>Along the way, I want to post links to some of the songs that have been pushing their way into my attention. And I emphasize that using that term is not over the top: more than a few have been playing in my mind even in the early-morning times (not really sure how long they last) and then stay around as they day begins. Others come to the fore as the day's events unfold. I guess that, if nothing else, they serve to remind me to refrain from unkind expletives directed towards various targets.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnJNT_xzDMA" target="_blank">Song Of Job</a>", dating back quite a long time (in my lifetime, the 1970's). Probably won't be found in the church of your choice, but I like it anyway. Perhaps you will too</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI41YSJOR_0" target="_blank">Whispering Hope</a></p><p>All Of My Hope</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE4DDB5whyk" target="_blank"><b>Jesus Shall Reign</b></a></p><p><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtZX7a44fMI" target="_blank">All Of My Help</a></b></p><p>Which all take us into the issues of hope, of joy, of the nearness of our walk with the Lord, what we regard as important. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>====================================</p><p>Haven't we all, at some point, just cried out "Lord, WHY???". I know that I have, my world has turned upside down several times. Might happen again, who knows. The Lord hasn't changed, and none of this takes Him by surprise. Nor do the things discourage Him. Perhaps we should have His view of things.</p><p><b><u>Job 25</u></b></p><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="chapter-3"><span class="text Ps-145-1" style="position: relative;"><b>1</b> <span style="font-size: 1.6rem;"> </span>I will <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-16322a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-16322a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-16322a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>extol You, my God, O King;</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-1" style="position: relative;">And I will bless Your name forever and ever.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-2" id="en-NKJV-16323" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>Every day I will bless You,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-2" style="position: relative;">And I will praise Your name forever and ever.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-3" id="en-NKJV-16324" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>Great <i>is</i> the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, and greatly to be praised;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-3" style="position: relative;">And His greatness <i>is</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-16324b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-16324b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-16324b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>unsearchable.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-145-4" id="en-NKJV-16325" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>One generation shall praise Your works to another,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-4" style="position: relative;">And shall declare Your mighty acts.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-5" id="en-NKJV-16326" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-16326c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-16326c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-16326c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-5" style="position: relative;">And <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-16326d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-16326d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-16326d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>on Your wondrous works.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-6" id="en-NKJV-16327" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span><i>Men</i> shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-6" style="position: relative;">And I will declare Your greatness.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-7" id="en-NKJV-16328" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>They shall <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-16328e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-16328e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-16328e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>utter the memory of Your great goodness,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-7" style="position: relative;">And shall sing of Your righteousness.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-145-8" id="en-NKJV-16329" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> <i>is</i> gracious and full of compassion,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-8" style="position: relative;">Slow to anger and great in mercy.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-9" id="en-NKJV-16330" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> <i>is</i> good to all,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-9" style="position: relative;">And His tender mercies <i>are</i> over all His works.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-145-10" id="en-NKJV-16331" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>All Your works shall praise You, O <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-10" style="position: relative;">And Your saints shall bless You.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-11" id="en-NKJV-16332" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-11" style="position: relative;">And talk of Your power,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-12" id="en-NKJV-16333" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>To make known to the sons of men His mighty acts,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-12" style="position: relative;">And the glorious majesty of His kingdom.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-13" id="en-NKJV-16334" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>Your kingdom <i>is</i> an everlasting kingdom,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-13" style="position: relative;">And Your dominion <i>endures</i> throughout all <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-16334f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-16334f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-16334f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>generations.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-145-14" id="en-NKJV-16335" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> upholds all who fall,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-14" style="position: relative;">And raises up all <i>who are</i> bowed down.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-15" id="en-NKJV-16336" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>The eyes of all look expectantly to You,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-15" style="position: relative;">And You give them their food in due season.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-16" id="en-NKJV-16337" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>You open Your hand</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-16" style="position: relative;">And satisfy the desire of every living thing.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-145-17" id="en-NKJV-16338" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> <i>is</i> righteous in all His ways,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-17" style="position: relative;">Gracious in all His works.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-18" id="en-NKJV-16339" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> <i>is</i> near to all who call upon Him,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-18" style="position: relative;">To all who call upon Him in truth.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-19" id="en-NKJV-16340" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-19" style="position: relative;">He also will hear their cry and save them.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-20" id="en-NKJV-16341" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> preserves all who love Him,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-20" style="position: relative;">But all the wicked He will destroy.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-21" id="en-NKJV-16342" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>My mouth shall speak the praise of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-21" style="position: relative;">And all flesh shall bless His holy name</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-21" style="position: relative;">Forever and ever.</span></p></div><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-16322a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-16322" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Psalm 145:1">Psalm 145:1</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>praise</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-16324b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-16324" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Psalm 145:3">Psalm 145:3</a> <span class="footnote-text">Beyond our understanding</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-16326c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-16326" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Psalm 145:5">Psalm 145:5</a> <span class="footnote-text">So with MT, Tg.; DSS, LXX, Syr., Vg. <i>They</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-16326d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-16326" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Psalm 145:5">Psalm 145:5</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>on the words of Your wondrous works</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-16328e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-16328" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Psalm 145:7">Psalm 145:7</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>eagerly utter,</i> lit. <i>bubble forth</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-16334f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-16334" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Psalm 145:13">Psalm 145:13</a> <span class="footnote-text">So with MT, Tg.; DSS, LXX, Syr., Vg. add <i>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> is faithful in all His words, And holy in all His works</i></span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Job 26</u></b></p><p class="chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Job-26-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">1</span><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-size: 2.4rem; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;"> </span>But Job answered and said:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Job-26-2" id="en-NKJV-13470" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>“How have you helped <i>him who is</i> without power?</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-2" style="position: relative;"><i>How</i> have you saved the arm <i>that has</i> no strength?</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-3" id="en-NKJV-13471" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>How have you counseled <i>one who has</i> no wisdom?</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-3" style="position: relative;">And <i>how</i> have you declared sound advice to many?</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-4" id="en-NKJV-13472" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>To whom have you uttered words?</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-4" style="position: relative;">And whose spirit came from you?</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Job-26-5" id="en-NKJV-13473" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>“The dead tremble,</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-5" style="position: relative;">Those under the waters and those inhabiting them.</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-6" id="en-NKJV-13474" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>Sheol <i>is</i> naked before Him,</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-6" style="position: relative;">And Destruction has no covering.</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-7" id="en-NKJV-13475" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>He stretches out the north over empty space;</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-7" style="position: relative;"><i>He</i> hangs the earth on nothing.</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-8" id="en-NKJV-13476" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>He binds up the water in His thick clouds,</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-8" style="position: relative;">Yet the clouds <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-13476a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-13476a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+26&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-13476a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>are not broken under it.</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-9" id="en-NKJV-13477" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>He covers the face of <i>His</i> throne,</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-9" style="position: relative;"><i>And</i> spreads His cloud over it.</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-10" id="en-NKJV-13478" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>He drew a circular horizon on the face of the waters,</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-10" style="position: relative;">At the boundary of light and darkness.</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-11" id="en-NKJV-13479" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>The pillars of heaven tremble,</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-11" style="position: relative;">And are <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-13479b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-13479b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+26&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-13479b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>astonished at His rebuke.</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-12" id="en-NKJV-13480" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>He stirs up the sea with His power,</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-12" style="position: relative;">And by His understanding He breaks up <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-13480c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-13480c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+26&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-13480c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>the storm.</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-13" id="en-NKJV-13481" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>By His Spirit He adorned the heavens;</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-13" style="position: relative;">His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-14" id="en-NKJV-13482" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>Indeed these <i>are</i> the mere edges of His ways,</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-14" style="position: relative;">And how small a whisper we hear of Him!</span><br /><span class="text Job-26-14" style="position: relative;">But the thunder of His power who can understand?”</span></p></div><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-13476a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+26&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-13476" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Job 26:8">Job 26:8</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>do not break</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13479b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+26&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-13479" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Job 26:11">Job 26:11</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>amazed</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13480c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+26&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-13480" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Job 26:12">Job 26:12</a> <span class="footnote-text">Heb. <i>rahab</i></span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>===============================</p><p><b><u>Psalm 145</u></b></p><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="chapter-3"><span class="text Ps-145-1" style="position: relative;"><b>1</b> I will <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-16322a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-16322a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-16322a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>extol You, my God, O King;</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-1" style="position: relative;">And I will bless Your name forever and ever.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-2" id="en-NKJV-16323" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>Every day I will bless You,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-2" style="position: relative;">And I will praise Your name forever and ever.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-3" id="en-NKJV-16324" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>Great <i>is</i> the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, and greatly to be praised;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-3" style="position: relative;">And His greatness <i>is</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-16324b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-16324b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-16324b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>unsearchable.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-145-4" id="en-NKJV-16325" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>One generation shall praise Your works to another,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-4" style="position: relative;">And shall declare Your mighty acts.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-5" id="en-NKJV-16326" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-16326c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-16326c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-16326c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-5" style="position: relative;">And <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-16326d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-16326d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-16326d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>on Your wondrous works.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-6" id="en-NKJV-16327" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span><i>Men</i> shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-6" style="position: relative;">And I will declare Your greatness.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-7" id="en-NKJV-16328" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>They shall <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-16328e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-16328e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-16328e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>utter the memory of Your great goodness,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-7" style="position: relative;">And shall sing of Your righteousness.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-145-8" id="en-NKJV-16329" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> <i>is</i> gracious and full of compassion,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-8" style="position: relative;">Slow to anger and great in mercy.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-9" id="en-NKJV-16330" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> <i>is</i> good to all,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-9" style="position: relative;">And His tender mercies <i>are</i> over all His works.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-145-10" id="en-NKJV-16331" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>All Your works shall praise You, O <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-10" style="position: relative;">And Your saints shall bless You.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-11" id="en-NKJV-16332" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-11" style="position: relative;">And talk of Your power,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-12" id="en-NKJV-16333" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>To make known to the sons of men His mighty acts,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-12" style="position: relative;">And the glorious majesty of His kingdom.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-13" id="en-NKJV-16334" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>Your kingdom <i>is</i> an everlasting kingdom,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-13" style="position: relative;">And Your dominion <i>endures</i> throughout all <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-16334f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-16334f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-16334f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>generations.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-145-14" id="en-NKJV-16335" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> upholds all who fall,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-14" style="position: relative;">And raises up all <i>who are</i> bowed down.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-15" id="en-NKJV-16336" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>The eyes of all look expectantly to You,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-15" style="position: relative;">And You give them their food in due season.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-16" id="en-NKJV-16337" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>You open Your hand</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-16" style="position: relative;">And satisfy the desire of every living thing.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-145-17" id="en-NKJV-16338" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> <i>is</i> righteous in all His ways,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-17" style="position: relative;">Gracious in all His works.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-18" id="en-NKJV-16339" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> <i>is</i> near to all who call upon Him,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-18" style="position: relative;">To all who call upon Him in truth.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-19" id="en-NKJV-16340" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-19" style="position: relative;">He also will hear their cry and save them.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-20" id="en-NKJV-16341" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> preserves all who love Him,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-20" style="position: relative;">But all the wicked He will destroy.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-21" id="en-NKJV-16342" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>My mouth shall speak the praise of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-21" style="position: relative;">And all flesh shall bless His holy name</span><br /><span class="text Ps-145-21" style="position: relative;">Forever and ever.</span></p></div><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-16322a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-16322" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Psalm 145:1">Psalm 145:1</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>praise</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-16324b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-16324" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Psalm 145:3">Psalm 145:3</a> <span class="footnote-text">Beyond our understanding</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-16326c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-16326" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Psalm 145:5">Psalm 145:5</a> <span class="footnote-text">So with MT, Tg.; DSS, LXX, Syr., Vg. <i>They</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-16326d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-16326" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Psalm 145:5">Psalm 145:5</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>on the words of Your wondrous works</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-16328e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-16328" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Psalm 145:7">Psalm 145:7</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>eagerly utter,</i> lit. <i>bubble forth</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-16334f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+145&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-16334" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Psalm 145:13">Psalm 145:13</a> <span class="footnote-text">So with MT, Tg.; DSS, LXX, Syr., Vg. add <i>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> is faithful in all His words, And holy in all His works</i></span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p>========================</p><p><b><u>Galatians 4</u></b></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gal-4-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">1</span><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-size: 2.4rem; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;"> </span>Now I say <i style="font-size: 16px;">that</i> the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all, </span><span class="text Gal-4-2" id="en-NKJV-29134" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>but is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father. </span><span class="text Gal-4-3" id="en-NKJV-29135" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world. </span><span class="text Gal-4-4" id="en-NKJV-29136" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29136a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29136a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+4&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29136a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> of a woman, born under the law, </span><span class="text Gal-4-5" id="en-NKJV-29137" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gal-4-6" id="en-NKJV-29138"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29138b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29138b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+4&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29138b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>“Abba, Father!” </span><span class="text Gal-4-7" id="en-NKJV-29139"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29139c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29139c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+4&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29139c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>of God <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29139d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29139d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+4&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29139d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>through Christ.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gal-4-8" id="en-NKJV-29140">Fears for the Church</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gal-4-8"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods. </span><span class="text Gal-4-9" id="en-NKJV-29141"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how <i>is it that</i> you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage? </span><span class="text Gal-4-10" id="en-NKJV-29142"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>You observe days and months and seasons and years. </span><span class="text Gal-4-11" id="en-NKJV-29143"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gal-4-12" id="en-NKJV-29144"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Brethren, I urge you to become like me, for I <i>became</i> like you. You have not injured me at all. </span><span class="text Gal-4-13" id="en-NKJV-29145"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>You know that because of physical infirmity I preached the gospel to you at the first. </span><span class="text Gal-4-14" id="en-NKJV-29146"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise or reject, but you received me as an <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29146e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29146e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+4&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29146e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>angel of God, <i>even</i> as Christ Jesus. </span><span class="text Gal-4-15" id="en-NKJV-29147"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29147f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29147f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+4&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29147f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>What then was the blessing you <i>enjoyed?</i> For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me. </span><span class="text Gal-4-16" id="en-NKJV-29148"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gal-4-17" id="en-NKJV-29149"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>They zealously court you, <i>but</i> for no good; yes, they want to exclude you, that you may be zealous for them. </span><span class="text Gal-4-18" id="en-NKJV-29150"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>But it is good to be zealous in a good thing always, and not only when I am present with you. </span><span class="text Gal-4-19" id="en-NKJV-29151"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you, </span><span class="text Gal-4-20" id="en-NKJV-29152"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>I would like to be present with you now and to change my tone; for I have doubts about you.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gal-4-21" id="en-NKJV-29153">Two Covenants</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gal-4-21"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law? </span><span class="text Gal-4-22" id="en-NKJV-29154"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. </span><span class="text Gal-4-23" id="en-NKJV-29155"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>But he <i>who was</i> of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise, </span><span class="text Gal-4-24" id="en-NKJV-29156"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>which things are symbolic. For these are <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-29156g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-29156g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+4&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-29156g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar— </span><span class="text Gal-4-25" id="en-NKJV-29157"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children— </span><span class="text Gal-4-26" id="en-NKJV-29158"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. </span><span class="text Gal-4-27" id="en-NKJV-29159"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>For it is written:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><i><span class="text Gal-4-27" style="position: relative;"><span class="oblique">“Rejoice, O barren,</span></span><br /><span class="text Gal-4-27" style="position: relative;">You <span class="oblique">who do not bear!</span></span><br /><span class="text Gal-4-27" style="position: relative;"><span class="oblique">Break forth and shout,</span></span><br /><span class="text Gal-4-27" style="position: relative;"><span class="oblique">You who are not in labor!</span></span><br /><span class="text Gal-4-27" style="position: relative;"><span class="oblique">For the desolate has many more children</span></span><br /><span class="text Gal-4-27" style="position: relative;"><span class="oblique">Than she who has a husband.”</span></span></i></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Gal-4-28" id="en-NKJV-29160"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>Now we, brethren, as Isaac <i>was,</i> are children of promise. </span><span class="text Gal-4-29" id="en-NKJV-29161"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him <i>who was born</i> according to the Spirit, even so <i>it is</i> now. </span><span class="text Gal-4-30" id="en-NKJV-29162"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? <span class="oblique">“Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for</span> <span class="oblique">the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.”</span> </span><span class="text Gal-4-31" id="en-NKJV-29163"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span>So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-29136a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+4&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-29136" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Galatians 4:4">Galatians 4:4</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>made</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-29138b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+4&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-29138" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Galatians 4:6">Galatians 4:6</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit., in Aram., <i>Father</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-29139c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+4&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-29139" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Galatians 4:7">Galatians 4:7</a> <span class="footnote-text">NU <i>through God</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-29139d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+4&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-29139" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Galatians 4:7">Galatians 4:7</a> <span class="footnote-text">NU omits <i>through Christ</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-29146e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+4&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-29146" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Galatians 4:14">Galatians 4:14</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>messenger</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-29147f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+4&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-29147" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Galatians 4:15">Galatians 4:15</a> <span class="footnote-text">NU <i>Where</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-29156g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+4&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-29156" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Galatians 4:24">Galatians 4:24</a> <span class="footnote-text">NU, M omit <i>the</i></span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-7326423425488001712022-07-27T20:36:00.000-04:002022-07-27T20:36:20.195-04:00today's Readings And Stuff -- Wednesday, 27 July 2022<div>Hope all is well for those who may stop by here. We have another doctor appointment for Dear Wife in the morning, the urologist again. She's been hurting, this UTI stuff has been dragging her down for most of this year, and we're now more than half-way through it. Not been fun. I was supposed to go in for some "labs" now more than two weeks ago, but haven't done so because I don't dare leave her alone for the time required. (and I'm fearing an official diagnosis of diabetes: that would put me into a zone that I don't think I can handle on any level. So I'm holding off.). Perhaps by this time tomorrow we will know more about her condition and the future strategy. Hope so.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>=============================</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><b><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO-Lkz-iOBM" target="_blank">Through It All</a></i></b><div><br /></div><div>can I get a witness?</div><div><br /></div><div><b><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8McJ63cf6XQ" target="_blank">The Anchor Holds</a></i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>==============================</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u>Ezra 7</u></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ezra-7-1"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">1 </span></b>Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, </span><span class="text Ezra-7-2" id="en-NKJV-12176" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub, </span><span class="text Ezra-7-3" id="en-NKJV-12177" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth, </span><span class="text Ezra-7-4" id="en-NKJV-12178" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki, </span><span class="text Ezra-7-5" id="en-NKJV-12179" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest— </span><span class="text Ezra-7-6" id="en-NKJV-12180" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>this Ezra came up from Babylon; and he <i>was</i> a skilled scribe in the Law of Moses, which the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> God of Israel had given. The king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> his God upon him. </span><span class="text Ezra-7-7" id="en-NKJV-12181" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span><i>Some</i> of the children of Israel, the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the Nethinim came up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes. </span><span class="text Ezra-7-8" id="en-NKJV-12182" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>And Ezra came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which <i>was</i> in the seventh year of the king. </span><span class="text Ezra-7-9" id="en-NKJV-12183" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>On the first <i>day</i> of the first month he began <i>his</i> journey from Babylon, and on the first <i>day</i> of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him. </span><span class="text Ezra-7-10" id="en-NKJV-12184" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-12184a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-12184a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%207&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-12184a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> the Law of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, and to do <i>it,</i> and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ezra-7-11" id="en-NKJV-12185">The Letter of Artaxerxes to Ezra</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ezra-7-11"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>This <i>is</i> a copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave Ezra the priest, the scribe, expert in the words of the commandments of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, and of His statutes to Israel:</span></p><div class="left-1 top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-left: 1.6rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; position: relative;"><p class="first-line-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ezra-7-12" id="en-NKJV-12186"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-12186b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-12186b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%207&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-12186b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>Artaxerxes, king of kings,</span></p></div><div class="left-1 top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-left: 1.6rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; position: relative;"><p class="first-line-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ezra-7-12">To Ezra the priest, a scribe of the Law of the God of heaven:</span></p></div><div class="left-1 top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-left: 1.6rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; position: relative;"><p class="first-line-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ezra-7-12">Perfect <i>peace,</i> and<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-12186c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-12186c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%207&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-12186c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> so forth.</span></p></div><div class="left-1 top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-left: 1.6rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; position: relative;"><p class="first-line-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ezra-7-13" id="en-NKJV-12187"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>I issue a decree that all those of the people of Israel and the priests and Levites in my realm, who volunteer to go up to Jerusalem, may go with you. </span><span class="text Ezra-7-14" id="en-NKJV-12188"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>And whereas you are being sent <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-12188d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-12188d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%207&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-12188d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>by the king and his seven counselors to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, with regard to the Law of your God which <i>is</i> in your hand; </span><span class="text Ezra-7-15" id="en-NKJV-12189"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>and <i>whereas you are</i> to carry the silver and gold which the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose dwelling <i>is</i> in Jerusalem; </span><span class="text Ezra-7-16" id="en-NKJV-12190"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>and <i>whereas</i> all the silver and gold that you may find in all the province of Babylon, along with the freewill offering of the people and the priests, <i>are to be</i> freely offered for the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-12190e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-12190e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%207&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-12190e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>house of their God in Jerusalem— </span><span class="text Ezra-7-17" id="en-NKJV-12191"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>now therefore, be careful to buy with this money bulls, rams, and lambs, with their grain offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them on the altar of the house of your God in Jerusalem.</span></p></div><div class="left-1 top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-left: 1.6rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; position: relative;"><p class="first-line-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ezra-7-18" id="en-NKJV-12192"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>And whatever seems good to you and your brethren to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, do it according to the will of your God. </span><span class="text Ezra-7-19" id="en-NKJV-12193"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>Also the articles that are given to you for the service of the house of your God, deliver in full before the God of Jerusalem. </span><span class="text Ezra-7-20" id="en-NKJV-12194"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>And whatever more may be needed for the house of your God, which you may have occasion to provide, pay <i>for it</i> from the king’s treasury.</span></p></div><div class="left-1 top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-left: 1.6rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; position: relative;"><p class="first-line-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ezra-7-21" id="en-NKJV-12195"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>And I, <i>even</i> I, Artaxerxes the king, issue a decree to all the treasurers who <i>are in the region</i> beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, may require of you, let it be done diligently, </span><span class="text Ezra-7-22" id="en-NKJV-12196"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>up to one hundred talents of silver, one hundred kors of wheat, one hundred baths of wine, one hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribed limit. </span><span class="text Ezra-7-23" id="en-NKJV-12197"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>Whatever <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-12197f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-12197f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%207&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-12197f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>is commanded by the God of heaven, let it diligently be done for the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-12197g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-12197g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%207&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-12197g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>house of the God of heaven. For why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?</span></p></div><div class="left-1 top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-left: 1.6rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; position: relative;"><p class="first-line-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ezra-7-24" id="en-NKJV-12198"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>Also we inform you that it shall not be lawful to impose tax, tribute, or custom on any of the priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, Nethinim, or servants of this house of God. </span><span class="text Ezra-7-25" id="en-NKJV-12199"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>And you, Ezra, according to your God-given wisdom, set magistrates and judges who may judge all the people who <i>are in the region</i> beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God; and teach those who do not know <i>them.</i> </span><span class="text Ezra-7-26" id="en-NKJV-12200"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>Whoever will not observe the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily on him, whether <i>it be</i> death, or <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-12200h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-12200h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%207&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-12200h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span>banishment, or confiscation of goods, or imprisonment.</span></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ezra-7-27" id="en-NKJV-12201"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>Blessed<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-12201i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-12201i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%207&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-12201i" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span> <i>be</i> the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> God of our fathers, who has put <i>such a thing</i> as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> which <i>is</i> in Jerusalem, </span><span class="text Ezra-7-28" id="en-NKJV-12202"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>and has extended mercy to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ezra-7-28">So I was encouraged, as the hand of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> my God <i>was</i> upon me; and I gathered leading men of Israel to go up with me.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-12184a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%207&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-12184" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Ezra 7:10">Ezra 7:10</a> <span class="footnote-text">Study</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12186b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%207&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-12186" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Ezra 7:12">Ezra 7:12</a> <span class="footnote-text">The original language of <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ezra.7.12-Ezra.7.26" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra.7.12-Ezra.7.26&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Ezra 7:12–26</a> is Aramaic.</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12186c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%207&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-12186" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Ezra 7:12">Ezra 7:12</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>and now</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12188d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%207&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-12188" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Ezra 7:14">Ezra 7:14</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>from before</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12190e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%207&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-12190" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Ezra 7:16">Ezra 7:16</a> <span class="footnote-text">Temple</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12197f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%207&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-12197" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Ezra 7:23">Ezra 7:23</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>is from the decree</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12197g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%207&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-12197" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Ezra 7:23">Ezra 7:23</a> <span class="footnote-text">Temple</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12200h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%207&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-12200" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Ezra 7:26">Ezra 7:26</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>rooting out</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12201i" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%207&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-12201" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Ezra 7:27">Ezra 7:27</a> <span class="footnote-text">The Hebrew language resumes in <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ezra.7.27" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra.7.27&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Ezra 7:27</a>.</span></li></ol></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">Ezra 8</span></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ezra-8-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1 </span></span>These <i style="font-size: 16px;">are</i> the heads of their fathers’ <i style="font-size: 16px;">houses,</i> and <i style="font-size: 16px;">this is</i> the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of King Artaxerxes: </span><span class="text Ezra-8-2" id="en-NKJV-12204" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom; of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel; of the sons of David, Hattush; </span><span class="text Ezra-8-3" id="en-NKJV-12205" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and registered with him <i>were</i> one hundred and fifty males; </span><span class="text Ezra-8-4" id="en-NKJV-12206" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>of the sons of Pahath-Moab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males; </span><span class="text Ezra-8-5" id="en-NKJV-12207" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>of <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-12207a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-12207a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%208&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-12207a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>the sons of Shechaniah, Ben-Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males; </span><span class="text Ezra-8-6" id="en-NKJV-12208" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males; </span><span class="text Ezra-8-7" id="en-NKJV-12209" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males; </span><span class="text Ezra-8-8" id="en-NKJV-12210" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him eighty males; </span><span class="text Ezra-8-9" id="en-NKJV-12211" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males; </span><span class="text Ezra-8-10" id="en-NKJV-12212" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>of <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-12212b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-12212b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%208&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-12212b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>the sons of Shelomith, Ben-Josiphiah, and with him one hundred and sixty males; </span><span class="text Ezra-8-11" id="en-NKJV-12213" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty-eight males; </span><span class="text Ezra-8-12" id="en-NKJV-12214" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>of the sons of Azgad, Johanan <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-12214c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-12214c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%208&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-12214c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>the son of Hakkatan, and with him one hundred and ten males; </span><span class="text Ezra-8-13" id="en-NKJV-12215" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names <i>are</i> these—Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah—and with them sixty males; </span><span class="text Ezra-8-14" id="en-NKJV-12216" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>also of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-12216d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-12216d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%208&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-12216d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>Zabbud, and with them seventy males.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ezra-8-15" id="en-NKJV-12217">Servants for the Temple</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ezra-8-15"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>Now I gathered them by the river that flows to Ahava, and we camped there three days. And I looked among the people and the priests, and found none of the sons of Levi there. </span><span class="text Ezra-8-16" id="en-NKJV-12218"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>Then I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, leaders; also for Joiarib and Elnathan, men of understanding. </span><span class="text Ezra-8-17" id="en-NKJV-12219"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>And I gave them a command for Iddo the chief man at the place Casiphia, and <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-12219e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-12219e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%208&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-12219e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>I told them what they should say to <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-12219f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-12219f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%208&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-12219f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>Iddo <i>and</i> his brethren the Nethinim at the place Casiphia—that they should bring us servants for the house of our God. </span><span class="text Ezra-8-18" id="en-NKJV-12220"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>Then, by the good hand of our God upon us, they brought us a man of understanding, of the sons of Mahli the son of Levi, the son of Israel, namely Sherebiah, with his sons and brothers, eighteen men; </span><span class="text Ezra-8-19" id="en-NKJV-12221"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brothers and their sons, twenty men; </span><span class="text Ezra-8-20" id="en-NKJV-12222"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>also of the Nethinim, whom David and the leaders had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim. All of them were designated by name.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ezra-8-21" id="en-NKJV-12223">Fasting and Prayer for Protection</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ezra-8-21"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from Him the right way for us and our little ones and all our possessions. </span><span class="text Ezra-8-22" id="en-NKJV-12224"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>For I was ashamed to request of the king an escort of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the road, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God <i>is</i> upon all those for good who seek Him, but His power and His wrath <i>are</i> against all those who forsake Him.” </span><span class="text Ezra-8-23" id="en-NKJV-12225"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>So we fasted and entreated our God for this, and He answered our prayer.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ezra-8-24" id="en-NKJV-12226">Gifts for the Temple</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ezra-8-24"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>And I separated twelve of the leaders of the priests—Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them— </span><span class="text Ezra-8-25" id="en-NKJV-12227"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>and weighed out to them the silver, the gold, and the articles, the offering for the house of our God which the king and his counselors and his princes, and all Israel <i>who were</i> present, had offered. </span><span class="text Ezra-8-26" id="en-NKJV-12228"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>I weighed into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, silver articles <i>weighing</i> one hundred talents, one hundred talents of gold, </span><span class="text Ezra-8-27" id="en-NKJV-12229"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>twenty gold basins <i>worth</i> a thousand drachmas, and two vessels of fine polished bronze, precious as gold. </span><span class="text Ezra-8-28" id="en-NKJV-12230"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>And I said to them, “You <i>are</i> holy<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-12230g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-12230g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%208&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-12230g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> to the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>; the articles <i>are</i> holy also; and the silver and the gold <i>are</i> a freewill offering to the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> God of your fathers. </span><span class="text Ezra-8-29" id="en-NKJV-12231"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>Watch and keep <i>them</i> until you weigh <i>them</i> before the leaders of the priests and the Levites and heads of the fathers’ <i>houses</i> of Israel in Jerusalem, <i>in</i> the chambers of the house of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.” </span><span class="text Ezra-8-30" id="en-NKJV-12232"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>So the priests and the Levites received the silver and the gold and the articles by weight, to bring <i>them</i> to Jerusalem to the house of our God.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ezra-8-31" id="en-NKJV-12233">The Return to Jerusalem</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ezra-8-31"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span>Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth <i>day</i> of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. And the hand of our God was upon us, and He delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambush along the road. </span><span class="text Ezra-8-32" id="en-NKJV-12234"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">32 </span>So we came to Jerusalem, and stayed there three days.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ezra-8-33" id="en-NKJV-12235"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">33 </span>Now on the fourth day the silver and the gold and the articles were weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest, and with him <i>was</i> Eleazar the son of Phinehas; with them <i>were</i> the Levites, Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of Binnui, </span><span class="text Ezra-8-34" id="en-NKJV-12236"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">34 </span>with the number <i>and</i> weight of everything. All the weight was written down at that time.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ezra-8-35" id="en-NKJV-12237"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">35 </span>The children of those who had been carried away captive, who had come from the captivity, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel: twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats <i>as</i> a sin offering. All <i>this was</i> a burnt offering to the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ezra-8-36" id="en-NKJV-12238"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">36 </span>And they delivered the king’s orders to the king’s satraps and the governors <i>in the region</i> beyond <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-12238h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-12238h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%208&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-12238h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span>the River. So they gave support to the people and the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-12238i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-12238i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%208&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-12238i" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span>house of God.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-12207a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%208&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-12207" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Ezra 8:5">Ezra 8:5</a> <span class="footnote-text">So with MT, Vg.; LXX <i>the sons of Zatho, Shechaniah</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12212b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%208&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-12212" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Ezra 8:10">Ezra 8:10</a> <span class="footnote-text">So with MT, Vg.; LXX <i>the sons of Banni, Shelomith</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12214c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%208&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-12214" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Ezra 8:12">Ezra 8:12</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>the youngest son,</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12216d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%208&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-12216" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Ezra 8:14">Ezra 8:14</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>Zakkur</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12219e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%208&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-12219" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Ezra 8:17">Ezra 8:17</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>I put words in their mouths to say</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12219f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%208&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-12219" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Ezra 8:17">Ezra 8:17</a> <span class="footnote-text">So with Vg.; MT <i>to Iddo his brother;</i> LXX <i>to their brethren</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12230g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%208&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-12230" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Ezra 8:28">Ezra 8:28</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>consecrated</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12238h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%208&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-12238" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Ezra 8:36">Ezra 8:36</a> <span class="footnote-text">The Euphrates</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12238i" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%208&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-12238" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Ezra 8:36">Ezra 8:36</a> <span class="footnote-text">Temple</span></li></ol></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>======================</div><div>Psalm 127</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="chapter-3"><span class="text Ps-127-1" style="position: relative;"><b>1</b> Unless the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> builds the house,</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-127-1" style="position: relative;">They labor in vain who build it;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-127-1" style="position: relative;">Unless the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> guards the city,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-127-1" style="position: relative;">The watchman stays awake in vain.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-127-2" id="en-NKJV-16124" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span><b>2</b><i> It is</i> vain for you to rise up early,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-127-2" style="position: relative;">To sit up late,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-127-2" style="position: relative;">To eat the bread of sorrows;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-127-2" style="position: relative;"><i>For</i> so He gives His beloved sleep.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-127-3" id="en-NKJV-16125" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span><b>3 </b>Behold, children <i>are</i> a heritage from the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-127-3" style="position: relative;">The fruit of the womb <i>is</i> a reward.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-127-4" id="en-NKJV-16126" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span><b>4</b> Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-127-4" style="position: relative;">So <i>are</i> the children of one’s youth.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-127-5" id="en-NKJV-16127" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span><b>5 </b> Happy <i>is</i> the man who has his quiver full of them;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-127-5" style="position: relative;">They shall not be ashamed,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-127-5" style="position: relative;">But shall speak with their enemies in the gate.</span></p></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>=====================================</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">1st Corinthians 15</span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><p class="chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Cor-15-1"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">1 </span></b> Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-2" id="en-NKJV-28721" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Cor-15-3" id="en-NKJV-28722"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-4" id="en-NKJV-28723"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-5" id="en-NKJV-28724"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>and that He was seen by <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28724a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28724a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28724a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>Cephas, then by the twelve. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-6" id="en-NKJV-28725"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28725b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28725b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28725b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>fallen asleep. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-7" id="en-NKJV-28726"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-8" id="en-NKJV-28727"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Cor-15-9" id="en-NKJV-28728"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-10" id="en-NKJV-28729"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God <i>which was</i> with me. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-11" id="en-NKJV-28730"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Therefore, whether <i>it was</i> I or they, so we preach and so you believed.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Cor-15-12" id="en-NKJV-28731">The Risen Christ, Our Hope</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Cor-15-12"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-13" id="en-NKJV-28732"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-14" id="en-NKJV-28733"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching <i>is</i> empty and your faith <i>is</i> also empty. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-15" id="en-NKJV-28734"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up—if in fact the dead do not rise. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-16" id="en-NKJV-28735"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>For if <i>the</i> dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-17" id="en-NKJV-28736"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>And if Christ is not risen, your faith <i>is</i> futile; you are still in your sins! </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-18" id="en-NKJV-28737"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>Then also those who have <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28737c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28737c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28737c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>fallen asleep in Christ have perished. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-19" id="en-NKJV-28738"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Cor-15-20" id="en-NKJV-28739">The Last Enemy Destroyed</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Cor-15-20"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>But now Christ is risen from the dead, <i>and</i> has become the firstfruits of those who have <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28739d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28739d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28739d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>fallen asleep. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-21" id="en-NKJV-28740"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>For since by man <i>came</i> death, by Man also <i>came</i> the resurrection of the dead. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-22" id="en-NKJV-28741"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-23" id="en-NKJV-28742"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those <i>who are</i> Christ’s at His coming. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-24" id="en-NKJV-28743"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>Then <i>comes</i> the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-25" id="en-NKJV-28744"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-26" id="en-NKJV-28745"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>The last enemy <i>that</i> will be destroyed <i>is</i> death. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-27" id="en-NKJV-28746"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>For <span class="oblique">“He has put all things under His feet.”</span> But when He says “all things are put under <i>Him,</i>” <i>it is</i> evident that He who put all things under Him is excepted. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-28" id="en-NKJV-28747"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Cor-15-29" id="en-NKJV-28748">Effects of Denying the Resurrection</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Cor-15-29"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>Otherwise, what will they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? Why then are they baptized for the dead? </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-30" id="en-NKJV-28749"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>And why do we stand in <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28749e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28749e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28749e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>jeopardy every hour? </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-31" id="en-NKJV-28750"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span>I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-32" id="en-NKJV-28751"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">32 </span>If, in the manner of men, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage <i>is it</i> to me? If <i>the</i> dead do not rise, <span class="oblique">“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Cor-15-33" id="en-NKJV-28752"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">33 </span>Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.” </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-34" id="en-NKJV-28753"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">34 </span>Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak <i>this</i> to your shame.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Cor-15-35" id="en-NKJV-28754">A Glorious Body</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Cor-15-35"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">35 </span>But someone will say, “How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?” </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-36" id="en-NKJV-28755"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">36 </span>Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-37" id="en-NKJV-28756"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">37 </span>And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain—perhaps wheat or some other <i>grain.</i> </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-38" id="en-NKJV-28757"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">38 </span>But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Cor-15-39" id="en-NKJV-28758"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">39 </span>All flesh <i>is</i> not the same flesh, but <i>there is</i> one <i>kind</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28758f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28758f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28758f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span><i>of</i> flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, <i>and</i> another of birds.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Cor-15-40" id="en-NKJV-28759"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">40 </span><i>There are</i> also <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28759g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28759g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28759g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>celestial bodies and <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28759h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28759h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28759h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span>terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial <i>is</i> one, and the <i>glory</i> of the terrestrial <i>is</i> another. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-41" id="en-NKJV-28760"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">41 </span><i>There is</i> one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for <i>one</i> star differs from <i>another</i> star in glory.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Cor-15-42" id="en-NKJV-28761"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">42 </span>So also <i>is</i> the resurrection of the dead. <i>The body</i> is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-43" id="en-NKJV-28762"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">43 </span>It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-44" id="en-NKJV-28763"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">44 </span>It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-45" id="en-NKJV-28764"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">45 </span>And so it is written, <span class="oblique">“The first man Adam became a living being.”</span> The last Adam <i>became</i> a life-giving spirit.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Cor-15-46" id="en-NKJV-28765"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">46 </span>However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-47" id="en-NKJV-28766"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">47 </span>The first man <i>was</i> of the earth, <i>made</i><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28766i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28766i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28766i" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span> of dust; the second Man <i>is</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28766j" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28766j" title="See footnote j">j</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28766j" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote j">j</a>]</span>the Lord from heaven. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-48" id="en-NKJV-28767"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">48 </span>As <i>was</i> the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28767k" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28767k" title="See footnote k">k</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28767k" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote k">k</a>]</span><i>man</i> of dust, so also <i>are</i> those <i>who are made</i> of dust; and as <i>is</i> the heavenly <i>Man,</i> so also <i>are</i> those <i>who are</i> heavenly. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-49" id="en-NKJV-28768"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">49 </span>And as we have borne the image of the <i>man</i> of dust, we<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28768l" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28768l" title="See footnote l">l</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28768l" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote l">l</a>]</span> shall also bear the image of the heavenly <i>Man.</i></span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Cor-15-50" id="en-NKJV-28769">Our Final Victory</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Cor-15-50"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">50 </span>Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-51" id="en-NKJV-28770"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">51 </span>Behold, I tell you a <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28770m" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28770m" title="See footnote m">m</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28770m" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote m">m</a>]</span>mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-52" id="en-NKJV-28771"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">52 </span>in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-53" id="en-NKJV-28772"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">53 </span>For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal <i>must</i> put on immortality. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-54" id="en-NKJV-28773"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">54 </span>So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: <span class="oblique">“Death is swallowed up in victory.”</span></span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Cor-15-55" id="en-NKJV-28774" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">55 </span><span class="oblique">“O</span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28774n" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28774n" title="See footnote n">n</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28774n" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote n">n</a>]</span> <span class="oblique">Death, where</span> <i>is</i> <span class="oblique">your sting?</span></span><br /><span class="text 1Cor-15-55" style="position: relative;"><span class="oblique">O Hades, where</span> <i>is</i> <span class="oblique">your victory?”</span></span></p></div><p class="first-line-none top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Cor-15-56" id="en-NKJV-28775"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">56 </span>The sting of death <i>is</i> sin, and the strength of sin <i>is</i> the law. </span><span class="text 1Cor-15-57" id="en-NKJV-28776"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">57 </span>But thanks <i>be</i> to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Cor-15-58" id="en-NKJV-28777"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">58 </span>Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-28724a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28724" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Corinthians 15:5">1 Corinthians 15:5</a> <span class="footnote-text">Peter</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28725b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28725" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Corinthians 15:6">1 Corinthians 15:6</a> <span class="footnote-text">Died</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28737c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28737" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Corinthians 15:18">1 Corinthians 15:18</a> <span class="footnote-text">Died</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28739d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28739" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Corinthians 15:20">1 Corinthians 15:20</a> <span class="footnote-text">Died</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28749e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28749" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Corinthians 15:30">1 Corinthians 15:30</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>danger</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28758f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28758" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Corinthians 15:39">1 Corinthians 15:39</a> <span class="footnote-text">NU, M omit <i>of flesh</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28759g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28759" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Corinthians 15:40">1 Corinthians 15:40</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>heavenly</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28759h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28759" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Corinthians 15:40">1 Corinthians 15:40</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>earthly</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28766i" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28766" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Corinthians 15:47">1 Corinthians 15:47</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>earthy</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28766j" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28766" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Corinthians 15:47">1 Corinthians 15:47</a> <span class="footnote-text">NU omits <i>the Lord</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28767k" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28767" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Corinthians 15:48">1 Corinthians 15:48</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>earthy</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28768l" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28768" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Corinthians 15:49">1 Corinthians 15:49</a> <span class="footnote-text">M <i>let us also bear</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28770m" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28770" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Corinthians 15:51">1 Corinthians 15:51</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>hidden truth</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28774n" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28774" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Corinthians 15:55">1 Corinthians 15:55</a> <span class="footnote-text">NU <i>O Death, where is your victory? O Death, where is your sting?</i></span></li></ol></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-70741388593943195572022-07-06T19:35:00.000-04:002022-07-06T19:35:18.351-04:00Today's Readings and Stuff -- Wednesday, 06 July 2022<div>Another bumpy week. We had Wife at the urologist doctor for a visit, last Thursday, part of the effort to address the series of UTI's she's been battling for most of this year. Got a sample for analysis. Over the weekend, she got a message to the effect that the antibiotics she's been on for months were OK for some microbes, but not for the type they discovered in the sample. So, Tuesday morning, she got a phone call from that doctor, confirming the message, and advising that a prescription, one intended for the microbes discovered, was being called into our usual pharmacy. An expensive prescription, but we were able - with some help - to scratch up the necessary. I went to the pharmacy around noon, picked it up, and she's now on the second day of the 10-day regimen. Probably be a couple more days before we can detect any change. Would be nice. Then, early this afternoon, had to make a run Across The Line to have a CAT Scan performed on her. Just another day, for us.</div><div><br /></div><div>And a bit of a tough day for me. Today would have been my middle brother's birthday. Except he passed away back in December of 2020. </div><div><br /></div>Song of the day, "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2emsPPCH4c" target="_blank"><b>Higher Ground".</b></a><div><br /></div><div>=======================</div><div>======================</div><div>2nd Chronicles, chapters 1 and 2</div><div><br /></div><div><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Chr-1-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-size: 2.4rem; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">1 </span>Now Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> his God <i>was</i> with him and exalted him exceedingly.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Chr-1-2" id="en-NKJV-11197"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>And Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to every leader in all Israel, the heads of the fathers’ <i>houses.</i> </span><span class="text 2Chr-1-3" id="en-NKJV-11198"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>Then Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-11198a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-11198a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-11198a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>the high place that <i>was</i> at Gibeon; for the tabernacle of meeting with God was there, which Moses the servant of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> had made in the wilderness. </span><span class="text 2Chr-1-4" id="en-NKJV-11199"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>But David had brought up the ark of God from Kirjath Jearim to <i>the place</i> David had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem. </span><span class="text 2Chr-1-5" id="en-NKJV-11200"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Now the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-11200b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-11200b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-11200b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>he put before the tabernacle of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>; Solomon and the assembly sought Him <i>there.</i> </span><span class="text 2Chr-1-6" id="en-NKJV-11201"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>And Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, which <i>was</i> at the tabernacle of meeting, and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Chr-1-7" id="en-NKJV-11202"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>On that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, “Ask! What shall I give you?”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Chr-1-8" id="en-NKJV-11203"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>And Solomon said to God: “You have shown great mercy to David my father, and have made me king in his place. </span><span class="text 2Chr-1-9" id="en-NKJV-11204"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>Now, O <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> God, let Your promise to David my father be established, for You have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude. </span><span class="text 2Chr-1-10" id="en-NKJV-11205"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of Yours?”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Chr-1-11" id="en-NKJV-11206"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Then God said to Solomon: “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches or wealth or honor or the life of your enemies, nor have you asked long life—but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge My people over whom I have made you king— </span><span class="text 2Chr-1-12" id="en-NKJV-11207"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>wisdom and knowledge <i>are</i> granted to you; and I will give you riches and wealth and honor, such as none of the kings have had who <i>were</i> before you, nor shall any after you have the like.”</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Chr-1-13" id="en-NKJV-11208">Solomon’s Military and Economic Power</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Chr-1-13"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>So Solomon came to Jerusalem from <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-11208c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-11208c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-11208c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>the high place that <i>was</i> at Gibeon, from before the tabernacle of meeting, and reigned over Israel. </span><span class="text 2Chr-1-14" id="en-NKJV-11209"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; he had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem. </span><span class="text 2Chr-1-15" id="en-NKJV-11210"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>Also the king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars as abundant as the sycamores which <i>are</i> in the lowland. </span><span class="text 2Chr-1-16" id="en-NKJV-11211"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>And Solomon had horses imported from Egypt and Keveh; the king’s merchants bought them in Keveh at the <i>current</i> price. </span><span class="text 2Chr-1-17" id="en-NKJV-11212"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>They also acquired and imported from Egypt a chariot for six hundred <i>shekels</i> of silver, and a horse for one hundred and fifty; thus, <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-11212d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-11212d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-11212d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>through their agents, they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-11198a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-11198" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Chronicles 1:3">2 Chronicles 1:3</a> <span class="footnote-text">Place for worship</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-11200b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-11200" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Chronicles 1:5">2 Chronicles 1:5</a> <span class="footnote-text">Some authorities <i>it was there</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-11208c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-11208" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Chronicles 1:13">2 Chronicles 1:13</a> <span class="footnote-text">Place for worship</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-11212d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-11212" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Chronicles 1:17">2 Chronicles 1:17</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>by their hands</i></span></li></ol></div></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Chr-2-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-size: 2.4rem; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">2 </span></span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Chr-2-1"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">1 </span></b>Then Solomon determined to build a temple for the name of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, and a royal house for himself. </span><span class="text 2Chr-2-2" id="en-NKJV-11214" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>Solomon selected seventy thousand men to bear burdens, eighty thousand to quarry <i>stone</i> in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred to oversee them.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Chr-2-3" id="en-NKJV-11215"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>Then Solomon sent to <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-11215a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-11215a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-11215a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>Hiram king of Tyre, saying:</span></p><div class="left-1 top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1.6rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; position: relative;"><p class="first-line-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Chr-2-3">As you have dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build himself a house to dwell in, <i>so deal with me.</i> </span><span class="text 2Chr-2-4" id="en-NKJV-11216"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Behold, I am building a temple for the name of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> my God, to dedicate <i>it</i> to Him, to burn before Him <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-11216b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-11216b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-11216b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>sweet incense, for the continual showbread, for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, on the New Moons, and on the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-11216c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-11216c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-11216c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>set feasts of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> our God. This <i>is an ordinance</i> forever to Israel.</span></p></div><div class="left-1 top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1.6rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; position: relative;"><p class="first-line-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Chr-2-5" id="en-NKJV-11217"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>And the temple which I build <i>will be</i> great, for our God is greater than all gods. </span><span class="text 2Chr-2-6" id="en-NKJV-11218"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>But who is able to build Him a temple, since heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him? Who <i>am</i> I then, that I should build Him a temple, except to burn sacrifice before Him?</span></p></div><div class="left-1 top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1.6rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; position: relative;"><p class="first-line-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Chr-2-7" id="en-NKJV-11219"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>Therefore send me at once a man skillful to work in gold and silver, in bronze and iron, in purple and crimson and blue, who has skill to engrave with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided. </span><span class="text 2Chr-2-8" id="en-NKJV-11220"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Also send me cedar and cypress and algum logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants have skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and indeed my servants <i>will be</i> with your servants, </span><span class="text 2Chr-2-9" id="en-NKJV-11221"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-11221d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-11221d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-11221d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>temple which I am about to build <i>shall be</i> great and wonderful.</span></p></div><div class="left-1 top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1.6rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; position: relative;"><p class="first-line-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Chr-2-10" id="en-NKJV-11222"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>And indeed I will give to your servants, the woodsmen who cut timber, twenty thousand kors of ground wheat, twenty thousand kors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.</span></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Chr-2-11" id="en-NKJV-11223"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Then Hiram king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon:</span></p><div class="left-1 top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1.6rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; position: relative;"><p class="first-line-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Chr-2-11">Because the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> loves His people, He has made you king over them.</span></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Chr-2-12" id="en-NKJV-11224"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-11224e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-11224e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-11224e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>Hiram also said:</span></p><div class="left-1 top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1.6rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; position: relative;"><p class="first-line-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Chr-2-12">Blessed <i>be</i> the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, for He has given King David a wise son, endowed with prudence and understanding, who will build a temple for the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> and a royal house for himself!</span></p></div><div class="left-1 top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1.6rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; position: relative;"><p class="first-line-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Chr-2-13" id="en-NKJV-11225"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>And now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-11225f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-11225f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-11225f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>Huram my <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-11225g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-11225g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-11225g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>master <i>craftsman</i> </span><span class="text 2Chr-2-14" id="en-NKJV-11226"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>(the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre), skilled to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, purple and blue, fine linen and crimson, and to make any engraving and to accomplish any plan which may be given to him, with your skillful men and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.</span></p></div><div class="left-1 top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1.6rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; position: relative;"><p class="first-line-none" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Chr-2-15" id="en-NKJV-11227"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>Now therefore, the wheat, the barley, the oil, and the wine which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants. </span><span class="text 2Chr-2-16" id="en-NKJV-11228"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>And we will cut wood from Lebanon, as much as you need; we will bring it to you in rafts by sea to <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-11228h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-11228h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-11228h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span>Joppa, and you will carry it up to Jerusalem.</span></p></div><p class="top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Chr-2-17" id="en-NKJV-11229"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>Then Solomon numbered all the aliens who <i>were</i> in the land of Israel, after the census in which David his father had numbered them; and there were found to be one hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred. </span><span class="text 2Chr-2-18" id="en-NKJV-11230"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>And he made seventy thousand of them bearers of burdens, eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred overseers to make the people work.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-11215a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-11215" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Chronicles 2:3">2 Chronicles 2:3</a> <span class="footnote-text">Heb. <i>Huram;</i> cf. <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Kgs.5.1" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Kgs.5.1&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">1 Kin. 5:1</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-11216b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-11216" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Chronicles 2:4">2 Chronicles 2:4</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>incense of spices</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-11216c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-11216" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Chronicles 2:4">2 Chronicles 2:4</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>appointed</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-11221d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-11221" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Chronicles 2:9">2 Chronicles 2:9</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>house</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-11224e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-11224" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Chronicles 2:12">2 Chronicles 2:12</a> <span class="footnote-text">Heb. <i>Huram;</i> cf. <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Kgs.5.1" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Kgs.5.1&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">1 Kin. 5:1</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-11225f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-11225" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Chronicles 2:13">2 Chronicles 2:13</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Hiram,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Kgs.7.13" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Kgs.7.13&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">1 Kin. 7:13</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-11225g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-11225" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Chronicles 2:13">2 Chronicles 2:13</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>father,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Kgs.7.13" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Kgs.7.13&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">1 Kin. 7:13</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Kgs.7.14" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Kgs.7.14&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">14</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-11228h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-11228" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Chronicles 2:16">2 Chronicles 2:16</a> <span class="footnote-text">Heb. <i>Japho</i></span></li></ol></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>========================</div><div>========================</div><div><b><u>Psalm 119, verses 113 - 120</u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><h4 class="psalm-acrostic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-119-113" id="en-NKJV-16012"><span xml:lang="he">ס</span> SAMEK</span></h4><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-119-113" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11113 </span>I hate the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-16012t" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-16012t" title="See footnote t">t</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+119&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-16012t" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote t">t</a>]</span>double-minded,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-113" style="position: relative;">But I love Your law.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-114" id="en-NKJV-16013" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11114 </span>You <i>are</i> my hiding place and my shield;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-114" style="position: relative;">I hope in Your word.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-115" id="en-NKJV-16014" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11115 </span>Depart from me, you evildoers,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-115" style="position: relative;">For I will keep the commandments of my God!</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-116" id="en-NKJV-16015" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11116 </span>Uphold me according to Your word, that I may live;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-116" style="position: relative;">And do not let me be ashamed of my hope.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-117" id="en-NKJV-16016" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11117 </span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-16016u" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-16016u" title="See footnote u">u</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+119&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-16016u" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote u">u</a>]</span>Hold me up, and I shall be safe,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-117" style="position: relative;">And I shall observe Your statutes continually.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-118" id="en-NKJV-16017" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11118 </span>You reject all those who stray from Your statutes,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-118" style="position: relative;">For their deceit <i>is</i> falsehood.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-119" id="en-NKJV-16018" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11119 </span>You <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-16018v" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-16018v" title="See footnote v">v</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+119&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-16018v" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote v">v</a>]</span>put away all the wicked of the earth <i>like</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-16018w" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-16018w" title="See footnote w">w</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+119&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-16018w" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote w">w</a>]</span>dross;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-119" style="position: relative;">Therefore I love Your testimonies.1</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-120" id="en-NKJV-16019" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">120 </span>My flesh trembles for fear of You,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-120" style="position: relative;">And I am afraid of Your judgments.</span></p></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>=========================</div><div>===========================</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">Romans 16</span></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-16-1"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">1</span></b> I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea, </span><span class="text Rom-16-2" id="en-NKJV-28339" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>that you may receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and assist her in whatever business she has need of you; for indeed she has been a helper of many and of myself also.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-16-3" id="en-NKJV-28340">Greeting Roman Saints</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-16-3"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, </span><span class="text Rom-16-4" id="en-NKJV-28341"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles. </span><span class="text Rom-16-5" id="en-NKJV-28342"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Likewise <i>greet</i> the church that is in their house.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-16-5">Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28342a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28342a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+16&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28342a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>Achaia to Christ. </span><span class="text Rom-16-6" id="en-NKJV-28343"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>Greet Mary, who labored much for us. </span><span class="text Rom-16-7" id="en-NKJV-28344"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>Greet Andronicus and Junia, my countrymen and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-16-8" id="en-NKJV-28345"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Greet Amplias, my beloved in the Lord. </span><span class="text Rom-16-9" id="en-NKJV-28346"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved. </span><span class="text Rom-16-10" id="en-NKJV-28347"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>Greet Apelles, approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the <i>household</i> of Aristobulus. </span><span class="text Rom-16-11" id="en-NKJV-28348"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Greet Herodion, my <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28348b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28348b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+16&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28348b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>countryman. Greet those who are of the <i>household</i> of Narcissus who are in the Lord.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-16-12" id="en-NKJV-28349"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, who have labored in the Lord. Greet the beloved Persis, who labored much in the Lord. </span><span class="text Rom-16-13" id="en-NKJV-28350"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine. </span><span class="text Rom-16-14" id="en-NKJV-28351"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren who are with them. </span><span class="text Rom-16-15" id="en-NKJV-28352"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-16-16" id="en-NKJV-28353"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>Greet one another with a holy kiss. <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28353c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28353c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+16&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28353c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>The churches of Christ greet you.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-16-17" id="en-NKJV-28354">Avoid Divisive Persons</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-16-17"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them. </span><span class="text Rom-16-18" id="en-NKJV-28355"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>For those who are such do not serve our Lord <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28355d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28355d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+16&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28355d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple. </span><span class="text Rom-16-19" id="en-NKJV-28356"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>For your obedience has become known to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf; but I want you to be wise in what is good, and <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28356e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28356e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+16&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28356e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>simple concerning evil. </span><span class="text Rom-16-20" id="en-NKJV-28357"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-16-20">The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ <i>be</i> with you. Amen.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-16-21" id="en-NKJV-28358">Greetings from Paul’s Friends</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-16-21"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>Timothy, my fellow worker, and Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my countrymen, greet you.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-16-22" id="en-NKJV-28359"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>I, Tertius, who wrote <i>this</i> epistle, greet you in the Lord.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-16-23" id="en-NKJV-28360"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>Gaius, my host and <i>the host</i> of the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, and Quartus, a brother. </span><span class="text Rom-16-24" id="en-NKJV-28361"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>The<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28361f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28361f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+16&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28361f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> grace of our Lord Jesus Christ <i>be</i> with you all. Amen.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-16-25" id="en-NKJV-28362">Benediction</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-16-25"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28362g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28362g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+16&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28362g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began </span><span class="text Rom-16-26" id="en-NKJV-28363"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>but now made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures made known to all nations, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, for obedience to the faith— </span><span class="text Rom-16-27" id="en-NKJV-28364"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>to God, alone wise, <i>be</i> glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-28342a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+16&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28342" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 16:5">Romans 16:5</a> <span class="footnote-text">NU <i>Asia</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28348b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+16&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28348" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 16:11">Romans 16:11</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>relative</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28353c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+16&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28353" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 16:16">Romans 16:16</a> <span class="footnote-text">NU <i>All the churches</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28355d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+16&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28355" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 16:18">Romans 16:18</a> <span class="footnote-text">NU, M omit <i>Jesus</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28356e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+16&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28356" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 16:19">Romans 16:19</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>innocent</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28361f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+16&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28361" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 16:24">Romans 16:24</a> <span class="footnote-text">NU omits v. <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rom.16.24" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Rom.16.24&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">24</a>.</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28362g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+16&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28362" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 16:25">Romans 16:25</a> <span class="footnote-text">M puts <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rom.16.25-Rom.16.27" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Rom.16.25-Rom.16.27&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Rom. 16:25–27</a> after <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Rom.14.23" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Rom.14.23&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Rom. 14:23</a>.</span></li></ol></div></div>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-9730109027925724852022-06-30T23:12:00.000-04:002022-06-30T23:12:31.254-04:00Today's Readings and Stuff -- Thursday, 30 June 2022<p> Final day of June. So we're pretty much at the halfway point of the year. I would greatly prefer for it to be May and June all year long. Greatly. But we are already seeing that the "day" part of the 24 hour span is lessening. Sort of like harbinger of death. </p><p>And a long day today. Among other things, Wife was finally able to wangle a referral to a urologist that is somewhat covered by our insurance. So today was the day. A good appointment, I think (she had me accompany her into the exam room). A sample being analyzed, a follow-up appointment made, and preps underway for some high-tech scans and tests (I hope they're covered). We shall see. We "get" to make another run tomorrow, over to her Primary Care doc. Her "handicapped" card is long since expired, but she was finally able to get some sort of a form from the bureaucrats on our side of the state line, now to get the doctors on the other side of the state line to fill out and sign, and then try to submit same to our "betters" in the DMV. We shall see.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><a href="https://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=J92M2FNU" target="_blank">Knowing You</a></b></p><p>A "song of the day" entry. The first line of this has been in my head for weeks. "<i>All I once held dear, built my life upon ..</i>..". Altogether too accurate and a shame and a reproach. Upon me, certainly, and upon all too many of us. Where is our treasure? is a question that can make a person terribly uncomfortable. And it should. I don't think it pleases the Lord. </p><p><br /></p><p>==========================</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">1st Chronicles 19</span></u></b></p><p class="chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-19-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1 </span></span>It happened after this that Nahash the king of the people of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place. </span><span class="text 1Chr-19-2" id="en-NKJV-10910" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>Then David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And David’s servants came to Hanun in the land of the people of Ammon to comfort him.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-19-3" id="en-NKJV-10911"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>And the princes of the people of Ammon said to Hanun, <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10911a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10911a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+19&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10911a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>“Do you think that David really honors your father because he has sent comforters to you? Did his servants not come to you to search and to overthrow and to spy out the land?”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-19-4" id="en-NKJV-10912"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Therefore Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them, and cut off their garments <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10912b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10912b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+19&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10912b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>in the middle, at their buttocks, and sent them away. </span><span class="text 1Chr-19-5" id="en-NKJV-10913"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Then <i>some</i> went and told David about the men; and he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, “Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and <i>then</i> return.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-19-6" id="en-NKJV-10914"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>When the people of Ammon saw that they had made themselves repulsive to David, Hanun and the people of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10914c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10914c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+19&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10914c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>Mesopotamia, from Syrian Maacah, and from <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10914d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10914d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+19&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10914d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>Zobah. </span><span class="text 1Chr-19-7" id="en-NKJV-10915"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, with the king of Maacah and his people, who came and encamped before Medeba. Also the people of Ammon gathered together from their cities, and came to battle.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-19-8" id="en-NKJV-10916"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>Now when David heard <i>of it,</i> he sent Joab and all the army of the mighty men. </span><span class="text 1Chr-19-9" id="en-NKJV-10917"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>Then the people of Ammon came out and put themselves in battle array before the gate of the city, and the kings who had come <i>were</i> by themselves in the field.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-19-10" id="en-NKJV-10918"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>When Joab saw that the battle line was against him before and behind, he chose some of Israel’s best and put <i>them</i> in battle array against the Syrians. </span><span class="text 1Chr-19-11" id="en-NKJV-10919"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>And the rest of the people he put under the command of Abishai his brother, and they set <i>themselves</i> in battle array against the people of Ammon. </span><span class="text 1Chr-19-12" id="en-NKJV-10920"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Then he said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the people of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will help you. </span><span class="text 1Chr-19-13" id="en-NKJV-10921"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>Be of good courage, and let us be strong for our people and for the cities of our God. And may the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> do <i>what is</i> good in His sight.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-19-14" id="en-NKJV-10922"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>So Joab and the people who <i>were</i> with him drew near for the battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him. </span><span class="text 1Chr-19-15" id="en-NKJV-10923"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>When the people of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fleeing, they also fled before Abishai his brother, and entered the city. So Joab went to Jerusalem.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-19-16" id="en-NKJV-10924"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>Now when the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they sent messengers and brought the Syrians who were beyond <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10924e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10924e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+19&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10924e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>the River, and <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10924f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10924f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+19&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10924f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>Shophach the commander of Hadadezer’s army <i>went</i> before them. </span><span class="text 1Chr-19-17" id="en-NKJV-10925"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>When it was told David, he gathered all Israel, crossed over the Jordan and came upon them, and set up in battle array against them. So when David had set up in battle array against the Syrians, they fought with him. </span><span class="text 1Chr-19-18" id="en-NKJV-10926"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>Then the Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10926g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10926g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+19&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10926g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>seven thousand charioteers and forty thousand <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10926h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10926h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+19&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10926h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span>foot soldiers of the Syrians, and killed Shophach the commander of the army. </span><span class="text 1Chr-19-19" id="en-NKJV-10927"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>And when the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and became his servants. So the Syrians were not willing to help the people of Ammon anymore.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-10911a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+19&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10911" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 19:3">1 Chronicles 19:3</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>In your eyes is David honoring your father because</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10912b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+19&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10912" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 19:4">1 Chronicles 19:4</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>in half</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10914c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+19&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10914" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 19:6">1 Chronicles 19:6</a> <span class="footnote-text">Heb. <i>Aram Naharaim</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10914d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+19&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10914" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 19:6">1 Chronicles 19:6</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Zoba,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Sam.10.6" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Sam.10.6&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">2 Sam. 10:6</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10924e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+19&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10924" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 19:16">1 Chronicles 19:16</a> <span class="footnote-text">The Euphrates</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10924f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+19&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10924" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 19:16">1 Chronicles 19:16</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Zoba,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Sam.10.6" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Sam.10.6&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">2 Sam. 10:6</a>, or <i>Shobach,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Sam.10.16" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Sam.10.16&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">2 Sam. 10:16</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10926g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+19&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10926" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 19:18">1 Chronicles 19:18</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>seven hundred,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Sam.10.18" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Sam.10.18&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">2 Sam. 10:18</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10926h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+19&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10926" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 19:18">1 Chronicles 19:18</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>horsemen,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Sam.10.18" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Sam.10.18&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">2 Sam. 10:18</a></span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">1st Chronicles 20</span></u></b></p><p class="chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-20-1"><b>1</b> It happened <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10928a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10928a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%2020&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10928a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>in the spring of the year, at the time kings go out <i style="font-size: 16px;">to battle,</i> that Joab led out the armed forces and ravaged the country of the people of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. And Joab defeated Rabbah and overthrew it. </span><span class="text 1Chr-20-2" id="en-NKJV-10929" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>Then David took their king’s crown from his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and <i>there were</i> precious stones in it. And it was set on David’s head. Also he brought out the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10929b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10929b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%2020&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10929b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>spoil of the city in great abundance. </span><span class="text 1Chr-20-3" id="en-NKJV-10930" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>And he brought out the people who <i>were</i> in it, and <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10930c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10930c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%2020&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10930c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>put <i>them</i> to work with saws, with iron picks, and with axes. So David did to all the cities of the people of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned <i>to</i> Jerusalem.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-20-4" id="en-NKJV-10931">Philistine Giants Destroyed</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-20-4"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Now it happened afterward that war broke out at <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10931d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10931d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%2020&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10931d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>Gezer with the Philistines, at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite killed <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10931e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10931e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%2020&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10931e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>Sippai, <i>who was one</i> of the sons of <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10931f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10931f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%2020&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10931f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>the giant. And they were subdued.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-20-5" id="en-NKJV-10932"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Again there was war with the Philistines, and Elhanan the son of <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10932g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10932g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%2020&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10932g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear <i>was</i> like a weaver’s beam.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-20-6" id="en-NKJV-10933"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>Yet again there was war at Gath, where there was a man of <i>great</i> stature, with twenty-four fingers and toes, six <i>on each hand</i> and six <i>on each foot;</i> and he also was born to <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10933h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10933h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%2020&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10933h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span>the giant. </span><span class="text 1Chr-20-7" id="en-NKJV-10934"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>So when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10934i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10934i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%2020&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10934i" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span>Shimea, David’s brother, killed him.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-20-8" id="en-NKJV-10935"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>These were born to the giant in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-10928a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%2020&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10928" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 20:1">1 Chronicles 20:1</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>at the return of the year</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10929b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%2020&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10929" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 20:2">1 Chronicles 20:2</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>plunder</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10930c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%2020&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10930" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 20:3">1 Chronicles 20:3</a> <span class="footnote-text">LXX <i>cut them with</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10931d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%2020&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10931" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 20:4">1 Chronicles 20:4</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Gob,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Sam.21.18" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Sam.21.18&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">2 Sam. 21:18</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10931e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%2020&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10931" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 20:4">1 Chronicles 20:4</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Saph,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Sam.21.18" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Sam.21.18&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">2 Sam. 21:18</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10931f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%2020&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10931" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 20:4">1 Chronicles 20:4</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>Raphah</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10932g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%2020&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10932" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 20:5">1 Chronicles 20:5</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Jaare-Oregim,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Sam.21.19" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Sam.21.19&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">2 Sam. 21:19</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10933h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%2020&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10933" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 20:6">1 Chronicles 20:6</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>Raphah</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10934i" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%2020&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10934" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 20:7">1 Chronicles 20:7</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Shammah,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Sam.16.9" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Sam.16.9&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">1 Sam. 16:9</a> or <i>Shimeah,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Sam.21.21" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Sam.21.21&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">2 Sam. 21:21</a></span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>=============================</p><p>Today, verses 81-88 in Psalm 119. I've always been "iffy" about prescribed prayers (and yes, the Lord's prayer is a contrary argument). But these 8-verse-long sections in Psalm 119 are wonderful prayers. Who can argue with verse 81,, for example? Not me. These are meaningful, from the heart, prayers. They are coming to have a lot of meaning for me. </p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u>Psalm 119:81 - 88</u></b></span></p><h4 class="psalm-acrostic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-119-81" id="en-NKJV-15980"><span xml:lang="he">כ</span> KAPH</span></h4><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-119-81" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;"><span style="font-size: 1.2rem;">81</span> </span>My soul faints for Your salvation,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-81" style="position: relative;">But I hope in Your word.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-82" id="en-NKJV-15981" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">82 </span>My eyes fail <i>from searching</i> Your word,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-82" style="position: relative;">Saying, “When will You comfort me?”</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-83" id="en-NKJV-15982" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">83 </span>For I have become like a wineskin in smoke,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-83" style="position: relative;"><i>Yet</i> I do not forget Your statutes.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-84" id="en-NKJV-15983" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">84 </span>How many <i>are</i> the days of Your servant?</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-84" style="position: relative;">When will You execute judgment on those who persecute me?</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-85" id="en-NKJV-15984" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">85 </span>The proud have dug pits for me,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-85" style="position: relative;">Which <i>is</i> not according to Your law.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-86" id="en-NKJV-15985" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">86 </span>All Your commandments <i>are</i> faithful;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-86" style="position: relative;">They persecute me wrongfully;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-86" style="position: relative;">Help me!</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-87" id="en-NKJV-15986" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">87 </span>They almost made an end of me on earth,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-87" style="position: relative;">But I did not forsake Your precepts.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-88" id="en-NKJV-15987" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">88 </span>Revive me according to Your lovingkindness,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-88" style="position: relative;">So that I may keep the testimony of Your mouth.</span></p></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>==================================</p><p>Today, chapter 12 in the Epistle to the Romans. Romans is a favorite of mine, always some nugget of treasure to be discovered. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Romans 12</span></u></b></p><p class="chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-12-1"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>1 </b></span> I beseech<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28247a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28247a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+12&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28247a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, <i style="font-size: 16px;">which is</i> your <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28247b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28247b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+12&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28247b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>reasonable service. </span><span class="text Rom-12-2" id="en-NKJV-28248" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what <i>is</i> that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-12-3" id="en-NKJV-28249">Serve God with Spiritual Gifts</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-12-3"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think <i>of himself</i> more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. </span><span class="text Rom-12-4" id="en-NKJV-28250"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, </span><span class="text Rom-12-5" id="en-NKJV-28251"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>so we, <i>being</i> many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. </span><span class="text Rom-12-6" id="en-NKJV-28252"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, <i>let us use them:</i> if prophecy, <i>let us</i> <i>prophesy</i> in proportion to our faith; </span><span class="text Rom-12-7" id="en-NKJV-28253"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>or ministry, <i>let us use it</i> in <i>our</i> ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; </span><span class="text Rom-12-8" id="en-NKJV-28254"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-12-9" id="en-NKJV-28255">Behave Like a Christian</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-12-9"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span><i>Let</i> love <i>be</i> without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good. </span><span class="text Rom-12-10" id="en-NKJV-28256"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span><i>Be</i> kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another; </span><span class="text Rom-12-11" id="en-NKJV-28257"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; </span><span class="text Rom-12-12" id="en-NKJV-28258"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>rejoicing in hope, patient<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28258c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28258c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+12&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28258c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer; </span><span class="text Rom-12-13" id="en-NKJV-28259"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>distributing to the needs of the saints, given<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28259d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28259d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+12&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28259d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> to hospitality.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-12-14" id="en-NKJV-28260"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. </span><span class="text Rom-12-15" id="en-NKJV-28261"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. </span><span class="text Rom-12-16" id="en-NKJV-28262"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-12-17" id="en-NKJV-28263"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>Repay no one evil for evil. Have<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28263e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28263e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+12&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28263e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> regard for good things in the sight of all men. </span><span class="text Rom-12-18" id="en-NKJV-28264"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men. </span><span class="text Rom-12-19" id="en-NKJV-28265"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but <i>rather</i> give place to wrath; for it is written, <span class="oblique">“Vengeance</span> <i>is</i> <span class="oblique">Mine, I will repay,”</span> says the Lord. </span><span class="text Rom-12-20" id="en-NKJV-28266"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>Therefore</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-12-20" style="position: relative;"><span class="oblique"><span style="font-size: 1.6rem;">“</span><i>If your enemy is hungry, feed him;</i></span></span><i><br /><span class="text Rom-12-20" style="position: relative;"><span class="oblique">If he is thirsty, give him a drink;</span></span><br /><span class="text Rom-12-20" style="position: relative;"><span class="oblique">For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.”</span></span></i></p></div><p class="first-line-none top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-12-21" id="en-NKJV-28267"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-28247a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+12&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28247" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 12:1">Romans 12:1</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>urge</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28247b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+12&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28247" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 12:1">Romans 12:1</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>rational</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28258c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+12&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28258" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 12:12">Romans 12:12</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>persevering</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28259d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+12&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28259" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 12:13">Romans 12:13</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>pursuing</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28263e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+12&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28263" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 12:17">Romans 12:17</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>Provide good</i></span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-56771905993948603902022-06-21T18:31:00.001-04:002022-06-21T18:31:48.073-04:00Today's Readings and Stuff -- Tuesday, 21 June 2022<p> We are now officially into Summer. A few days ago, we woke to temperatures in the mid-40's, and it didn't get past the 50's. It's 93 degrees here right now, and tomorrow is expected to be much the same. Doesn't bother me, much, but it seems horrid to the locals. Oh, well.</p><p>Spent the morning running errands with Dear Wife. Tomorrow morning, a PAP smear is scheduled. On Friday, a mammogram. Both had been long delayed, in part due to lack of funds for the co-pays. Perhaps some information will be acquired. Next week, an appointment with the kidney doctor. Perhaps the UTI source can be discovered. We hope.</p><p>So my own activities are rather circumscribed and limited.</p><p><br /></p><p>==========================================================</p><p>1st Chronicles 1 and 2</p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-1-1" id="en-NKJV-10254">The Family of Adam—Seth to Abraham</span></h3><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-1-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-size: 2.4rem; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">1 </span></span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-1-1"><b>1</b> Adam, Seth, Enosh, </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-2" id="en-NKJV-10255"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>Cainan, Mahalalel, Jared, </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-3" id="en-NKJV-10256"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-4" id="en-NKJV-10257"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Noah,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10257a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10257a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10257a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> Shem, Ham, and Japheth.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-1-5" id="en-NKJV-10258"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>The sons of Japheth <i>were</i> Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-6" id="en-NKJV-10259"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>The sons of Gomer <i>were</i> Ashkenaz, <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10259b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10259b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10259b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>Diphath, and Togarmah. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-7" id="en-NKJV-10260"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>The sons of Javan <i>were</i> Elishah, <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10260c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10260c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10260c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>Tarshishah, Kittim, and <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10260d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10260d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10260d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>Rodanim.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-1-8" id="en-NKJV-10261"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>The sons of Ham <i>were</i> Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-9" id="en-NKJV-10262"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>The sons of Cush <i>were</i> Seba, Havilah, <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10262e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10262e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10262e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>Sabta, <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10262f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10262f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10262f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>Raama, and Sabtecha. The sons of Raama <i>were</i> Sheba and Dedan. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-10" id="en-NKJV-10263"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-11" id="en-NKJV-10264"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Mizraim begot Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-12" id="en-NKJV-10265"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines and the Caphtorim). </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-13" id="en-NKJV-10266"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>Canaan begot Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth; </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-14" id="en-NKJV-10267"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>the Jebusite, the Amorite, and the Girgashite; </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-15" id="en-NKJV-10268"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>the Hivite, the Arkite, and the Sinite; </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-16" id="en-NKJV-10269"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-1-17" id="en-NKJV-10270"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>The sons of Shem <i>were</i> Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10270g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10270g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10270g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>Meshech. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-18" id="en-NKJV-10271"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>Arphaxad begot Shelah, and Shelah begot Eber. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-19" id="en-NKJV-10272"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>To Eber were born two sons: the name of one <i>was</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10272h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10272h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10272h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span>Peleg, for in his days the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10272i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10272i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10272i" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span>earth was divided; and his brother’s name <i>was</i> Joktan. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-20" id="en-NKJV-10273"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>Joktan begot Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-21" id="en-NKJV-10274"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-22" id="en-NKJV-10275"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10275j" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10275j" title="See footnote j">j</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10275j" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote j">j</a>]</span>Ebal, Abimael, Sheba, </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-23" id="en-NKJV-10276"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these <i>were</i> the sons of Joktan.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-1-24" id="en-NKJV-10277"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah, </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-25" id="en-NKJV-10278"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>Eber, Peleg, Reu, </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-26" id="en-NKJV-10279"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>Serug, Nahor, Terah, </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-27" id="en-NKJV-10280"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>and Abram, who <i>is</i> Abraham. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-28" id="en-NKJV-10281"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>The sons of Abraham <i>were</i> Isaac and Ishmael.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-1-29" id="en-NKJV-10282">The Family of Ishmael</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-1-29"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>These <i>are</i> their genealogies: The firstborn of Ishmael <i>was</i> Nebajoth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-30" id="en-NKJV-10283"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>Mishma, Dumah, Massa, <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10283k" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10283k" title="See footnote k">k</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10283k" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote k">k</a>]</span>Hadad, Tema, </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-31" id="en-NKJV-10284"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span>Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These <i>were</i> the sons of Ishmael.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-1-32" id="en-NKJV-10285">The Family of Keturah</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-1-32"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">32 </span>Now the sons born to Keturah, Abraham’s concubine, <i>were</i> Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan <i>were</i> Sheba and Dedan. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-33" id="en-NKJV-10286"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">33 </span>The sons of Midian <i>were</i> Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-1-34" id="en-NKJV-10287">The Family of Isaac</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-1-34"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">34 </span>And Abraham begot Isaac. The sons of Isaac <i>were</i> Esau and Israel. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-35" id="en-NKJV-10288"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">35 </span>The sons of Esau <i>were</i> Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jaalam, and Korah. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-36" id="en-NKJV-10289"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">36 </span>And the sons of Eliphaz <i>were</i> Teman, Omar, <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10289l" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10289l" title="See footnote l">l</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10289l" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote l">l</a>]</span>Zephi, Gatam, <i>and</i> Kenaz; and <i>by</i> Timna, Amalek. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-37" id="en-NKJV-10290"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">37 </span>The sons of Reuel <i>were</i> Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-1-38" id="en-NKJV-10291">The Family of Seir</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-1-38"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">38 </span>The sons of Seir <i>were</i> Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-39" id="en-NKJV-10292"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">39 </span>And the sons of Lotan <i>were</i> Hori and <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10292m" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10292m" title="See footnote m">m</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10292m" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote m">m</a>]</span>Homam; Lotan’s sister <i>was</i> Timna. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-40" id="en-NKJV-10293"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">40 </span>The sons of Shobal <i>were</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10293n" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10293n" title="See footnote n">n</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10293n" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote n">n</a>]</span>Alian, Manahath, Ebal, <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10293o" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10293o" title="See footnote o">o</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10293o" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote o">o</a>]</span>Shephi, and Onam. The sons of Zibeon <i>were</i> Ajah and Anah. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-41" id="en-NKJV-10294"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">41 </span>The son of Anah <i>was</i> Dishon. The sons of Dishon <i>were</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10294p" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10294p" title="See footnote p">p</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10294p" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote p">p</a>]</span>Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-42" id="en-NKJV-10295"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">42 </span>The sons of Ezer <i>were</i> Bilhan, Zaavan, <i>and</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10295q" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10295q" title="See footnote q">q</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10295q" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote q">q</a>]</span>Jaakan. The sons of Dishan <i>were</i> Uz and Aran.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-1-43" id="en-NKJV-10296">The Kings of Edom</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-1-43"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">43 </span>Now these <i>were</i> the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before a king reigned over the children of Israel: Bela the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dinhabah. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-44" id="en-NKJV-10297"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">44 </span>And when Bela died, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-45" id="en-NKJV-10298"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">45 </span>When Jobab died, Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-46" id="en-NKJV-10299"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">46 </span>And when Husham died, Hadad the son of Bedad, who <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10299r" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10299r" title="See footnote r">r</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10299r" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote r">r</a>]</span>attacked Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. The name of his city <i>was</i> Avith. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-47" id="en-NKJV-10300"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">47 </span>When Hadad died, Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-48" id="en-NKJV-10301"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">48 </span>And when Samlah died, Saul of Rehoboth-by-the-River reigned in his place. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-49" id="en-NKJV-10302"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">49 </span>When Saul died, Baal-Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-50" id="en-NKJV-10303"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">50 </span>And when Baal-Hanan died, <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10303s" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10303s" title="See footnote s">s</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10303s" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote s">s</a>]</span>Hadad reigned in his place; and the name of his city was <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10303t" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10303t" title="See footnote t">t</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10303t" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote t">t</a>]</span>Pai. His wife’s name was Mehetabel the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-51" id="en-NKJV-10304"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">51 </span>Hadad died also. And the chiefs of Edom were Chief Timnah, Chief <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10304u" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10304u" title="See footnote u">u</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10304u" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote u">u</a>]</span>Aliah, Chief Jetheth, </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-52" id="en-NKJV-10305"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">52 </span>Chief Aholibamah, Chief Elah, Chief Pinon, </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-53" id="en-NKJV-10306"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">53 </span>Chief Kenaz, Chief Teman, Chief Mibzar, </span><span class="text 1Chr-1-54" id="en-NKJV-10307"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">54 </span>Chief Magdiel, and Chief Iram. These <i>were</i> the chiefs of Edom.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-10257a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10257" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 1:4">1 Chronicles 1:4</a> <span class="footnote-text">So with MT, Vg.; LXX adds <i>the sons of Noah</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10259b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10259" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 1:6">1 Chronicles 1:6</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Riphath,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.10.3" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen.10.3&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Gen. 10:3</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10260c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10260" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 1:7">1 Chronicles 1:7</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Tarshish,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.10.4" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen.10.4&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Gen. 10:4</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10260d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10260" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 1:7">1 Chronicles 1:7</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Dodanim,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.10.4" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen.10.4&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Gen. 10:4</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10262e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10262" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 1:9">1 Chronicles 1:9</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Sabtah,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.10.7" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen.10.7&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Gen. 10:7</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10262f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10262" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 1:9">1 Chronicles 1:9</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Raamah,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.10.7" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen.10.7&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Gen. 10:7</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10270g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10270" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 1:17">1 Chronicles 1:17</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Mash,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.10.23" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen.10.23&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Gen. 10:23</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10272h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10272" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 1:19">1 Chronicles 1:19</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>Division,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.10.25" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen.10.25&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Gen. 10:25</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10272i" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10272" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 1:19">1 Chronicles 1:19</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>land</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10275j" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10275" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 1:22">1 Chronicles 1:22</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Obal,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.10.28" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen.10.28&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Gen. 10:28</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10283k" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10283" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 1:30">1 Chronicles 1:30</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Hadar,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.25.15" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen.25.15&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Gen. 25:15</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10289l" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10289" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 1:36">1 Chronicles 1:36</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Zepho,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.36.11" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen.36.11&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Gen. 36:11</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10292m" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10292" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 1:39">1 Chronicles 1:39</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Hemam</i> or <i>Heman,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.36.22" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen.36.22&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Gen. 36:22</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10293n" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10293" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 1:40">1 Chronicles 1:40</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Alvan,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.36.23" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen.36.23&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Gen. 36:23</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10293o" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10293" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 1:40">1 Chronicles 1:40</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Shepho,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.36.23" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen.36.23&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Gen. 36:23</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10294p" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10294" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 1:41">1 Chronicles 1:41</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Hemdan,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.36.26" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen.36.26&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Gen. 36:26</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10295q" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10295" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 1:42">1 Chronicles 1:42</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Akan,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.36.27" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen.36.27&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Gen. 36:27</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10299r" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10299" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 1:46">1 Chronicles 1:46</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>struck</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10303s" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10303" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 1:50">1 Chronicles 1:50</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Hadar,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.36.39" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen.36.39&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Gen. 36:39</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10303t" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10303" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 1:50">1 Chronicles 1:50</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Pau,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.36.39" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen.36.39&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Gen. 36:39</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10304u" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles+1&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10304" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 1:51">1 Chronicles 1:51</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Alvah,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.36.40" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen.36.40&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Gen. 36:40</a></span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p>===</p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-2-1" id="en-NKJV-10308">The Family of Israel</span></h3><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-2-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-size: 2.4rem; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">2 </span>These <i>were</i> the sons of <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10308a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10308a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10308a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-2" id="en-NKJV-10309"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-2-3" id="en-NKJV-10310">From Judah to David</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-2-3"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>The sons of Judah <i>were</i> Er, Onan, and Shelah. <i>These</i> three were born to him by the daughter of Shua, the Canaanitess. Er, the firstborn of Judah, was wicked in the sight of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>; so He killed him. </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-4" id="en-NKJV-10311"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah <i>were</i> five.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-2-5" id="en-NKJV-10312"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>The sons of Perez <i>were</i> Hezron and Hamul. </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-6" id="en-NKJV-10313"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>The sons of Zerah <i>were</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10313b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10313b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10313b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10313c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10313c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10313c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>Dara—five of them in all.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-2-7" id="en-NKJV-10314"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>The son of Carmi <i>was</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10314d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10314d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10314d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the accursed<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10314e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10314e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10314e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> thing.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-2-8" id="en-NKJV-10315"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>The son of Ethan <i>was</i> Azariah.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-2-9" id="en-NKJV-10316"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>Also the sons of Hezron who were born to him <i>were</i> Jerahmeel, <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10316f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10316f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10316f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>Ram, and <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10316g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10316g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10316g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>Chelubai. </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-10" id="en-NKJV-10317"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>Ram begot Amminadab, and Amminadab begot Nahshon, leader of the children of Judah; </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-11" id="en-NKJV-10318"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Nahshon begot <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10318h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10318h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10318h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span>Salma, and Salma begot Boaz; </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-12" id="en-NKJV-10319"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Boaz begot Obed, and Obed begot Jesse; </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-13" id="en-NKJV-10320"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>Jesse begot Eliab his firstborn, Abinadab the second, <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10320i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10320i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10320i" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span>Shimea the third, </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-14" id="en-NKJV-10321"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-15" id="en-NKJV-10322"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>Ozem the sixth, <i>and</i> David the seventh.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-2-16" id="en-NKJV-10323"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>Now their sisters <i>were</i> Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah <i>were</i> Abishai, Joab, and Asahel—three. </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-17" id="en-NKJV-10324"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa <i>was</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10324j" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10324j" title="See footnote j">j</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10324j" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote j">j</a>]</span>Jether the Ishmaelite.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-2-18" id="en-NKJV-10325">The Family of Hezron</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-2-18"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>Caleb the son of Hezron had children by Azubah, <i>his</i> wife, and by Jerioth. Now these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-19" id="en-NKJV-10326"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>When Azubah died, Caleb <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10326k" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10326k" title="See footnote k">k</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10326k" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote k">k</a>]</span>took Ephrath<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10326l" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10326l" title="See footnote l">l</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10326l" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote l">l</a>]</span> as his wife, who bore him Hur. </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-20" id="en-NKJV-10327"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>And Hur begot Uri, and Uri begot Bezalel.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-2-21" id="en-NKJV-10328"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>Now afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he <i>was</i> sixty years old; and she bore him Segub. </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-22" id="en-NKJV-10329"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>Segub begot Jair,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10329m" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10329m" title="See footnote m">m</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10329m" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote m">m</a>]</span> who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-23" id="en-NKJV-10330"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>(Geshur and Syria took from them the towns of Jair, with Kenath and its towns—sixty towns.) All these <i>belonged to</i> the sons of Machir the father of Gilead. </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-24" id="en-NKJV-10331"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>After Hezron died in Caleb Ephrathah, Hezron’s wife Abijah bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-2-25" id="en-NKJV-10332">The Family of Jerahmeel</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-2-25"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>The sons of Jerahmeel, the firstborn of Hezron, <i>were</i> Ram, the firstborn, and Bunah, Oren, Ozem, <i>and</i> Ahijah. </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-26" id="en-NKJV-10333"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam. </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-27" id="en-NKJV-10334"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>The sons of Ram, the firstborn of Jerahmeel, were Maaz, Jamin, and Eker. </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-28" id="en-NKJV-10335"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>The sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. The sons of Shammai <i>were</i> Nadab and Abishur.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-2-29" id="en-NKJV-10336"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>And the name of the wife of Abishur <i>was</i> Abihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid. </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-30" id="en-NKJV-10337"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>The sons of Nadab <i>were</i> Seled and Appaim; Seled died without children. </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-31" id="en-NKJV-10338"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span>The son of Appaim <i>was</i> Ishi, the son of Ishi <i>was</i> Sheshan, and Sheshan’s son <i>was</i> Ahlai. </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-32" id="en-NKJV-10339"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">32 </span>The sons of Jada, the brother of Shammai, <i>were</i> Jether and Jonathan; Jether died without children. </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-33" id="en-NKJV-10340"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">33 </span>The sons of Jonathan <i>were</i> Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-2-34" id="en-NKJV-10341"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">34 </span>Now Sheshan had no sons, only daughters. And Sheshan had an Egyptian servant whose name <i>was</i> Jarha. </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-35" id="en-NKJV-10342"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">35 </span>Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as wife, and she bore him Attai. </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-36" id="en-NKJV-10343"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">36 </span>Attai begot Nathan, and Nathan begot Zabad; </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-37" id="en-NKJV-10344"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">37 </span>Zabad begot Ephlal, and Ephlal begot Obed; </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-38" id="en-NKJV-10345"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">38 </span>Obed begot Jehu, and Jehu begot Azariah; </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-39" id="en-NKJV-10346"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">39 </span>Azariah begot Helez, and Helez begot Eleasah; </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-40" id="en-NKJV-10347"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">40 </span>Eleasah begot Sismai, and Sismai begot Shallum; </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-41" id="en-NKJV-10348"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">41 </span>Shallum begot Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begot Elishama.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-2-42" id="en-NKJV-10349">The Family of Caleb</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-2-42"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">42 </span>The descendants of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel <i>were</i> Mesha, his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph, and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron. </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-43" id="en-NKJV-10350"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">43 </span>The sons of Hebron <i>were</i> Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema. </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-44" id="en-NKJV-10351"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">44 </span>Shema begot Raham the father of Jorkoam, and Rekem begot Shammai. </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-45" id="en-NKJV-10352"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">45 </span>And the son of Shammai <i>was</i> Maon, and Maon <i>was</i> the father of Beth Zur.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-2-46" id="en-NKJV-10353"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">46 </span>Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran begot Gazez. </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-47" id="en-NKJV-10354"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">47 </span>And the sons of Jahdai <i>were</i> Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-2-48" id="en-NKJV-10355"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">48 </span>Maachah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah. </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-49" id="en-NKJV-10356"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">49 </span>She also bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea. And the daughter of Caleb <i>was</i> Achsah.<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10356n" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10356n" title="See footnote n">n</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10356n" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote n">n</a>]</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-2-50" id="en-NKJV-10357"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">50 </span>These were the descendants of Caleb: The sons of Hur, the firstborn of <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10357o" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10357o" title="See footnote o">o</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10357o" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote o">o</a>]</span>Ephrathah, <i>were</i> Shobal the father of Kirjath Jearim, </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-51" id="en-NKJV-10358"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">51 </span>Salma the father of Bethlehem, <i>and</i> Hareph the father of Beth Gader.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-2-52" id="en-NKJV-10359"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">52 </span>And Shobal the father of Kirjath Jearim had descendants: <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10359p" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10359p" title="See footnote p">p</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10359p" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote p">p</a>]</span>Haroeh, <i>and</i> half of the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10359q" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10359q" title="See footnote q">q</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10359q" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote q">q</a>]</span><i>families of</i> Manuhoth. </span><span class="text 1Chr-2-53" id="en-NKJV-10360"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">53 </span>The families of Kirjath Jearim <i>were</i> the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites. From these came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-2-54" id="en-NKJV-10361"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">54 </span>The sons of Salma <i>were</i> Bethlehem, the Netophathites, <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10361r" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10361r" title="See footnote r">r</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10361r" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote r">r</a>]</span>Atroth Beth Joab, half of the Manahethites, and the Zorites.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 1Chr-2-55" id="en-NKJV-10362"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">55 </span>And the families of the scribes who dwelt at Jabez <i>were</i> the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, <i>and</i> the Suchathites. These <i>were</i> the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-10308a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10308" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 2:1">1 Chronicles 2:1</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Jacob,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Gen.32.28" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen.32.28&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Gen. 32:28</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10313b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10313" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 2:6">1 Chronicles 2:6</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Zabdi,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Josh.7.1" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Josh.7.1&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Josh. 7:1</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10313c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10313" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 2:6">1 Chronicles 2:6</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Darda,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Kgs.4.31" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Kgs.4.31&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">1 Kin. 4:31</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10314d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10314" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 2:7">1 Chronicles 2:7</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Achan,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Josh.7.1" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Josh.7.1&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Josh. 7:1</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10314e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10314" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 2:7">1 Chronicles 2:7</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>banned</i> or <i>devoted</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10316f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10316" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 2:9">1 Chronicles 2:9</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Aram,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Matt.1.3" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matt.1.3&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Matt. 1:3</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Matt.1.4" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matt.1.4&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">4</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10316g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10316" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 2:9">1 Chronicles 2:9</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Caleb,</i> vv. <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Chr.2.18" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Chr.2.18&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">18</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Chr.2.42" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Chr.2.42&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">42</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10318h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10318" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 2:11">1 Chronicles 2:11</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Salmon,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ruth.4.21" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ruth.4.21&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Ruth 4:21</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Luke.3.32" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke.3.32&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Luke 3:32</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10320i" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10320" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 2:13">1 Chronicles 2:13</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Shammah,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Sam.16.9" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Sam.16.9&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">1 Sam. 16:9</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10324j" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10324" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 2:17">1 Chronicles 2:17</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Jithra the Israelite,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Sam.17.25" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Sam.17.25&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">2 Sam. 17:25</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10326k" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10326" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 2:19">1 Chronicles 2:19</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>took to himself</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10326l" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10326" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 2:19">1 Chronicles 2:19</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>Ephrathah</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10329m" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10329" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 2:22">1 Chronicles 2:22</a> <span class="footnote-text">Reckoned to Manasseh through the daughter of Machir, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Num.32.41" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Num.32.41&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Num. 32:41</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Deut.3.14" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deut.3.14&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Deut. 3:14</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Deut.25.5" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deut.25.5&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">25:5</a>, <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Deut.25.6" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deut.25.6&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">6</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Kgs.4.13" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Kgs.4.13&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">1 Kin. 4:13</a>; <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Chr.7.14" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Chr.7.14&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">1 Chr. 7:14</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10356n" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10356" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 2:49">1 Chronicles 2:49</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>Achsa</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10357o" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10357" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 2:50">1 Chronicles 2:50</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Ephrath,</i> v. <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Chr.2.19" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Chr.2.19&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">19</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10359p" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10359" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 2:52">1 Chronicles 2:52</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Reaiah,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Chr.4.2" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Chr.4.2&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">1 Chr. 4:2</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10359q" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10359" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 2:52">1 Chronicles 2:52</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>Manuhothites,</i> same as <i>Manahethites,</i> v. <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="1Chr.2.54" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Chr.2.54&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">54</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10361r" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Chronicles%202&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10361" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 1 Chronicles 2:54">1 Chronicles 2:54</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>Ataroth of the house of Joab</i></span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>============================================================</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u>Psalm 119, verses 25 - 32</u></b></span></p><h4 class="psalm-acrostic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-119-25" id="en-NKJV-15924"><span xml:lang="he">ד</span> DALETH</span></h4><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-119-25" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span><span style="font-size: medium;">My soul clings to the dust;</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span class="text Ps-119-25" style="position: relative;">Revive me according to Your word.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-26" id="en-NKJV-15925" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>I have declared my ways, and You answered me;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-26" style="position: relative;">Teach me Your statutes.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-27" id="en-NKJV-15926" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>Make me understand the way of Your precepts;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-27" style="position: relative;">So shall I meditate on Your wonderful works.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-28" id="en-NKJV-15927" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>My soul <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-15927d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-15927d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+119&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-15927d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>melts from <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-15927e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-15927e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+119&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-15927e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>heaviness;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-28" style="position: relative;">Strengthen me according to Your word.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-29" id="en-NKJV-15928" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>Remove from me the way of lying,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-29" style="position: relative;">And grant me Your law graciously.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-30" id="en-NKJV-15929" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>I have chosen the way of truth;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-30" style="position: relative;">Your judgments I have laid <i>before me.</i></span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-31" id="en-NKJV-15930" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span>I cling to Your testimonies;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-31" style="position: relative;">O <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, do not put me to shame!</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-32" id="en-NKJV-15931" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">32 </span>I will run the course of Your commandments,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-32" style="position: relative;">For You shall enlarge my heart.</span></span></p></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>========================================================</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u><b>Romans 5</b></u></span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-5-1"><b>1 </b>Therefore, having been justified by faith, <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28049a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28049a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+5&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28049a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, </span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-5-2" id="en-NKJV-28050"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. </span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-5-3" id="en-NKJV-28051"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>And not only <i>that,</i> but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28051b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28051b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+5&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28051b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>perseverance; </span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-5-4" id="en-NKJV-28052"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>and perseverance, <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28052c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28052c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+5&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28052c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>character; and character, hope. </span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-5-5" id="en-NKJV-28053"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-5-6" id="en-NKJV-28054">Christ in Our Place</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-5-6"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>For when we were still without strength, <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28054d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28054d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+5&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28054d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>in due time Christ died for the ungodly. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-5-7" id="en-NKJV-28055"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-5-8" id="en-NKJV-28056"><u><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. </u></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-5-9" id="en-NKJV-28057"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-5-10" id="en-NKJV-28058"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-5-11" id="en-NKJV-28059"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>And not only <i>that,</i> but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-5-12" id="en-NKJV-28060">Death in Adam, Life in Christ</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-5-12"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned— </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-5-13" id="en-NKJV-28061"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>(For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-5-14" id="en-NKJV-28062"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-5-15" id="en-NKJV-28063"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>But the free gift <i>is</i> not like the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28063e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28063e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+5&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28063e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-5-16" id="en-NKJV-28064"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>And the gift <i>is</i> not like <i>that which came</i> through the one who sinned. For the judgment <i>which came</i> from one <i>offense resulted</i> in condemnation, but the free gift <i>which came</i> from many <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28064f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28064f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+5&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28064f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>offenses <i>resulted</i> in justification. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-5-17" id="en-NKJV-28065"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>For if by the one man’s <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28065g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28065g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+5&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28065g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-5-18" id="en-NKJV-28066"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>Therefore, as through <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28066h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28066h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+5&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28066h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span>one man’s offense <i>judgment came</i> to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28066i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28066i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+5&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28066i" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span> Man’s righteous act <i>the free gift came</i> to all men, resulting in justification of life. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-5-19" id="en-NKJV-28067"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-5-20" id="en-NKJV-28068"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-5-21" id="en-NKJV-28069"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-28049a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+5&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28049" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 5:1">Romans 5:1</a> <span class="footnote-text">Some ancient mss. <i>let us have</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28051b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+5&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28051" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 5:3">Romans 5:3</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>endurance</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28052c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+5&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28052" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 5:4">Romans 5:4</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>approved character</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28054d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+5&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28054" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 5:6">Romans 5:6</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>at the right time</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28063e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+5&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28063" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 5:15">Romans 5:15</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>trespass</i> or <i>false step</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28064f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+5&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28064" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 5:16">Romans 5:16</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>trespasses</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28065g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+5&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28065" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 5:17">Romans 5:17</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>trespass</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28066h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+5&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28066" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 5:18">Romans 5:18</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>one trespass</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28066i" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+5&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28066" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 5:18">Romans 5:18</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>one righteous act</i></span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-20314849597475660402022-06-20T20:22:00.002-04:002022-06-20T20:22:21.697-04:00Today's Readings and Stuff -- Monday, 20 June 2022<div><br /></div><div>Today is the last day of Spring for this year. Spring is my favorite time of the year, and the months with short names are the only ones that I really like. I've reached the point in my life where it's no longer certain that I'll see another Spring, though one never knows. So, starting tomorrow, the "day" part of the 24 hours will become shorter and shorter. Sad.</div><div>=======================</div><div>There are two entries for "song of the day". The first came to me in that odd pre-waking time that I have quite frequently these days. I am fond of both. The first is a good one for congregational singing (or even when one is driving, alone, down the road. It's worthy and sincere, if not often heard. A good prayer song/hymn.</div><div><br /></div><div>The second is probably better for a choral presentation. I've been fortunate to be involved in several good-sized choral groups in several states, where we did this one. It means a lot to me, not just for the wonderful arrangement, but also the text. It's important. Very.</div><div><br /></div><b><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkXIjZERSnE" target="_blank">Open My Eyes That I May See</a></i></b><div><br /></div><div><b><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbZ7TjJu7mA" target="_blank">Lead Me Lord, I Will Follow</a></i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>======================</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">2nd Kings 25</span></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1</span></span><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-size: 2.4rem; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;"> </span>Now it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth <i style="font-size: 16px;">day</i> of the month, <i style="font-size: 16px;">that</i> Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped against it; and they built a siege wall against it all around. </span></p><p class="chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-2" id="en-NKJV-10225" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. </span></p><p class="chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-3" id="en-NKJV-10226" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>By the ninth <i>day</i> of the <i>fourth</i> month the famine had become so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-4" id="en-NKJV-10227"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Then the city wall was broken through, and all the men of war <i>fled</i> at night by way of the gate between two walls, which was by the king’s garden, even though the Chaldeans <i>were</i> still encamped all around against the city. And <i>the king</i><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10227a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10227a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+25&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10227a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> went by way of the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10227b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10227b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+25&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10227b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>plain. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-5" id="en-NKJV-10228"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they overtook him in the plains of Jericho. All his army was scattered from him. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-25-6" id="en-NKJV-10229"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they pronounced judgment on him. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-25-7" id="en-NKJV-10230"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>Then they killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, put<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10230c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10230c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+25&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10230c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> out the eyes of Zedekiah, bound him with bronze fetters, and took him to Babylon.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-8" id="en-NKJV-10231"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>And in the fifth month, on the seventh <i>day</i> of the month (which <i>was</i> the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. '</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-9" id="en-NKJV-10232"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>He burned the house of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> and the king’s house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, he burned with fire. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-10" id="en-NKJV-10233"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>And all the army of the Chaldeans who <i>were with</i> the captain of the guard broke down the walls of Jerusalem all around.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-11" id="en-NKJV-10234"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive the rest of the people <i>who</i> remained in the city and the defectors who had deserted to the king of Babylon, with the rest of the multitude. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-12" id="en-NKJV-10235"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>But the captain of the guard left <i>some</i> of the poor of the land as vinedressers and farmers. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-13" id="en-NKJV-10236"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>The bronze pillars that <i>were</i> in the house of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, and the carts and the bronze Sea that <i>were</i> in the house of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried their bronze to Babylon. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-14" id="en-NKJV-10237"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>They also took away the pots, the shovels, the trimmers, the spoons, and all the bronze utensils with which the priests ministered. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-15" id="en-NKJV-10238"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>The firepans and the basins, the things of solid gold and solid silver, the captain of the guard took away. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-16" id="en-NKJV-10239"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>The two pillars, one Sea, and the carts, which Solomon had made for the house of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-17" id="en-NKJV-10240"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>The height of one pillar <i>was</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10240d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10240d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+25&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10240d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>eighteen cubits, and the capital on it <i>was</i> of bronze. The height of the capital was three cubits, and the network and pomegranates all around the capital were all of bronze. The second pillar was the same, with a network.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-18" id="en-NKJV-10241"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-19" id="en-NKJV-10242"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>He also took out of the city an officer who had charge of the men of war, five men of <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10242e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10242e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+25&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10242e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>the king’s close associates who were found in the city, the chief recruiting officer of the army, who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land <i>who were</i> found in the city. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-20" id="en-NKJV-10243"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>So Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, took these and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-21" id="en-NKJV-10244"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>Then the king of Babylon struck them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive from its own land.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-22" id="en-NKJV-10245">Gedaliah Made Governor of Judah</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-22"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>Then he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor over the people who remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-23" id="en-NKJV-10246"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>Now when all the captains of the armies, they and <i>their</i> men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Careah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10246f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10246f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+25&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10246f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-24" id="en-NKJV-10247"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>And Gedaliah took an oath before them and their men, and said to them, “Do not be afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-25" id="en-NKJV-10248"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>But it happened in the seventh month that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family, came with ten men and struck and killed Gedaliah, the Jews, as well as the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-26" id="en-NKJV-10249"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>And all the people, small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose and went to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-27" id="en-NKJV-10250">Jehoiachin Released from Prison</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-27"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh <i>day</i> of the month, <i>that</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10250g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10250g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+25&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10250g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, released Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-28" id="en-NKJV-10251"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>He spoke kindly to him, and gave him a more prominent seat than those of the kings who <i>were</i> with him in Babylon. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-29" id="en-NKJV-10252"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>So Jehoiachin changed from his prison garments, and he ate <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10252h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10252h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+25&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10252h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span>bread regularly before the king all the days of his life. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-25-30" id="en-NKJV-10253"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>And as for his <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10253i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10253i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+25&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10253i" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span>provisions, <i>there was</i> a <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10253j" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10253j" title="See footnote j">j</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+25&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10253j" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote j">j</a>]</span>regular ration given him by the king, a portion for each day, all the days of his life.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-10227a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+25&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10227" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 25:4">2 Kings 25:4</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>he</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10227b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+25&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10227" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 25:4">2 Kings 25:4</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>Arabah,</i> the Jordan Valley</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10230c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+25&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10230" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 25:7">2 Kings 25:7</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>blinded</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10240d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+25&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10240" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 25:17">2 Kings 25:17</a> <span class="footnote-text">About 27 feet</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10242e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+25&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10242" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 25:19">2 Kings 25:19</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>those seeing the king’s face</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10246f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+25&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10246" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 25:23">2 Kings 25:23</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Jezaniah,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Jer.40.8" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jer.40.8&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">Jer. 40:8</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10250g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+25&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10250" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 25:27">2 Kings 25:27</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>Man of Marduk</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10252h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+25&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10252" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 25:29">2 Kings 25:29</a> <span class="footnote-text">Food</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10253i" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+25&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10253" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 25:30">2 Kings 25:30</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>allowance</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10253j" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+25&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10253" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 25:30">2 Kings 25:30</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>allowance</i></span></li></ol></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>======================</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">Psalm 119, verses 17 - 24</span></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><h4 class="psalm-acrostic" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-119-17" id="en-NKJV-15916"><span xml:lang="he">ג</span> GIMEL</span></h4><div class="poetry" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Ps-119-17" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Deal bountifully with Your servant,</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span class="text Ps-119-17" style="position: relative;"><i>That</i> I may live and keep Your word.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-18" id="en-NKJV-15917" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>Open my eyes, that I may see</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-18" style="position: relative;">Wondrous things from Your law.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-19" id="en-NKJV-15918" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>I <i>am</i> a stranger in the earth;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-19" style="position: relative;">Do not hide Your commandments from me.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-20" id="en-NKJV-15919" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>My soul <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-15919c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-15919c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+119&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-15919c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>breaks with longing</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-20" style="position: relative;">For Your judgments at all times.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-21" id="en-NKJV-15920" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>You rebuke the proud—the cursed,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-21" style="position: relative;">Who stray from Your commandments.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-22" id="en-NKJV-15921" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>Remove from me reproach and contempt,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-22" style="position: relative;">For I have kept Your testimonies.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-23" id="en-NKJV-15922" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>Princes also sit <i>and</i> speak against me,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-23" style="position: relative;"><i>But</i> Your servant meditates on Your statutes.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-24" id="en-NKJV-15923" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>Your testimonies also <i>are</i> my delight</span><br /><span class="text Ps-119-24" style="position: relative;"><i>And</i> my counselors.</span></span></p></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>=====================</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">Romans 4</span></u></b></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-1"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">1</span></b> What then shall we say that Abraham our father<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28024a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28024a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+4&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28024a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> has found according to the flesh? </span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-2" id="en-NKJV-28025"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>For if Abraham was justified by works, he has <i>something</i> to boast about, but not before God. </span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-3" id="en-NKJV-28026"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>For what does the Scripture say? <span class="oblique">“Abraham believed God, and it was</span> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28026b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28026b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+4&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28026b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span><span class="oblique">accounted to him for righteousness.”</span> </span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-4" id="en-NKJV-28027"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Now to him who works, the wages are not counted <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28027c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28027c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+4&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28027c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>as grace but as debt.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-5" id="en-NKJV-28028">David Celebrates the Same Truth</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-5"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-6" id="en-NKJV-28029"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works:</span></p><div class="poetry top-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 1em; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 2.6em; position: relative;"><p class="line" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.4rem; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-7" id="en-NKJV-28030" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span><span class="oblique"><span style="font-size: 1.6rem;">“</span><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Blessed</span></i></span><i><span style="font-size: medium;"> are those <span class="oblique">whose lawless deeds are forgiven,</span></span></i></span><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span class="text Rom-4-7" style="position: relative;"><span class="oblique">And whose sins are covered;</span></span><br /><span class="text Rom-4-8" id="en-NKJV-28031" style="position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span><span class="oblique">Blessed</span> is the <span class="oblique">man to whom the</span> <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> <span class="oblique">shall not impute sin.”</span></span></span></i></p></div><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-9" id="en-NKJV-28032">Abraham Justified Before Circumcision</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-9"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span><i>Does</i> this blessedness then <i>come</i> upon the circumcised <i>only,</i> or upon the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-10" id="en-NKJV-28033"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>How then was it accounted? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-11" id="en-NKJV-28034"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which <i>he had while still</i> uncircumcised, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also, </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-12" id="en-NKJV-28035"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>and the father of circumcision to those who not only <i>are</i> of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of the faith which our father Abraham <i>had while still</i> uncircumcised.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-13" id="en-NKJV-28036">The Promise Granted Through Faith</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-13"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>For the promise that he would be the heir of the world <i>was</i> not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-14" id="en-NKJV-28037"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>For if those who are of the law <i>are</i> heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of no effect, </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-15" id="en-NKJV-28038"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>because the law brings about wrath; for where there is no law <i>there is</i> no transgression.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-16" id="en-NKJV-28039"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>Therefore <i>it is</i> of faith that <i>it might be</i> according to grace, so that the promise might be <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-28039d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-28039d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+4&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-28039d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-17" id="en-NKJV-28040"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>(as it is written, <span class="oblique">“I have made you a father of many nations”</span>) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-18" id="en-NKJV-28041"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, <span class="oblique">“So shall your descendants be.”</span> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-19" id="en-NKJV-28042"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-20" id="en-NKJV-28043"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-21" id="en-NKJV-28044"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-21"></span><span class="text Rom-4-22" id="en-NKJV-28045"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>And therefore <span class="oblique">“it was accounted to him for righteousness.”</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-23" id="en-NKJV-28046"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-24" id="en-NKJV-28047"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-4-25" id="en-NKJV-28048"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-28024a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+4&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28024" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 4:1">Romans 4:1</a> <span class="footnote-text">Or <i>(fore)father according to the flesh has found?</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28026b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+4&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28026" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 4:3">Romans 4:3</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>imputed, credited, reckoned, counted</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28027c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+4&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28027" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 4:4">Romans 4:4</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>according to</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28039d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+4&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-28039" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 4:16">Romans 4:16</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>certain</i></span></li></ol></div></div><div><br /></div>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-90710274625252348942022-06-16T12:20:00.000-04:002022-06-16T12:20:24.573-04:00Today's Readings and Stuff -- Thursday, 16 June 2022<p> Last half of the week now. Leaving shortly to go Across The Line into Pennsyltucky for Dear Wife's appointment with a rheumatologist. We've been needing this for some time, but that's a specialty whose practitioners are rarer that we would wish. Particularly good ones. So we'll see. Tomorrow, we're scheduled to go back Across The Line so that she can see her Primary Care doc. Late in the month, finally an appointment with the urologist. In between, pap smears and several other tests. Bumpy road for sure.</p><p>Getting by.</p><p>===========================</p><p>Today, chapters 17 and 18 in 2nd Kings. Sounds like the way our world is heading. Soon, I fear.</p><p><br /></p><p class="chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="text 2Kgs-17-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: large;">2nd Kings 17 </span></span></span></p><p class="chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-17-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1</span></span><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-size: 2.4rem; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;"> </span>In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah became king of Israel in Samaria, <i style="font-size: 16px;">and he reigned</i> nine years. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-2" id="en-NKJV-9986" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>And he did evil in the sight of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, but not as the kings of Israel who were before him. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-3" id="en-NKJV-9987" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him; and Hoshea became his vassal, and paid him tribute money. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-4" id="en-NKJV-9988" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>And the king of Assyria uncovered a conspiracy by Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and brought no tribute to the king of Assyria, as <i>he had done</i> year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-17-5" id="en-NKJV-9989">Israel Carried Captive to Assyria</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-17-5"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>Now the king of Assyria went throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria and besieged it for three years. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-6" id="en-NKJV-9990"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-17-7" id="en-NKJV-9991"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and they had feared other gods, </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-8" id="en-NKJV-9992"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>and had walked in the statutes of the nations whom the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-9" id="en-NKJV-9993"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>Also the children of Israel secretly did against the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> their God things that <i>were</i> not right, and they built for themselves <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-9993a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-9993a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+17&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-9993a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>high places in all their cities, from watchtower to fortified city. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-10" id="en-NKJV-9994"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>They set up for themselves <i>sacred</i> pillars and wooden images<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-9994b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-9994b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+17&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-9994b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> on every high hill and under every green tree. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-11" id="en-NKJV-9995"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>There they burned incense on all the high places, like the nations whom the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> had carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> to anger, </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-12" id="en-NKJV-9996"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>for they served idols, of which the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-17-13" id="en-NKJV-9997"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>Yet the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> testified against Israel and against Judah, by all of His prophets, every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments <i>and</i> My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.” </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-14" id="en-NKJV-9998"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>Nevertheless they would not hear, but stiffened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who did not believe in the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> their God. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-15" id="en-NKJV-9999"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>And they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He had testified against them; they followed idols, became idolaters, and <i>went</i> after the nations who <i>were</i> all around them, <i>concerning</i> whom the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> had charged them that they should not do like them. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-16" id="en-NKJV-10000"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>So they left all the commandments of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> their God, made for themselves a molded image <i>and</i> two calves, made a wooden image and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-17" id="en-NKJV-10001"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, to provoke Him to anger. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-18" id="en-NKJV-10002"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>Therefore the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> was very angry with Israel, and removed them from His sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah alone.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-17-19" id="en-NKJV-10003"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-20" id="en-NKJV-10004"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>And the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them from His sight. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-21" id="en-NKJV-10005"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>For He tore Israel from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. Then Jeroboam drove Israel from following the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, and made them commit a great sin. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-22" id="en-NKJV-10006"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they did not depart from them, </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-23" id="en-NKJV-10007"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>until the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> removed Israel out of His sight, as He had said by all His servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away from their own land to Assyria, <i>as it is</i> to this day.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-17-24" id="en-NKJV-10008">Assyria Resettles Samaria</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-17-24"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>Then the king of Assyria brought <i>people</i> from Babylon, Cuthah, Ava, Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed <i>them</i> in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they took possession of Samaria and dwelt in its cities. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-25" id="en-NKJV-10009"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>And it was so, at the beginning of their dwelling there, <i>that</i> they did not fear the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>; therefore the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> sent lions among them, which killed <i>some</i> of them. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-26" id="en-NKJV-10010"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations whom you have removed and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the rituals of the God of the land; therefore He has sent lions among them, and indeed, they are killing them because they do not know the rituals of the God of the land.” </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-27" id="en-NKJV-10011"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, “Send there one of the priests whom you brought from there; let him go and dwell there, and let him teach them the rituals of the God of the land.” </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-28" id="en-NKJV-10012"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-17-29" id="en-NKJV-10013"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>However every nation continued to make gods of its own, and put <i>them</i> in the shrines on the high places which the Samaritans had made, <i>every</i> nation in the cities where they dwelt. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-30" id="en-NKJV-10014"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>The men of Babylon made Succoth Benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima, </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-31" id="en-NKJV-10015"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span>and the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-32" id="en-NKJV-10016"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">32 </span>So they feared the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, and from every class they appointed for themselves priests of the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10016c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10016c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+17&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10016c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-33" id="en-NKJV-10017"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">33 </span>They feared the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, yet served their own gods—according to the rituals of the nations from among whom they were carried away.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-17-34" id="en-NKJV-10018"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">34 </span>To this day they continue practicing the former rituals; they do not fear the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, nor do they follow their statutes or their ordinances, or the law and commandment which the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> had commanded the children of Jacob, whom He named Israel, </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-35" id="en-NKJV-10019"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">35 </span>with whom the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> had made a covenant and charged them, saying: “You shall not fear other gods, nor bow down to them nor serve them nor sacrifice to them; </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-36" id="en-NKJV-10020"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">36 </span>but the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, who brought you up from the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm, Him you shall fear, Him you shall worship, and to Him you shall offer sacrifice. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-37" id="en-NKJV-10021"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">37 </span>And the statutes, the ordinances, the law, and the commandment which He wrote for you, you shall be careful to observe forever; you shall not fear other gods. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-38" id="en-NKJV-10022"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">38 </span>And the covenant that I have made with you, you shall not forget, nor shall you fear other gods. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-39" id="en-NKJV-10023"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">39 </span>But the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> your God you shall fear; and He will deliver you from the hand of all your enemies.” </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-40" id="en-NKJV-10024"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">40 </span>However they did not obey, but they followed their former rituals. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-17-41" id="en-NKJV-10025"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">41 </span>So these nations feared the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, yet served their carved images; also their children and their children’s children have continued doing as their fathers did, even to this day.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-9993a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+17&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-9993" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 17:9">2 Kings 17:9</a> <span class="footnote-text">Places for pagan worship</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-9994b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+17&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-9994" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 17:10">2 Kings 17:10</a> <span class="footnote-text">Heb. <i>Asherim,</i> Canaanite deities</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10016c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+17&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10016" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 17:32">2 Kings 17:32</a> <span class="footnote-text">Places for pagan worship</span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p class="chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="text 2Kgs-18-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-size: 2.4rem; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">2nd Kings 18 </span></span></p><p class="chapter-2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-18-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1 </span></span>Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea the son of Elah, king of Israel, <i style="font-size: 16px;">that</i> Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-2" id="en-NKJV-10027" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name <i>was</i> Abi<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10027a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10027a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10027a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> the daughter of Zechariah. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-3" id="en-NKJV-10028" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>And he did <i>what was</i> right in the sight of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, according to all that his father David had done.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-18-4" id="en-NKJV-10029"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>He removed the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10029b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10029b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10029b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>high places and broke the <i>sacred</i> pillars, cut down the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10029c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10029c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10029c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>wooden image and broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and called it <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10029d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10029d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10029d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>Nehushtan. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-5" id="en-NKJV-10030"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>He trusted in the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> God of Israel, so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor who were before him. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-6" id="en-NKJV-10031"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>For he held fast to the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> had commanded Moses. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-7" id="en-NKJV-10032"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> was with him; he prospered wherever he went. And he rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-8" id="en-NKJV-10033"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>He <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10033e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10033e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10033e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span>subdued the Philistines, as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified city.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-18-9" id="en-NKJV-10034"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>Now it came to pass in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which <i>was</i> the seventh year of Hoshea the son of Elah, king of Israel, <i>that</i> Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-10" id="en-NKJV-10035"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>And at the end of three years they took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, that <i>is,</i> the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-11" id="en-NKJV-10036"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>Then the king of Assyria carried Israel away captive to Assyria, and put them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-12" id="en-NKJV-10037"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>because they did not obey the voice of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> their God, but transgressed His covenant <i>and</i> all that Moses the servant of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> had commanded; and they would neither hear nor do <i>them.</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-18-13" id="en-NKJV-10038"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>And in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-14" id="en-NKJV-10039"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>Then Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; turn away from me; whatever you impose on me I will pay.” And the king of Assyria assessed Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-15" id="en-NKJV-10040"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>So Hezekiah gave <i>him</i> all the silver that was found in the house of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> and in the treasuries of the king’s house. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-16" id="en-NKJV-10041"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>At that time Hezekiah stripped <i>the gold from</i> the doors of the temple of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, and <i>from</i> the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10041f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10041f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10041f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>it to the king of Assyria.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-18-17" id="en-NKJV-10042">Sennacherib Boasts Against the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span></span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-18-17"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span>Then the king of Assyria sent <i>the</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10042g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10042g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10042g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>Tartan, <i>the</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10042h" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10042h" title="See footnote h">h</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10042h" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote h">h</a>]</span>Rabsaris, <i>and the</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10042i" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10042i" title="See footnote i">i</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10042i" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote i">i</a>]</span>Rabshakeh from Lachish, with a great army against Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they went and stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool, which <i>was</i> on the highway to the Fuller’s Field. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-18" id="en-NKJV-10043"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>And when they had called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who <i>was</i> over the household, Shebna the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10043j" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10043j" title="See footnote j">j</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10043j" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote j">j</a>]</span>scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to them. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-19" id="en-NKJV-10044"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>Then <i>the</i> Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: “What confidence <i>is</i> this in which you trust? </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-20" id="en-NKJV-10045"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>You speak of <i>having</i> plans and power for war; but <i>they are</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10045k" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10045k" title="See footnote k">k</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10045k" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote k">k</a>]</span>mere words. And in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me? </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-21" id="en-NKJV-10046"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>Now look! You are trusting in the staff of this broken reed, Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So <i>is</i> Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-22" id="en-NKJV-10047"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> our God,’ <i>is</i> it not He whose <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10047l" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10047l" title="See footnote l">l</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10047l" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote l">l</a>]</span>high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?” ’ </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-23" id="en-NKJV-10048"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>Now therefore, I urge you, give a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses—if you are able on your part to put riders on them! </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-24" id="en-NKJV-10049"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>How then will you repel one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen? </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-25" id="en-NKJV-10050"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>Have I now come up without the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> against this place to destroy it? The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’ ”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-18-26" id="en-NKJV-10051"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to <i>the</i> Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand <i>it;</i> and do not speak to us in <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10051m" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10051m" title="See footnote m">m</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10051m" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote m">m</a>]</span>Hebrew in the hearing of the people who <i>are</i> on the wall.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-18-27" id="en-NKJV-10052"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>But <i>the</i> Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat and drink their own waste with you?”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-18-28" id="en-NKJV-10053"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>Then <i>the</i> Rabshakeh stood and called out with a loud voice in <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10053n" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10053n" title="See footnote n">n</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10053n" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote n">n</a>]</span>Hebrew, and spoke, saying, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria! </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-29" id="en-NKJV-10054"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>Thus says the king: ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he shall not be able to deliver you from his hand; </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-30" id="en-NKJV-10055"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">30 </span>nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>, saying, “The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” ’ </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-31" id="en-NKJV-10056"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">31 </span>Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: ‘Make <i>peace</i> with me <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-10056o" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-10056o" title="See footnote o">o</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-10056o" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote o">o</a>]</span>by a present and come out to me; and every one of you eat from his own vine and every one from his own fig tree, and every one of you drink the waters of his own cistern; </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-32" id="en-NKJV-10057"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">32 </span>until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive groves and honey, that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, lest he persuade you, saying, “The <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> will deliver us.” </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-33" id="en-NKJV-10058"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">33 </span>Has any of the gods of the nations at all delivered its land from the hand of the king of Assyria? </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-34" id="en-NKJV-10059"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">34 </span>Where <i>are</i> the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where <i>are</i> the gods of Sepharvaim and Hena and Ivah? Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand? </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-35" id="en-NKJV-10060"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">35 </span>Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their countries from my hand, that the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span> should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?’ ”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text 2Kgs-18-36" id="en-NKJV-10061"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">36 </span>But the people held their peace and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Do not answer him.” </span><span class="text 2Kgs-18-37" id="en-NKJV-10062"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">37 </span>Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who <i>was</i> over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with <i>their</i> clothes torn, and told him the words of <i>the</i> Rabshakeh.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-10027a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10027" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 18:2">2 Kings 18:2</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>Abijah,</i> <a class="bibleref" data-bibleref="2Chr.29" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2Chr.29&version=NKJV" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;">2 Chr. 29:1ff.</a></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10029b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10029" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 18:4">2 Kings 18:4</a> <span class="footnote-text">Places for pagan worship</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10029c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10029" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 18:4">2 Kings 18:4</a> <span class="footnote-text">Heb. <i>Asherah,</i> a Canaanite goddess</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10029d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10029" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 18:4">2 Kings 18:4</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>Bronze Thing,</i> also similar to Heb. <i>nahash, serpent</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10033e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10033" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 18:8">2 Kings 18:8</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>struck</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10041f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10041" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 18:16">2 Kings 18:16</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>them</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10042g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10042" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 18:17">2 Kings 18:17</a> <span class="footnote-text">A title, probably <i>Commander in Chief</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10042h" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10042" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 18:17">2 Kings 18:17</a> <span class="footnote-text">A title, probably <i>Chief Officer</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10042i" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10042" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 18:17">2 Kings 18:17</a> <span class="footnote-text">A title, probably <i>Chief of Staff</i> or <i>Governor</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10043j" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10043" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 18:18">2 Kings 18:18</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>secretary</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10045k" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10045" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 18:20">2 Kings 18:20</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>a word of the lips</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10047l" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10047" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 18:22">2 Kings 18:22</a> <span class="footnote-text">Places for pagan worship</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10051m" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10051" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 18:26">2 Kings 18:26</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>Judean</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10053n" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10053" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 18:28">2 Kings 18:28</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>Judean</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-10056o" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2018&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-10056" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to 2 Kings 18:31">2 Kings 18:31</a> <span class="footnote-text">By paying tribute</span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p><p>--------------------------------------</p><p>Today we begin with the first section of Psalm 119. We'll be here a good while.</p><p><span class="chapter-3" style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;"><span class="text Ps-119-1" style="position: relative;"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-size: 2.4rem; font-weight: 700; left: -2em; line-height: 0.8em; position: absolute;">119 </span><b>1</b>Blessed <i>are</i> the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-15900a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-15900a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+119&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-15900a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>undefiled in the way,</span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Ps-119-1" style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">Who walk in the law of the <span class="small-caps divine-name" style="font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Lord</span>!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Ps-119-2" id="en-NKJV-15901" style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span><b>2</b> Blessed <i>are</i> those who keep His testimonies,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Ps-119-2" style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">Who seek Him with the whole heart!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Ps-119-3" id="en-NKJV-15902" style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span><b>3 </b>They also do no iniquity;</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Ps-119-3" style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">They walk in His ways.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Ps-119-4" id="en-NKJV-15903" style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span><b>4 </b>You have commanded <i>us</i></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Ps-119-4" style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">To keep Your precepts diligently.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Ps-119-5" id="en-NKJV-15904" style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span><b>5</b> Oh, that my ways were directed</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Ps-119-5" style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">To keep Your statutes!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Ps-119-6" id="en-NKJV-15905" style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span><b>6 </b>Then I would not be ashamed,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Ps-119-6" style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">When I look into all Your commandments.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Ps-119-7" id="en-NKJV-15906" style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span><b>7</b> I will praise You with uprightness of heart,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Ps-119-7" style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">When I learn Your righteous judgments.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Ps-119-8" id="en-NKJV-15907" style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; left: -4.4em; line-height: normal; position: absolute; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span><b>8</b> I will keep Your statutes;</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Ps-119-8" style="background-color: white; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">Oh, do not forsake me utterly!</span></p><p><br /></p><p>==============================</p><p>Today, chapter 2 in the letter to the Romans. Romans is, in my opinion, one of the most important books in the entire New Testament. It deserves, demands really, an intense verse-by-verse and very prayerful daily study. </p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="text Rom-2-1"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; display: inline; font-size: 2.4rem; font-weight: 700; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">Romans 2 </span></span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-1"><b>1 </b> Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. </span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-2" id="en-NKJV-27965"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">2 </span>But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things. </span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-3" id="en-NKJV-27966"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">3 </span>And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God? </span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-4" id="en-NKJV-27967"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">4 </span>Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? </span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-5" id="en-NKJV-27968"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">5 </span>But in accordance with your hardness and your <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-27968a" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-27968a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+2&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-27968a" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote a">a</a>]</span>impenitent heart you are <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-27968b" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-27968b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+2&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-27968b" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote b">b</a>]</span>treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, </span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-6" id="en-NKJV-27969"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">6 </span>who <span class="oblique">“will render to each one according to his deeds”</span>: </span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-7" id="en-NKJV-27970"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">7 </span>eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; </span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-8" id="en-NKJV-27971"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">8 </span>but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath, </span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-9" id="en-NKJV-27972"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">9 </span>tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-27972c" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-27972c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+2&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-27972c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote c">c</a>]</span>Greek; </span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-10" id="en-NKJV-27973"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">10 </span>but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. </span></p><p class="chapter-1" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-11" id="en-NKJV-27974"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">11 </span>For there is no partiality with God.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-12" id="en-NKJV-27975"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">12 </span>For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-13" id="en-NKJV-27976"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">13 </span>(for not the hearers of the law <i>are</i> just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified; </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-14" id="en-NKJV-27977"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">14 </span>for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-15" id="en-NKJV-27978"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">15 </span>who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves <i>their</i> thoughts accusing or else excusing <i>them</i>) </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-16" id="en-NKJV-27979"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16 </span>in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-17" id="en-NKJV-27980">The Jews Guilty as the Gentiles</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-17"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">17 </span><span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-27980d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-27980d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+2&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-27980d" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span>Indeed you are called a Jew, and rest<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-27980e" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-27980e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+2&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-27980e" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> on the law, and make your boast in God, </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-18" id="en-NKJV-27981"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">18 </span>and know <i>His</i> will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-19" id="en-NKJV-27982"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">19 </span>and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-20" id="en-NKJV-27983"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">20 </span>an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and truth in the law. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-21" id="en-NKJV-27984"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">21 </span>You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal? </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-22" id="en-NKJV-27985"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">22 </span>You who say, “Do not commit adultery,” do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-23" id="en-NKJV-27986"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">23 </span>You who make your boast in the law, do you dishonor God through breaking the law? </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-24" id="en-NKJV-27987"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">24 </span>For <span class="oblique">“the name of God is</span> <span class="oblique">blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,”</span> as it is written.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-25" id="en-NKJV-27988">Circumcision of No Avail</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-25"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">25 </span>For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-26" id="en-NKJV-27989"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">26 </span>Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision? </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-27" id="en-NKJV-27990"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">27 </span>And will not the physically uncircumcised, if he fulfills the law, judge you who, <i>even</i> with <i>your</i> <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-27990f" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-27990f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+2&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-27990f" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote f">f</a>]</span>written <i>code</i> and circumcision, <i>are</i> a transgressor of the law? </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-28" id="en-NKJV-27991"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">28 </span>For he is not a Jew who <i>is one</i> outwardly, nor <i>is</i> circumcision that which <i>is</i> outward in the flesh; </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 2.4rem; min-width: 0px;"><span class="text Rom-2-29" id="en-NKJV-27992"><span class="versenum" style="display: inline; font-size: 1.2rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">29 </span>but <i>he is</i> a Jew who <i>is one</i> inwardly; and circumcision <i>is that</i> of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose <span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-NKJV-27992g" data-link="[<a href="#fen-NKJV-27992g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]" style="display: inline; font-size: 0.625em; line-height: normal; position: relative; top: auto; vertical-align: text-top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+2&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-27992g" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px; vertical-align: text-top;" title="See footnote g">g</a>]</span>praise <i>is</i> not from men but from God.</span></p><div class="footnotes" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 16px; min-width: 0px;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1em; line-height: 24px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; min-width: 0px;">Footnotes</h4><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px; padding-left: 20px; word-break: break-word;"><li id="fen-NKJV-27968a" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+2&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-27968" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 2:5">Romans 2:5</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>unrepentant</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-27968b" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+2&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-27968" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 2:5">Romans 2:5</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>storing</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-27972c" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+2&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-27972" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 2:9">Romans 2:9</a> <span class="footnote-text">Gentile</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-27980d" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+2&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-27980" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 2:17">Romans 2:17</a> <span class="footnote-text">NU <i>But if</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-27980e" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+2&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-27980" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 2:17">Romans 2:17</a> <span class="footnote-text"><i>rely</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-27990f" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+2&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-27990" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 2:27">Romans 2:27</a> <span class="footnote-text">Lit. <i>letter</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-27992g" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: lower-alpha; min-width: 0px;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+2&version=NKJV#en-NKJV-27992" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a4a4a; min-width: 0px;" title="Go to Romans 2:29">Romans 2:29</a> <span class="footnote-text">A play on words—<i>Jew</i> is literally <i>praise.</i></span></li></ol></div><p><br /></p>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31534498.post-23228991441263038842022-06-02T21:21:00.001-04:002022-06-02T21:21:37.995-04:00Stuff -- 02 June 2022<p> My apologies for the very long break in the posting here. Dear Wife has been quite ill for a good while, not really getting better. Worsening, it appears. Barring some overnight improvement, we'll probably be heading for the Urgent Care office in the morning. This has been a rough road and it's not really improving. We seek the Lord's healing hand and the prayers of all. This has been a real issue for us for quite some time and certainly in the last three months. So please forgive.</p>tnmartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03789043439002576201noreply@blogger.com0